The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-05-13
Secretary Tells Delegates He
Wouldn't Have Taken the
Job Otherwise.
no CONFLICT IN SIGHT NOW
Many Countries Are Represented
in the Washington Peace
Conference.


gandists tonight that there would he
no war while he was Secretary Of State
The announcement came in the course
Of the after dinner speech Of the Sccrc-
;ary al the banquet IN honor Of TIE
visitor
Mr.. Bryan told the dinerp further that
he never would have accepted the high
office Of Secretary of State II he had
thought for one moment that there
! would be war N the course OF tho Ad-
ministration in which he was to he the
chief diplomatic officer of the Govern
mcnt This was the nearest reference
/ made by the Secretary To any policy of
| the Administration, and It was taken as
! a guarded reference to the alarmist re
ports in regard to Japan.
More than 200 diners sat down to
the repast in the ballroom of the New
Willard tonight senator l:lihu Root
Of New York presided. He also acted
as toastmastcr. and after a short speech
of welcome he introduced the Secretary
! of State.
| With regard to the purpose Of the
centennial celebration of the century uf
peace between tho English speaking
nations Of the world Senator Root said
II 10 lttuitsS w dtt ~ p'bIit
Of intelligence the great international
, fact that men have shaken or the
! shackles of barbarism and To assure our
friends from other shores that those
who do not see in the century of peace
that has almost run its course the
significant fact that the peace between
the English people is an altogether
perpetual thing
A.,
who sat at the presiding officers right.
and laying his hand on his shoulder
Senator Root said:
MY dear Mr.. Jusserand, when 13j
years ago your people and my people,
side by side. were fighting these people
they little thought that at the end ~
the strife IN which they were engaged
their efforts would prove OF slight con-
sequence In the development OF the race.
They did not know the underlying rev
erence for the common law, for the Ian
guage of ChauCer and Spenser and
! Shakespeare. or the inherent principles
! OF Anglo-Saxon freedom which should
make two nations 10 dwell side by side
with a peace for a hundred years on
both sides Of the longest International
boundary In the world
Senator Root then introduced the
Secretary Of state In making his no.
wa- rGsS-rrce ~. Bryan saia
II made up my mind before accepted
the office OF Secretary Of state that 7
wo-iid iot take the Office IL / thought
there was TO be a war during my tenure
When say this am confident that
/ shall have no cause TO change my
view. for we know no cause to-day tha;
cannot he settled better by rcason than
hv war
II believe that there will be no war
while I am Secretary of State, and 7
believe that there will he no war 50 long
as 1 i've. and ! hope that We have seen
the last great war"
Sir Cecil Arthur Spring Rice, the new
British Ambassador. followed Secretary
' Iirvhn
The Ambassador is IA reader speaker
even than his predecessor. the Hon.
James Bry,c. fie referred iseiinsiy to
Mr.. Bryce. who he said loved the
Americans and the United States.
This" said the Ambassador, is a
little confidential fact that eX-Ambassa-
dor Bryce related TO me the day he
turned over the embassy to my care"
Lord Weardae. head of the British
delegation. announced that the English
people would convert the seat Of the
Washington family in England into n
shrine for Americans and others TO visit.
That would no the British contribution
to the celehraton of the 100 years Of
peace.
Andrew Carnegie announced that ne
would bear the greater part Of the eN.
pense OF setting aside AS a permanent
peace memorial the room in the Car
thus!an Monastery at Gncnt where this
treaty was signed on Christmas eve,
1914.
Delegates from every English speak
ing country OF the world are in Wash
ington 10 meet 7he American delegates
for the purpose Of arranging. the details
of the celebration OF the Tooth annivcr-
sary of the peace Of Ghent.
The delegates. forty-two in number.
arrived in Washington to-day from Bos-
ton. Their first duty call was on Secre-
tary OF State Bryan. From the State
Department the visitors We're driven TO
the Capitol, where they paid their re-
spects to Vice President Marshall
Speaker Clark and Majority Leader Tn
derwood. The afternoon was devoted to
sightseeing.
| Then a call was made on President
, Wilson at the White House. The recep-
tion by the President was highly IN
! formal and no interchange OF pro-
rouncr'Nerts was Ina1o.
! The foreign delegates include Lord
Weardale. the Earl OF Stanhope, Captain
! Sir Arthur Iawler. Sir Herbert E,ustace
Maxwell and Moreton Frewen OF Great
/ Britain Sir Edmund Walker OF Canada,
| Sir George Houston Reid. High Com.
missioner of Australia, Eugene H.
Outerbridge Of Newfoundland, c. do
Bruyne and Alphonse van Wervke Of
the municipality OF Ghent
Andrew Carnegie, as head OF the
Peace Foundation. was an interested
| participant In the movements of the
! party while DR.. Thomas Nelson Page
and James Brown Scott. secretary Of
the Carneg!a R-ac- Foundation, showed
| ha