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SECRETARY HAY. Magnificent Address Before the In ternational Peace Congress At Boston. Boston, October 4.-Secretary of State John Hay made th-- address of welcome on yesterday afternoon to the delegates to the International peace congress assembled in Boston for the formal meeting of the thir teenth annual convention of that body. Secretary Hay spoke as follows: I esteem it a great honor and privilege to be allowed to extend to you the welcome of the govern ment and the people of the United States of America on this memorable and auspicious occasion. No time could be more fitting for this gather ing of a parliament of peace than today, when at the other end of the world the thunder of a destructive and sanguinary war- is deafening the nations, while here we are preparing to settle the question of a vast trans fer of power by an appeal to reason and orderly procedure, under the sanction of a law implicit'y ,ccepted by eighty millions of people. No place could be more suitable than this high-hearted city, . which has been for nearly three hundred years the birthplace and the home of every idea of progress and enlightenment which has germinated in the west ern world. To bid you welcome to the home of Vane, of Winthrop, and of Adams, of Channing and Emerson, is to give you the freedom of no mean city, to make you partakers of a spiritual inheritance without which, with all our opulence, we should be poor indeed. It is true that this great commonwealth has sought, with the sword, peace under liberty, We confess that many wars have left their traces in the pages of its his tory and its literature; art has adorn ed the public places Qf this stately town with the statues of its heroic sons. But the dominant note of its highest culture, its most persistent spirit, has been that righteousness which exalteth a nation, that obedience to the inner light which leads along the paths of peace. And the policy of the nation at large, which owes so much of its civic spirit to the founders of New England, has been in the main a pol icy of peace. During the hundred and twenty years of our independent existence wve have had but three wars with the outside world, though we have had a most grievous and dol orous struggle with our own people. We have had, I think, a greater rela tive immunity from war than any of our neighbors. All our greatest men have been earnest advocates of peace. The very men who founded our liberties with the mailed hand detested and abhorred war as the most futile and ferocious of human follies. Franklin and Jefferson re peatedly denounced it-the one with all the energy of his rhetoric the other with the lambent fire of his wit. But not oum philosophers alone -our fighting men have seen at close quarters how hideous is the face of war. Washington said, "'My first wish is to see this plague to mankind banished from the earth;" and again he said, "We have experienced enough of its evils in this country to know that it should not be wanton ly or unnecessarily entered upon."~ There is no discordant note in the utterances~ of our most eminent sol diers on this subject. The most famous utterance of General Grant the one which will linger longest in the memories of men-wvas the prayer of his war-weary heart, "Let us have peace." Sherman reached the acme of his marvellous gift of epigram when he said, "War is hell." And Abraham Lincoln, after the four terrible years in which he had direct ed our vast armies and navies, ut tered on the threshold of eternity the fervent and touching inspiration that "the mighty scourge of war might speedily pass away." There has been no.solution of con tinuity in the sentiment of our pres idents on this subject up to this day. McKinley deplored with every pulse of his honest and kindly heart the advent of the war which he had hoped might not come in his day, and gladly hailed the earliest moment for making peace; and President Roose velt ha the 'same tireless energy in the work of conco-d that he desplay ed when he sought peace and ensued it on the field of battle. No presi dents in our history have been so faithful and so efficient as the last two in the cause of arbitration and of every peaceful settleme't of dif ferences. I mention them together because their work has been harmon ious and consistent. We hailed with joy the generous initiative of the Russian emperor. and sent to the conference at the Hague the best men we had in our civic and military life. When the Hague Court lay apparently wrecked at the beginning of its voyage, threatened with death before it had fairly begun to live. it was the American governmei.. which gave it the breath of life by inviting the republic of Mexico to share our appeal to its jusisdiction: and the second case brought before it was at the irstance of Mr. Roose velt who declined in its favor the high honor of arbitrating an affair of world-wide importance. I beg you to believe, it is not by way of boasting that I recall these incidents to your minds: it is rather ;! a profession ~of faith in a cause which the present administration has deeply at heart that I ask you to remember, in the deliberations upon which you are entering, the course to which the American government is pledged and which it has steadily pursued for the last seven years. It is true that in those seven years we have had a hundred days of war but they put an end forever to blood shed which had lasted a generation. We landed a few platoons of marines on the Isthmus last year; but that act closed wjthout a shot a sangui nary succession of trival wars. We marched a little army to Peking; but it was to save not only the beleag uered legations, but a great imperil ed civilization. By mingled gentle ness and energy, to which most of the world beyond our borders has done justice, we have given to the Philippines, if not peace, at least a nearer approach to it than they have had within the memory of men. If our example is worth anything to the world, we have given it in the vital matter of disarmament. We have brought away from the far east 55,ooo soldiers whose work was done, and have sent them back to the fields of peaceful activity. 'We have re duced our army to its minimum of 6,ooo men; in fact, we may say we have no army, but in place of one a nucleus for drill and discipline. We have three-fourths of one soldier for every thousand of the population-a proportion which if adopted by other powers would at once eliminate wars and rumors of wars from the daily thoughts of the chanceries of the world. Buts fixed as a tradition is, clear as is our purpose in the direction of peace, no country is permanently im mune from war so long as the desire and the practice of peace are not uni versal. If we quote Washington as an advocate of peace, it is but fair also to quote him wvhere he says: "To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserv ing peace." And at another time he said: "To an active external com merce the protection of a naval force is indispensable. To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindi cate it from insult or aggression." To acknowledge the existence of an evil is not to support or approve it: but the facts must be faced. Human history is one long desolate story of bloodshed. All the arts unite in the apparent conspiracy to give prec edence to the glory of arms. Dc mosthenes and Pericles adjured the Athenians by the memory of their battles. Horace boasted that hc had been a soldier, non sine gloria. Even Milton, in that sublime sonnet ivhere he said "Peace hath her victories no less than those of war," also mention ed among the godly trophies of Cromwell "Darwent's stream with blood of Scots imbrued." In almost every sermon and hymn we hear in our churches the imagery of war and battle is used. We are charged to fight the good fight of faith; we are to sail through bloody seas to win the prize. The Christian soldier is constantly marshaled to war. Not only in our habits and customs, but in our daily speech and in our in most thoughts we are beset by the struction. It is like the law of sin in the members to which the greatest of the apostles refers: "Who snall d.liver us from the body of this death?" I am speaking to those who recog nize the lamentable state of things, and who yet do not accept it, or submit to it, and who hope that through the shadow of this night we shall sweep into a younger day. How is this great deliverance to be accom plished? NWe have all recently read that wonderful sermon on war by Count Tolstoi, in which a spirit of marve lous lucidity and fire, absolutely de tached from geographical or political conditions, speaks the word as it has been given to him to speak it, and as no other living man could have done. As you read, with an aching heart, his terrible arraignment of war, feel ing that as a man you are partly re sponsible for all human atrocities, you wait with impatience for the rem edy he shall propose, and you find it is-Religion. Yes, that is the remedy. If all would do right no body would do wrong-nothing is plainer. It is a counsel of perfec tion, satisfactory to prophets and saints, to be reached in God's good time., But you are here to consult together to see whether the genera tion now alive may not do something to hasten the coming of the accept able day, the appearance on earth of the beatific vision. If we can not at once make peace and good will the universal rule and practice of nations, what can we do to approx imate this condition? What measures can we now take which may lead us at least a little distance toward the wished-for goal? I have not come to advise you; I have no such ambitious pretensions. I do not even aspire to take part in your deliberations. But I am authorized to assure that the Ameri can government extends to you a cordial and sympathetic welcome, and shares to the utmost the spirit and purpose in which you have met. The president, so long as he remains in power, has no thought of departing 1from the traditions bequeathed us by the great soldiers and statesmen of our early history, which have been strictly followed during the last seven years. We shall continue to advo cate and to carry into effect, as far as practicable, the principle of the ar bitration of such questions as may not be settled through diplomatic nego tiations. We have already done much in this direction; we shall hope to do much more. The president is now considering the negotiation of treaties of arbitration with such of the European powers as desire them, and hopes to lay them before the sen ate next winter. Unhappily we can not foresee in the irmmediate future the cessation of wars upon the earth. WVe ought therefore to labor constantly for the mitigation of the horrors of war, es pecially to do what we can to lessen the sufferings of those who have no part in the struggle. This has been one of the most warmly cherished wishes of the last two administra tions. I make no apology for read ing you a paragraph from the mes sage which President Roosevelt sent to congress last December. Then followed the reading of the paragraph referred to, after which the speaker continued as follows: The president urged this beneficent scheme with an earnestness which gained the willing attention of con gress, already predisposed to it in spirit, and on the 28th of April of this year he was able to approve a ojint resolution of both houses re commending that the president en deavor to bring about an understanding among the principal maritime po.wers with a view of in corporating into the permanent law of civilized nations the principle of the exemption of all private property at sea, not contraband of wvar, from cature or destruction by belligerents. It has not been thought advisable by the president during the past summer to call the attention of the powers to a project which would necessarily be regarded by two of them, andi possibly others, with re ference to its bearing upon the de plorable conflict now raging in the far east. But as we earnestly pray that the return of peace may not b< long delayed between the twvo na ions, to both of which we are bound by so many historic ties, we may confidently look forward at no dis tant day to inviting the attention of the nations to this matter, and we hope we may have the powerful in fluence of this great organization in gaining their adherence. The time allotted to me is at an end. I can only bid you Godspeed in your work. The task you have set yourselves, the purpose to which you are devoted, have won the praise of the earth and the blessing of Heav en since the morning of time. The noblest of all the beautitudes is the consecration promised the peace makers. 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