Show WAR bYAR DEVOURS THE BEST KEYNOTE s OF OE PEACE i President Taft aft and David Starr Jordan Unit Unil in Declaring That I II IUm I Universal Um s Peace ce Is Necessary Ne 19 to Race Progress re Chicago May 3 Krieg Krie Ver immer die tile E er he war bet bei These words by i by tie the t eelman poet Schiller a century ago gj formed tile dib theme of t An a ss the National Peace P e do here to today toda day da by b Di lM M Starr Jerdan president of or the Land Jr sty It lt is through selection that all 11 race progress comes cemeS said saki Dr Jordan War Var means always the reversal of se selection selection lection The survival of the fittest in the th struggle far existence is the primal moving cause eUte of race progress and of race changes In the red stress of or hu ha human human haman man history this process of is sometimes reversed A reversal or of selection Is la the th beginning of degrada ton It Is Ie degradation itself The uThe only way wa In which any an race as asa a aa asa a whole has improved has 1 uI been through the preservation of its best and the lose of its worst examples The TIM condition that favors this is democracy cy C equality before the law the condi condition condition conditIon tion which equalizes opportunity and gives IH s each man the right to stand ot m fall faU on the powers God has given hm him The only race degeneration ever known is that produced by b those thoM forces which destroy destro the best beM leaving for the fathers of the future those th se who could not be used u ed in the business of or colonization colonisation The effects effect of emigration run paral parallel lel let with the effects of war but with this enormous difference the strong men who emigrate are not lost to the world The toss lees of one region is the gain of another But the losses In war can yield no corresponding gain The warlike nation of today is tIle the decadent nation of tomorrow It has bas ever been so o In the nature of o things it must mu t ever eer be bt Our republic shall endure endur as long longas as the human harvest Is good g od as long longas as the movement of history the pro progress gress greys of peace and industry leaves for fur forthe forthe the future not the worst wort but the bet beL beLof of generation The republic f fRome fRome Rome la ted a J t long as there ther were Romans RomanI the republic of ol America Amerl a will wm at t as long as ts people In blood blO cI p r maln mah what we have k S can I J og Is t the text of i a l t r ri i t President Taft Taff Ta ft to Sere S re rel ij oaL l L Melendy I end of nI the National tlona P t Dc was W react at th of that h y today toda Oly Dear Pe r Sir SIF Sl I greatly Ii regret ret t I am to att attend n coming Na Peace Pace congress ong at Chicago and there to express my sympathy with the object of the assembling of so 30 many dist men in the interest of world orld peace That t progress has been made in the matter of ef peace pence everywhere by b international action and by b the moral pressure of the peo pee peoples pies ples of the earth any anyone one who has bas ex cx examined examined the record must admit It is true that armaments go on increasing in increasing increasing creasing in cost but it is also alHO true that th t the burdens presented pre by this competition I tion in armament are growing heavier r rand and heavier and the problems for so solution solution lution littlon consistent with Ith their increase become more and more difficult dim cult The possibilities po of ot war wal now arising come com chiefly chief from of gov gor government government eminent and in those countries where when stability f internal 1 control is lacking The United States has hiss contributed much to the cause of or peace by b t tIng Ing Irig countries weak in respect to their th r internal government so as to strength strengthen en in hi them the cause of law Jaw and order Th s relationship of or guardian and andward an anward andward ward as between nations and con coin countries tries In my m judgment nt helps Idon the cause of or international peace and indi hull indicates Indicates cates estee progress In civilization The pol pot policy polIcy icy of the United States in avoiding war under all circumstances except those pla consistent c n with honor or orits orIts orits its highest hl hest welfare has been made sc so I Idear clear dear to the world as hardly to need statement at my m hands I 1 can only say sa sath that th l so 50 far as my m legitimate Influence In i extends while at the head of or this gov government government government it will always be exerted in inthe Inthe inthe the full in favor of peace pe e not net only as a aI I between this country and other coun countries count t tries but between bt tween our sister nation i Very Yer sincerely yours vours our j WILLIAM f f H TAFT |