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Show II FAIiBIIS.il j WITH PEACE MESSAGE Former Vice-President Says 4; Talk of War With Foreign i I f Power Is Absurd. I . fij.J NEW YORK. Mnrch- 17. Charles i ,j ! Warren Fairbanks of Indianapolis, II ' , j; former vice-president of the United I - "M ! States, camo homo tonight with a , i ? ' messago of 'pcaco. After an absence , , i : of nearlv a year on a tour of the -world, 1 : A. ; he arrived in Now York on the steamer Jwi' , Maurelstnia. 1 On tho same vessel came James A. I ''li;; , Patten, the Chicago speculator who I , ,p ! was so roughly handled recently on i , ':i !' (he Manchester' cxehnugo. .. . , The .former vice-president talked , freely. Pcaco with Japan was tho j' ' harden of his interview, and, by a strange coincidence, ho ranches .New I York in lime .(o .bo an honor guest. ! : ' wilh President Taft, at a dinner ol I I he Amorican Peace and Arbitration V league at ihc Hotel Aslor Tuesday .I'll iji i night. , . 'Ll'V "President Roosevelt's administrn-'r,3; administrn-'r,3; tion," said Mr. Fairbanks, "greatly 'If strengthened the ties of pood fccl-;l fccl-;l . ing between (he United Stales and ji other powers, and President Taft is '.; understood abroad to bo in avor of universal peace. There is, therefore, no ij : evidence of any lurking fear of our ab-i ab-i (J'i soluto faith; and so long as that con-,.;'.!: con-,.;'.!: 3 dition prevails, there is no danger of ' j! j' collision between the United States and ; any other nation. , i "Diplomacy will adjust, as .it should, :M j 1 any and all international questions wo ;-tf! '5 1 have or are likely to have, so fnras . 'n i wc are able now to foresee. Nothing .H,i but inconceivable blundering di-'il di-'il j plomacy can bring about a conflict 3 1 between us and any of our friends bo-', bo-', u !l vond the Pacific or beyond the At-? At-? lantic. President Taft and Secretary ''':. Knox have tho wisdom and patriotism r -j necessary to preserve our rights in tho i far cast under the ordorb' and usual '". l processes of diplomacy without any i !, I peril either to our national honor or until un-til ! tional peace. I )M ;Jj Rap : Agitators. "mi '"Those who now and then fill the , .J' air with unfounded rumors of possible ' .ft j ; trouble between us and any forcipn ' jj power, do not thereby advance our '-'' V world-wide interest or contribute to ,1 ' ; our national prcsfipc. j , "Thero is not the slightest ground. I ' in my opinion, for the suggestion which now and then obtains that there '"jS-'l is danger oT war between the United Vi !;l ' States and Japan, or any other power, i j?, j'; "The fact is, we were never further i ki removed from tho possibilities of j : , ' serious conflict than wo are todaj-. '' Japan has respect and admiration for i'lj , the United States that is genuine and !.? undisguised. I have found such to bo ;U ;j j the fueling of thai couniry, from the i$.'ir emperor and the Katsura cabinet down 1 to men in every walk of life. Editors, j 'j ' business men and men who influence ' jj public opinion, covet nothing mo-re thnn the regard or the United States. "While there seems to be a conflict 1 2j" .1 ! of view on Japanese and American '! , righis, in Manchuria or elsewhere, it ; ; docs not follow that any thought of jji) ! I trouble enters the mind of either gov- .IS I' crnnicul. There is nothing in the pros- 'ijfj ; ent relations in the two countries that , can justify any imputation upon the cn- 'i';5.( tiro good faith of either toward the U other. W- ' "What I have said with respect to , . i ! United States and Japan may 'bo , ' iiijl'i said with equal confidence with regard 'iSl i0 1,e United States and Great Britain. . :jh -If it is thought Great Britain is 1 moving somewhat slowly regarding the 'j; j ''1 Chineso loan, it should be remembered M' j ;V !lcuio political situation exists in '')u' ' V.'iiJ' U0I1I1try, which may make progress 'M :i. diflicult. p i ', "I Imvc observed among the British ; , , l' people, in ofiicial circles and outside, ill i; ,1,1C.JS!,1"'? sencrous regard for tho United States which they so signallv j i1 manuested during our last war. , ! "Germany and F-rance entertain for m ! the United States nothing but senti- tj ( munis or good will. Emperor William t .tf ;! an1 President "Fallicres and the re- . n I : sponsible ministers of the two povern- '' i! mo"ts l-0fiQ no "it.iblo ojiportunity to ' ,!fltJ' emphasize this fact." |