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Show THE PEACE MEETING. The giem peace meeting held in New York on Saturday cening giv riso to a good deal of wrangling bo-fore bo-fore it was held, nnd contrary to the spirit which prompted rlio a5semblago, thprc appears to be but little peace in connection with it. Doubtless much of this confusion is "by reason ol the influence of Col. Rooeovclt, who considers the peace movement largely hypocritical, who raised a number of ii1uip4!nlll 1 11 llm 1 m I'.'l ilill'.i' !' fiually, -aftei'-thc programme was, changed, apparently to meet his views, flatly declined to attend tho meeting. It must, be confessed, in all candor that, from "0l. Tfooscvclt's standpoint, there is a good deal to say in defense of his position; and wc believe that be is correct where he says that the peace treaties amended as they apparently ap-parently must be, will fall far short in effectiveness from the siaudard of public expectation. Still, there would appear to be no good reason for his bumptious attitude on this question. . The mectiug itself was of the most enthusiastic, character; and President Taft received the ovation aiid endorsements endorse-ments to which his good intentions certainly entitle him. There is no reason rea-son to doilbt that tho treaties, as ox-plained ox-plained by President Taft, will go a long distance in the way of promoting the. .w.orld 's peace. It is not necessary to meet the lioosevolt idea, which demands de-mands iostaut aud universal peace and tho acquiescence of all mankind in it if we arc to have peace treaties at all. in order to see the value oT I ho proposals "made by President Taft. II is very seldom, indeed, that humanity can clear up at one move all of the evils 111 any given direction. The best that we cau hope to do is to move gradually, sweeping away evils as far as possible, and continuing the process 11 n I i I Hip hest. resnlln have been ob tained. It is just so in this peace programme, pro-gramme, of which President Taft is unquestionably un-questionably the head bv virtue of his great concessions in the way of peace, and his formulation of the peace treaties with Great Britain and France. It is not to be expected that -these treaties, even ir ratified by he United States, by Great Britain, and by France, will immediately secure peace to all the world; but they will certainly cer-tainly be a mighty bulwark for peace in the last reckoning. The fact that the great meeting in New Yorlc was in effect ef-fect a Taft meeting, ought to strengthen those treaties, make their ratification by our Senate certain, and put Presideut Taft -in the limelight of the world as the great pacificator of his time. Beginning with these treaties, it will bo easier to move forward for world peace by far than it would be to .so move -without them; and this alone is a poworful argument for their ralifica-" tion, in spite of the criticism, of I he caviling, and of all the pessimism which can be pleaded against their purpose and .effect. |