colossal monument to Peace, with the inscription on its granite pedestal:

"Se desplomaran estas montanas antes que Argentinos and Chilians rompan la paz jurada a los pies del Christo Redontor

"Sooner shall these mountains crumble to dust than Argentines and Chilians break the Peace which at the feet of Christ the Redeemer they have sworn to maintain."

On the other side of the base are the words of the angels' song over Bethlehem:

"PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD-WILL TO MEN."

The statue cost about $100,000 and was paid for by popular subscription, the working classes contributing liberally.

"Only a bit of sentiment by an emotional people," says the skeptic; but it marks not a boast or a dream. It marks an actual achievement. The statue had not been standing one year when Brazil and Bolivia settled the long-standing dispute over the rights to the Acre Territory-Brazil giving back to Bolivia the whole of the Territory, together with $10,000,000, which Bolivia is spending on railroads. Chili also made up with Bolivia, and by a Treaty of Peace and Friendship put an end to an old feud of twenty-six years standing. Chili is now aiding Bolivia to exploit her wealth by helping her build railroads. Argentina was instrumental in quelling a revolution in Uruguay -and all this, as I have said, in less than a year from the time that lesson came down from the Andean height. Surely, "how beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of Him." Let us thank God that whatever the motives which prompted the natives, whatever the incentive which will keep it alive, Argentina and Chili have already, in the beginning of this great century, cast the first vote for Universal Peace! They have surely "ushered in the dawn of the day at whose meridian Peace will become permanent.

DR. MAXWELL:

I will now introduce to you the last speaker of the afternoon, last only because he has asked that he might be. I

promise you that no matter how weary you are you will be glad you have remained to hear him.

He is the representative of that land from which we have inherited our language, from which we have inherited the greater part of our literature, from which we have inherited our common law, and many of our social and political institutions. He is Mr. William T. Stead, the representative of England. (Applause.)

What Young Folks Can Do

MR. W. T. STEAD.

MR. CHAIRMAN, YOUTH OF NEW YORK: You are very tired, I know, and I am afraid many of you regard my appearance here with a sigh of regret (cries of "no" and applause). You are very complimentary, my friends, but I have been a boy myself, and I know what it is. (Applause.) I am glad to meet you here to-night, because I have come to ask for your help. I am like the man of Macedonia in the Gospel, who being seen by the Apostle in a vision, cried, "Come over and help us."

Now, you may think that a strange request from a representative of the old country which your forefathers whipped so well and so deservedly (Applause), more than a hundred years ago, and in so doing, conferred upon us one of the greatest advantages we ever enjoyed at the hands of any nation in the whole of our long experience.

I am glad to meet you here to-day. Every year we celebrate the Fourth of July at my brother's place at Browning Hall in London, as a great British festival. And we always claim, and claim with truth, that George Washington was the best Englishman of the eighteenth century. He was English-born and English-bred, English-educated and English-trained. Thank God you helped him lick George the Third, who brought German feudal despotic ideas into our country. (Applause.)

Now, I want you to help us once more. We don't want you to lick us again (laughter), but we want you to lead us to victory in the fields of Peace. (Applause.)

I confess that I came here rather bowed down and depressed. I had been appealing to an elderly American, one of the best Americans on this great continent; I had been asking

him whether he thought it was not possible for us to get together twelve representative men and women, representative of the best of your countrymen and countrywomen, to lead a great international pilgrimage of Peace, which, starting from your country, would go from capital to capital until it wound up at The Hague, thus opening the way to a practical program of arbitration and progress.

I am sorry to tell you that that old man, old saint, I may almost call him, said: "The idea is splendid. There is no doubt that it would have a magnificent effect, that such a deputation coming from this New World to the Old World would shake the Continent; but you will never be able to get your pilgrims. Americans that have made their mark as international men, Americans that are famous throughout the world, are too busy or too much employed, or too much afraid of ridicule, to undertake such a mission."

I hesitated and my heart sank within me, and I walked down to this Hall, and I saw this magnificent assemblage of youthful Americans, and I heard the Chairman read the sublime words of the Hebrew seer, and my heart gave a great leap of joy, and I felt that an opportunity had come and that I would put before you, young boys and young girls, young men and young women, the story of what you might, what you can and, if God wills, what I hope you will, decide to do this day to aid the cause of Peace, Progress and Humanity. (Applause.)

"A little child shall lead them." I forget how many years ago it was when I stood in the capital, the most beautiful of all the capitals, the glorious city of Paris, so worthily represented here to-day by Baron d'Estournelles de Constant. (Applause.) I witnessed a great international celebration. Your representative was there, and the Foreign Minister of England was there, and the head of the Prussian Government, and there were soldiers there, and all the representatives of the Foreign Powers were gathered there in a great assemblage. And what was the cause of the gathering? It was to celebrate the unveiling of the statue of Lafayette, which the school children of America had given to France. Lafayette served you, and served you well, and you were not ungrateful. But what does that show? It shows that there exists in you boys and girls of America a power; you can make its intent felt upon international relations. You, by

your cents and your quarters, made an impression which vibrated through the European nations.

Now, if you could do that by giving a statue of a War Hero, what can you not do if you determine throughout the whole of this vast Republic to join together your contributions, in order to provide the funds for the carrying out of one of the greatest pilgrimages that the world has ever seen in the interests of Peace and International Brotherhood. (Applause.)

The Hague Conference, you know, is going to meet on the fifteenth of June, and the Hague Conference has to discuss many things; I am not going to tell you all of them, only of two things which I think the Hague Conference will do. One is to protect the world against the dreaded sudden outbreak of war. You know people say there can be no prevention of the sudden outbreak of war, that in the darkness of night, without any declaration, without any attempt to see what could be done to avoid it, it is possible for war to be declared. Perhaps you don't understand it fully, because, fortunately for you, three thousand miles of stormy sea lie between you and your warlike neighbors. But when the frontiers lie as close together as they do in Europe it is a very different story. Frenchmen told me, when I was in Paris last year, that for three months they had expected to wake up in the morning and find German troops in full march upon Paris, and Germans told me the year before that they had long been in suspense, not knowing whether the British fleet would descend on Kiel, burn Kiel and sink all the German ironclads. So you can understand that in Europe the dread of sudden war is a very great one.

Now, there is a New York boy you have been hearing about, Theodore Roosevelt. I am going to tell you about a New York man who, at the last Hague Conference, brought forward a fine plan. He recommended that before any of the Powers drew the sword after they had quarreled, they should call on two friendly Powers to act as mediators, and these two Powers should have thirty days to discuss whether or not Peace could be preserved without war. If that had been acted upon, that recommendation of this New York boy, the honor of England would never have been stained with the disgrace of the war in South Africa, and the war between Russia and Japan would certainly have been postponed, if not altogether prevented.

Now, it is possible, if that recommendation were made obligatory, we might rid the world of the danger of sudden war. But in order to do it, it is necessary that public opinion be awakened. I want you, my friends, to supply the stimulus, and you can do it; I will show you how. You know I have been around all Europe in the last three months, seeing Kings and Queens, and Prime Ministers, Foreign Ministers and Ambassadors, talking with them and discussing what can be done. They all told me this: "We can do something by the work of the Conference, but we can't do very much unless the people are aroused." I asked them how the people could be aroused and they said they had lost heart. When I asked, "Do you think if America took the lead, there would be a movement throughout the Old World?" they replied: "Oh, yes, if America took the lead, then something might be done." I want to know whether you will take the lead and I ask you to decide. (Applause.)

I will tell you in what way I think it is a practicable proposition, and I have discussed this with all the most eminent men in the Old World and I have discussed it with many of the most eminent men in the New World, and they all say it is a magnificent idea, but-ah, that damnable word "but"-"but""but." (Laughter.) (Laughter.) I say, let us get into action. They say we cannot get the right kind of people; the people whom God has blessed most in this world are too comfortable to go, they have not time enough to go. They have time to go to Europe for months and months to amuse themselves, but they have no time to go and plead for Peace, and to carry the American idea throughout the world. I sometimes feel when I talk to grown-up Americans that faith has died out of their souls, and in place of a heart they have the click of a dollar. I sometimes have talked to Americans who epitomized all that is worst in human nature, who were cankered by too great prosperity, eaten up by the idea that they existed only in order to increase their pile; but I do find the true Americans, thank God, and the true American is before me now, and it is to you that I make my appeal. (Applause.)

Now, you may ask me fairly what I propose to do. I will tell you. The plan is very simple. Let us get twelve of the best Americans you can pick, and let them undertake to go on a pilgrimage to Europe. Now, you say, "Why do you want them