ADDRESSES OF MAJOR LACEY 355 



Jerusalem and the Holy Land. In Boston your former 

 president, Benjamin F. Trueblood, stands at the head of 

 the American Peace Society; and war has become so 

 deadly and expensive that the nations are most inclined 

 to listen to the advance of peace, since it costs $10,000,000 

 to build a dreadnaught and $10,000 to fire a single broad- 

 side from its deadly and far-reaching guns, and the broad- 

 sides can be fired so rapidly that the treasures of Croesus 

 would not suffice for a battle between two great ships of 

 this type. 



The race between Great Britain and Germany as to 

 which shall build the most battleships is going on apace. 

 The taxpayer shudders and the governments look upon 

 each other's preparations as so dangerous that they fear 

 the explosion that will follow the outbreak of hostilities. 

 The pocketbooks of the nations are growing sensitive, 

 and if w T ar is full of glory it is too costly to indulge in. 



The Geneva award prevented war between Great Brit- 

 ain and the United States after the Civil War. It set an 

 example out of which has grown The Hague tribunal. 

 Everyone looks forward to the arrival of the time when 

 controversies between nations will be settled by inter- 

 national arbitration. 



My young friends, I congratulate you in being in a 

 good school, with competent and able teachers, but, after 

 all, you must work out your own success. No college 

 could have taught Burns to write "The Cotter's Saturday 

 Night"; no university could have taught Shakespeare to 

 write "Hamlet"; you must study and create for your- 

 selves. "We are all poor, blind mortals and the moun- 

 tains are the raised letters to teach the mysteries of the 

 earth. The college only gives you the key with which to 

 unlock the future. Ticknor, speaking of Daniel Webster, 

 said that no great man has ever accomplished anything 

 without preparation; that when the time comes to act, 



