Decembee 28, 1906.] 



SCIENCE. 



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There is most surely a science of good gov- 

 ernment, and that science we, as a people, 

 are rapidly advancing in this western 

 world. 



Let no one try to take away from the 

 essential nobility of this act by pointing 

 to the interest of a few American planters 

 in Cuba. We are glad to have their in- 

 terests protected, but those interests were 

 relatively unimportant, and I firmly be- 

 lieve that had there not been an American 

 planter or merchant in Cuba, our govern- 

 ment's course of action would have been 

 just the same, with the same splendid re- 

 sult. So let not the glory of this transac- 

 tion be dimmed by unworthy detractions 

 or by neglect. It was a great and noble 

 work two years ago to prevail upon Russia 

 and Japan — when those two nations stood 

 face to face, each with an army of half a 

 million men, ready to crush and slay till 

 the blood of a hundred thousand young 

 men should again stain the soil of Man- 

 churia — to stop fighting, to withdraw their 

 forces, and to submit the issues of their 

 quarrel to a council of peace. That was a 

 great work, and we glory in its accomplish- 

 ment—but the work done in Cuba is not 

 less fine, though less spectacular. Its mod- 

 esty, its example of purity and restraint, 

 of justice and respect for law, its vindica- 

 tion of the principles and duties of a re- 

 public—all combine to make this year of 

 our Lord 1906 an epoch in international 

 courtesy if not in international law. 



EDUCATION IN THE ARTS OF PEACE VS. 

 EDUCATION IN THE ARTS OP WAR. 



One word more of immediate interest. 

 The great exposition at St. Louis, in 1904, 

 gave an epitome of the civilizations of all 

 the nations and tribes of the earth. Their 

 representatives dwelt or camped side by 

 side and exhibited with marvelous fidelity 

 and fullness their industries, their com- 

 merce, their science, their art, their systems 



of education and their modes of life. It 

 was, indeed, a great educational institute 

 carried on for seven months in the presence 

 of millions of visitors from every nation 

 under the sun. Probably no human in- 

 strumentality was ever more potent in 

 promoting the advancement of science 

 than that exposition. The great congress 

 brought together the best of living men, 

 and they offered their best tributes for the 

 service of science and human progress, and 

 we had the supreme spectacle of the tri- 

 umphs of the arts of peace. 



The exhibit of instruments designed to 

 kill human beings, and of appliances for 

 the destruction of ships and forts, was mini- 

 mized, and the pageantry of war offered 

 few attractions and claimed small atten- 

 tion. The glory of the exposition was its 

 devotion to education, and the application 

 of science to the useful arts. 



I have thus characterized the exposition 

 of 1904, in order to show more clearly what 

 I consider an unfortunate tendency on the 

 part of the management of the proposed 

 Jamestown Exposition at Norfolk, Va., in 

 1907. I refer to the prominence which 

 military and naval exhibits and evolutions 

 occupy in the prospectus of attractions. 

 The emphasis would seem to be on the sci- 

 ence and the art of war, as though the glory 

 of our American manhood lay in our abil- 

 ity to overawe, crush and destroy the very 

 peoples who, two and a half years ago, 

 joined hands with us and with each other 

 in fostering the growth of an international 

 brotherhood which should relegate the 

 waste and horror of war to the pages of 

 history. 



Are we not in danger of cultivating over- 

 much a warlike attitude and of encour- 

 aging the growth of a taste for warfare? 

 The maxim, 'In time of peace, prepare for 

 war,' has done infinite mischief. It has 

 misled statesmen, and sent millions upon 

 millions of young men to untimely graves. 



