PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT this afternoon [April 2] made a short speech to the North Carolina Peace Society, with headquarters at Wilmington, N. C. Hayne Davis, president of the society, and several of the officers and members, were presented to the President at half past two o'clock by Senator Overman. The peace society is a comparatively new organization, which is expected to spread all over the country. Its objects are to promote peace through international arbitration, but to equip the country with vessels and munitions of war to make splendid defense in case of attack.
Mr. Davis extended to the President a cordial invitation to attend a peace congress to be held by the society the first week in May and to make an address. He outlined the purposes of the congress, closing as follows: "The North Carolina peace congress is, therefore, not an event of mere local interest. Though the action is local, the object is international, and the plans of the congress are such that it is certain to exert a national and perhaps an international influence on two of the questions most vital to the welfare of our people and to the peace of the world."
The President gave his approval of the movement as follows:—
