The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20

delegates shall be loyal to the principles
Of democracy; that they shall represent
such organizations as express in their fun
| damental laws devotion to the doctrines
of our American Declaration of Independ-
| ence.
More particularly we may note with in
terest the great subjects which the COM
mittee has proposed as the proper business
| of the congress when it shall be convened
The working outline of the enterprise is
defined as follows:
The general scope of the proposed congress
shall be the consideration Of the interests of
| free institutions, and the best means of pro-
noting the same among the nations.
| By free institutions shall be understood such
| organic forms of human society as are derived
| from enlightened popular will, are con-
| sistent with it, and are subservient to the in
terests and happiness of mankind.
Institutions, whether free or despotic are of
| three general kinds or classes:
l. Civil or political institutions.
2. Social and educational institutions proper
3. Religious institutions.
Institutions of the latter class as such shall
not be represented in the proposed congress,
nor shall questions of a religious nature be dis
cussed therein.
In the consideration of civil, political and
educational institutions the congress shall deal
with:
l. Such questions Of constitutional and ad-
min1strative reform among the nations as may
be deemed promotive of the interests of public
liberty, the rights of citizenship and the main
tenance and extension of free institutions 'uE
2. Such questions in particular as may pro-
mote the establishment Of the principle of ar
bitration among all civilized states instead Of
the barbarouS code of war.
3. Such questions IS may tend by their dis
n pYfipo1JiSh fha
and injustice of governments toward their sub
jects.
4. Such questions as may tend by their dis
cussion to promote the disarmament of the ma
tionS, the dissolution OF all standing armies
and the substitution therefor of the rule of in
telligence, morality and justice among the peo-
pie of the earth.
s. Such questions as by their discussion NAV
tend to promote and perfect international in
tercourse on terms of equality and justice.
g. Such questions as by their discussion NAV
promote the principle of mutual advantage
among the nations in trade and commerce
Z. Such questions as by their discussion may /
conduce TO the diffusion of international intel
igence.
8. Such questions relate TO the mental aud !
intellectual welfare of the nations, as the same |
may be determined by wise provisions for the |
education of the citizen, the freedom of the |
press and the general diffusion of knowledge
3. Such questions as relate to the physical |
welfare of mankind, as general sanitation, sal
utary quarantine and the encouragement of
those branches of investigation which conduce
to the discovery of new methods of prolonging
and protecting human life.
10. Such questions in particular as by their
discussion may tend to promote government of
the people by the people and for the people as
the best attainable form of civil and political
known to men.
Such is an outline of the plan for vol
uutary, and yet semi-official, Pan Republic
congress in the United States during the
Columbian year. The enterprise has in it
the promise of the future. 1t is not impos-
sible that the congress, if successful, may
Weld salutary influence on the civil, po-
Iitical and social destinies of the nations in
The closing decade of the century. Man
kind are yet long distance from the level
u Internationally, but it may have fallen
% the lot of the present epoch TO witness
me dawn of the better day.
JOHN CLARK RIDPATH.