Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-03-13

JUDGE WILLIAM II. ARMOUR.
delegates shall be loyal to the principles
Of democracy; that they shall represent
such organizations as express in their fun
damenta laws a 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 instituiio and the best means of pro-
noting the same among the nations.
By free institutions shall be understood such
organic forms of human society a. are derived
from an enlightened popular will, are con-
sstent with it, and are subservient to the in
terests and happiness of mankind.
Institutions. whether free or despotic, are of
three general kind, or classes:
|. Civil or politi al Institutions.
9. Social and educational institutions proper.
3. Rcl siuu- 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
cus.cd therein.
In the consideration of civil political and
educational institutions the congress shall deal
with:
!. such questions of constitutional and ad-
miuistrative reform among the nations as may
be deemed promotiVe of the interest, of public
liberty, the rights of citizenship and the main
tenance and extension of free institutions.
= Such questions in particular may pro-
mote the establishment of the principle of ar
bitration among all civilized states instead Of
thc barbarous code of war.
3. Such questions as may tend by their dis
cussion to prevent or extingush the seventies
and injustice of governments toward their SUBJ
jects.
T. 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.
5. Such questions as by their discussion may
tend to promote and perfect International in
tercourse on terms of equality and Justice.
q. Such questions as by their discussion may
promote the principle of mutual advantage
among the nations in trade and commerce.
T. Such questions as by their discussion may
conduce to the diffusion of international intel
ligenCe.
s. Such questions as relate to the mental and
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.
9. such questions relate to the physical
utary quarantine and the announcement OF
those branches of investigation which cOnduce
70 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
| organization known to men.
Such is an outline of the plan for a vol
untary and yet semi official, Pan Republic
congress in the United States during the
Columbian year. The enterprise has in i,
the promise of the future. 1t is not impos
sible that the congress, if successful, may
WELD "A salutary influence on the civil, pc
litical and social destinies of the nations in
the closing decade OF the century. Man
kind are yet long distance from the leve
of internationally, but it may have faller
to the lot Of the present epoch TO witnes,
the Dawn of the better day.
JOHN CLARK RIDPATH.