The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-09-03
GAR GAR NICHOLAS
IS FOR PEACE
Makes a Proposal That Surprises
the Whole European
Continent.
PROPOSES DISARMAMENT
Many Believe the Cars Proposal
viii Have a Tremendous
Effect.
NO DOUBT OF HIS SINCERITY
E PROPOSES DISARMAMENT
NO DOUBT OF HIS SINCERITY
Diplomats Mt st. Petersburg Notify
Their Governments and the
Sensation BECOMES
World Wide.

~ AS L1lhlSiSh HANLS1loltlNsE Soulll ANIou-
r%avietf, the foreign minister, on
the gath inst. handed to the foreign
diplomates Mt st. Petersburg Il note de-
claring thut the maintenance of peace
and the reduction of the excessive
ornaments now crushing all nations
is the ideal for which all governments
ought to strive.
Tho car considers the present mo-
mcnt favorable for the Inauguration
of II movement looking to this end,
and invited the powers to take part in
an international conference as u
means of thus ensuring real and last
ing peace and terminating the pro-
gressivc movement of armament.
London, Aug. 30.-'rhe cars propo-
sition for an international conference
for the purpose of securing real and
lasting peace among the powers and
the termination of the progressive in
crease in ornaments, as conveyed in a
note from Count Mouraveitf, the Rus
sian foreign minister, to the foreign
diplomats at St. Petersburg, is likely
to produce a sensation throughout
Europe, and coming from such a
quarter and with such evident SINGER
ity of purpose, it is likely to have inn
portant effects.
There is no doubt that with Russia
taking the lead in such IL step. Ger
many, France and the other nations
will be ready to follow.
The Cars Note.
The text of the note follows:
"The maintenance of general peace
and the possible reduction of the ex-
%cessive ornaments which weigh upon
all nations present themselves in en-
listing conditions to the whole world
as an ideal toward which the endeav-
ors of all governments should be di-
rected.
"The humanitarian and magnani-
nous ideas of his majesty, the em-
peror, my august master. have been
won over to this view in the convic-
ton that this lofty aim is in conform
ity with the most essential interests
and legitimate views of all the powers,
and the imperial government thinks
the present moment would be very
favorable to seeking the means.
international discussion is the
most e%ffectual means of insuring al
peoples bencfit-a real, durable peace,
above all, putting IN end in the prog
ress in the development of the present
ornaments.
SIN the curse of the last twenty
years the longing for general appease-
ment has grown especially pro-
nounced in the consciences of the civ
ilized nations and the preservation of
peace has been put forward as an OBJ
ject of international policy. 1t is in
its name that great states have con-
cluded among themselves powerful al
~liances.
ut is the better to guarantee peace
that they have developed in proper
tons hitherto unprecedented their
military forces and still continue to
increase them, without shrinking
from nny sacrifice.
Nevertheless, all the efforts have
not vet been nhle to bring about the
beneficent result desired-pacitica-
ton.
THE financial charges following the
upward march strike at the very DOT
of public prosperity. The intellectual
and physical strength of the nations
labor. and capital are mostly diverted
from their natural application and are
unproductively consumed. Hundreds
of millions are devoted to acquiring
terrible engines of destruction, which,
though today regarded as the last
work OF science, are destined tomor-
row to lose all their value in conse-
quence of some fresh discovery in the
same field. National culture, economic
progress and the production of wealth
are either paralyzed or checked in de-
velopment. Moreover, in proportion
as the armament of each power in
c%reases. they less md less fulfill the
object the governments have set be-
fore themselves. Economic crises;
due in great part to the system of
ornaments. %l'outrance and the con-
tinual danger which lies in this mass
ing of wal material, are transforming
the armed. peace of our days into Il
crushing burden which the peoples
have more and more difficulty in bear
ing.
1T appears evident that if this state
OF things We're to be prolonged it
would inevitably lead to the very cat
nclysm it is desired to avert and the
horrors whereof make every thinking
being shuddel in advance.
"To put an end to these incessant
ornaments and to seek the means of
Marding off the supreme duty today
imposed upon all states.
"Eillcd with this idea. his majesty
has been pleased to command me to
propose to all governments whose
representatives are accredited to the
imperial court the assembling of a
conference which shall occupy itself
with this grave problem.
''This conference will be, by the
help of God, the happy pressage for
the century which is about to open.
1t would converge into n powerful
focus the efforts of the states sin
cerely seeking to make the great on
ception of universal peace triumph
over the element of trouble and dis
cord, and it would at the same time
cement their agreement by q corpo-
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