Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-09-01
ASKS PEACE FOR ALL.
RUSSIA CALLS ON THE POWERS TO
TO AID IT IN SUCH A MOVE.

Excessive Armaments Now Crushing Ma
tions Should Be Acknowledgment
Nicholas Takes the Initiative in a Re-
form That May Ensure Lasting Peace.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.-The cars
proposition for an international confer
ence for the purpose of securing real
and lasting peace among the epwers and
the termination of the progressive in
crease in armament, has been received
in a note from Count Muravieff the
Russian foreign minister, to the foreign
diplomats at st. Petersburg, is likely to
produce sensation throughout Europe,
and coming from such a quarter and
with such evident sincerity of purpose,
it is likely to have important effects.
There is no doubt that with Russia TAX
ing the lead, Germany, France and the
other nations will be ready to follow.
The text of the note follows:
1.-THE maintenance of general peace
and the possible reduction of the excess
sive ornaments which weigh upon all
nations present themselves in existing
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ideal toward which the endeavors of all
governments should be directed The
humanitarian and magnanimous ideas
OF his majesty, the emperor, my august
master, have been won over TO this view
in the conviction that this lofty aim is
in conformity with the most essential
interests and legitimate views of all the
powers, and the imperial government
thinks the present moment favorable to
the movement.
1.-The international discussion is the
most effectual means of ensuring all
peoples beneft-a real, durable peace,
above all putting an end to the pro-
gressive development of the present
ornaments. In the course Of the last
20 years the longing for general appease-
ment has grown especially pronounced
in the consciences of civilized nations
and the preservation of peace has been
put forward as an object of international
policy. 1t is in its name that great
states have concluded among themselves
powerful alliances.
'It is the better to guarantee peace
that they have developed in proportions
hitherto unprecedented their military
forces, and still continue to increase
them without shrinking from any sac
rifce.
Nevertheless, all these efforts have
not been able to bring the benifcent re-
suit desired, pacification.
1.-THE financial charges following the
upward march strike at the very root of
public prosperity. The intellectual and
physical strength of the nations labor
and capital are mostly diverted from
their natural application and are unpro-
ductively consumed. Hundreds of mil
lions are devoted to acquiring terrible
engines of destruction, which, though
today regarded as the last work of sci
ence are destined tomorrow to lose all
their value in consequence of some fresh
discovery in the same field. National
culture, economic progress and the pro-
duction of wealth are either paralyzed
or checked in development. Moreover
in proportion as the ornaments of each
power increases, they less and less full
fill the object the governments have set
before themselves. The economic crisis
due in great part to the system of ar
maments Poutrance, and the continual
danger which lies in this massing of
war material are transforming the
armed peace of our days into crushing
burden which the people have more and
more difficulty in bearing.
Would Avert a Calamity.
sit appears evident that if this state
of things were to be prolonged it would
inevitably lead to the very cataclysm it
is desired to avert and the horrors
whereof make every thinking being
shudder in advance. To put an end to
these incessant ornaments and to seek
the means of warding off the calamities
which are threatening the whole world
such is the supreme duty today i'm
posed upon all states. Filled with this
idea his majesty has been pleased to
command me to propose to all the gov
ernments whose representatives are &C
credited to the imperial courts the as
sembling 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 GEN.
fury which is about to open. 1t would
converge into one powerful focus the
efforts of all states sincerely seeking to
make the great conception of universal
peace triumph over the elements of
trouble and discord, and it would at the
same time cement their agreement by a
corporate conservation of the principles
of equity and right wherein rest the Sc
curly of states and the welfare of
peoples"
Second Nebraska to Start Wednesday.
CHICKAMAUGA, Aug. 30.-The work of
moving the First army corps from
Chickamauga has been completed and
the army officials are now directing
their attention to the Third corps. The
railroads are now in excellent shape to
do the handling and there will be no
delay ON their account. The whole
corps, it is thought, can be easily
moved during the week. The Sixth
regiment United States volunteers will
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