The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-09-01
ALL NATIONsFOR PEACE.
IN Effort to Bring Them Together on
this Basis.

the oath inst. handed to the foreign
doplomats at st. Petersburg note
declaring that the maintenance OF
peace and the reduction OF the eX-
cessive ornaments now crushing All
nations is the ideal for which all gov
ernments ought to strive.
The car considers the present mo-
ment favorable for theinauguration
of a movement looking TO this end,
and invited the powers to take part
in an international conference rs a
means of thus ensuring real and last
ING peace and terminating the pro-
gressiye movement OF armament
London Aug. 2S.-The ear sprop-
osition for the purpose OF securing
real and lasting peace among the
powers and the termination of the
progressive increase in ornaments,
as conveyed in note from Count
Mouravieff, the Russian foreign min
lister, to the foreign diplomats at st.
Petersburg, is likely to produce a
sensation throughout Europe, and
coming from such a quaIter and with
such evident sincerity OF purpose it
is likely to have important 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 text of the note follows:
1.-THE maintenance ofgeneral peace
and the possible reduction OF the eX-
cessive ornaments which weigh upon
all nations present themselves in ex
isting conditions to the whole world
as an ideal toward which the endeav-
ors of all governments should be dir
ected.
"The humanitarian and magnani-
nous ideas of his majesty, the emper-
or, 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 would be very
favorable to seeking the means.
international discussion is the
most effectual means of insuring all
peoples beneft-a real, durable
peace, above all putting an end
to the progress in the development
of the present ornaments.
in the course of the last twenty
years the longing for general APP
peasement has grown especially pro-
Rounced in the consciences of the ely
ilized 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 power
ful alliances
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 any sacrifice.
Nevertheless, all these efforts have
not yet been able to bring about the
beneficial result desired-pacifca-
ton.
'The financial charges following
the upward march strike ut the very
root OF public prosperity. The intel
lectual and physical strength Oh the
nations labor and capital are most
~ diverted from their natural appli-
cation and are unproductiveIy con
sumed. Hundreds Ofmillions are de-
voted to acquiring terrible engines
q destruction, which, though today
regarded as the last work of science,
are destined tomorrow to lose all
their value in consequence of some
fresh discovery in the same field.
National culture, economic progress.
and the production of wealth are
either paralyzed or checked i'm devel-
opment, Moreover, in proportion
as the armament OF each power in
creases, they less and less fulfill the