The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1900-09-06
IMPORTANT Discussions.

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pear In the Hall of Congress, Pal
ais de Congress as IL Is called. This
is the least striking part Of the Ex-
position. There are here no great
captains Of industry with changing
machinery. no displays of mining
industries with their astonishing
statistics, no ad captandum inven.
tions or results Of thrilling discov
cries in physical science. Only q
number of societies consisting Of
plain men and some plain women
discussing peace education, charity
religion, psychology, hygiene, and
other subjects that relate to the
amelioratiOn and progress Of the
human race. Can It he doubted
that these organizations, composed
as they are of savants of all coun-
tries, though they are scarcely
known outside of the esoteric cir
cles of their specialties--statistic-
ians, book worms, theorists, dream
ers some will say, working in soli-
tude but furnishing material for
legislative consideration and act
ion, are the real benefactors and
saviors of mankind? They have
no monuments and want none.
"They desire no isles of the blest,
10 quiet seats of the Just, to rest in
u golden grove, or to bask in a sum-
mar sky: give them the waves of
going on and not 10 die"
M. dc Block, Russian Councillor
of state, held yesterday in the Sale
des Fetes of the Petit-Luxembourg
a meeting to consider the prob
lens of war, and the policy of col
onial expansion.
In that meeting, which related
especially to the objects of the In.
ternational Peace Congress, M. de
Block insisted on the necessity of
special inquiries concerning the
conditions of modern war, and the
utility of colonial expeditions. All
his suggestion, commission was
appointed to study economical and
financial crisis which might be the
causes of war between tho great
powers. Ia the interest of human.
ity at large, which suffers so cruel
ly in the slash of ornaments. M
de Block urged that these inquir-
les should be multiplied especially
at the present time, when the wal
of the Transvaal justifies absolute
ly the words of Mr.. Broderick o
the English Porlia ment that very
small number of troops holding
themselves on the defensive, will
be able to resist for long time al
adversary much more numerous
and infiict Oh him terrible losses
He held that the experience of tn
Transvaal was of a nature to con
solidate European peace in tha
it demonstrated tho immense diff
culties of invasion.
The conference adjourned with tn
impression prevailing among thos
associated for the study and pre-
paganda for enlightening the gov
erIments and the people, with ref
erence to the dangers of expansio
and colonial extention-that ther
is great peril in an armed peac
which really means permanen
war.
The President of the medics
Congress, Prof. Raymond, who
the present occupant of the chat
once held by the renowned Charco
of the Salpetriere, made an addres
at the opening of this Congress, ,an
briefly reviewed the principal cha
acteristics of the physiology, ana
tony and pathology of tho nervot
system of past times, and paid du
homage to the superb work an
discoveries of Charcot, Vulpia
Horn, Friedreich, Leyden and
number of other savants throue
whom we are enabled today to vi
derst and so many obscure matte
relating to nervous pathology. o.
role, said he, is to contend again
tho progress of degeneracy al
morbid heredity, against the di
semination of infections, an
against the ravages of syphilis al
alcoholism. In short. to impre
our time with the truth that t
principal sourse of happiness
sides in perfect harmony
tween the human organism and
environment.
Among the most interesting I
pers submitted to the Medical CC
gress were those by DR.. Labadie,
New York, DR.. Berthau of Pa
and DR.. Ducamp, of Bordeaux,
the new treatment nf comsumpti
which was discovered by Frent
man, DR.. Crotte. The method
In effect, to transmit antisepti
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