The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-06-06
MOVEMENT TOWARD PEACE
TIE YIEWS OF FREDERIC PAS
ST.
President OF the French Arbitration
Society on the Outlook To-day.

n geret, are stril1ingly appropriate in thei
application to the president Of tn
French arbitration society. 9Th
dreams of philosophers" said the pro
lessor to his daughter, referring to
new republic of his own fashi Jning
have ever aroused men OF action wht
have set to work to realize them. Gu
thought creates the future. Statesmen
build according to the plans we leav
after our death. They are our mason'
and our hodmen. No, my daughter,
do not construct a Utopia. NY dream
which does not belong to me at all arc
which, at this very moment, is the
dream of thousands and thousands Of
souls, is true and prophetic"
Frederic Passys dream for now full
< thirty years has been peace amongst
nations, and to what tangible results
that dream has led, we see by reading
his biography. A letter in LIE Temps
In 1867, when he was in his forty fifth
4 year, marked his first noteworthy effort
" toward peace; up to that time he had
devoted himself exclusively to political
economy and education. Besides his
own name, it bore the signatures OF
Martin Paschoud, Aries Dufour, Jean
Dollfus and others, and it was instru-
mental, not only in bringing about The
new movement which stopped the war
on the point of breaking out OVER the
Luxembourg question. but in establish
4 Ing the "Ligue Internationale ct per-
manent de la Paix,' which afterward
merged into the "Societe Franchise your
IArbitrage entire Nations" At first 1t
was very unhill work for the new soci-
ETY., but slowly and surely the peace
movement gained ground. In October,
1888 and in June, 1885, meetings We're
attended by members of the various
parliaments of the old and new worlds,
and the foundations laid Of a perina-
nent international peace bureau at
Berne, the influence of which need not
! be pointed out to- those acquainted (and
who is not nowadays) with the impor-
lance attached universally to the peace
question and the principles of arbitra-
ton. Mighty results, indeed, to nave
sprung from dreams of small body of
ardent humanitarians!
Mr.. Passy lives in a villa at Neuilly
sur-Seine, some distance outside Paris,
and in the late afternoon Of the day Of
my visit, the rain was falling in rene-
trating showers. But l would go far,
and under the most trying conditions,
for chat with this white haired men,
Der of the Institute of France. Seated
by the side of his desk, in perfe ctly
ideal study. we were soon buried in
facts and figures relat ting to his favogite
mi INT cto tic-
tics? Not in the slightest; on the con-
trary, full of life and intensely engross-
ing when thus presented in earnest Ian
guage. A pitiful picture Of stupendDus
waste in human life and industry,
through war or armed peace! We'll
known as much of what he told n is, Il
cannot he repeated too often. I make
no excuse, therefore, for setting part of
1T down. From six to eight millions Of
men sacrificed by the wars CO the en-
pire alone, dating from 1904; Two more
million victims in the twelve years be-
tween 1854 and 1866; fifty thousand mill
lions of francs, according to Leroy
Beaulieu, the great economist, wasted
within the same period; thirty thou
sand millions lost over the war Of 1870
and an even greater sum spent by
France and Germany since! On all
sides the same useless expenditure of
the returns of industry. Roughly
speaking, about two thirds of the bud
gets Of the civilized world used for mill
tary purposes and only one-third for
education, science, hygiene and the
thousand and one things making life
full Of Joy. Can you wonder, said MI.
Passy that thinking men and women
should have revolted against this state
of things, and set about trying to rem
edy 1t?
thought, indeed, more natural" I
agreed. "But how many are the obsta-
Giles? Constantly confronted are we by
the vide spread idea of war being a ne
cessary evil: or else 1t is made palata-
BILE by being represented as the devel-
oper Of all manly virtues. Peace there
is from time to time but never for long
for, just when we are priding ourselves
on our advance toward q higher state
of civilization, the storm breaks out
Afresh.''
Events in the Transvaal and in China
the pessimistc reflection.
Roubille when he drew his cartoon for
I'Assiette au Beurre, the new Partisan
eatirical paper which is criticisng life |
with so bitter a pencil, had the Same |
thought "Since The Hague. The |
years succeed each other, and all are
alike" is the title of this picture, keen
as a sword in its criticism, in which
gaunt, haggard figures, each with |
drawn, blood stained sword, and blood
stained clothes and blood stained
shields, upon which the years ere
marked, pass before the eye as in a
nightmare vision.
s'That is quite true" replied the ver-
arable apostle of peace. But we shall
realize our Utopia notwithstanding
Not at once or universally, Of course,
but gradually, until we reach an age
If greater wisdom. Do not think for
moment that we delude ourselves with
The hope of universal and perpetual
oeace. Our belief, as / have stated over
Ind over again, is that we can succeed,
f not in removing every cause of trou-
lie between nations, at least in making
he quarrels less frequent and less Sc
'ious by dispelling Notwithstanding,
explaining questions at issue,
md. generally ereakine, by having re-
course to arbitration for the solution of
which cannot be arranged
" common accord. Think Of the pro-
rrass which this idea has made since \