The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-12-17
WANT PEACE WI
FOREIGN NATIONS.
.Mass-Meeting Urges Prompt
Ratification BY Congress Of
Arbitration Treaties.
(By Associated Prcss,)

e NEW YORK, December l6.--A mass
meeting called to urge the prompt ratifl-
cation OF the arbitration treaties res
Gently signed by the State Department
With several OF the Leading foreign pow
!ers, was held tonight ut Carnegie Hall.
under the auspices OF the New York ok
3ecutivc Committee OF the American Gon-
ference on international Arbitration
John Crosby Brown, In an opening adj adj
dress expressed regret at the absence Of
Andrew Carnegie, who was to have OPEN
ed the meeting, but who. he said, could
not be present.
Archbishop Speaks.
Mayor George B. Mcclellan, presided.
and was the first speaker, dc was fol-
lowed by ". Linn Bruce and Archbishop
ireland. While the archbishop was speak
Ing. he was interrupted by a man who
cried: }35 Il II ~
give somebody else a chance.
The archbishop Immediately sat own.
The audience hootedS the man who had
shouted, and ushers tried to find him, but
failed. Then the audience applhuded un-
III Archbishop ireland resumed his speech.
He said In part:
decide upon disputes between pcoTlct = me y;
Tribunal, Of course, tosbe so con stltutcd
that It will syrnbolize ideal justice. 50 x! II
1891 jpstfe ssa1 On Battle
fields, must they gather where 5tlstice rs IS
never heard: rather within the hn,ls o.
peace and reason, where good viii ana ny
placid Thought WOO y g human s,3e'n-I
,.Who, loving justice and hating iIiiauity,5
should not wish that The smaller power 1 w.
Et,,Nv, ,rtf toll r "a ~
fore it could have been smitten in defeat?
The Arbitration Treaties.
."The question now before the world Is
merely a seat. OF justice before tl'ic c me
nations may convene. butaEone before
which they are agreed to appear, bcto!e
which unyersal oplh9pn go So iIdns TINT hss
ten to build up even TO Its. most eSaltea
5copng-stone this noblest Parliament. o.
Men Where la :,
..I know Of few things more hon3 , ~:
for America han the proposal mace ~. py5
its Executive to enter INTO - ~
The Hague conferences proposal soon 70 70
DO followed. j have 10 doubt, by one I1,a e OF
the same intent to- Wcrs, snie ~
among such signatories. The proposal IS
made at the opportune moment-just n =
5Amerlcn rises unchnllenged as a.. Woiti III q
mower, Wncn Gil Ildlh'Hu IN 49, q 80,
( Of her sudden en- trance into tho arc M o.
international hepemony; 1t Is made tWnsll
America can AFFORD to make IN me
fitness Of her dignity. and sell .resI.ess !.
when no nation may believe that u ;lnul Z;
or n sense of her. own weakness IS Es' m =
1--WE await the ascent and approval Of
tho Senate Of the United states. maj la
such approval and ascent shall be fehu ,,,
and quickly given, We cannot a!! ~. u ,.l
posed treaties are manifest; tho intelli-
gent large mindedness ana Inc aEenuinG
GAmerican spirit of tho Senate are Ebeyonu
debate; the people of America are 100
desrous o f. peace with honor, loo Ie :,po,,s
siye the voice Of justice too to a n,lpudi
beforehand the final otticial ra q l.icni n
OF the trentics now under consideratlpn.
THE rejection OF tho treaties " their pyese
ont stage, by the SenateYor the People OF
America would throwt,utp9 rna tI onel nrbi.
5traton when the world IS rcndy 70 acc eal,
fit--n position into which America can
not permit herself to be thrown, u,
Effect. Of Treaties,
"The treaties now before the Senate, as
suredly do not 90 too far. ifinrpltratlGn
settlement of international disputes, no
thing less coud be considered, nn,niing e fee
Bs,dimdcntion ~ a tribunal than differ
tences or ID judlcnl order, or rela liye TO lha
Interpretation of existing treaties. q y
points, on which international prlde ana
devotion to5natlonal honor nln w any
eScepted-the Vital interests, the lndepen-
dence, Or the honor OF the country, Room