The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-02
TALK ON ARBITRATION
TENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE BE-
 GINS AT M0HONK LAKE.
Larger Attendancce Than That at any Previous Meeting of the Body. Judge George Gray Chosen
 to Preside.

Mohonk Lake, N. r.. June 1.-The tenth annual, conference on interna- tionaI arbitration opened here today with a larger attendance than at any previous lu~e.l., U. the body, nearly 800 people being present. The open ing exercises consisted of an address c.. welcome by Albert K. Smiley, a prayer by Dr. Edward Everett Hale. Judge George Gray. of Delaware, who was chosen to preside over the confer ence, on taking the chair, said in part:
 of time," said Judge Gray. that has made itself manifest before any of the great forward movements in the worlds history have taken place. and that fullness of time seems now to have arrived for such forward move ment in the great cause we have at heart. There has been long pre- paration for such d consummation. The peoples of the world are being drawn closer together by the wonder | full achievements of science and art. The estranging seas no longer separ- | ate but unite the people of the old world and the new. and solidarity of material interests has produced some- thing like a solidarity of thought and feeling. The belief that what was hurtful or injurious to the prosperity and well being of one country, might /, he helpful to another, Is not so pre- l yalent as it once was. We no long, CT consider the advantage of alien | neoples in wealth and prosperity as menace to our own. We are more prone now than formerly to recognize such advance as an increment to the worlds wealth, in which all sooner or later must have some share, however | hn xU0 Of great | lake cannot be drawn from or depleted At it's most remote corner, without
 sensibly affecting the general level or | the great body of It's waters, so the | material waste and destruction and moral deterioration of war between nations, however remote, must to some extent injuriously affect the clviiizeo world.
 Moral Law Applies to Nations. .aThe economic waste. consequent | upon the maintenance of the great and l increasing military and naval estap- Iishments of the world, is begining to make it's impression upon the en- llightened conscience and intelligence | of increasing numbers in all countries. | Altruism is no longer to be banished l from national policies and nationai conduct, and there is growing recog- milton of the truth. that the obligations of the moral law are imposed upon na- tions, as well as upon indiViduals' Public opinion is no longer fenced m by national boundaries. It has over leaped them all, and now an interha. tional public opinion is making nsell felt from one corner of Christendom to the other; and, through the instru. mentality of free press, forecasts ano controls tn, conduct and policies oi kings and cabinets.
 "'The Czar of Russia, who suggested The Hague tribunal, is involved in in- 1 ternecine war that strains the re-
 sources of his empire, but the Inter
 national Court of Arbitration at The
 Hague will remain an enduring monu- ment to his wisdom, and shed more
 glory upon his reign than any triumph however great his armies may
 achieve"
 The review of the year in the his
 tory of arbitration was made by pr Benjamin F. Trueblood, of Boston Secretary of the American Peace So
 eiety.
 Other addresses were delivered a
 the opening session by Dr. Hale, Tho mas Nelson Page, General Jamei
 Grant Wilson, Professor Henry M ILeipzger and Professor John H. Gray
 Thomas Nelson Page of Washington
 spoke briefly of the conference held |
 Washington in January to inaugural | a movement In IaNOr or an afpltrdtioi
 treaty with Great Britain and said tha
 the prospects of a treaty being con
 cluded at the next session of Congres
 was most hopeful
 Judge Hines of the Rhode Island Su
 preme Court spoke of the popular mis
 conception of the judgment of Tn
 Hague court in the Venezuela case an ! said that in his opinion the decision es
 tablished a most valuable precedent Il the enforcement of the internatIona
 justice.
 Congressman Baker of BrooSyn, \ } Y, criticised the expenditures for en larglng the navy.
 General Horatio C. King deprecste 7 the idea that reasonable preparation
 for war was inconsistent. He said tha l no one was as much in favor of peac as the military men of the country. H argues that the maintenance of tn } national guard was a necessity of tn
 times. So long as other nations arm, h
 said, we must arm. We cannot brinI about arbitration until we are strong Several others supported Genera
 Kings view.
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