The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-10-05
ALMOST 4 DEMAND FOR PEACE BETWEEN NATIONS
KEYNOTE OF INTERNATIONAL
 CONGRESS 1T BOSTON.

Delegates from All the Great Countries
 of the Globe Urge World Peace
 President Roosevelt's Call for Another
 Hague Conference Commended-sug-
 gestion for Collective Move to In-
 duce Japan and Russia to Return to
 pe,te.
 Boston, Oct. 4.-A general supplica- ton, coupled with a demand almost, for the institution of peace between the na- tions of the world, was the Keynote to- day of the first deliberative session of the thirteenth international peace congress. Delegates from the great countries of tho globe, all prominent in their home Hands, engaged in the proceedings, giv- ing to the occasion all the dignity and importance of momentous internation- ! al assembly.
 A feature of the opening session was the receipt of an elaborate report from the international peace bureau for 1904, in which was reviewed what had been attained in the direction of peace by the peace workers of the world during the
 year passed, and also was set forth the present war conditions of the world ne- fcessitating eorreetionary measures by those lesiring universal concord. The
 suggestion was made that some collect i've move might be made to induce the Russo Japanese belligerents to return lto peace.
 Edwin D. Mead, the chairman of the
 organization committee of the congress,
 delivered the opening address of the
 meeting, speaking an earnest word in favor of the reduction of great nayies, and a general disarmament among na-
 tions.
 Robert Treat Paine, ST, of Boston,
 was elected president of the congress, and Dr. Benjamin F. Trueblood, also of this city, secretary.
 ! from each country represented at the congress, including Aldrman Thomas
 Shape of Liverpool. for Great Britain. MT. Shape referred particularly to Sec retary Hays appearance at yesterday s peace meeting as the representative of ithe United States, and took .an occa- sion to remark upon what an astound- 1 Ing thing it would be considered in England did the British minister of for l leign affairs officially represent Great Britain at similar meeting. A general eommendation of President Rooseyelt's call for another Hague con- ference marked the other addresses. I Among the letters and cablegrams re- ceived by the congress and announced to-day were those from Frau Solenka lof Munich, Germany; Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, Carl Schurz, Frederic and Dr. Henry w. Warren of Colorado. A noticeably large number of greetings were received from Baptist denomina- tions and conferences in various parts lof the country, including Topeka, Kan; Pittsburg, Penn; New Haven, Conn. Albany and Buffalo, N. r., and the Dis trict of Columbia. Memorials were al- so received from the New Orleans Board of Trade, and the Philadelphia Board of Trade.
 Two mass meetings under the aus ipices of the congress were held tonight. I At one was considered the work and in- fluence of The Hague tribunal. Oscar s. Strauss, formerly United States minister to Turkey and mem- Der of The Hague court, presided. MT Strauss advocated a revision of The Hague treaty so that it might be ren. dered certain that when nations enter inc a struggle, some one of them would take the initiative in referring the com ference to The Hague tribunal. l The other mass meeting was conduct ed by the Christian Endeavor societies, with Rev. Francis p. Clark as chair inar. H .+st