Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-09-19
PEACE CONGRESS
FOURTEENTH SESSION CON-
VENES IN CITY OF LUCERNE,
SWITZERLAND.
Number Of Delegates Larger Than at
Any Former Meeting, and All Are
Enthusiastic.

IuceTce. Switzerland September 10.
The fourteenth international peace
congress opened here today under the
most auspicious conditions. The num-
Der OF delegates is larger than ever,
and there seems to be much more en-
thusiasm among the foreign delegates
than ever before. The representation
cf the United States has never been
sc large and, including the delegates
of the various peace societies and
other organizations interested in the
interna tional peace agitation, State
representatives and delegates of var
ious organizations only indirectly con-
cerned in the objects of the peace
movement there are over one hundred
and fifty Americans attending the con-
rgess.
Among the prominent American del
egates are Dr. Benjamin F. True
blood, secretary of the American
Peace Society," his daughter, Miss Flor
ence E. Trueblood; Edwin d. Mead
and Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead; Edwin
CHM, and Mrs. Ginn Miss Anna B.
Fckstein of Boston; the Hon. Samuel
f. Thayer. CT Minneapolis. eX-Minis-
ter to Holland, William R. Howland,
of New York, managing editor of the
Outlook: Mr.. and Mrs. Frank J. Scott,
of Toledo o.: Joshua Bailey, one of
the leading commercial men of
Philadelphia; Charles W. Clifford, of
New Bedford one of Americas attor-
neys before the board of arbitration
in the Russo-American seal fishery
dispute; Miss Natalie Kirsch, of New
York, a Sunday School and social set
tlement worker; Mrs. Anna S. Church
i'll, Of New Britain, Conn.,; Mrs. Dan
iel Lothrop. of Concord, Mass; Mrs.
Mary Tabor Taturn. of New York;
Miss Mary E. Hawley, of the John
Chear Library, Chicago; Philip Van
ness Myers, of Cincinnati. O., the his
torian; Rabbi Louis Grcssman, of Gin
cinnati, O.; Ashton Lee, of Lawrence,
Mass, and others.
The opening session of the confer
ence was called to order today by
the veteran peace worker, M. Fred
rlc Bajer, of Denmark the head of
the international peace bureau at
Berne M. Ellie Ducommun, also. of
the peace bureau, acted as secretary.
Mr. Bajer, delivered the opening l.
dress in which he outlined the pro-
gram for the congress- He called at.
tentlon to the war just ended and the
increasing sentiment in favor of sup
planting war by arbitration. He ex.
pressed the hope that the CONGRESS-
would work in systematic manner
and would reach tangible and u"acti-
cable results before it adjourned. He
warned against futile attempts to
carry out impossible utopian plans
and advised the conference to corfine
1tself to the discussion of plans which
We're net toe visionary to hone for
their success.
according to the program of the
congress the first business is tba r,.
port of the peace bureau m III,
events OF the year relating "a war
ana peace An important feature will
pe the study of the conditions of tho
''i''iin'eht OF an international fed
''''ioh' with special consideration ot
the problems of the guarantee of ,,o
autonomy of the nations for,,i, -.
FEDERATION, the harmonious a aljustma,t
ana management of their common !,
'erests, measures for the nro,n1,+;o
oi UNITY methods of international Ia
sdl procedure, and the spread Of iaaoe
Vi natuFai law and morals in the nro
motion of peace. - =
Inc special report and conc1us;oa,
oi the commission appointed 10 st,,a,
ehe problem of a reconci,;,4;o
"eeh france and Germany will forr
an interesting subject of dis,,..io,
Ano'ner part of the deliberations Wi,
oe devoted to the study of tbe ooonos,
- causes OF war. Reports m ~,
"ofAlhsmen's movements in tho intor
ese o1 peace, and on the genera, s,,h
.ee, ol industrial concentration trust
no synolcates, as affecting peace an,
International relations, will he snt
mltted and discussed.
o'her important features of the nrc
gram are: The alliance of s,atos -
tne promotion of pacific and.. -,
civil sanctions of internation.,
ae 'ion oeclslons; the neutralizatio,
oi iand and water areas; the wor,
u .ne coming second internationa
'onierence at The Hague: the arro.