The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-03-05
MOHONK RESOLUTION
At STANFORD
ON WAR AND ARBI-
TRATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH
THE CONFERENCE REQUEST.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Feb. %,
1906.-At the monthly university assem-
bly, held on the twenty-frst Prof. Will
liam James, acting head of the stan
ford Department of Philosophy, and
Dean Hodges of Cambridge, special
preacher of the Memorial Church, both
gave interesting talks on the general
topic Arbitration in its Relations to
War and Peace" This topic was dis
cussed i'm response to resolutions pass
ed by the Lake MohOnk Conference on
International Arbitration last summer.
THESE resolutions requested that on or
about Washington's birthday, 1906, the
students of all the universities and col
leges in the United States should hold
meetings at which arbitration should
be discussed or lectured on by authori-
ties on the subject, reports of these
meetings to be sent later to the per-
manent secretary of the conference.
DR. James, i'm the course of his speech
said: Il wish simply to point out that
the anti-war party has to take account
of the bellicose constitution of human
nature. We inherit the warlike type,
and for most of the capacities of hero
ism, martyrdom and endurance, that
the human race is now so full of, we
have to thank this cruel evolutionary
history. 1t has bred the instinct Of
pugnacity into our bone and marrow,
and thousands of years of peace could
not breed it out of us. We spend hun
dreds of millions as a matter of course
when destructive battleships are asked
forget universities cost no more than
hatt1pebing and last
But our Imagination likes all the
pomp of war The people love it. Our
minds feed on the thought of war and
bloodshed. The leaders are not to
blame for present wars; the fault lies
with public opinion. Let it reach a
point of excitement and no ruler can
withstand it.
What is to be done about it? Leave
war for the imagination of the future
to play with: leave that possibility of
romance open. But circumvent the ac-
tual explosion. Arbitration treaties
and the Hague Tribunal form an or
ganized machinery for this purpose. To
you, young men and women of the edu-
Gated classes, I commend this problem
Begin at all events by speaking out as
individuals whatever truth, however
unpopular, is i'm you. AS Emerson
says, He who will always speak the
truth will not fail to find himself in suf-
ficiently dramatic situations and l
may add. warlike situations. The wars
of the future must be waged inside Of
every country, between the destructive
and the constructive ideals and forces"
| Dean Hodges who followed DIR. James
+ said i'm part: Or James spoke the
truth when he said that the war in
stanct is deeply ingrained in the HUI
man race. But we are getting it OUT
now more rapidly than ever before In
the past century more han two hun
dred and fifty disputes have been set
tied by arbitration. leading up to The
Hague Tribunal and that great peace
monument the Christ of the Andes. /
say the Christ of the Andes,-when you
know that Chilli invested $4,000, 900 OBJ
tanned from the sale of her battleships
in new and better roads you may see
what peace means to a nation.
I'VE need public opinion to make war
unpopular and to lead to a better APP
probation of peace; we need to gain a
new perspective of courage-the cour.
age of peace, and not of war. We
should recognize the splendor of bray
cry, to be sure, but of the real bravery
that increases our value to our fellow.
men. He must measure courage by
what it affects and not by the glory
that it brings to the doer. To cite ar
example near to you: when the Presi.
dent and professors of this university
in the early nineties We're paying theil
own salaries and staying here for love
of the college, they showed not the oc.
casional courage that comes with the
roll of drums, but the hard, grinding
endurance of the herOism of peace"
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