The Washington herald., 1907-04-08

editor of the English Review of Re
views. who is over here to attend the
peace conference, which starts at Car
negie Hail next Sunday morning, and IN
general 10 interest Americans In the
white dove as an international emblem
made an address tonight from Henry
Ward Beecher's old pulpit in Plymouth
| Church, Brooklyn.
Mr.. Stead talked about what he and
other missionaries of international peace
/ hope TO see accomplished at the coming
| peace parliament at The Hague From
/ the outset of his talk, when he prayed,
! ooh, God give us common sense Mr..
/ Stead impressed his audience as a man
who hasn't any illusions as to what The
1 Hague conference viii do toward peace.
AT the best, he thought. only start
could be made toward THE united states
Of the world" and the peace mission
/ aries intended 10 ask the Conferees only
/ for such things as might reasonably be
! expected minimum of their desires.
! 1t is expected. he said. that The Hague
| conference will give force TO a convention
/ by which the dread of sudden, piratical
war will be averted Nations will be re-
quired To wait thirty days after dlplo-
matte relations are broken of before the
/ first gun is fired. The conference viii be
asked 10 assist in spreading the gospel
of peace instead Of war, and as a means
20 that end to approve the proposition
/ that every government maintain a de
partment of peace and appropriate
money toward educating its citizens. not
more than 1 cent for every SO that is ex-
pended on its army and navy.
No Reduction Is Asked.
a third object viii be to get the peace
! conference in Holland to make arbitFa-
ton obligatory as TO questions of debts
i between nations. commercial matters, and
the like. The fourth will be to get al.
nations 20 keep their armaments as they
are at present. TO ask for a reduction
OF armaments would be absurd said Mr.
Stead
| Americans should take the lead directly
TO secure these reforms. he thought, and
no better way existed than for America
TO send a company Of peace pilgrims to
Europe, there in the great capitals 10
meet other companies OF missionaries
and TO accompany their European CO.
workers 10 The Hague.
| Rev. Newell Dwight Hills, pastor Of
/ Plymouth Church, introduced Mr.. Stead
as one who did much 70 clean up Chi
| cagO, and as the man who really started
/ the Civic Federation idea. Mr. Stead
said il was the first time he had spoken
/ from the platform from which Henry
/ Ward Beecher addressed the world. and
! that he wasn't sure how his voice would
| carry.
If you don't hear me. said he "haye
/ the Christian courtesy to speak out
| Moreover, / shall be disappointed If
| everybody agrees with everything / say.
/ 1t would drive me crazy to have to stand
what many ministers do-talking a half
/ hour or an hour, and with never a voice
/ to say Hear! Heart and never any
| one 20 disagree"
4 Mr. Stead then plunged into his sub
1 jeet- There is such thing as 'noblesse
Oblige, said he. 1T is the duty of
those that have the most to do the most.
/ You are better of than Europeans, and
/ that's why ] am here to appeal to you in
/ the cause OF peace.
J First Representative Body.
THE coming parliament at The Hague
will be the first parliament of man.. In
1899 there were no representatives from
Africa and South America For the first
| time since the human race breathed on
/ this planet. the whole earth viii be rep
resented In a parliament Il shows that
national barriers are falling away under
/ the magic touch of steam and electricity.
and that we are becoming all of one
/ family-a very quarreisome family-but
still one"
/ 1t was the duty Of Americans. Mr.. Stead
said. to take direct interest in this par
/ lament and advance the cause in all
possible ways. in the first place, because
! it was called by the President of the
/ United States (applause). Another. reason.
/ he said. was that it marks an era of in
ternationalism. and Americans, of all
peoples, should be interested in that be-
cause they are the most international of
/ peoples.
! Compared to the annual exodus from
Europe to this country" said AIr. Stead
the exodus of the Children Of Israel was
a very One-horse show"
Again, he thought the United States
was the only great nation founded in
modern times on the principles OF liberty
law, and justice, and Americans ought
not to stand idly by while humanity was
struggling toward the United States OF
the World.
| There was applause at that Now, if
you are not going to do anything, don't
applaud. said Mr.. Stead That is the
cheapest way of evading responsibility
What you ought TO do is to use your own
minds, realize that armed anarchy exists
talk about it to your wife, your friends
and do as I do. bore everybody YOU car
buttonhole. Think what The Hague CON
ference will do. 1t won't establish The
United States of the World at once. It's
a long hard road which leads to that
but one of the things it will do viii ban
ish the dread of sudden war.
same as Fighting Duel.
Years ago I talked to NJ. de Nelidoff
when he was Russian Ambassador to
Rome. He doubted the practicabiity OF
what I suggested. but he said. WHY
don't you suggest that they put war on
the same footing as dueling?' He meant
why don't we make war as men fight
duels-let cool heads step in and see II
matters can't be arranged between the
hotheads. ana if they can't 10 let them
fight it out in the way that win injure
others and themselves as little as DOS
sible, Article s of the convention OF 1855
! Boards. wide. all heart. y N nsr 1no -