The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-04-13
STEAD PEACE PLANS
ENGLISH EDITOR PROPOSES SOME
NOVEL METHODS.
Jury of American Men and
Women to Organize Crusade
Upon Governments of Europe.
America Destined to Rule
World in Precept.

New York, April S.-W. I. Stead
last night made public his final COM
prehensive plan for a universal worlds
peace. He puts the initiative squarely
up to the American people. Mr.. Stead
proposes:
That a publicly selected jury of
twelve Americans, three of them wo.
men, shall start from here to England
within the next few weeks, and in
England meet a similar jury of Eng
lish men and women.
That the purpose of the dual jury
shall be laid before King Edward and
Prime Minister Campbell Bannerman.
That this dual jury of "a persons
shall be augmented in England ny
twelve men and women from the three
Scandinavian countries. Norway, Swe-
den and Denmark, and that the SO
shall go to Paris, and there be joined
by twelve French men and women.
That from Paris the augmented jury
shall quickly travel to Geneva, Rome,
Vienna, Budapest, st. Petersburg, Ber-
lin and Brussels in the order named,
and finally, shall make the plan of the
United States and Europe known to
The Hague peace conference at its
opening early in June.
That the final big committee shall
demand:
First-Thirty days. mediation be-
tween nations.
Second-An appropriation by each
government represented in The Hague
conference to promote peace.
Third-Arbitrary arbitration on Sec
ondary things.
for five years.
Fifth-American people pledge ST.
600, 900 to carry out the plan md that
$50, 900 be set aside for the expenses
of it's own jury.
Mr.. Stead's plan was revealed in a
way more or less dramatic near the
close of his address in historic old
Plymouth church. in Brooklyn. He
suggested tentatively that the Ameri-
can jury might be selected from among
the following men and women, repre-
senting capital, labor, invention, let
ters and sciences:
| Prof. Eliot of Harvard or Prof. But
Ter of Columbus; John Mitchell or
Samuel Gompers Or T. V. Powderly,
representing labor; Edward Everett
Hale, Andrew Carnegie, w. j. Bryan,
Thomas A. Edison, Prof. Newcomb,
Mark Twain, George A. Westinghouse,
Rev. DR.. Josiah Strong, Rev. Lyman
Abbott, Archbishop Ireland, Grover
Cleveland, Miss Helen Gould and Jane
Adams.
Mr.. Stead ended as follows:
! America is destined to rule the
world, in precept at least. Now that
you have called this forthcoming con-
ference in Carnegie Hall, am sure
you will not fail in meeting the obi
cations that 60 with it. You must
exercise your minds and realize that
the peace movement exists, you must
talk about it, you must see that it
does something.
One of the greatest breads and night
mares of the world at large is war,
panic. There are thinking men in
Germany and France today who have
been nurtured in the belief that the
first opportunity for destroying one
Mothers fleets should be taken ad
| vantage of. Older Frenchmen fear
piratical war, war with Germany with
out notice. 1t is to allay such fears
and to find way of preventing it that
you Americans must act. That there
is some ground for war panic scares
is found in the fact that out of the
last hundred wars ninety of them we're
begun without formal declaration.