The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-16
NOT ALL PEACE
 AT CONFERENCE
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in the United States, since the confer ence of 1899, by men like President Roosevelt, Mir. Root, our president of the present congress, Mir. Carnegie, and by so many other highly distin- guished authorities, to put in effective action the principle of conciliation among nations, I declare that l feel sure of the success of the coming Hague conference.
 After a manifestation like this, after such a powerful affirmation of your de- votion to the service of civilization, it is impossible to believe in the future, with the American help"
 The next speaker was Secretary Strau3.
 Secretary straus was followed by Professor Hugo Musterburg, of liar yard university.
 T am here, my friends, ito express hope of peace, and discuss peace from the standpoint of the German. am, of course. not one of the repre- sentatives of the German government, but l am one of tho people and for the past few years have been separated from my country" sai1 the professor
 T feel it is my duty to speak against some of these things with which the missionaries of peace are weakening their arguments. l speak of Germany. Germany is prosperous and the Ger man householder looks to military duty as he looks to paying for fire insur- ance. And, even in war, no matter what the results were, Germany would not be crippled. American railroads have killed more people than Ameri- can cannon. These arguments, which so many friends of peace use, are weak ening to their own cause. Universal peace is not material issue; it is moral one.
 T want to deny the stories that have been used for so many years to the ef- feet shat Germany is a menace. to the peace of the world Peace, believe, has no more earnest supporter than Germany and America, I believe has no sincerer friend than Germany
 T am sure that in Germany to-day there is a large and growing desire for international arbitration, but I know there is a feeling that, now that the interests are so closely bound to- gether. that the judge may not be i'm partial. And then in those courts in- tereste1, attorneys may be allowed to bring in experts to prove that there existed international brainstorms" Professor Munsteroerg said that to- day Germany was at perfect peace with all the world and a calm under standing of Germany's position would do more than anything else to pro- mote peace Conscription, he said was not burden in Germany.
 At the close of Professor Munster berg's address, MT Carnegie repeat cd his statement of the afternoon to the fleet that the German emperor had 1t in his hands to enforce inter- national peace. In reply to Professor Munsterberg's statement that con- scription was not burden, Mir Car negie said:
 That statement was one of the had. 1 wish he would go to our mills at Pittsburg and ask the thousands of men there phy they came here It is. too late in lhe day for any professor to tell me that conscription is not a burien'
 Dr. Ernest Richard, president of the German American Peace society of New York, who was not on the formal program, followed He also spoke for Germany, and said he agreed with Prof. Munsterberg in his statement that he knew that the Germans were great lovers of peace, for even in peace lov- ing America the first peace society was formed of men of German birth. An as example of the love of peace felt by tho German emperor, Dr. Richard said 1t was to him that President Roosevelt ap- pealed at the time of the Portsmouth conference when the Russian members of the conference were ordered to with draw And to the kaiser's influence is due the withdrawal of the order, de declares.
 w. T. Stead in a speech, said in part;
 "I do not represent the British gov ernment. I never represented the Brit l ish government and I hope I never will. No, I represent the people, and l am here to ask you, nearly all of you Eng fish speaking people, to join with us to make the coming Hague conference a greater success than the first.
 "There has been all sorts of talk about disarmament I have heard it in every country in Europe, and I have come to hate it as the devil hates holy water. No government in the world is going to propose any such thing at the Hague conference or anywhere else. What probably will be preached Is a halt in this mad haste to increase ar maments and still again increase them in the nonsensical degree"
 Colonel Sir Robert Cranston, ex- lord provost of Edinburgh, was lntro- duced.
 q speak, he said, "as the representa- tive of the country which has perhaps given more blood for civil and religious liberty than any other country and I can say that there are very few peo- pie in that country who would not well come peace and it may sound strange as coming from me- but l want to tell you that there is not a man in the world to-day who is more anxious for the welfare of his people and of all the l people of the world, more anxious for universal peace that Edward king of Great Britain.
 "Let us not talk of disarmament. What is that? Give us peace and we will not ask for disarmament, There will be no use for it.
 Maarten Martens, the. author, who followed compared the advance of peace in the world with the advanDs in