The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1907-09-19
PEACE ADVOCATE
SEE END OF WARS.
Dr. Richard Bartholdt of America Is
Worlds Foremost Arbitra-
ton Advocate.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept 16.-
Special. Richard Bartholdt, who has
for fourteen years represented the Tenth
Missouri; district in Congress, and who
will sit as one of three Republican mem
hers from st. Louis in the siXtieth Con
gress, has capitalized himself as few men
have in public life. He has stood fol
peace although the country of his birth
has times without number stood for war
Born Iii Germany and imbued with the
spirit Of his ancestors. Richard Bartholdt
from Tie beginning of his career i'll the
country of his adoption has raised his
voice i'll favor If International arbltra
tin.
Becomes an Editor.
Until he entered the Fifty-third Con
gress as a Republican. Dr. Bartholdt was
a newspaper man and he calls himself a
newspaper man today primarily, while
secondarily a national lawmaker.
Before he took mp his residence in St
Louis Mr.. Bartholdt saw every phase OF
newspaper life in New York. He was a
police court reporter. munlclpal han
reporter, correspondent at Albany for
German newspapers, and finally foreign
editor for the New York Stats Zeitung
under Otto Diffeuderfer. He edited the
St. Louis Tribune until he came to Con
gress.
Throughout his newspal Ell career DR.,
Rarthodt has been Il lirm reliever al the
Ir.nC p.eS of international arbitration III
stead Cf the nations rescl ting to arms.
And he las talked international ar3itrl-
tinn in season and out until he has ui.'i
to see the nations of the world foregath-
ering at The Hague and adopting some
of the recommendation he has made to
mterpar!iamcEtary congress made up OF
representatives from the worlds parlia-
merits and Of which he was at one tine
president.
Dreams of Peace.
In q small cottage in the midst Of
Thuringer forest in Germany. DR.. Bar
tholdt prepared the first great intcrna-
tional arbitration treaty which was sub
mittcd To the intcr-p parliamentary con-
grcss that met in Brussels several years
ago. This work took DIR. Bartholdt SIX
months to complete after he had received
suggestions from the leading internal
tional lawyers of the world upon the
subject matter of his dreams. There
were twcnty-one questions propounded
to the nations in this first suggested
treaty with request that the nations
Indicate what questions they would sub
nit to arbitration and what questions
they were doubtful about.
1t is interesting in this connection that
the progressive nations of the world
were willing to submit all the questions
contained in DR.. Bartholdt's draft 10
arbitration. while the less progressive
or the retiring nations had serious mis-
givingS as to Il number of them.
Believes Wars Will Be No More.
Or. Bartholdt, who has just returned
from The Hague conference where he
was an interested spectator upon the
proceedings Of that very great body Of
world statesmen is optimistic i'll his
views rs to the outcome of their dcllb-
cratiuus lie believes that before the
conference adjourns the American idea
of a permanent arbitration court will be
adopted and that Il tremendous step for
ward for peace will be the result.
In the little German town in which
Richard Bartholdt first saw the light
and on the house in which he was born
there is tablet inscribed as follows:
an this house Richard Bartholdt, nm
American member of Parliament, was
born" And not so very far away, in
the depths of a German void. this same
Richard Bartholdt wrote an interna-
tional arbitration treaty which is d2s-
tined to make his name famous the
world over.