New-York tribune., 1907-05-23
DISCUSS WORLD PEACE.
MOHONK CONFERENCE ON.
DR.. Butler Says Disarmament WM
FOII0u, Not Precede, Peace.


Conference on international Arbitration opened its
thirteenth annual session here to-day.
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler, president OF Coum-
ba University. i'll opening the conference. advocated
that the question of disarmament be avoided at the
conference, but the restriction of further growth Of
great armies and navies be urged. He also sug
gested some recommendations for the coming con-
ference at The Hague. He said in part:
1 should wholly avoid at the present time the
question of disarmament Disarmament Will never
come by pressure from without nation, but only
by pressure from within. If justice is established
course. Disarmament will follow peace. not pre-
cede it. Yet, while passing disarmament by, we
may prohtaby urge the wisdom Of formal nterna-
tional consideration of the possibility of restricting
the further growth Of the great armies ana naVle
Of the world without lmpairns the efhclehc| OF
those S that G exist t5.r,,a conference we
shonId tGd ask se hnk cheny TWO Things and If
either Of them should be given us '24g +b step
permanent Hague court be TRANSFORMERS ;, from "a
@ @ & lio % a ly Ta now qs-
semhiing or The second Tine at 6af ai m hfre Ge
after at regular Intervals say once IN four +r or
five years In the stated reassempng EN- o ionn n
parliament which viii one day come into being
in time of war which has attracted the att2n-
ton it deserves The suggestion that neutr%teg @ g
brought crd by impractcabe men, lana Fool,
time an important international conference occurs
tie appointing power searches the country otct @ Iol
of American interests and of American opinion.
nenf re1resentetives at such International confer
out of tie sn Wm% @f o see
have directed for tine the foreign pohcy @. III ITv
nation? These experencea sfaIrseI; n On behaif Of
the United States and in receipt OF an tasi5
both unusual equipment and unusual eXperi.ennce,
Such of those who had rendered dls m ue Sec
retary Of State would be in every respect hitting
Andrew 4 White ox-AnLbassador TO Germany
and Russia and member Of the first Hague con
ference spoke on Some Hints 20 the Future
Work of the Hague Conference He said, N part:
1t has been argued that the Hague tribunal
should sit steadily and permanentyl ld mus stsfns
This idea was embodied in the first American
proposal made in 1879 but an Almost r Is nIy
belief that any effort to change ne present H. syS h
same arguments which We're urged in 1923 and
I've me nexf and reatest suggestion as change
is that Of substituting compulsory ar9Tation 20 5or
nSmbsring TS TIE dscassons Of and the atmos
his Russiam proposal might well be taken up again
during the approaching session ana poSsotty ne
So far as improvements n arbitration are con
cerned, there seem 10 me Two opPotl ~ tho ~
hunai It is to take up asaln the Russian proposal
f9c Second ndse{ IS ta the Pu5 at large
shall arise We shall all insist that they be SUB
mtted 10 the tribunal. ,.,-,. .,,,,. ,o
strengthened has to do with the PROVISIONS mace 1
IN the first conference for delayng hnderlhg t airu
hing Of the Russo-Japanese War these means were
not resorted to.
DR. Theodore Bar5h. Of Berlin, spoke of Ger
nany's interest in the international movement. He
said:
The second Hague conference givss US -reat
opportunity to educate public opinion DisarHa-
msde sd Teacef m @ TIE pra6ticai hng win be to re-
move the causes Of armament, and then disarma-
question of lnviolabty of private property at sea
Hague
well take the lead In making this a leading ques,
Immediately follow such a lead and that the present
British Eovernmeut would be obhged 10 faII In me
This would remove Of the great causes Of tho
armaments and convince the business world Of the
eminent practicabity Of oug movement
The Rev DR.. Edward Everett Hale expressed
the opinion that the Hague conference would do
what IT could and not waste time in talking about
what It could not do. He added:
This ia s to & be said about dsa@mamen tna ye we
that we would go one better and build another
Dreadnought, I had the satisfaction Of knowing
Junk heap and so dlsarmarnent would take care
time when the newspapers having no hrst class
Frst F1aoua S1nfarercH carre there rerfectIv hope
less Of results and vet ninety days under the
LEADERSHIP 9 AneGc9 a. GETma1g ana Ensand Ems s
sibilities and not for the Impossible.
Simeon E Baldwin. chief justice OF the Supreme
Court Of Connecticut, addressed the conference on
The Common Law and Common Courts of Ma
tons" Ee held UP the work OF the Of
admiralty as fine example OF the proper working
Of international law and justice.
DR.. Benjamin F Trueblood. secretary Of the
American Peace Socety, Boston, spoke On The
Movement" He urged that unoffending private
property be made exempt from capture at in
time Of and that the Hague conference be
permanent, periodic body
Bartlett Tripp eX-Mmister to Austria, said he
thought 1t would be idle 20 give the Hague tribunal
executive powers. lie did not believe the civiii2a-
ton of the world had reached the point where the
na tions would submit foreign dictatoa. of
a central government. in the collection ~ inter
national claims
John Barrett director OF the Interna -ioull Blu
OF American Republics and ex-AIinister to
Siam, Colombia, the Argentine Republic and Pan
ana. spoke the Latin American republics He
said that Latin America judged as whole. was 10
more land Of civil wars and revolutions than
the United States the home of riots and bloodshcd
Tie election OF officers, the first business the
programme resulted follows:
President, Nicholas Murray Butler New York;
secretary, Clinton r Woodruff. Philadelphia;
responding secretary II. c. Phillips. Mohonk Lake.
and Eugene Levering, Baltimore; business COM
mittee, Samuel J. Barrows, New York chairman;
DR.. Lyman Abbott New York; Samuel 2. Capen.
Boston; Professor Samuel T. Dutton. New York;
DR.. Charles w. Eliot Cambridge Mass; Rear Ad-
miral c. f. Goodrich, L. S N; David p. Jones
Minneapolis; John D. Long Boston; H. B. F. Mac
taTland. Washing on; Joseph B. Moore. Lansing.
Mich; Daniel Smiley, Lake Mohonk n. Y; DIR.
Penjarin f. Trueblood Boston; James Wood.
Mount kisco, n. Y, and Clinton r. Woodruff
Philadelphia.