The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-24
THE MEXICAN
AMBASSADOR
TALKS PEACE
Address of Don Enrique G.
Creel Delivered at Lake
Mohonk Today.
GREAT GALAXY OF
NOTABLES PRESENT
Other Speakers Senor Calder
on, of Bolivia, and Hon.
Frank B. Loomis.
GREAT GALAXY OF
NOTABLES PRESENT

Associated Press to The Evening Times.
Lake Mohonk, N. Y, May 24.-A
galaxy of notables addressed the In
formation Arbitration conference here
this morning. the session being by far
the most interesting Of the entire pro-
gram. Foremost among the speakers
were Senor Don Enrique c. Creel, the
Mexican ambassador to the United
States; Senor Don Ignacio Calderon,
the minister from Bolivia, and Hon.
Francis B. Loomis. former assistant
secretary of state.
Ambassador Creel spoke, in part,
as follows:
"War still subsists as a, relic of past
ages. The organ may have suffered
modification. but the function still
lies latent, a terrible menace.
THE peoples who came before us
needed war, as they did not know other
means of attaining justice, since the
geography of the world had not been
determined and war was the only
means to satisfy the rights of con-
quest and their ambitions for power
and wealth.
This does not apply to the present
times. AS opposed to the old civil
izations, which were essentially ar
tistic, scorning manual labor, frugal
and poor; modern civilization is in
dustrious: rich. full of necessities,
based principally on the extent of sci-
entific knowledge and habits of labor,
order and economy.
Therefore, war which brings with
it stagnation of capital. destroys hui
man life-valuable as any other la
bor producing factor-suspends cir
culation, decreases consumption, is in
our modern life illogical and every
thing tends to its disappearance. In
the meanwhile the tendency is to re-
duce the effects of disputes. to min
imize the dangers of armed conflicts
and to settle, by means OF arbitration.
the large majority of the difficulties
that may arise between the nations
of the world
GAS for Mexico, have to reiterate
the statement that she has always up
held the principle of international ar
bitration. We do not believe, in Mex
leo, that the time is ripe for unre-
stricted arbitration as a means for
the settlement of disputes, but we be-
lieve that certain limitation should
be established in such cases as those
involving territorial integrity and ma
tional honor OF course. it must be
understood that our aim is to arrive
at the specification. in unmistakable
terms of those cases affecting nation
al honor, by avoiding ambiguous, gen.
eral and metaphorical phrases. such
as matters of vital Importance, sub
jects involving questions Of special
nature and other similar expressions,
which, in the majority of cases-as
is we'll known-are nothing but a
mask behind which bad faith and a
quarrelsome spirit lurk.
Later on, when the number of ad-
judged cases, the methods established
and the results accomplished a per-
feet knowledge of the system is OBJ
tanned, it may seem prudent then to
continue the work until the high and
noble idea of justice has been at
tained.
I'm my country also-and in say
ing this am confident that l am
rightly interpreting the general opin-
ion-the desire exists to see the doc
trine OF the distinguished secretary
of state. the Honorable Elihu Root,
prevail; that is. that the armies and
navies OF the world must not be used
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