The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-04-19
WORKERS FOR PEACE
open A conference
DISTINGUISHED MEN ADDRESS
THE FIRST SESSIONS IN
NEW YORK.
Letter from President Read - He
Urges Endeavor Along Practical
Lines-Root Not Optimistic About
The Haque-Kaiser Praised.

President Roosevelt and Secretary OF
State Elihu Root that if success is to
crown the efforts of those who are
working for peace among the nations
of the world, their endeavor must be
along practical lines, that they must
not, by insisting upon the impossible,
put off the day when the possible can
be accomplished, the National Arbi-
tration and Peace conference, which
is meeting in this city under the pres
idency of Andrew Carnegie, began
Monday it's real activities with two
crowded sessions in Carnegie hall.
Secretary Root also took occasion
in his speech to point ont the propo-
sitions which the United States gov
eminent will have to make at the
coming conference at The Hague. He
warned his hearers not to expect too
much at this second conference. The
president, in a letter to the congress,
expressed the hope that the coming
conference might result in the adop-
ton of an international arbitration
treaty. Secretary Root, after second
ing this hope, declared the United
States thought it proper to urge
again the discussion of the subject Of
the limitation of armament of the ma
tons on land and sea, and the aboli-
ton of the practice of using force in
the collection of debts owed by one
nation to the citizens of another.
Carnegie on the Kaiser.
Mr.. Carnegie, in an address to the
congress, paid tribute to President
Roosevelt and expressed the wish that
Mr. Roosevelt might be the peace
maker of the future. He declared,
however, that Emperor William is the
man, among all men, who holds the
peace of the nations in his power. In
this connection Mr.. Carnegie said it
was unjust to speak of the emperor
as menace to the peace of Europe,
adding that in 20 years upon the
throne the German ruler had split no
blood, nor caused an international
war.
At the afternoon session the speak
ers were Secretary Root, Gov. Charles
E. Hughes of New York, Mayor
George B. Mcclellan of New York
city, and Mr.. Carnegie.
1t was at the afternoon session also
that the letter from President Roose-
welt was presented and read. Mon
day night the speakers included Bar
on dEstournelles de Constant, mem
Der of the French senate and head of
the International Cancellation COM
mittee, and Secretary Oscar S. Straus
of the department of commerce and
labor, who spoke upon 1.-THE Peace of
Nations and Peace Within Nations"
Mr.. Straus also spoke of the Nobel
peace prize which last year was con-
ferred by the Norwegian storthing
throughout the world, the secretary
declared, applaudingly approved the
selection.
Urges Practical Efforts.
President Roosevelt in his letter to
the congress urged that it's efforts be
devoted to the practical side of the
question it had undertaken to dis
cuss.
"An impassioned grafton about
peace" he declared, which includes
an impassioned demand for something
which the man who makes the de-
mand either knows or ought to know
cannot, as a matter of fact, be done,
represents not gain, but loss, for the
Of hn
cause is marred by advocacy which is
either insincere or foolish"
The president closed by stating that
he hoped to see at the coming confer
ence at The Hague a general arbitra-
tion treaty among the nations adopt
ed and The Hague court greatly in
creased in power and permanency,
the judges in particular being made
permanent and given adequate sal
aries.
Warnings by Mr.. Root.
Secretary Root, speaking partly in
behalf of the president, dwelt upon
the hope that The Hague conference
would see another long step toward
the attainment of international arbi-
tration. He added few words of
warning concerning anticipations of
what this second peace conference is
to do, and told his hearers not to ex.
pect too much from it.
He declared that the government of
the United States has been of the
opinion that the possibility of an
agreement as to the limitation of
armed forces by land and sea and of
war budgets ought to be further con-
sidered and discussed at the coming
Hague conference.
There are serious difficulties" add
ed the secretary, lin formulating any
definite proposal which would not be
Objectionable to some of the powers,
and upon the question whether any
specific proposal is unfair and injuri-
Gus to it's interests each power must
be, and is, entitled to be, its own
judge. Nevertheless the effort can be
made; it may fail in this conference
as it did in the first, but even if it