Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-04-26
PEACE CONGRESS
COMES TO AN END
CARNEGIE DECORATED BY
FRENCH GOVERNMENT.
ADOPT MANY RESOLUTIONS
Suggestion Made that The Hague
Peace Conference Be Made Perna-
nsnt Affair, Open to All Nat
io3s.

&OW VA 4 uS uISk COuNCHL1OIl
Of the National Arbitration and
Peace Conference came to an end.
after q tkree-day session, with two
large banquets, one at the Hotel
Astor and the other at the Waldorf
Astoria. The event of greatest inter
est was the decoration of Andrew
Carnegie with the Cross of Legion
Of Honor by the French government
represented by Baron 'Estournellcs
de Constant, in appreciation of his
work for peace and his gift of the
palace at The Hague.
Mr.. Carnegie, who is president OF
the congress, gave out statement as
to the results of the congress. AL
though not SO designated by Mr.
Carnegie, the statement constitutes u
reply to some of the suggestions con-
tanned in the letter which President
Roosevelt addressed to the congress
on its opening day. Mr.. Carnegie
quotes these statements as "objcc.
tions," and proceeds to answer then
40 follows:
"Our peace conference has brought
these objectios clearly before us:
"The first, nations cannot submit
all questions to arbitration.
"Answer: Six of them have re
Gently done so, by treaty-Denmark
The Netherlands, Chill and Argen
tina, Norway and Sweden. Mote
Since Norway has just secured inde
pendence the treaty provides that it
integrity shall not be questioned
but whether it is or not affected i,
any dispute is to be decided by Tht
Hague conference.)
$50 much for the claims that ma
tions can not submit all questions
they have done il.
"Second-JuStice is higher thar
peace.
Answer: The first principle ol
national justice forbids men to judg,
when they are parties to the issue
All law rests upon this, Throughout
the civilized world.
The congress adopted its platform
Of resolutions recommending, among
other things, that The Hague confer
ence shall hereafter be pernanel
institution; that The Hague cour
shall be open to all the nations Of th'
world; that general treaty Of arbi
tration for ratification by all the ma
tions shall be drafted by the comiu.
conference, providing for the refer
ence to The Hagre court of iLterna
tional disputes which can not be ad
justed by diplomacy; that the Unit"'
States government urge on It's con
ference action looking to the limita
ton Of ornaments; that the confer
ence extend to private property a
sea immunity from capture in war.
The resolutions speak highly il
praise of President Roosevelt, Secre
tary Root and the Prime Minister O.
Great Britain for the stand the,
have taken in favor of the settle'
policy of peace among the nations
The resolutions follow:
"Whereas, the nations through tn
application of scientific invention an,
discovery to intercommunicate an
travel, have become members of on
body, closely united and interdepend
ent with common commercial, indus
trial, intellectual and moral interests
and war in any part of the worl'
Immediately affects both material,
and morally, all other parts and un
disturbed peace has become the ne
cessary condition of tbs propose
well-being and orderly progress o
human society; and,
"Whereas, the said court of arb
tration, having adjusted four contro
versies in which nearly all the promi
nent powers were participants, ha
become a fixed and well-recognize
means fttes tt1atp .....
means of settling international dis
putes, though its operation iC onl
voluntary; and,
Whereas, the principle of inter
national commissions of inquiry pro
vided for in The Hague convention
has proved itself one of great practl
cal efficiency, as illustrated in tn
Anglo-Russian North Sea crisis; anf
Whereas, more than forty treat
les of obligatory arbitration betwee
nations, two and two have been cor
cluded, stipulating reference to Th
Hague court for FIVE years of all dis
putes Of a Judicial order, and thos
arising in the Interpretation of treat
les; and,
Whereas, public opinion in favo
Of the pacific settlement of eontrc
versy has made extraordinary ad
vance since the first Hague confer
snce, and, as recently declared b
the British Prime Minister, has a.
tanned a practical potency and
moral superiority undreampt of i
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