Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-18

peace.
NEW YORK, April 1s.-Only the elect
were admitted to the session of the peace
conference held at Carnegie Hall yester-
day. The purpose of the meeting was to
draw up set of resolutions which should
embody the attitude of the congress- but
before the resolutions were carried at least
one personal encounter was narrowly
averted and several other exciting scenes
were enacted. The storm blew over. and
all was amity when the congress closed.
Carnegie Decorated.
The convention of the national arbitra-
ton and peace congress came to an end
with two large banquets, one at the Hotel
Aston and the other at the Waldorf-Astora
The event of greatest interest was the
decoration of Andrew Carnegie with the
cross of the Legion of Honor (commandeD
by the French government, represented by
Baron d Estournelles de Constant, in APP
probation of his work for peace and his
gift of the palace at The Hague.
Mr.. Carnegie, who is president of the
congress. last night gave out a statement
as to the results of the congress. AL
though not so designated by Mr.. Carnegie,
the statement constitutes reply to some
of the suggestions contained in the letter
that President Roosevelt addressed to the
congress on it's opening day. Mr.. Carnegie
quotes these statements as objections,
and proceeds to answer them, as follows:
Our peace conference has brought three
objections clearly before us:
"First-NationS cannot submit all ques-
tions to arbitration.
"Answer-Six of them have recently done
SO by treaty-Denmark and the Neither
lands Chile and Argentina, Norway and
Sweden.
"Second-Justice is higher than peace.
'Answer-The first principle of natural
justice forbids men to be judges when they
are parties to the issue. All law rests upon
| this throughout the civilized world Were
judge known to sit upon a in which
| he was secretly interested he would be dis
honored and expelled from his high office
| If any Individual refused to submit his dis
pute with a neighbor to disinterested par
| ties tarbitrators or judges and insisted
upon being his own judge he would violate
the first principles of justice. If he re-
sorted to force in defense of his right to
| judge he would be dishonored as a breaker
of the law. Thus peace with Justice is
secured through arbitration, either by court
or by tribunal, never by one of the parties
sitting a judge i'll his cause.
''Thrd-It is neither peace nor justice,
but righteousness that shall exalt the ma
ton.
"Answer-Righteousn is simply doing
what is right What is just is always
right; what is unjust is always wrong. 1t
being the first principle Of justice that men
shall not be judges in their own cause, to
refuse to submit to judge or arbitrator is
unjust, hence not right, for the essence of
righteousness is justice. Therefore, men
who place justice or righteousness above
peace practict-!y proclaim as it appears
10 me. that they Will commit injustice and
discard righteousness by constituting them
selves sole judges of their own cause in
violation of law, justice and right"
Near a Rupture.
AT the morning session DR.. Ernst Rich
ard of Columbia and Rabbi Levy almost
came to blows when DR.. Richard inter
rupted the rabbits speech to announce that
he was indulging in hot air. and that
he ought to get the hook SO that he CDR
Richard) might have chance to present
his views. But Rabbi Levy grabbed the
speakers desk with both hands and re-
fused to be parted from it, and afterward
he and DR.. Richard shook hands before the
whole audience and Rabbi Levy remarked:
This is q practical application of the
principles of peace"
Mrs. Lockwood Disdainful.
Then a woman delegate, Mrs. Belva A.
Lockwood, who is connected with the Asso-
citation for the Promotion of Peace and oc-
cupied a seat in the front row, turned her
back ON the highbrows on the platform as
soon as, after repeated efforts, she obtained
an opportunity to speak, and asserted in a
shrll voice:
Il am glad to turn my back upon the
platform. 1 prefer to address the common
people"
The audience cheered, but then subsidized
suddenly, as it realized that the inference
was not fattering
Mrs. Lockwood, upon whose features
every indication of a strong character is
plainly stamped read some resolutions of
her own, in which she advocated that no
nation should be permitted by the other
of going to war. "Or if nation did go to
war" she said succnctly, then it should
not be allowed to kill any women or chill
dren or attack any place. where women Or
children were, and you can't have
war without killing women or children,
then there could be no war, anyway. Do
YOU see?" And the audience saw.
DR.. Richard. when he finally. toward the
meetings close, succeeded in projecting
himself to the front of the platform, cast
bitter words at those who at previous ses-
sions of the conference had decried Ger
many, which is DR.. Richards native land,
because of its militarism. He said he would
AS he made the declaration the light of
battle CLEANED from the professors eye.
Range of the Resolutions.
George Foster Peabody, treasurer of the
peace conference, called the meeting to or
der. He suggested that every speech should
be limited to five minutes and that dele
gates should give heed to the text about
in honor preferring one another"
Then DR. Benjamin f. Trueblood, chair
man OF the committee on resolutions, took
the floor and summarized some Of the reso-