Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-09-20
PEACE ADVOCATE
SEE END OF WARS,
Dr.. Richard Bartholdt Of America Is
Worlds Foremost Arbitra-
ton Advocate.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. 10
Especial. ]-Richard BarthoIdt, who has
for fourteen years represented the Tenth
Missouri district in Congress. and who
will sit as one of three Republican men,
hers from st. Louis in the sixtieth Con-
gress, has capitalized himself as few men
have in public life. He has stood for
peace although the country of his birth
has times without number stood for war.
Born III Germany and imbued with the
spirit Of his ancestors. Richard Bartholdt
from the beginning of his career i'll the
country of his adoption has raised his
voice i'll favor Of international arbitra-
tin.
Becomes an Editor.
Until he entered the Fifty-third Con-
greSS as a Republican. DIR. Bartholdt was
newspaper man and he calls himself 4
newspaper man today primarily, while
secondarily a national lawmaker
Before he took up his residence in St.
Louis Mr.. BarthOldt saw every phase of
newspaper life in New York. He was a
police court reporter a municipal hall
reporter, correspondent at Albany for
German newspapers. and finally foreign
editor for the New York Stats Zeitung
under Otto Diffenderfer. He edited the
st. Louis Tribune until he came to Con
greSS.
Throughout his newspal Ell career Dr..
BarthOldt has been Il firm believer al The
rriEc, pes of international arbitration IL
stead Of the nations reSCl ting TO atIAS.
And lie las talked inferno: iOnal ar3itrl-
ton iii season and out until he has i..I
to see the nations of the world fOregdth-
ering at The Hague and adopting some
of the recommendations he has made to
mterpar:lamCElo1y congress made up OF
Representatives from the worlds parlla-
merits and Of winch he was at one time
president.
Dreams of Peace.
In small cottage in the midst of
Thuringer forest i'll Germany, DR.. Bar
tholdt prepared the first great internal
tional arbitration treaty which was sub
mitted to the intcr-pariamentary con-
gress that met in Brussels several years
ago. This work took DR.. Bartholdt six
months to complete after he had received
suggestions from the leading internal
tional lawyers of the world upon the
subject matter of his dreams. There
were Iwenty-one questions propounded
to the nations in this first suggested
treaty with a request that the nations
Indicate what questions they would sub
nit to arbitration and what questions
they were doubtful about.
1t is interesting in this connection that
the progressive nations of the world
were willing to submit all the questions
contained in DIR. Bartholdts draft to
arbitration, while the less progressive
or the retiring nations had serious mis-
givings as to Il number of them.
Believes Wars Will Be No More.
DR.. Bartholdt, who has just returned
from The Hague conference where he
was an interested spectator upon the
proceedings of that very great body of
world statesmen is optimistic i'll his
views as to the outcome of their DELHI
erations. He believes that before the
conference adjOurns the American idea
of a permanent arbitration court will be
adopted and that a tremendous step for
ward for peace will be the result.
In the little German town. in which
Richard Bartholdt first saw the light
and on the house in which he was born
there is a tablet inscribed as follows:
In this house Richard Bartholdt, an
American member of Parliament, was
born And not so very far away, in
the depths of a German void, this same
Richard Bartholdt wrote an interna-
tiOnal arbitration treaty which is des-
tined to make his name famous the
world over.