The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-23
PEACE MEETING
 PROVES BARREN No Results at Hague That Will Lead to Permanent
 Measures of
 Peace.
MOST OPTIMISTIC ADMIT THIS FACT
Delegates Unprepared and Those From the United States Especially
 So.

The Hague. Sept. 22.-After having been in session over three months and with adjournment probably month iu the distance, 1t is recognized generally, and even by the most optimistic in the peace movement, that the second h. ternational Peace conference has been and will be at it's conclusion barren of results that will lead to permanent measures of benefit to the peace of the world
 Mr Choate, of the American delega- ton, however, is still optimistic regard ing the results, even on the great questions, and especially that of a permanent court of arbitration, being satisfied that the principle is admitted, He thinks that once the conference has concluded it's session it will be an easy matter to overcome the prejudices con- cerning the allotment of judges and that thereafter the establishment of the court will be an easy task.
 Other delegates, however, do not share his opinion, believing that the adoption of Sir Edward Fry's proposal entrusting the governments with the task of finding a system by which to elect the judges was a masked method for burying the whole affair
 Even the proposition for future meeting of the conference unanimous ly adopted on Saturday has been so altered as to suppress its most i'm portant part, namely, that calling for periodical meetings, merely providing for the calling of third conference with TO provision for future conferences.
 The prevailing opinion, as expressed by one of the leading delegates, is that the absence of results in the confer ence on the great questions, was due to the lack of preparation by all the countries represented. This, he said, was especially striking in the Ameri- can delegation which was supposed to have come here in complete accord with the Latin-American countries. This accord, however, neither existed nor had been reached during the coh- ference. Indeed, what is to be dread- ed he declared, is that the chief result of the conference will be a growing feeling of diffidence on the part of the South Americans toward Washington. as, rightly or wrongly, they accuse the United States of having neglected them and of caring only for working in ae- cord with Great Britain and Germany.
 It is generally remarked that the U, s. should have come to the conference with the certainty of having the sup port of all of the Latin-American eoun- tries or should have abstained from proposing projects that were destined to meet with opposition, perhaps exag- gerated, as in the case of the allot- ment of judges, but nevertheless invin- cible. The only project thus far adopt ed does not regulate war but tries to prevent 1t and was passed by the nar- rowest of margins, namely, that con cerning the foreible collection of con tractual debts.
 The remainder of the work will keep the conference busy until the middle of October. It is easy to foresee that\t the only success will be attained by Ger many, who win prevent the adoption of projects to which she is opposed and by the small states, which have proved that it is impossible to reach world agreement without their support.
 It is estimated that the conference has cost altogether $1,300,OO0.