East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-05-20
Dove Of PEACE
DEV0TEES MEET
INTERNATIONAL
ARBITRATION AT MOHONK.
Distinguished Men In All Walks OF
Life Gather TO Discuss Ways and
Means to Convert Weapons into
PIow Shares and Pruning Hooks
Many Nations Representatives,
Day Program Arranged.

Mohonk. n. Y. May 20.- With dis
tingulshed men in all walks OF life in
attendance, the annual Lake Mohonk
conference on international arbitration
was opened today and will continue its
deliberations through tomorrow and
Friday. Senator's. congressman, diplo-
mats, clergymen. educators, jurists,
government officials, bankers, business
men, governors, army and navy off,
GERS and editors are included. among
the throngs which are gathered in
here by Albert Keith Smiley, the foun.
der of the conference. Smiley's mag
nificient estate on the shores Of Lake
Mohonk has been the scene Of many
famous gatherings to discuss arbitra-
tation and other humanitarian move.
ments, but none more notable than the
assemblage here today.
The porgram for the three. days will
provide a thorough discussion by men
of many nations, of the advancement
made in the cause of arbitration. The
work Of the second conference at The
Hague and Of the General American
peace conference will furnish a text
for many addresses, the speakers in
cluding James +. Scott of the state de-
partment, a member of The Hague
conference; Minister Corea OF Mic
aragua, Minister Calvo of Costa Rica,
DR.. Benjamin F. Trueblood of Boston,
John Barrett, director of the bur-
eau of American Republics, and many
others,
Educational phases of the arbitra
tion question will be considered by
presidents of the leading colleges and
universities from New England to
California, while distinguished tsates-
also speak. Half hundred CONNER
cial organizations in various parts of
the country have sent delegates.
Newspaper men on the program in
clude Rollo Ogden of the New York
Evening POST A. C. Lambdin of the |
Philadelphia Public Ledger; Walter
N. Page of the Worlds Work; o. 8. |
Marsden of the Success Magazine, and |
Hamilton Holt of the Independent. |
Perhaps the greatest public service |
the conference can perform this year |
will be to set forth squarely Just what |
the second Hague conference did |
Considerable uncertainty on this point
still exists in the public mind, and |
much of 1t is doubtless unjust to the
men who went to The Hague Two of
these men are to participate in the
Lake Mohonk meeting, where they will
have an opportunity to place Them
selves on REGARD, and where too they
may meet In discussion some of the II
ardent peace advocates who profess
dissatisfaction, or at least disappoint-
ment, with the results of The Hague.
Results Accomplished
Despite the racial and Temperament.
tai differences of the delegations from
the forty-five countries 1t is pointed
out that the second Hague conference
gave to the world a decree that hence
forth an offer of arbitration must
always precede the use of force for
collection of contract debts; 1t pro-
vided for an International prize court
to which appeals may be taken
from biased decisions of nationtl
prize courts; it resolved that third
, in about eight years,
should take up and continue its work
under international direction; It gave
10 either party to a controversy the
right to publicly ask the services of
he Hague Tribunal, thereby forcing
is adversary to arbitrate or to pub
icly admit its fear or its unwilling
hess to do so, thus doing away with
he former incongruous requirements
hat two nations on the verge of war
must first agree to ask for the arbitra-
ion; 1t extended the work of the Red
Cross to naval warfare and It greatly
improved the Hague convention of
1899 by making mediation, good Off
,es and commissions of inquiry more
,asily offered or invoked.