Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-07
BODY BLOW GIVEN
WAR BY CONGRESS
OF PEACEMAKERS
Declares 1t Is Relic of the Past
z and Thoroughly Out of
Date in the Twentieth Cen
tury Civilization.

CHICAGO. May 5.-An exchange OF
formal greetings between the diplomatic
/ representatives of various nations ana
a business session to consider the prac-
tical results of the gathering OF peace
ENJOYS constituted the last day 5 WorA
of the second National Peace congress
in session in this city. -
Joseph B. Moore justice Of the supreme
court of Michigan. presided over DUST
made by eight delegates. Alfred II. Love-
of Philadelphia, president of the Univer-
sal Peace union, said in part;
Compulsory peace is an incubator OF
war; preparation for war is a menace
of war; broken treaties of peace are
peace breakers. 1t is a lamentabie page
in our history. this showing to the world
the gigantic destructive Dreadnaughts'
our boosted instruments of death, caus-
| ing other countries to initiate this cow
ardly. selfish and unneighborly nationali-
| ty that can say on it's coin In God We
! Trust, and then in it's intercourse with
others repudiate the psalmist when he
says The Lord is our refuge and our
, strength
The School Peace League
/ Mrs. Fannie Fern Andrews, of Boston,
secretary. OF the American School Peace
| league, told of the work Of that or
J ganization. She said:
THE American School league aims to
secure the cooperation of the educational
public of America for promoting interna-
tional Justice and equity. The great
economic and social current of peace
in the United States is receiving ever
widening impulse from the Mohonk arbi-
| tration conference which has secured the
! cooperation of more than 100 boards of
| trade and 200 colleges; the American
| Peace society, whose literature reaches
! every corner of the country; the Italian
| American, German-American and Scan
dinavian- American societies, organized to
| promote educational social International
| relations; the Inter Collegiate Peace as
ISOLATION, with branches in AZ colleges;
and the Cosmopolitan clubs
! Henry c. Niles, of York, Pa. told of
| his states experiences in state peace
| congresses.
Other speakers were the Rev. j. L. Try
| on, of Boston, assistant secretary of the
American Peace society, VINO spoke of
THE London Peace congress of 19Os,'
and the Rev. Gilbert Bowles. of Toxic.
4 Japan.
Congressman Richard Bartholdt of Mis-
/ souri,, presided at the international
greetings" session. The principal speak
| ers were Count Johann Heinrich Won
Bernstorff the German ambassador; Wu
Ting Fang. the Chinese ambassador. and
secretary of the Interior Richard A.
| Ballinger.
The Text of the Report
The full text Of the report by the con-
gress is as follows:
Whereas Civilization has now reach
| cd point where conscience. reason and
the sense of brotherhood are increasingly
| controlling men in their relations to each
Il 4 q TrfN to
have wholly or largely disappeared. and
the different nations have created for
| Themselves systems of law and courts
BY which differences between their citi-
Eens ere peacefully adjusted and.
/ Whereas, The two Hague conferences
have created a permanent international
i court OF arbitration 10 which all the ma
lions are now parties; have approved
unanimously the principle of obligatory
arbitration for the settlement os interna-
tional controversies: have sanctioned
without a dissenting voice the creation of
a permanent International court Of JUS
tice, with judges. always I'm service and
holding regular sessions. and have urged
tho governments to find a satisfactory
formula for the selection of the judges;
and have laid the foundations of a regu-
lar congress of nations by unanimously
voting for periodic meetings of the Hague
conference hereafter-which great meas
ures are the most decisive steps yet ta-
ken toward that organization and system
attic operation of the nations which shall
eventually substitute law for war, there
fore, be il,
Resolved, BY this second United
States National Peace Congress that pub
! lie war is now out of date, a relic of bar
barism unworthy of our time, and that
the nations of the world by Joint agree
ment. by league of peace among them
selves, ought TO make its recurrence here
after impossible.
Resolved, That no dispute between ma
tions, except such as may involve the
national life and independence, should be
reserved from arbitration, and that a
general treaty of obligatory arbitration
should be included at the earliest possi-
Bile date. Pending such general treaty,
we urge upon our government and the
ether leading powers such broadening OF
the scope of their arbitration treaties as
shall provide, after the example of the
Danish Netherlands treaty, for the re-
ference to the Hague court of all differ
ences whatever not sttled otherwise by
peaceful means.
Resolved, That the prevailing rival
! ry in ornaments, both on land and sea
which imposes such eXhausting burdens
Of taxation on the people, and Is the
fruitful source of suspicion bitter feel
, ing and war alarms, is wholly unworthy
; of enlightened modern nations. is la
inevitable failure IS a basis Of enduring
, peace, and ought to be arrested by agree
; ynent of the powers without delay.
The Hague Conference
,, Resolved, That this peace congress
express it's high appreciation of the &C
ton of our government in the recent con
clusion of twenty-three arbitration
treaties, and in the promotion of friendly
relations between the various American
! republics. 1t recognizes with special sat
isfaction what was done by our govern
ment and representatives at the Hague
conference in behalf of general trat!
, of obligatory arbitration, court of ar
bitral justice, the immunity of private
property at sea from capture in time o.