The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-05-08
ENEMIES OF WAR
HOLD A CONGRESS
SECOND NATIONAL PEACE CON-
FERENCE IN CHICAGO.
EMINENT MEN ARE PRESENT
esatesmen. Diplomats and Political
Economists Assemble and Discuss
the Final Elimination of
Armed Conflicts.

Chicago.-The sessions of the sec
sAd National Peace Congress. which
opened in Orchestra hall Monday aft
ernoon. attracted to Chicago many
thousand earnest enemies of war,
among them being many distinguished
statesmen. diplomats and political
economists, President Tai, is the
honorary president of the congress.
and Secretary of War Jacob NJ. Dick
inson is its active president. but Meth
er of these gentlemen was able to
be present. owing to their official du-
ties. However there was no lack OF
eminent men to preside over the ses-
sionS
AS preliminary to the congress,
special peace services Were held in
many Chicago churches Sunday morn
ing. peace meetings arranged by labor
and socialist organizations were held
in the afternoon, and in the evening
there Was a big mass meeting, at
which addresses were delivered by
Rev, Jenkin LLOYD Jones and Rev,
Emil G. HirSch. both of Chicago. and
President Jacob Gould Schurman of
Cornell university.
"SsSculc 10 Nuc SOu9ECSS.
Orchestra hall was filed to the
limit Monday when the first session
was called 10 order by Robert Treat
Paine of Boston. the presiding officer.
for governors, mayors and hundreds OF
clubs had been asked to appoint dele
gates. and most of them had re-
Sponded. President Decisions adj
dress, the same ne delivered several
weeks ago before the Hamilton club.
was read. and the congress was then
formally welcomed by Gov. Charles s.
Deneen for the state, Mayor Fred A.
Busse for the city and Rev. A. Eugene
Bartlett. chairman of the reception
committee. The secretary then read
brief letter from President Taft, in
which the chief executive heartily
commended the aims of the congress.
Miss Anna r. Eckstein of Boston
next was introduced to the meeting
and read World Petition to the
Third Hague Conference" This was
followed by an address by DIR. Benja-
min F. Trueblood. secretary of the
American Peace society. on The
Present Position of the Peace Move
ment"
What Has Been Accomplished.
DIR. Trueblood said in part:
Let me sketch in the barest out
lines what has already been accom-
plished. The Interpretation will take
care of itself.
Il. The men and women. now a
great host. who believe that the day
is past when blind brute force should
direct the policies of nations and pre-
side at the settlement of their diff
| ferences, are now thoroughly organ
| lied. A hundred years ago there was
not a society in existence organized
TO promote appeal to the forum of
reason and right in the adjustment of
international controversies. To-day
there are more than 500. nearly
every important nation having
| its group of peace organizations, Their
constituents are numbered by tens of
| thousands, from every rank and class
in society-philanthro men of
/ trade and commerce. educators and
/ jurists, workingmen, statesmen. rulers
even.
I Triumph of Arbitration.
I'll The position which the peace
movement has reached is no less dis
tinctly determined by the practical at
tainments of arbitration. We are this
year celebrating what is really the
one hundredth anniversary of the birth
of our movement. for it was in 1905
/ that David l.. Dodge. a Christian mer
chant of New York city. wrote the
pamphlet which brought the move
,nt lal
later to the organization in his parlol
in New York of the first Peace society
IN the world. There had then beer
no arhitra;ions between nations in oul
modern sense of the word nations In
the 100 wears since 1909 mors
than $50 important controversies have
been settled by this means. not &c
mention an even greater number o
less important cases, the settlement
of which involved the principle of ar
bitration. Within the past 20 years 81
rapid has been the triumph of arbi
tration that more than 100 interna
tionai differences have been siisposet
of by this means. or between five ans
! six year for the whole 20 Years
Arbitration is no longer an expert
meut. II is the settled practice OF III,
nations. A score of disputes to-day =,
naturally TO arbitration where on,
gives rise even TO talk of war.
The Hague Conferences.
iii. In order to determine furthe
the advanced position which tn,
peace movement has attained on it
I practical side. The two Hague confer
ences and what they have &C
complished must be taken into &C
count. Ii is still the habit OF some pei
sons TO speak disparagingly of thes
great gatherings and their results
Some do it because they are Statistic,
with nothing short of immediate pei
lection: others because they wish tn
! whole movement for the abolition O
war to fail Othere do it purely fron