The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-21
ENG[|SHMAN SAYS
ENGLAND IS CRAZY
Great Britain's Dreadnaught
Programme Denounced at
MOhOnk Lake Conference.
MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT
DOES NOT SPARE HIS HOUSE
Resolution Adopted Deprecates
Rivalry Among Nations for
Increased ArmamentS.

MOHONK LAKE, \. Y, May 90
Crazy .'mad,'' " emotional insan-
itv, E" :" SINFUL were some of the terms
used today BY j. Allen Baker, NJ. p.
IN telling the Mohonk Lake peace con-
ference about Great Britain's Dread.
naught programme
81 largely indorse,'' said Mr.. Baker.
what President Butler has said as to
the emotional insanity of the present
mad race for battleships in Great Brit
ain and Germany, Our house OF com.
mons, of which I am member, is the
chief sinner in having started the crazy
competition in building DreadDaughts
But you nust remember we have
yellow press IN Great Britain. and you
must not believe all that it says re-
garding the so-calIed German war
scare -
Mr.. Baker declared the peace of the
world today lies in the hands of the
United States, Germany and Great Bri-
tain and that the United States car
join with Germany and England and
thus prevent possible warfare and stop
the Dreadnaughts competition. He in
vited President Taft to take the lead
In this direction
BUSINESS men representing htty-eIght
chambers of commerce from nineteen
| states and Canada. who are attending
| the conference, adopted a resolution
urging President Taft ''to take the
| initiative in leading the nations to
| concurrent limitatio or reduction in
! the armies and navies of the world.'
Text Of Resolution.
The resolution declared:
The rivalry among civilized ma
tions for increased armaments is great
| l,. l. IL
! time has come in which the nations
should depend upon justice. Therefore,
| we advise that nations trust to arbl,
| tration rather than force, to courts
! rather than arms.
Speaking tonight before the confer
cnce, Kokocichi Midzumo, japanese
consul general at New York, said:
| We arc so confident of the SINGER
| lily of American friendship that during
| the last few years, when so many bt
fer voices against Japan were heard
In certain section of this great re-
public. the whole Japanese people re.
manned quiet and fully convinced of the
fact that the anti-Japanese movement
did not represent the true sentiment
of the American people at large
Added Ties of Friendship.
Referring to the exchange of note,
| between Japan and the United States
on the common policy of the two eoun-
| tries in the Pacific and China, which
| he said was one more tie of friendship:
| the consul general continued:
81 rejoice with you that that dip.
| lomatic declaration was so heartily vel
coined by the people not only of both
| countries. but of the whole world. as
| the guarantee of peace.
But we must not forget that com
merce and trade play q more important
| part than the honeyed phraseology of
| diplomacy in bringing together the peo-
| pie of different countries.
''The international relations of today
no longer consist merely 10 tho eX
| change of the ENJOYS and dispatches.
but they are and must be based on
mutual understanding and intercourse
between the peoples and upon the com
| mcrciaI and industrial independence be-
| tween the countries.
Joseph Shipper of Seattle also ad
dressed the conference,