Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1909-05-06
LAST DAY OF PEACE CONGRESS
FEATURED BY BUSINESS MEET
ING AT WHICH DELEGATES
PLACE SELVES ON RECORD.
ENJOYS OF OTHER
NATIONS in TALK
COUNT Won BERNsToRFF THE
GERMAN AMBASSADOR, Ex-
PLAINS POSITION OF THE FAITH
ERLAND AS TO ARMAMENTs.

Chicago, May 5.-Ine eXChanSe Ol
formal greetings between the dipl0
matte representatives of the various
nations and business session tc
consider the practical results of the
gathering Of the peace ENJOYS consti
tuted the last days work of the sec
ond national peace congress. JOSEPH
B. Moore, justice of the suprem
court of Michigan, presided over thu
business session.
Tho following resolutions were
adopted:
Resolved, That public war is
now out of the date, relic of
barbarism and unworthy our time,
and that the nations of the world
by joint agreement and by a
league of peace among them
selves, ought to make it's recur-
renee hereafter impossible.
Resolved, That no dispute be-
tween nations, except such as
may involve the national life and
independence, should be reserved
from arbitration and that gener-
al treaty Of obligatory arbitration
should be concluded at the earli-
est possible date
Resolved, That the peace con-
gress expresses it's high appreci-
alton of the action of our govern
ment in the recent conclusion of
the twenty three arbitration
treaties, and urgently requests
the president and the congress Of
the United States to take the in
itiative in an endeavor to COM
plcte the work Of the second
Hague conference, especially to Sc
cure. an agreement among the mil
itarF and naval powers for the
speedy arrest of ruinous competi-
ton in armanents now prevailing
and as an immediate step to this
end, that a special commission of
the highest character be credited
for It's consideration.
"Resolved, That this congress
earnestly endorses the movement
so auspiciously begun by the gov
ernments Of Denmark and Great
Britain to provide at public cost
for the construction of measures
to promote international good un-
derstanding, hospitality and friend
ship and appeals to our own gov
ernment for broad and generous
action upon these lines.'
Congressman Bartholdt of Nilsson
presided at the international gree
ings' session. The principal spea
ers were Count Johann Heinrich VIC
Bernstorff, the German ambassadC
Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese ambass
dor and Secretary of the Interit
Ballinger.
The German View.
Count Won Bernstorff the Germs
ambassador, outlined Germany's vie
on the question Of international pea
and asked his hearers who were Il
clined to blame Germany for its stal
on the question to follow him in brief
reviewing the history of Germany +
the last three centuries. He said
part:
mo doubt there are a number
this great assemblage, who have visi
ed Germany and travelled along t
beautiful banks of the Neckar al
Rhine, where numerous ruins of ma
niflcient castles tell the sad tale
devastation by foreign invaders. Ba
tie after battle was fought out by TO
eign armies on German soil, becau
the people of thinkers and dreame
We're not united and therefore Il
strong enough to repel hostile inva
ions. This state of affairs might ha
gone on forever, If the cosmopolits
idealistic and impractical Germany
the 18th century had not been arous
to indignation by the humiliation a
misery it suffered hundred yes
ago when it had to submit to t
First Napoleons yoke. In those da
the German nation learned the less
that it is the right and duty of eve
man to protect his home and his cou
try to the last drop of blood that
mains in his body and that he m,
be ready to give his life for somethi
greater than himself, something
yond his selfish interests. Every c
of you would do the same today, y
would all draw the sword for I
liberty and freedom of your country
Such was the birthday of the pre-
ent Germany army or, to use the mt
correct expression of the Germany I
tion in arms. And now what /
been the results of this Institute
Since that day no foreign army, e
again set its foot on Germany soil a
prosperity is reigning in all elias
of the Germany people, which wo
have seemed incredible to our TO
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