The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-08-03
FOR THE TWENTIETH TIME MA
TIONS WILL TRY TO GET TO-
GEfHER FOR PEACE.
Opponents Of War Will Gather In
Stockholm Sometime During Lat
ter Part Of the Month.

and the tenth anniversary of
the Universal Peace Congress
held at The Hague in response
to call issued by Emperor Nicholas of
Russia. Both of these memorable
events, so important in the movement
for world peace, will be fittingly COM
memmorated when the International
Peace congress meets in Stockholm the
latter part of this month. A meeting
of the British section was held in Lon
don today to further the plans for a
successful meeting when the oppon-
ents of war gather in the Swedish cap
ital three weeks from next Saturday.
Despite the fact that the English
people are, agitated by visions of a
coming conflict with Germany, the
friends of peace are hopeful and many
at today's meeting declared that the
last great war in the worlds history
has been fought. 1t is pointed out that
there has been a great growth in the
movement for international peace since
1889, when few friends of peace from
the United States, Great Britain,
France, and two or three other Euro
pean countries, met at the French cap
rital, and held the first of the modern
series of international peace con-
crosses. Their meetings passed quite
unnoticed by the press and the public,
or were ridiculed as the sentimental
performances of Missionaries. Last year
in London, after 10 years of congresses
held in the great capitals and chief
cities of the world, and growing in
numbers and power from year to year
the pacifists met for their seventeenth
international gathering They were well
coined by the king and queen of Eng
land and by the British cabinet with a
cordially and generosity rarely eX-
tended in those days to any body of
philanthrophic workers. King Edward
and the queen received in buckingham
palace a large deputation from the
congress, and the great closing banquet
in the Hotel Cecil, in which the prime
minister was the chief speaker, was
itself out of the hospitality fund then
just established by the chancellor of
the exchequer. This congress repre-
scented more than 500 peace organiza-
tons and a great body if peace work
ers throughout the world.
During this same period the Inter-
parliamentary union, founded also in
1889, grew into a powerful OrganiZa-
ton of more than $500 statesmen, mem
bers and ex-members of parliament,
banded together solely to foster in
ternationol friendship and the sup
methods Of settlement. The standing
which this union has made for itself
and the governments shows perhaps
more than any other one thing the enor-
NOUS progress which the cause has
made within 20 years.
National peace congresses have
been held for several years in France,
England, Germany, the United States
and other countries. i
Within the latter half of the twenty
year period the two Hague confer
ences were held and brought all the
governments of the world into active
and sympathetic cooperation for the
avoidance of war and the maintenance
of international justice by judicial
methods The Permanent Information
al Court of Arbitration was instituted
in 1S99 put into successful operation
two years later. and became after 1907
the arbitration tribunal of the world. |
The foundations of permanent world |
congress or parliament were laid by
the second Hague conference before
the 20 years expired, and the decision
was reached that a Permanent Inter- |
established as soon as the governments !
can reach an agreement as to the i
method Of selecting the judges In the |
meantime nearly one hundred treaties |
of obligatory arbitration have been
concluded between the governments
two and two.
In no other country is the cause of
peace farther advanced than in the
Scandinavian. Several peace con-
crosses Of Scandinavians have been
held within a few years. Christiania |
has entertained the Interparliamentary
union at one Of it's conferences, and
likewise the International Law asso-
ciation-in both cases most generous
ly and deliberately. The Scandinavian
parliaments have more than once