The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-21
The PEACE
CONGRESS

Lake Mohonk, N. Y, May 21.--Last
nights session Of the Lake Mohonk
Conference on International Arbitra-
ton was given up entirely to business
men. Charles Richardson, OF Philadel-
phia, presented report of special
committee showing that nearly two
hundred leading chambers of com
merce and boards of trade in all the
large cities of the country were co
operating with the Conference in pro-
noting international arbitration. The
committee urged upon business men
that they should seize every Opportun-
ity to create public sentiment in favor
OF this method of settling information
al differences and against the further
increase of armament. Concluding,
Mr.. Richardson said:
"It Is within the power OF business
men to do more than any other class
to create in our own and other great
nations a public sentiment which no
modern government. could afford to ig-
more. 1t should he said, moreover, that
the present is most propitious time
for efforts of this kind. There is a
growing tendency toward that mental
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English Prime Minister, to write to
the representative of Great Britain in
Egypt, that if their military friends
could have their way they would want
to garrison the moon in order to. pre-
vent an invasion from Mars. The enor-
nous recent and prospective increase
in national armaments is probably the
most effective of all possible agencies
for arresting the attention of the plain
people and forcing them to realize
that ruinous outlays and rates of tax
alton that will paralyze the industries
of the world will BE the inevitable re-
suits if they fail to demand and insist
that their governments shall unite in
establishing, and forever maintaining,
better methods than those of war for
securing justice and fairness in the
settlement Of all International differ
ences"
Short speeches were made by sever
al delegates representing business Or
ganizations in different parts of the
country. Among the fifty and more
bodies represented by delegates were
the National Association of Manufact-
urers, the National Board OF Trade,
the National Association OF Clothiers,
the National Business League OF A
merica, the National League Of Com
mission Merchants, the Chambers of
Commerce of Birmingham, Colorado
Springs, Denver, New Haven, Balti-
more, Boston, Albany, nghampton
Rochester, Cincinnati, Erie, Seattle,
Milwaukee, Oshkosh and Syracuse;
the Boards of Trade of a large number
of cities and number OF leagues and
merchants associations. About half
of these organizations were represen-
ted fby their presidents or secretaries.
This mornings session was devoted
to education. eE
DR.. Andrew D. White, long president
of Cornell University, and chairman
of the American delegation to the first
Hague Conference, presented a COM
mittee report showing that within four
years more than ITS american col
leges ana universities had come te Co
operate awBth the laohonk Conference
by providing occasions to bring before
their zstulent bodies the principal
facts OF the International peace move
ment be means of lectures, addresses.
student programmes, debates, oratori