The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1909-04-22
Second National Peace conference

Second National Peace Conference.
The second National Peace Con
ference will be held in Chicago
Monday-Wednesday, May s-5. 1909
The first National Peace Confer
ence was held in New York In 1s07
Just on the eve of the assembling o
the Second Hague Conference, AMI
contributed largely to the success o
that important assembly at which
forty-four nations were represented
u The coming Congress will be sim
liar to the New York Congress. II.
great object will be the strengthen
ing of public sentiment for interna.
tional arbitration and the considera.
ton OF the next steps to be taken to.
ward the realization of universal
peace. Speakers of worldwide rep.
utation have been invited, including
government officials in our own land
az we'll as prominent officials OF
Great Britain. Germany. France, ia
pan, China. South America and other
countries. Special legal, education
al. religious. Industrial and com.
mercial sessions have been arranged,
and it is expect that. as in New
York. the attendance will mount up
into the thousands.
A Universal Peace Congress was
held in Chicago in connection with
the Columbian Exposition in 1898.
While the peace gathering was some
what overshadowed by the great ex-
position. nevertheless. the addresses
and papers presented were distinct
contribution to the literature of the
peace movement. In six short years
after the Chicago Peace Congress.
its recommendation as to a Congress
and High Court OF Nations began to
be worked out into actualities by
the first Hague Conference in 1899.
1t is believed that a National Peace
Congress in Chicago. the metropolis
of the West. will contribute not a
little to the progress of the world.
The principles of arbitration have
trinmphed. Within century more
than 26O important controversies
between nations have been settled
by this pacific means. At the sec
ond Hague Conference. two years
ago. 80 powers, representing 1885,
100000 inhabitants, voted for gem
eral obligatory arbitration; 4 pow
ers, representing 55.562,O0O inhab-
itants. voted against it. Thus has
the civilized world by the vote. Of
the official representatives Of nearly
nine-tenths of its population declar-
ed itself in favor of obligatory ar
bitration as substitute for war.
After the magnificent efforts for sub
stitution OF an official International
Court for international trial by bat
tie, We may rejoice that arbitration
has commended itself to the world
as reasonable and practicable. More
than eighty treaties of obligatory ar
bitration have :heen concluded be-
tween the nations in pairs within
the last five years, our own country
being a party to twenty-four of
them.
The question row comes, What
Next?" Two years before the as
semlling OF The Hague Conference
in 1913. a statement will be drawn
mn by the several governments CON
corning the questions which will
come up for discussion at the third
session of what has become to be
virtually periodic Congress of Ma
tons. One Of the objects OF the
Chicago Peace Congress will be to
consider what subjects should be
taken up by the third Hague Confer.
ence. A generous portion of the
w Ut NGN0lNut W CUUSluGEs
ing next steps. History is making
SO rapidly towards international co.
operation that it Is difficult to keen
ahead of prose facts. IS
4 A new era is opening. Business
men, educators and labor leaders
alike feel that~we are not spending
our natianal revenues to the best ad
vantage. 1t is altogether possible
that coming historians may date
new chapter in the worlds ANIMAL.
from the present quarter century
Coming at this strategic moment
supported by the new economic ant
J moral sentiment of today. tn,
: Chicago Peace Congress will un
> douhtedly go down into history a
: epoch-marking, If not, indeed, epoch
t making.
Mothers Day.