The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-05-05

dress by Congressman Richard Bar.
tholdt of Missouri, president Of the
American Group, Interparliamentary
union. Another paper that met with
deserved applause was that of Edwin
D. Mead of Boston on 1.-THE Arrest in
Competitive Aiming in Fidelity to The
Hague Movement"
Competitive Aiming.
In discussing this question, Mr..
Mead said:
Let us consider simply Great Brit
ain, Germany and the United States.
1t is unnecessary to go further, be-
cause these three nations control the
situation, and they are the chief sin
ners. II these three nations began to-
day to act, with reference to arma-
ments, in accordance with the spirit
and purpose of The Hague convention,
the peace and order of the world
would be assured tomorrow.
I'm 1898 Great Britain spent on her
navy $124,000,000; Germany spent
| $29,000,0O0; and the United States
| spent $50,00O.000 Last year Great
Britain spent $17o,ooo,00o; Germany,
| $50, 900 900; and the United States,
| $104, 10000 The increase in precise
| ly ten years when there should have
been decrease was enormous. Our
own army expenses last year were as
great as our navy expenses. Our navy
expenses this year will be $4,000, 900
greater than last year. We are to-
| w.t. If rc
and preparations for possible wars IS
per cent, practically tw0-thirds, of
our total national revenue, leaving
barely one-third available for all con-
structive purposes. What would Wash
ington and Jefferson and Franklin say
to this? We know what they did say
about things of this sort. They would
say to-day that the republic was stand
ing on it's head.
Hope for the Future.
This is what has come about in
ten years III these three nations be-
cause The Hague conference in 1899
Gid nothing about the reduction or ar
rest of ornaments. AS we now look
back, we see that it could not do much
directly at that time. The war sys.
tenn of nations could be supplanted
only by the gradual development of a
system Of international law and JUS
tice to take it's place. When the first
Hague conference created the inter
national tribunal, 1t did indirectly the
most probably which it could do in be
half of the reduction of ornaments
because it took long step in furnish
ing the nations with such legal ma
chinery for the settlement of their diff
ferences as makes recourse to wal
machinery more and more unneces
sary and ineXcusable. 1t has been II
the line of this thought that the in
ternational lawyers have had thei1
hopeful assurance Develop the lega
machinery, they said, and the arma
ments will perforce crumble of thei
own dead weight.
1.-THE continued and rapid develop
ment during the decade of provision
tional disputes has been something un
paralleled in history. The leaders o
the movement for international justic
are sometimes reprOached with beini
dreamers The only trouble with then
in the past ten years has been that, s.
} far as the development of the instru
| ments of international justice are cor
) cerned, they have not been able t
) dream daringly enough or fast enoug
to keep up with the facts"
: Among the diplomats who came
Chicago to attend the Peace congress
| We're: Ambassador Count Johan
3 Heinrich Won Bernstorff of Germany
v Herman de Lagercrantz, envoy frol
= Sweden; WI Ting Fang, envoy frol
/. China; Alfred Mitchell Innes, cou1
|. selor of the British embassy, and ID
Q Halvdan Kont of the University {
Norway. The Japanese, Turkish an
French embassies also we've repr
q scented.