The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-05-05
PEACE CONGRESS
CONCLUDES ITS
SESSIONS TODAY
More Than Thousand Will At.
tend Banquet in Chicago
Tonight.
Addresses Delivered by Dip.
lomats Today.
WI TING FANG ONE OF THEM.

Chicago, May 5.-The closing ses-
sions of the national peace confer
ence were held today. Justice Joseph
8. Moore, Of the Michigan supreme
court, presided. The principal address
was by the Rev. ]. l.. Tyron, of Bos-
ton.
The report of the resolution COM
mittee this morning caused a stormy
session. The resolution recognizing
the Socialstic movement was rejected
and resolutions declaring public war
is now out of date and a relic of bar
barism and unworthy of the times
were adopted.
The big banquet will be attended
by over 1000 delegates and public
men tonight.
Present Position.
DR.. Benz. f. Trueblood, secretary
of the American Peace society, said:
LET me sketch In the barest out
lines what has already been accomp-
lished. The Interpretation will take
care of itself.
I. The men and women, now a
great host. who believe that the day
is past when blind brute force should
direct the policies of nations and
preside at the settlement of their DIFF
ferences. are now thoroughly organ
lied. A hundred years ago there was
not society in existence organized
to promote appeal to the forum of
reason and right in the adjustment of
international controversies. Today
there are more than five hundred,
nearly every important nation having
its group OF peace organizations.
Their constituents are numbered by
tens OF thousands from every rank
and class In Observation-Disclosures,
men OF trade and commerce. educa-
tors and jurists, workingmen. states
men, rulers even. The organized
peace party has its international peace
bureau at Berne, Switzerland. bind
ing all its sections into one world
body. It has its international peace
congress. which has held seventeen
meetings In twenty years-congresses
over which statesmen now feel II an
honor to preside and which are well
coined by kings and presidents with
warmth of interest and generous
ness OF hospitality scarcely accorded
to any other organization. II has its
great national congresses in many
countries, like this present one, and
that In Carnegie hall, New York, two
years ago; and It's special conferences
like that at Hohonk Lake.
''1T. The position which the peace
movement has reached is no less dis
tinctly determined by the practical
attachments Of arbitration. We are
this year celebrating what is really
the Tooth anniversary OF the birth Of
our movement, for it was in 1909
that David l.. Dodge. Christian mer-
chant of New York City, wrote the
pamphlet which brought the move
ment into being, and led six years
later to the Organization in his parlor
in New York OF the first Peace so
ciety In the world. The first Hague
conference, ten years ago, gave us the
permanent international court OF ar
bitration, which has now been In sue
cessful operation for about eight
years and disposed of several import
ant controversies. This court was
strengthened and improved by the
second Hague conference two years
ago, and by the admission OF the
South and Central American states
to II, has become the arbitration
court, not of the twenty-six powers
that gathered at The Hague in 1903,
but Of the entire world.
within less than six years. more