Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-05-05

peace movement has attained on its
practical side, the two Hague confer
ences and what they have &C
complfshed must be taken into ac-.
count It is still the habit of some per-
sons to speak disparagingly Of these
great gatherings and their results.
'"The first Hague conference gave us
the permanent international court OF
arbitration, to which "a powers finally
became parties by ratification of the
convention. This court has now for
eight years been in successful opera
ton, and not less than four contro-
versies have been referred to 1t dur.
Ing the past year. The second Hague
conference enlarged and strengthened
the convention under which this court
was set up, and made the court the
tribunal, not of rs powers, but of all
the nations of the world.
1.-THE high water mark Of the work
Of the second Hague conference was
reached in its action in regard to fu.
ture meetings of the conference. The
principle Of periodic meetings of the
conference hereafter was approved
without dissenting voice. The date
even of the third conference was fixed
and the governments urged to appoint
at least two years in advance an in
ternational commission to prepare the
program of the meeting"
Dean w. p. Rogers of the Cincinnati
Law school brought this session to a
close with an eloquent talk on 1.-THE
Dawn of Universal Peace"
Addresses Monday Evening.
Monday evenings meeting was de-.
voted to "The drawing together of the
Nations" and was presided over by
DR.. Hirsch. The addresses were on
independence Versus Interdepend.
ence of Nations" by Prof. Paul S.
Reinsch of the University of Wiscon.
sin; Racial Progress Towards Univer.
sal Peace" by Rev. H. T.. Healing OF
Nashville, Tenn; and 1.-THE Biology OF
War;" by President David Starr Jor.
dan of Leland Stanford, Jr., univer.
sity. At the same time another meet.
ing was in session in Music hall, with
Miss Jane Adams in the chair. The
speakers there were Joseph B. Burtt
of Chicago, on "Fraternal Orders and
Peace" Prof. Graham Taylor CT Chi
cago Commons, on Victims of War
and Industry" Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
of Labor, on "Organized Labor and
Peace" and John Spargo of Yonkers.
N. Y, on international Socialism as
a Peace Factor"
Commercial and Legal Views.
Two big meetings were held Tues.
day morning, one on commerce and
industry, presided over by George E..
Roberts, president of the Commercial
National bank of Chicago, and the
other on women and Peace" with
Mrs. Ellen M. Henrotin of Chicago as
chairman. The former session was ad.
dressed by Bolton Gilreath of Birming.
ham, Ala, w. A. Mahoney OF Colum.
bus, O., James Arbuckle, consul of
Spain and Colombia, St. Louis, and
Marcus M. Marks, president of the Ma.
tional Association of Clothiers, New
York city. The women heard interest.
ing speeches by Mrs. Philip N. Moore,
president of the General Federation
of Women's Clubs; Miss Jane Adams
and Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead of Boston
Some Legal Aspects of the Peace
Movement" was the general topic OF
the Orchestra hall meeting Tuesday
afternoon, and the chairman was Will.
lam J. Calhoun of Chicago. Prof. Will.
lam l. Hull of Swarthmore college, dis
cussed the advances registered by tho
two Hague conferences, and James
Brown Scott, solicitor of the state de.
partment, talked about some questions
which the third Hague conference
probably will consider. Legal Prob.
lens Capable of Settlement by Arbi.
tration,' was the subject of learned
paper by Prof. Charles Cheney Hyde
of Chicago.
Special Collegiate Session.
In Mandel hall, at the University of
Chicago, a special session was held
for universities and colleges, fea.
ture of which was an oratorical con.
test participated in by students. Louis
P. Lochner of Madison, Wis, spoke on
"The Cosmopolitan Clubs"
The general session of Tuesday
evening was perhaps the most inter.
esting of the congress. Next Steps in
Peacemaking" was the topic. The audi.
ence was aroused to great enthusiasm
by an eloquent and spirited address by
Congressman Richard BartholGt of
Missouri, president of the American
Group, 1nterparliamentary union. An
other paper that met with deserved
applause was that of Edwin D. Mead
of Boston on 1.-THE Arrest in Compel.
tive Aiming in Fidelity to The
Hague Movement.
The special collegiate session was
continued Tuesday evening in Music
hall, with President Nollen of Lake
Forest university in the chair. Presi.
dent S. p. Brooks of Baylor university,
Texas, spoke, and stereopticon lee
ture on the "Federation of the World"
was given by Hamilton Holt of the
Independent.
Among the diplomats who came to
Chicago to attend the Peace congress
were: Ambassador Count Johann
Heinrich Won Bernstorf of Germany;
Herman de Lagercrantz, envoy from
Sweden; WI Ting Fang, envoy from
China; Alfred Mitchell lines, coun.