River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-05-06

III new IOrK OF the hrSt Peace society
In the world. There had then been
no arbitrations between nations in our
modern sense of the word nations In
the 100 years since 1909 more
than ESQ important controversies have
been settled by this means, not to
mention an even greater number OF
less important cases, the settlement
of which involved the principle of ar
bitration. Within the past 20 years so
rapid has been the triumph of arbi-
tration that more than 100 interna-
tional differences have been disposed
of by this means, or between five and
six a year for the whole 20 years.
The Hague Conferences.
iii. In order to determine further
the advanced position which the
peace movement has attained on it's
practical side, the two Hague confer
ences and what they have ac-
complished must be taken into ac-
count. 1t is still the habit of some per-
sons to speak disparagingly of these
great gatherings and their results.
Some do it because they are satisfied
with nothing short of immediate per-
lection; others because they wish the
whole movement for the abolition of
war to fail. Othere do it purely from
ignorance.
"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 it 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 25 powers, but Of all
the nations of the world.
"The high water mark of the work
of the second Hague conference was
reached in it's action in regard to flu
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 "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 "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. Burt
of Chicago, on "Fraternal Orders and
Peace" Prof. Graham Taylor Of Chi
cago Commons, on Victims of War
and Industry" Samuel Gompers, presi-
dent of the American Federation of
Labor, on "Organized Labor and
Peace" and John Spargo of Yonkers,
N. Y, on international Socialism as
Peace Factor"
Commercial and Legal Views.
Two big meetings were held Tues.
day morning, one on commerce and in.
dustry, 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
addressed by Bolton Gilreath of Bir-
mingham, Ala, w. A. Mahoney of Col
umbus, O., James Arbuckle, consul of
Spain and Colombia, st. Louis, and
Marcus M. Marks, president of the
National Association of Clothiers, New
York city. The women heard inter
esting speeches by Mrs. Philip N.
Moore, president Of the General Fed
Grafton 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 William
]. Calhoun of Chicago. Prof. William
I. Hull of Swarthmore college dis
cussed the advances registered by the
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