Mexico Missouri message., 1909-05-06
ENEMIES OF WAR
HOLD A CONGRESS
SECOND NATIONAL PEACE CON.
FERENCE IN CHICAGO.
EMINENT MEN ARE PRESENT
Craftsmen, Diplomats and Political
Economists Assemble and Discuss
the Final elimination Of
Armed Conflicts.


Chicago.-The sessions OF the sec
ond National Peace Congress. which
opened in Orchestra hall Monday aft
ernoon, attracted 10 Chicago many
thousand earnest enemies of war.
among them being many distinguished
statesmen. diplomats and political
economists. President Taft is the
honorary president Of the congress,
and Secretary OF War Jacob NJ. Dick
inson IL It's active president. but Meth.
er OF these gentlemen was able to
be present. owing 20 their Official du-
ties. However. there was no lack OF
eminent men to preside over the SEES
sionH.
As n preliminary to the congress.
special peace services were held In
many Chicago churches Sunday morn.
ing. peace meetings arranged by labor
and socialist organizations we're held
in the afternoon, and in the evening
there was a big mass meeting. at
which addresses were delivered by
Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones and Rev.
Emil G. Hirsch, both of Chicago, and
President Jacob Gould Schurman OF
Cornell university.
Welcome 20 the Congress.
Orchestra hall was filled TO the
limit Monday when the first session
was called TO order by Robert Treat
Paine OF Boston. the presiding officer.
for governors. mayors and hundreds Of
clubs had been asked to appoint dele
gates, and most Of them had re.
sponded. President Decisions ad.
dress, the same he delivered several
weeks ago before the Hamilton club.
was read. and the congress was then
fNrmally welcomed by Gov. Charles s.
heneen for the state. Mayor Fred A.
Busse for the city and Rev. A. Eugene
Bartlett. chairman Of the reception
committee. The secretary then read
a brief letter from President Taft, in
whish the chief executive heartily
commended the aims of the congress.
Mics Anna b. Eckstein OF Boston
next was introduced to the meeting
and s-oad World Petition to the
Third Hague Conference" This was
followed by an address by DR.. Benia.
min r. Trueblood. secretary of the
American Peace society. on THE
Present Position Of the Peace Move.
ment"
what Has Been Accomplished.
DR.. Trueblood said IN part;
Let me sketch In the Fhrest out.
lines what has already been accom-.
plished. The Interpretation will take
care of itself
81. 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 pre-
side ut the settlement OF their diff.
ferences, are now thoroughly organ.
ICED. A hundred years ago there was
not q society in existence organized
10 promote appeal to the forum OF
reason and right In the adjustment OF
international controversies. To-day
there are more than 500, nearly
every important nation having
its group OF peace organizations. Their
constituents are numbered by tens of
thousands. from every rank and class
In society-philanthro men OF
trade and commerce, educators and
jurists. workingmen, statesmen. rulers
even.
Triumph Of Arbitration.
III. The position which the peace
movement has reached is no less dis.
tlnctly determined by the practical at,
tainments of arbitration. We are this
year celebrating what is really the
one hundredth anniversary OF the birth
of our movement. for II was in 1909
that David l.. Dodge. a Christian mer.
chant Of New York city. wrote the
pamphlet which brought the move.
ment into being. and led six years
later to the organisation In his parlor
in New York OF the first Peace society
m the world. There had then been
no arbitrations between nations in our
modern sense of the word 'nationa In
the 100 years since 1909 more
than $50 important controversies have
been settled by this means, not 10
mention an even greater number OF
less important cases. the settlement
of which involved the principle of ar.
bltration. Within the past 20 years &c
rapid has been the triumph of arbi
tration that more than 100 interna
tional differences have been disposed
of by this means. or between Ave aud
six a year for the whole 20 years
Arbitration is no longer an expert
ment. Il is the settled practice of the
nations. A score CT disputes to-day &c
naturally 70 arbitration whore one
gives rise even to talk Of war.
The Hague Conferences.
iii. In order 70 determines furthel
the advanced position which The
peace movement has attained on ID
practical aide. the two Hague confer
ences and what they have 40
complished must DO taken into 40
count II Is stili the habit OF some per
sons 70 speak disparagingly Of thea,