Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-06
Is Decided in Resolutions
Of Peace Congress,
Dispute Between Nations Should
All Be Abritrdted.
Rivalry by Nations in Armaments
Is to Be DepIored.

Chicago, May 5.-An exchange of
formal greetings between the diplomatic
representatives of various nations and
a business session to consider the prac-
teal results of the gathering of peace
eEvoys constituted the last days work
of the second National Peace Con-
grcss, in session in this city. Joseph B.
Moore, justice of the supreme court of
Michigan, presided over the business
session. minute talks were made
by eight delegates. Alfred N. Love of
Philadelphia, president of the Univer-
sal Peace Union, said in part:
Compulsory peace is an incubator
of war; preparation for war is a men
ace of war; broken treaties of peace are
peace breakers. 1t is lamentable
page in our history, this showing to the
| Wcrld the gigantic destructive dread
naughts, our boosted instruments of
death, causing other countries to iml-
tate this cowardly, selfish and I'M
neighborly nationality that can say on
it's coin In God We Trust and then
in it's intercourse with others repudi-
| ate the psalmist when he says The
Lord is our refuge and our strength
| Mrs. Fannie Fern Andrews of Boston,
secretary of the American School
Peace League, told of the work of that
| organization. She said: 1.-THE American
School Peace League aims to secure
the cooperation of the educational
public of America for promoting inter-
national Justice and equity. The great
| economic and social current of police
in the United States is receiving ever
widening impulse from the Mohonk
| arbitration conference which has Sc
cured the cooperation of more than
100 Boards of Trade and 200 colleges;
the American Peace Society, whose lit
erature reaches every corner of the
country; the Italian American, Ger
man-Amercan and Scandinavian
American Societies, the Intercollegiate
Peace Association and the Cosmopoli-
tan Clubs.
with all these forces the American
School Peace League aims to acquaint
the public of America, in order that
teachers may be influenced to empha-
size the broad humanitarian principles
of the right and justice which trans
cend all national boundaries. The
teaching of history, geography, science
and literature lends itself admirably to
this end"
Other speakers included the Rev. J.
| l.. Tryon of Boston, assistant secre-
tary of the American Peace Society,
who spoke of ''The London Peace Con-
gress of 1905 and the Rev. Gilbert
Bowoa CT Toxic, Japan.
! Congressman Richard Bartholdt of
Missouri presided at the international
| greetings session. The principal
speakers were Count Johann Heinrich
| Yer Bernstorff, the German ambassa-
dor; WI Ting Fang, the Chinese am
bassador, and Secretary of the Interior
Richard A. Ballinger.
| The following resolutions, among
others, reported by the committee on
resolutions were adopted:
Resolved, That public war is now
out of date, a relic of barbarism I'M
| worthy of our time, and that the ma
| tiCns of the world by joint agreement
by a league of peace among ourselves,
ought to make its recurrence hereaf-
ter Impossible.
Resolved, That no dispute between
nations. except such as may involve
the national life and independence,
should be reserved from arbitration
and that a general treaty of obliga-
/ tory arbitration should be included at
the earliest possible date. Pending
such a general treaty we urge upon
our government and the other leading
II powers such broadening, of the scope
of their arbitration treaties as shall
II provide, after the example of the
II Danish Netherlands treaty, for the ref
II erence to The Hague court of ali diff
II ference whatever not settled otherwise
Il by peaceful means.
Resolved That the prevailing riv-
airy in armaments, both on land and
sea, which imposes such eXhausting
II burdens of taxation on the people and
is the fruitful source of suspicion, bit
ter feeling and war alarms, is wholly
unworthy of enlightened modern ma
tons; is a lamentable failure as basis
of enduring peace; and ought to be ar
rested by agreement of the powers
without delay.
Resolved. That this peace con-
gress expresses it's high appreciation
of the action of our government in the
recent conclusion of % arbitration
treaties and in the promotion of friend
ly relations between the various Amer
lean republics. 1t respectfully and
urgently requests the President and
take the initiative, so far as practi-
cable, in an endeaVor to complete the
work of the second Hague conference
and especially to secure an agreement
among the military and naval powers
for a speedy arrest of the ruinous COM
petition in ornaments now prevailing.
AS an immediate step to this end we
urge our government in obedience to
the charge of the second Hague confer
ence as well as the first that all nations
should address themselves to this prob
lem. to create q special commission of
the highest character for it's considera-
ton, whose report shall serve as a basis
for the action of our delegates at the
third Hague conference.
Resolved, That this Congress earn
estly endorses the movement so aus
piciously begun by the governments
of Denmark and Great Britain to pro-
vide at public cost for constructive
measures to promote international
good understanding, hospitality and
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