Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-05-07
WHRSHIPS ARE
MENACE CT WAR
so DECLARES PEACE DELEGATE
WHO CALLS THIS NATIONAL
ITY COWARDLY.
DREADNAUGHTS CONDEMNED,
American and Other Nations Repudiates
Psalmist Who Says "The Lord Is
Our Refuge and Our Strength"
CHICAGO CONFERENCE AT AN END.

CHICAGO, H., May 5.-An exchange
Of formal greetings between the diplo-
matte representatives of various nations
and a business session to consider the
practical results of the gathering of
peace ENJOYS constituted the last days
work of the second national peace con-
gress in session in this city. Joseph B.
Moore, justice of the supreme court of
Michigan, presided over the business SEES
sion. Ten minute talks were made by
eight delegates. Alfred II. Love of
Philadelphia, president of the Universal
Peace union, said in part:
Compulsory peace is an incubator of
war; preparation for war is menace
of war; broken treaties of peace are
peace breakers. 1t is a lamentable page
III our history, this showing to the world
the gigantic destructive Dreadnaughts.
our boosted instruments of death, caus-
ing other countries to initiate this cow
ardly, selfish and unneighborly national
ity that can say in its coin In God We
Trust and then in its intercourse with
others repudiate the Psalmist when he
says The Lord is our refuge and our
strength.
Boston Woman Speaks.
Mrs. Fannie Fern Andrews of Boston,
secretary of the American School Peace
league, told of the work of that organi-
cation. She said:
THE American School Peace league
aims to secure the cooperation of the
educational public of America for pro-
noting international justice and equity.
The great economic and social current of
peace 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 literature
reaches every corner of the country; the
Italian-American, German-American and
Scandinavian-America societies, Or
ganized to promote educational and So
cial international relations, the intercol-
legiate peace association, with branches
in fOrty-seven colleges and the cosmo-
pOHtan clubs.
State Peace Congresses.
Henry c. Niles of York, Pa, told of
his states experience in state peace con-
crosses. Other speakers were Rev. j.
l.. Tryon of Boston, assistant secre-
tary of the American Peace society, who
spoke of The London Peace Congress
of 1908" and Rev. Gilbert Bowles of
Toxic, Japan.
Chinese Ambassador Talks
Congressman Richard Barthodt of
Missouri presided at the international
greetings" session. The principal speak
ers We're Count Johann Heinrich Won
Bernstorff. the German ambassador,
WI Ting Fang, the Chinese ambassa-
DOR and Secretary of the Interior Rich
ard A. Ballinger.
Resolutions Are Adopted
Resolutions declaring that war is only
n relic of barbarism and urging nations
10 submit their differences to The Hague
tribunal, supporting the proposition of
the British government for limitation of
ornaments and declaring that rivalry in
ornaments imposes exhausting burdens
of taxation on the people were adopted
by the conference.