Evening star., 1909-05-04
BUSINESS TO END WAR
Commercial interests Factor
for World Peace.
VIEWS OF MRS. L. A. MEAD
Predicts international Police to Su-
persede Armies and Navies.
THIS CENTURY TO SEE CHANGE
Idealists United With Practical Men
in Common Cause, Says n. n.
Marks-Prof Hull's Address.
THIS CENTURY TO SEE CHANGE

| CHICAGO. May 4.-Discussion OF the
commercial and industrial aspects of uni
| versal and permanent peace was the
| feature of today's session Of the second
| national peace congress in this city.
| Special sessions were set apart for con-
| sideration of womans work in the in
| terests of peace. and for the part which
universities and colleges have played in
the great problem.
| The woman's session was held under
| the auspices of the Chicago Women's
Club. Mrs. Ellen NJ. Henrotin Of this
| city presided. Mrs Lucia Ames Mead Of
Boston spoke on Five Dangerous Fal-
| lacies.''
Views Of Mrs. L. A. Mead.
| She said. in part:
| The world surely will Sc, during this
century an International police. but rival
navies and armie sare doomed These
monstrous anachronisms of civilization
must be turned into beneficent messengers
/ Of commerce.
Human nature is changing but whether
| it changes not the business of the
/ world will not much longer tolerate two
| nations making cockpit Of the peo-
| pies highways and dragging neutral ma
| tions into commercial loss"
"A comparatively few influential per-
/ sons in few influential countries can
and will end International war; 1t is
| chiefly question of craftsmanship"
Business to Compel Peace.
Marcus NJ. Marks, who was on the
| program for an address giving the at
titude of business men toward the peace
movement. was unable to be present.
His paper was read by Charles E. Beals
Of Boston.
| Mr.. Marks wrote:
'The merchants Of the world have done
much Indirectly to bring about the i'm
proved relations between the various
nations. Let them now help finance the
peace movements and add unselfish,
practical cooperation in a great cause.
| THE terrible power of destruction
| now possible through modern war agen-
cies and the still undeveloped air war
| ships force upon all men the absurdity
of settling international difficulties by
l mutual annfhilatfOn.
1.-THE idealists may at least be Joined
by hardheaded men OF affairs. whose
daily cry Is for results. Business men
all want peace"
International Students to Fraternize,
| Louis p. Lochner Of Madison, Wis.
was the principal speaker at the college
/ session.
He said in part:
1.-THE complexion Of the American stu
dent body is assuming an entirely new
| character. At the University of Wiscon-
| sin the number OF foreign students has
risen from seven in 1883 to ninety-six
| in 1909. 1 believe that we shall find a
] partial solution OF this problem in the
work Of the association Of cosmopolitan
clubs.
This association is composed of inter-
national students organizations at nine
Il
ated with the Corda Fratres of Europe.
We have national nights when students
from different nations describe the his
| tory and institutions of their fatherlands
The day Is not far distant when we
shall have branch societies in every civ
iiized country in the world. when stu
dent can travel to what large university
| he will and yet be sure of meeting SYM
pathetic friends and of finding men filled
with similar high ideals Of the brother
hood of man."
Other speakers were Prof. William, !.
Hull Of Swarthmore College Pennsyl-
vania, and James Brown Scott, solicitor
D. c. ' '''e' Washing ''''
Advance Of Arbitration.
THE Advance Registered by the Two
Hague Conferences was the subject Of the
address Of Prof Hull. The speaker said
that The Hague conferences are to In
ternational law what the industrial revo-
luton Of the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries was to human industry. or
what the rise Of the American republic
was to human government.
| The civilized world" said he, "in COM
mon with our own country. has made use
Of many instrumentalities In It's great as
cent toward International peace and JUS
tice, but the greatest Of them all. be-
lieve to have been the two conferences at
The Hague. for these conferences, like
the great heroes or institutions Of history,
embodied in themselves nearly all the in
strumentalities which have been achieving
for the world its renowned victories Of
/ peace
Prof. Hull gave a summary Of the work
OF The Hague conferences and continued:
The institution established by the con-
ferences at The Hague. which stands out
pre-emnent In the mind Of the nations, Is
the permanent court OF arbitration. This
pre-eminence is deserved, for, although
this institution is not truly permanent,
nor is 1t genuine court, yet it is the
pioneer Of it's race, and has already proved
itself Of incalculable utility, having set
tied four important International differ
ences and attracted six others into the
path toward peaceful solution. A national
observance OF international law and obe-
dience to International justice cannot fail
greatly to strengthen individual observ-
ance of and obedience to national law and
justice. The advance registered. then, by
the permanent court Of arbitration and
the admirable code OF procedure adopted
for 1t Is OF profound significance upon
| both the national and the international
scale.
"International Promised Land"
''The court Of arbitrai justice, although
not set In operation by the second con-
| ference. constitutes the international
promised land Of the world today Not
only will the idea OF such court hence
forth stand behind the wrong Of warfare,
but it will inevitably rule the future.
Two great Americans, Elihu Root and
Joseph II. Choate. were the Moses and
Aaron who led the second conference into
the path toward this promised land; the
conference as the result Of infinite toll
has led the world across the desert to
the Jordan. and now 1t is the growing
hope of the civilized world that Philan-
der Chase Knox will be the Joshua who
will take II across that one last river