Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-17


i ably Increased In almost every coun-
try since the last-nanled year, the con
ference declares that it is highly desir-
/ able that the various governments
again take UP this question for earnest
/ consideration
4 Now, II all mankind Is tired of the
burdens OF miltarisnl, something more
cffectfve ought to be done, something
more than earnest consideration, III or
i der to tighten these burdens and event
ually remove them. But as the govern
ments refuse to consider this feasible,
we must infer that. among other diff
ficulties, they lack a moral foundation
on which to build. Every adult man.
and woman shuold be called upon to
sign the following declaration, adj
dressed to the next Hague conference:
i, the undersigned, desire international
! peace. I desire that the national arna-
ments be abolished and that they be re-
placed by an international constabu
larry, to which every nation contribute
in proportion to It's population. / de-
sire that this police force be placed
under the order of a supreme interna-
tional tribunal, to which all nations be
bound to refer all international dis
/ putes.
en- for the adoption of the Arnodson
plan by the Universal Peace congress,
| which Is to meet in, Stockholm next
August, 1t would be Il fitting counter
part to the arbitration petition now be-
| ing circulated in the United States and
elsewhere by Miss Anna Eckstein i'll
/ Boston. q. petition already signed by
more than 100000 people.
j In a circular entitled "a Letter to the
| Signers," Miss Eckstein explains the
\ need and object of her petition COPIES
| OF the same have been placed in the
| hands OF the audience and will be fur
/ Their distirbuted) The text of the petit
! ton. Just published by our local papers.
| with space for signatures, Is as follows:
To the Governments Represented at
the Third Hague Conference: We, the
| undersigned. citizens of the different
4 nations, believing that adjustment of
| all international interests by conven-
| tons and treaties will remove the
causes OF war thereby minimizing the
necessity of ornaments and effect their
| gradual reduction: voicng our graft
| tude for the official steps already taken
toward this end. and desiring to sup
| port further concerted action, respact-
| fully petition that at the third Hague
| conference a convention be agreed up
ON by virtue of which each nation shall
| declare Itself in honor bound:
| "First-Io adjust in speedy success.
| sion all it's international interests by
| conventions and treaties. each contains
ing a clause plSdsing avoidance of war
in the settlement of future difficulties
relating to the given arrangement.
"Second--While this adjustment of
| the International interests is In process
| of completion, to avoid WAL also in the
! settlement of any difficulty that may
arise from an international Interest not
vet covered by q preventive convention
| or treaty, with the understanding that
| q. decision Of any difficulty by pacific
| means shall in no case endanger the
self-preservation and development of
! any nation.'
IN order to bring the matter before
| the Utah State Peace society, the sug-i
gestlon has been made Of presenting
for its consideration and eventual adop-{
ton the resolution which Miss Eek
stein submitted some 10 days ago to
the Second National Peace congress- in
| Chicago.
1t would read as follows:
Resolved, by the Utah State Peace
society. at the annual meeting, held
May 16, 1909, that the sisnatory powerH
of The Hague conventions be respect
fully requested to place on the program
of the third Hague conference the sub
iects OF the world-patition to said
conference which are as follows:
.'First-The establishment Of a uni
versal law by which a decision, by
pacific means. of any International diff
iiculty shall in no case endans,er the
self-preservation and Developments. e.,
the vital interests and honor OF any
nation. SF IN y
"Second-Removal of the causes of
( war by regulating in speedy succession
all International interests by conven-
tions and treaties. each with clause
insuring pacific settlement of any diff
ficultS that may arise from said ar
engagements.
Third Settlement by pacific means
of all difficulties not vet covered by
convention or treaty with pacific
clause.
Resolved, That the president or he
{ Utah State Peace society appoint II
committee whose duty shall be to for
ward this resolution to the signatory
powers OF The Hague conventions,
either direct or through mediation CT
the permanent Hague tribunal
Tho adoption of this resolution
would strengthen the petition in our
state. The fact that oul. highest or
ficials arc interested in the noble cause
for which this society stands will give
1t prestige aud tend to arouse more
enthusiasm. And this is needed, for
Indifference is often Il greater hind 4
rance of the good than open opposition.
To, be sure, there are few real oppo-
nents of international peace. One may
be Il personal friend and aeniirer OF
n professional tighter who can see no
other glory than that of war and no
other solution for the present condition
s Of international distrust than increased
tdlstrust and more guns to emphasize
1T, and who, in his zeal. denies the adj
vocates of peace the honor of being
real patriots. But we must count with
such headstrong opponents. For the
glamour of war and the fascination of
war talk is a heritage which clings
to many and appeals to the imagination
of the young. The soundest argu-
n,ents. a thousand times repeated,
avail little against this time-honored
nightmare of the nations.
Its victims keep on asserting that
we must be prepared for war as the,
only means of securing peace. The
proposition. they say, is precisely the
same as II a city would dispose OF
It's police force. a county of It's
sheriff and a state of its militia. But
they are either unwilling to admit or
incapable of seeing that neither does
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