Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-05-07

in New York of the first Peace society |
in the world. There had then been |
no urbitrations between nations in our
modern sense of the word nations In |
the 100 years since 1909 more |
than $50 important controversies have
been settled by this means, not to
mention an even greater number OF
less important cases, the settlement
of which involved the principle Of ar
bitration.. Within the past 20 years so
rapid has been the triumph of arbi-
tration that more than 100 interna-
tional differences have been disposed
of by this means, or between five and
six year for the whole 20 years.
The Hague Court.
"The first Hague conference, ten
years age, gave us the Permanent In.
ternational court of arbitration, which
has now been in successful operation
for about eight years and disposed of
several important controversies. This
court was strengthened and improved
by the second Hague conference two
years ago, and. by the admission Of the
South and Central American states to
it, has become the arbitration court,
not of the &c powers that gathered at
The Hague in 1899, but of the entire
world. This tribunal is now taking
practically all the international differ.
ences not adjustable by diplomacy.
"Within less than six years, more
than 80 treaties of obligatory arbi-
tration, stipulating reference to The
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judicial order and those arising in the
Interpretation of treaties, have been
concluded between nations in pairs,
23 of which were negotiated the past
year by our distinguished ex-Secretary
| of State Root, and ratified by both
the president and the senate.
The Hague Conferences.
"III. In order to determine further
the advanced position which the
| peace movement has attained on it's
practical side, the two Hague confer
ences and what they have ac-
complished must be taken into ac-
count. 1t is still the habit of some per-
sons to speak disparaglngly of these
great gatherings and their results.
Some do it because they are satisfied
with nothing short of immediate per-
fection; others because they wish the
whole movement for the abolition of
war to fail. othere do it purely from
ignorance.
"The first Hague conference gave us
the permanent international court OF
arbitration, to which "a powers finally
became parties by ratification of the
convention. This court has now for
eight years been in successful opera.
tion, and not less than four contro
versies have been referred to it dur
ing the past year. The second Hague
conference enlarged and strengthened
the convention under which this court
was set up, and made the court the
tribunal, not of 25 powers, but of al
the nations of the world.
"The high water mark of the worl
of the second Hague conference wa:
reached in its action in regard to flu
ture meetings of the conference. The
principle of periodic meetings of the
conference hereafter was approved
without dissenting voice. The dat,
even of the third conference was fixet
and the governments urged to appoin
at least two years in advance an In
ternational commission to prepare tn,
program of the meeting"
Dean w. P. Rogers of the Cincinnati
Law school brought this session to
close with an eloquent talk on 9TH
Dawn of Universal Peace"
Addresses Monday Evening.
Monday evenings meeting was de
voted to "The Drawing Together @
the Nations" and was presided owe
by DR.. Hirsch. The addresses wer
; on Independence Versus Interdepenc
ence of Nations" by Prof Paul s
Reinsch Of the University of WiscoI
sin; "Racial Progress Towards Unive
1 sal Peace" by Rev. H. T. Healing c
i Nashville, Tenn; and "The Biology {
> War;" by President David Starr Jo
dan of Leland Stanford, Jr., Unive
s sity. Al the same time another NEE
J, ing was In session in Music hall, wit
s Miss Jane Adams in the chair. Th
: speakers there were Joseph B. Bur
8 of Chicago, on "Fraternal Orders an
l. Peace" Prof. Graham Taylor of Oh
Il cago Commons. on Victims of Wa
9 and Industry" Samuel Gompers, pres
s dent of the American Federation
l. Labor, on Organized Labor ar
= Peace" and John Spargo OF Yonker
It N. Y, on international Socialism
n Peace Factor"
= Commercial and Legal Views.
: Two big meetings were held Tue
% day morning, one on commerce and 1
T. dustry. presided over by George
=. Roberts. president of the Commerci
g National bank of Chicago. and Il
~ other on Women and Peace" wi
W Mrs. Ellen M. Henrotin of Chicago
!, chairman. The former session w
addressed by Bolton Gilreath of b
mingham, Ala. w. A. Mahoney of c,
umbus. o.. James Arbuckle, consul
,e Spain and Colombia, st. Louis. al
s. Marcus M. Marks, president of t
It. National Association of Clothiers, NJ
is York city. The women heard int,