Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-05-05
PEACE CONFERENCE
At CHICAGO
Preparations For
War is a Menace
Says Love
SECRETARY bALL|NGERS SPOKE
Exchange of Greetings and
Discussion of Practical
Methods.

Chicago, ILL.,, May 5.--"Compulsory
peace is an incubator Of war; prepara-
tion for war Is menace of peace;
broken peace treaties are peace break
ers,' said Alfred H. Love of Philadel-
phia, president Of the Universal Peace
Union, in the last days session of the
Peace Congress today. Love said it
was lamentable page in the history
that nation builds gigantic destruct-
i've Dreadnaughts, causing other ma
tions to initiate this cowardly action
and at the same time says on its
| coins: "In God We Trust An ex-
change of greetings between the d.
plomatic representatives of the var
ious natoins and business meeting
to discuss the practical results, con-
stituted the days work.
Peace Resolutions.
Chicago, ILL.,, May 5.--The following
| is a summary of the resolutions adopt
ed by the National Peace Congress be-
fore adjournment today: public war
is out of date and barbarism unworthy
| of our time and ought. by an agree
ment of nations, be made in the future
impossible. No dispute between ma
tions. except as may involve national
life and independence, should be re-
| served from arbitration and by gen.
eral treaty, arbitration should be made
obligatory at the earliest time. Pend
| ing such treaty we urge upon our gov
ernment the making of treaties con-
tanning a provision for referring all
disputes to the Hague tribunal. The
prevailing rivalry in ornaments ought
to be arrested by an agreement of the
powers without delay
Chicago, May 5.-Mr Ballinger
spoke in part as follows:
! "Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle-
men.
Il am commissioned by the Presi-
dent of the United States to bear to
you tidings of good will and en-
Icouragement in your praiseworthy
efforts for universal peace.
"The first President of the United
Sttaes wrote this message of peace:
Observe good faith and justice
towards all nations, cultivate peace
land. harmony with all. Religion and
morality enjoin this counsel. It will
be worthy of free, enlightened,
and, at no distant period, great
nation, to give to mankind the mag
unanimous and too often novel exam
pie of people always guided by
exalted justice and benevolence.'
; "This doctrine by it's continual re-
, iteration during the history Of this
republic has acquired almost the
force and sanctity of law.
Let us remember said President
Mckinley, that our interest is in
concord, not conflict; that our true
glory rests in the triumphs of peace,
\ not those of war;
| THE hope for universal peace is
! hardly Utopian; under possible con-
], ditions it is eminently practicable;
hence to learn these possible condi-
!, tions and how to establish them is
the purpose for which our confer
, ence is held, and your efforts so
. earnestly put forth.
4 Again, if your work is to have its
just reward, the ancient ideals and
estimates of men must be changed,
they must not be martial; they must
arise out of the victories Of peace.
Now and then there breaks forth
a great conflagration which the agen.
cies Of men seem powerless to arrest
and which only dies out after con-
suming everything combustible in it's
pathway; SO it seems to have been
with the passions of men, that they
at times become so infiamed that
| they are quenched only by exhaus-
tion through war.
",The peace of the world would
| seem to be dependent (1) upon the
citizenship of the nations being of
! that character which would insure
the creation of just laws and their
enforcement; (2) upon a type Of in
! ternational citizenship which would
| insure the creation Of just information
al laws, and substantial tribunal
| for their enforcement.
/ 1T seems to me that any formula
which neglects these elements must
fall short Of preventing the evils
aimed at The problem may appear
| simple of solution in theory, but it's
practical operation requires the pa.
| tient endurance of ages of training
and civic discipline
What measure of progress have
we made in the last century? Very
great. Wars even have been In a
sense civilized. Many are the re-,