The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-04-10

claims, such a submission was thot
to be Incompatible with national dig
nifty"
Mr.. Dickinson discussed the great ;
work and the outcome of the First
Hagne4C Conference, which he said was
by far he most notable event in the
history of the world, which was attend
ed by all governments having dfplo-
matte representatives in ST. Peters
burg. The Pope, while omitted from
the conference, expressed his sympa-
thy with the movement in a letter to
the Queen Of Netherlands. Twenty
six nations participated, represented
by 100 members. The first Conven-
ton was 'for the peaceful adjust
ment of international differences"
| The s~ignatory power to the conven-
ton agreed to their best efforts to
| insure the pacific settlement of inter-
national differences.
All the powers represented at the
| conference" he said "signed it. They
| govern nine tenths of h world" rep
r~esenting a population of 1,400, 000. 900
| out of the total of 1,60O, 900, 900 of the
| earth's inhabitants.
AS Americans, whose government
| has always been in the advance guard
contending for humanitarian pr1nci-
| PIES" continued the Secretary, 1--WE
take a laudable pride in the fact that
the United States proposed to our Sis
ter Republic of Mexico to submit to
| The Hague Tribunal the Pious Fund
| controversy, the first case brought
under it's authority. That Japan and
| Russia, two of the signatory powers,
| plunged into wal without resorting to
| The Hague Tribunal, gives no ground
| for serious concern as to the future
of arbitration. No n but a dreamer
| ever expected all war to be abolished.
1t was manifest that there was no
place for arbitration between Russia
and Japan"
Speaking of the Hague Conference
of 1907 which was called by the Gar
of Russia upon the initiative of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, the Secretary of Wal
said it was participated in by A SOW
ereigns, and was the first general con-
ference of practically all the powers
of the world. At this conference thir-
teen conventions, four declarations
and three wishes were adopted. Mr..
Dickinson discussed h recent con-
v%entions, one of which was that sign
ed in February, 1909, at London by de-
legates of ten of the principal mari
time powers of the world which was
for the regulating of warfare at sea.
A distant triumph for the cause of in
ternational arbitration, continued the
War Secretary, was gained hen
France and Germany agreed to sub
init to The Hague the questions aris-
ing out of the Cas Blanca affair. The
questions involved were more or less
of is termed national honor"
A special agreement was signed by
the United States and Great Britain
on January 81, 1909, submitting to ar
bitration to The Hague the c%ontrover-
sy as to the North Atlantic Coast Cor
~Northeastern) Fisheries.
There a be no disarmament un-
til the greater powers agree upon a
system of concurrent action" said
Secretary Dickinson, in concluding,
1.-THE tide of public sentiment all over
the world is setting strongly in this
direction. Looking to her progress in
peace measures of the last hundred
and especially the last twenty years,
the hope may well be entertained that
diSarm ann will become a reality,
and that the people may enjoy not o n
ly the blessings of peace, but the
blessings of peace without h crush
ing burden of preparedness for war.