Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-05-06

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great gatherings and their results.
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.
ton, and not less than four contro.
versies have been referred TO Il dur.
ing the past year. The second Hague
conference enlarged and strengthened
tho convention under which this court
was set up. and made the court the
tribunal, not OF 25 powers. but OF all
the nations of the world.
''The high water mark OF the work
OF the second Hague conference was
reached in It's action In regard to fu,
ture meetings OF the conference. The
principle of periodic meetings OF the
conference hereafter was approved
without n dissenting voice. The date
even of the third conference was fixed
and the governments urged to appoint
at least two years in advance an In
ternatlonal commission to prepare the
program of the meeting"
Dean w. p. Rogers of the Cincinnati
Law school brought this session to a
close with an eloquent talk on "rhe
Dawn of Universal Peace
Addresses Monday Evening.
Monday evenings meeting was de-
voted to "The drawing together of the
Nations" and was presided over by
DIR. Hirsch. The addresses were on
Independence Versus Interdepend-
ence OF Nations" by Prof. Paul S.
Reinsch OF the University OF Wiscon-
sin, Racial Progress Towards Univer.
sal Peace" by Rev. III. 4. Healing OF
Nashville, Tenn; and "The Biology Of
War;" by President David Starr Jor.
dan Of Leland Stanford, Jr.. univer.
sity. At the same time another meet
ing was In session In Music hall, with
Miss Jane Adams In the chair The
speakers there were Joseph d. Burt
OF Chicago. on "Fraternal Orders and
Peace" Prof Graham Taylor of Chi.
cago Commons. ON Victims of War
and Industry" Samuel Gompers
president of the American Federation
of Labor, on Organized Labor and
Peace" and John Spargo OF Yonkers.
N. Y, on international Socialism as
n Peace Factor"
Commercial and Legal Views.
Two big meetings were held Tues
day morning, one on commerce and
industry, presided over by George t.
NJ hn iaI
National bank of Chicago. and the
other on Women and Peace" with
Mrs. Ellen M. Henrotin OF Chicago as
chairman. The former session was ad.
dressed by Bolton Gllreath Of Blrming
, ham, Ala, w. A. Mahoney Of Colum
bus, o.. James Arbuckle, consul of
Spain and Colombia. st. Louis. and
Marcus M Marks, president OF the Ma
tional Association OF Clothiers, New
York city. The women heard interest.
ing speeches by Mrs. Philip NJ. Moore,
president of the General Federation
of Women's Clubs; Miss Jane Adams
and Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead of Boston.
Some Legal Aspects of the Peace
Movement was the general topic OF
the Orchestra hall meeting Tuesday
afternoon, and the chairman was Will
lam J. Calhoun of Chicago. Prof. VIII.
lam |. Hull of Swarthmore college, dis
cussed the advances registered by the
two Hague conferences, and James
Brown Scott. solicitor of the state de-
partment, talked about some questions
which the third Hague conference
probably will consider legal Prob
lens Capable of Settlement by Arbi-
tration," was the subject of learned
paper by Prof. Charles Cheney Hyde
of Chicago.
Special Collegiate Session.
In Mandel hall, at the University Of
Chicago, a special session was held
for universities and colleges, fea-
ture of which was an oratorical con.
test participated in by students. Louis
r. Lochner OF Madison, Wis, spoke on
THE Cosmopolitan Clubs"
The general session of Tuesday
evening was perhaps the most inter.
esting of the congress. Next Steps In
Peacemaking" was the topic. The audi
ence was aroused to great enthusiasm
by an eloquent and spirited address by
Congressman Richard Bartholdt OF
Missouri. president of the American
Group, Interparliamentary union. An
other paper that met with deserved
applause was that OF Edwin d. Mead
of Boston on THE Arrest In Compel.
tive Aiming in Fidelity to The
Hague Movement"
The special collegiate session was
continued Tuesday evening In Music
hall, with President Nollen of Lake
Forest university In the chair. Presi-
dent s. =. Brooks OF Baylor university.
Texas, spoke. and stereopticon lee
ture on the Federation Of the World"
was given by Hamilton Holt OF the
Independent
Among the diplomats who came to
Chicago To attend the Peace congress
were: Ambassador Count Johann
Heinrich Won Bernstorff OF Germany;
Herman de Lagercrantz. envoy from
Sweden; WI Ting Fang, envoy from
China: Alfred Mitchell lines. coun.
selor OF the British embassy, and DR..
Halvdan Kont, of the University of
Norway. The Japanese, Turkish and
French embassies also were repre-
scented.
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