Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-17
hEsERET EVENING NEWS MONDAY MAY II 1909

peace. But petty greed and selfishness,
actuatc nations as we'll as individuals.
and the fultillment OF the time-old ideal
of Messiah-the era of peace and good
VIII, can only come into fruition as the
accompaniment of the newer movement
of ,hurnanitarianism, Under it's banner
all may and should enlist. The move
merlt happily is broader than tho
Wanted claim of sectarian pleaders, for
1t is all Inclusive. 1t came in its proper
time in response to the demand of both
the human and the humane. And
should you ask why all of us arc ob]t-
gated to bring to peace the victories no
less renowned and desired than those
of war, II is because We all rest under
the impcrious and insistcnt charge OF
noblesse oblige Superiority of civiiza-
ton is shown not iii the superiority OF
brute force, but in the victories OF
peace. If reason makes her demand,
let not the cry of unreason defeat its
just demands. We would be ignorantiy
foolish not to enlist among those who
should seek and pursue peace. Let the
tocsin sound loudly the death-knell of
war, and let nations living in peaceful
relationship, respecting and honoring
each others rights join in the grandest
realization of prophets dream and
poets song-the parliament of man, the
federation OF the world. "
The choir sang a fine anthem entitled
Peace" and then the following officers
of the Utah Peace society were chosen.
President. John G. Cutler. first vice
president, G, j. Freund: second vice
president, William Spry: secretary and
treasurer, J. NJ, Siodahl; executive COM
mittee, John Henry Smith, Mrs. T. S.
Richards, N. Stathakos.
Tho secretary read the following COM
lnunicutio from the Permanent Inter
national Bureau OF Peace, Berne, Switz-
erland:
"Berno, April S, 1909
Dear Colleagues bureau is in
receipt of q proposition emanating from
the Nctherland General league. .Nrede
door Recht,' and which may be sum-
married. as follows:
'On the 18th of May next, which is
the anniversary of the first Peace con-
gress--heing the tenth after it's convo-
cation--Sorne decisive step ought to be
taken for the cause of International ar
hitration. With this object in View the
friends of peace and the peace societies
of the different countries might direct
an appeal to the governments of the
respective countries. either in the form
of a written address or through u dep
utltion, petitioning them to enter into
treaties similar to that concluded be-
tween Denmark and the Netherlands
by which these two countries have OBJ
ligated themselves to submit all differ
ences that may come up between them,
1.-THE members OF the bureau who
have been consulted through CORE
spondence have given their full assent
to this proposition. We therefore take
the liberty to ask you to kindly take
the step suggested, as fal, as this may
be possible. Perhaps. in the various
countries some means might be found
to give this measure a certain degree
of solcmnity and to organize on this
occasion public reunions.
"trhe bureau, of course, leaves to the
national associate full latitude as to
the carrying out OF the proposition re-
ferred to and the task of adapting it to
the particular circumstances of each
country.
For the Permanent International
Bureau of Peace,
III. LA FoN1AINI1. President"
He then moved the adoption Of the
following resolntion
Resolved, that the president of the
Utah State Peace society be authorized
to address, in behalf of this meeting,
petition to. our national government. ask
ing it to take whatever action it can,
consistently, with q view to creating
sentiment in favor OF the arbitration OF
all International differences; and that
Utah's delegates In Congress be re-