New-York tribune., 1909-05-03
PEACE CONGRESS- TO-DAY
WILL MEET IN CHICAGO.
DR.. SchurmdR addresses Mass Meet
ing-Opposes MiHtarism.


Chicago. May 2-The first formal session of the
second National Peace Congress will be held In Chi
cago tomorrow afternoon. Robert Treat Paine, OF
Boston, president of the American Peace Society,
will preside Secretary Ballnger Of the Interior
Department will read President Tafts message TO
the delegates. Governor Charles s. Deneen will
welcome the delegates the state, and Mayor
Fred A Busse will welcome them 10 the city.
Wednesday light the congress will close with
dinner given by the Chicago Association of Com
nerce- College presidents, juriss, lawyers, physi-
clans. business men and politicians will be among
the speakers. About fifteen hundred delegates
expected TO be present.
To-days prelimnaries 10 this gathering were
many. The most spectacular was the silent peace
demonstration of crowd of members of the So
cialist party the lake shore. The Socialists
gathered at Grants monument in Lincoln Park
for half hour before going to the various meet
lnss scheduled for them They said nothing and
did nothing and the police had no trouble. Red
carnations and tiny red flags in their buttonholes
were their only distinguishing marks
The ringing of church bells heralded peace Sun
day Special exercises were held in many
chnrches Special speakers were assigned TO TWEEN
ty churches OF various denominations. President
samuel Gompers of the American Federation of La
! Dor spoke at the Belden Avenue Baptist Church.
Edwin D. Mead. of Boston, spoke in the Union Park
Congregational Church.
DIR. SCHURMAN'S ADDRESS.
Tonight a mass meeting held in Orchestra
nan under the auspices Of the Sunday Evening
Club. The speakers were Jenl.in Lloyd Jones Emil
6. Htrsch and President Jacob Gould Schurman of
Cornell University. DR.. Schurman said in part
In modern times wars are comparatively in
frequent The actual loss OF lite. therefore, ard
! tte suHeflhgs from wounds and injuries small
IN IN, our time in comparison with what they
lions for in modern times bear with Tremendous
WelSht in times of peace upon all classes of the
5ah sehator I Hale hft s nations reel and md &stagseT AS As
revenues Of the United States are used to defray
me me expenses entaied by past or necessary in
me preparation for future wars Taking Europe
as a v hole, something like six millions Of people
in orer % that an hY @ b trsned ITGm Rds4 gdI
And their maintenance. OF course, is all the time
on her staHdna, armies from Il GO to- 81 0H
o009o And the most powerful T5ITopean - nations
| are at this moment competing With one another in
,9as nayes England has sine, 1903 reduSed her
put stop I" this rea!'hfuT hnanciertng AMI the
huge deficit OF SIS S0eo The Chancellor Of the zx-
days ago He asserted that il would be stIpendous
[oIlE 10 refuse 10 make adequate provision for De
next year would be gigantic Ie declared that to
run away from naval obligations would not he
try from its financial difficulties and 10 provide for
the Exchequer had Ia impose higher taxes in
The owners OF the land, tho inheritors OF wealth
and the possessors Of considerable incomes de-
nounce the proposed policy as cOnhscaton. And
tax OF % pence in the pound on incomes OF over
600. and death duties and legacy duties which
take for the public treasury one-fourth Of large
estates come as near TO "a; as anything any
Of taxation cannot, Of course, 20 on indefinitely.
1t must soon reach III" limit of possibilities in all
moneys raised by this burdensomo taRatioH are
exueuded An The main for military objects we MAJ
expect soon TO hear a demand from the properted
classes in all countries that some way be found
WAGE FARMERS FOR PEACE.
Mea4,yhe r the wage earneTs rs tend. tend more @ and and
neT6ioved ana raise trensndousIy the cost of
lated manage to pull through without great suffer
ing. but the suffering Of those whose livelihood de
pends upon their daily wage cannot 6e depicted
Socialists denounre miiitariSm and even re
pudiate nationalism far as It implies
er ~ ~ aocIellS,i- tea"biir sn6 atm more
by the advance Of education and the growth Of in
teligence, the working classes In all countries will
come 10 dehounce t9e splIlI Yt @ OPUS
penditures and advocate the policy OF lnterna-
tionaI peace and good viii OF course, armies and
nayies will never disappesr from the Torld as
policemen VIII not disappear rom our cues , ei
of humanity, is an International army and navy
Another force operating against milItarsm and
growing intercourse among the nations on the part
OF iradeTs tta-neitfTS, - so % tbe effect
which the immigrants from any country into the
fucncng the sentiments OF our people toward that
country see no reason or no poSsolllIy oI .eas,
the United States and Germany But even II there
eYisfcd-as happily there does not-grounds for
quarrel the fact that many American citizens
are of German descent would earnestly move II II
did morally compel, hoth governments 10 ma Il
peaceful solution of the question.
When We turn from Europe to ASIA We feel the
ereafer need of mutual understanding. appreciation
ana sympathy These Asatic peoples differ from US
IA race in color in modes OF thought, in manner or
i;so ,1 continent IN ideal, and In moral pre-
Cepts and practices Nothing IS now more I'M
yortanf than an incre Of intercourse between
;ben1 and us that increasing intercourse. is
hound 10 bring increasing knowledge, understanding
and sympathy on both sides