The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-08
KING EDWARD AS
A PEACEMAkER.
Andrew B. Humphrey, Leader in
Peace Movement, Praises
the Dead Ruler.
HAD DONE MUCH WORK
THAT COUNTED FOR MUCH
Is Not Certain as to What Atti-
tude of the New King
Will Be.
BY Leased Wire to The Tribune.

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NEW YORK, May king Ed
international politics makes his death
a, source of deep regret to advocates
of universal peace. This appears in a
statement gwen 10 Tribune rcpresen.
tatIve by Andrew B, Humphrey. gen
eral secretary of the American Peace
and Arbitration league. of which for.
mer Senator James B. McCreary is
president, former President Roosevelt
honorary president, and which numbers
among its members Admiral Dewey and
| many of the best known men in the
country. Mr.. Humphrey said:
THAT the death of King Edward
should cause the worldwide sorrow that
u is remembered how well he earned
the title of Edward the Peacemaker,
which has been conferred upon him bv
universal sentiment. The evant NAV be
regarded as great loss to the move
ment for universal peace.
Knew Need of Peace.
No other ruler in Europe under
stood IL better or believed in it more
sincerely; His lifelono training under
England 9 great Queen Victoria, espe-
GGIaliy htted him to be a peacemaker.
so manifest and his success in in |
huencing the amicable settlement of !
international Incidents of threatening |
nature will cause him to be missed in |
the pence oounsels of the near future.
King edward g death, coming at
TINS particular time, is in sense set
back for the programme Of the Ameri-
can Peace and Arbitration league That
is to say, it is disappointment that
the peace-lovlng monarch has passed
away on the eve of an expected meet
ing with America great peacemaker,
former President Roosevelt. during
which. IN all probability. this. great
interesting discussed. Mr.. Roosevelt,
who is one OF the honorary presidents
OF this lea~ue, might have been ex-
pected to invite some exchange of views
relating to the proposition to invest the
president of the court at The Hague
with the powers to be vested in the
International court Of arbitration and
justice. which it is expected will be
created at the third peace conference
n 1914
"Of course. it is impossible 10 saw
ust how far man in the kings posi-
ion could or would commit himself on
my such question as this, but think
me of the propositions in the direc-
ion Of international peace that inter
sted King Edward deeply
Attitude Of New Ruler.
What will be the attitude of Eng
and s new ruler concerning the peace $
question is regarded by many ms prob
ematlcal- He has seen active service i
long the stern lines of naval Of
GERS career, and he has not been in y
lose and sympathetic touch with va. \
lous classes of men which made King &
,dward n broad minded, far.seene and :,
iplomatic man He is man Of re- :
erve, lacking elements that made his
ather popular, and il is possible that V
. his intercourse with other sover. n
igns he may not be able at all times
3 inspire that cordiality that enabled a
ing Edward 10 pour oil on the trou- is
led waters Nevertheless / do not
hink the change of rulers will affect +
ne peace movement adversely. King -
gorge V. derived from his illustrious q
Victoria and Albert, and IL
rom his own father, a rich Inheritance W
qualities that made for the uplift
humanity, and the richest among a
lem is an innate love and desire for II
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