Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-12
NEW ENGLAND ARBITRATION
AND PEACE CONGRESS.
Resolutions Referring to the Peace
Propaganda Adopted at Closing Ses-
sion at Hartford.

Hartford, Conn. May 1f.--At the
closing of the New England arbitra- -
tion and peace congress. which has
been in session here for the past four
DAYS, resolutions were adopted express
ing oDli atiOns to past ana present
leaders in the peace propaganda.
Sym mpathetic reference was made to the
late King Edward VII of England. who
is termed Edward the Peacemaker."
and specific allusion is made to Presi-
dent Taft, eX-President Roosevelt,
Elihu Root and others for the service
they have rendered the peace cause
The resolutions, after referring TO the
work done by the pioneers of New
England and the achievements of The
Hague conferences, say:
we call for such broadening of the
scope Of all treaties of arbitration that
shall provide for reference to The
Hague of all differences whatever not
settled by diplomacy and express our
sense of the great service rendered by
President Taft in his recent condem-
nation OF the n,ischievous reservation
from arbitration in most treaties of
so-csiled questions of honor.
We register our gratitude To Mr.
Roosevelt for his recent conspicuous
declaration that with sincerity of pur-
pose the great powers could surely
reach some agreement which viii put
an end to the present extravaganza III
naval armament. and with equal graft
tude we recall Mr.. Roots strong de-
mands upon the eve of the second
Hague conference that we should per-
sist in earnest effort for the limitation
of armaments until the effort succeeds.
1t is for the effective dealing with this
urgent demand by the third Hague
conference that the world awaits"
Regarding the recent death of King
Edward. the resolutions say:
I'VE express our deep sympathy with
the people OF Great Britain in the
great loss sustained by them and bN
the world in the death OF King Ed
ward the VII. His wise and beneficent
reign has won the honor of mankind.
patient and fruitful policy OF interna-
tional friendship which has justly
earned for him. rs his proudest title.
that of Edward the Peacemaker
The two chief addresses of the DAYS
session were made by Simeon F.. Bald
win. former chief justice of the Con-
necticut supreme court of errors. and
John w. Foster. eX-'secretary OF state
of Washington, ID. g.
At the banquet tonight. which was
presided over by Dean Henry Wade
Rogers of the Yale Law school. Her
bert Knox Smith, commissioner Of
'8rhe Currents of Commerce"
AT the close of the conference the
American Peace society met and re-
ceived reports of the treasurer TO the
effect that the balanc on hand was So
1876 and the receipts for the year
500 66G.69. The following officers were
elected: President, Robert Treat Paine,
Boston; treasurer F. Il. Seers Boston;
secretary. Rev. 3. F. Bloodgood, Bos-
ton; auditor. DR. William T. Jarvis,
Mass
Prof. Masujiro Honda of the Orien-
tai information bureau OF New York
and former head of the government
college of Japan. in speaking of the
United States and Japan said that he
wished to enter a plea for the United
States to stop its irritation of Japan.
He was the more solictous. he said. as
there was a vague feeling of distrust
among the Japanese of their hitherto
friends and supporters. enSendered by
the calumnious writings in newspapers
and ma gazines. The agitators know so
little of the case that it necessary TO
-efute and correct them. Because of
the anti-Japanese fashion of the daN
few papers viii publish our articles of !
defense. Some al home speak Alright
now on the history Of the territorial
and commercial expansion of the Unit
ed States, with the natural inference
that the most generous and least slf-
seeking of nations may some day try |
10 further extend its huge empire at
The 5rst pretext given or created. !
When a nation is willing and ready to !
light, one forged telegram is enough /
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