Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-12
New England Conference
| Praises King Edward.
Asks Broader Scope for The
Hague Tribunal.
Registers Gratitude to Col. Rooss.
veIt for Ills Position.

ing of the New England Arbitration
and Peace Congress, which has been
in session here for the past four days.
resolutions were adopted expressing
obligations to past and present lead
ers in the peace propaganda.
Sympathetic reference was made to
the late King Edward VII of England,
who is termed Edward the Peace
maker" and specific allusion is made
to President Taft, ex-President Roose-
welt, Elihu Root and others for the SER
vice 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 conference, says:
I'VE 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 mschievous reservation
from arbitration in most treaties of So
called questions of honor.
I'VE 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 will put
an end to the present extravaganza in
naval armament; and with equal graf
itude we regard the demands upon the
second Hague conference that we
should persist in earnest effort for the
limitation of ornaments until the eff
fort succeeds. 1t is for the effective
dealing with this urgent demand by
the third Hague conference that the
world waits.
Regarding the recent death of King Ed
ward the resolutions say: I'VE express
our deep sympathy with the people of
Great Britain in the great loss sustained
by them and the world at the death of
King Edward VII. His wise and benefi-
cent reign has won the honor of man
kind. but it's greatest glory has been in
that patient and fruitful policy of inter-
national friendship which has justly
earned for him as his proudest title that
of Edward the Peacemaker.'
The two chief addresses of the days
session were made by Simeon R. Bald
win, former chief justice of the Connect
cut SupItlHc COul VI Cllol anu oohii " :
Foster ex-secretary of state. of Wash
ington. D. c.
At the banquet tonight. presided over
by Dean Henry Wade Rogers of the Yale
Law School. Herbert Knox Smith, com
missioner of corporations, of Washing
ton. spoke on the Currents of Com
merce." He said:
we are not. and until the millennium
never will be, in accord without disputes.
God has fashioned this world to advance
by the painful road of evolution, which
means the survival of the fittest which
means conquest. We must always have
tribunals of adjudication. The question
is. what sort of tribunals? War Is one
way of settling disputes It's particular
Nv untitled for our use. We are come to
the conservative, commercial age of civ
iiZation The questions of individual lib
erty and of religious tolerance have been
settled. These questions involve personal
honor and conscience. No court could
adiudge them They had to be fought
out, but our modern questions of tariff,
boundaries, international debt. CONNER
cial railways. mining and flshlng con-
cessions are obviously issues for legal
tribunal. These are the international is
sues of our time This is the era of eco
nomic forces
PROF. Masuiiro Honda of the Oriental
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
it's irritation of Japan. He was the
mere solicitous, he said, as There was
a vague feeling Of distrust among the
Japanese of their hitherto friends and
supporters. When nation is willing
and ready to fight" he said, lone forged
telegram is enough to kindle conflagra
ton
At the close of the conference the
American Peace Society met. The fol-
lowinS officers were elected:
President, Robert Treat Payne. Boston;
treasurer. Rev E. F. Bloodgood, Boston
aud audifor DR. William T. Jarvis WAL