The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-20


 ->- trate all other questions. Y <-<<<<+<<<<<<<< New York, March 19.-(Special.)- )-Tues-
 day, March 22, will be the occasion for
 unique function. For the first time in
 our history a peace society will entertain
 the president of the United States as the
 guest of honor and will publicly express
 with such high sanction the double pro-
 gramme of adequate security and for
 international peace and justice. All other
 peace societies oppose the government S armament programme.
 The banquet will take place in the grand hall of the Astor Hotel and will Be at tended by many celebrities and a host of the progressive people of the metrop- oils.
 The German and Mexican ambassadors
 will represent the foreign nations and
 will make addresses Mayor Gaynor will represent the city of New York Cover
 nor Hughes cannot attend because of a previous engagement.
 The officers of 'The American Peace and Arbitration League" which acts as host upon this notable occasion are Honorary presidents, Theodore Roosevelt George Dewey and President Taft. The
 president is Ex-Senator James B. Me- Creary of Kentucky Vice presidents are Ex-Senator William A. Clark, General James Grant Wilson and Hon. R. P.
 Hobson; treasurer, Henry Clews; secre-
 tary, Andrew B. Humphrey.
 Twenty-four general treaties of arbi- | tration have been concluded between the United states and other nations during the past two years.
 They reserve all questions that affect
 the independence, honor or vital inter- ests of the nations concerned and they contain no definition or guarantees of the | vital national rights, such as peaceable possession of the national domain, un- impaired exercise of all the rights of sovereignty therein, and ''open door, for commerce abroad.
 The American Peace and Arbitration league proposes to assist In creating a controlling public opinion in favor of mutual guarantees of these rights. as the foundation of an international system of peace and justice. and the erection on this foundation of super-strueture of | international justice, containing duly con stituted representative assemblies and courts, on ascertaining and enforcing the principles of law to be observed among the nations and their citizens in their
 united commercial and political relations
 for instance, the Pan-American Union of Republics, the Hague Union of all Ma tions, with periodical congress of all powers concerned. the prize court for settling questions growing out of war, the proposed court of general arbitraI jus tice for questions growing out of peace- a ble international commerce, which the | distinguished secretary of state, Philan- l der c. Knox, has proposed to consoli- l date into one so as to secure their earlier creation.
 This league invites the cooperation of
 all good citizens in this work and in the equally imperative work of supporting our government In all It's efforts to secure
 and maintain an armed force sufficient | to insure to every state in the Union
 the full, free and perpetual exercise of | all It's reserved rights.
 l To preserve and protect the national
 domain against aggression from our quar- | ter and exercise in our foreign relations
 the policy which our representatives in people and to the nations with Which we have the privileges of intercourse. | The former president of the United | States honored the league, at it's incep-
 tion, with his hearty approval of its programme, and he emphasizes this ap- prOval by becoming an honorary preSi-
 dent of our society. Since then many eminent men have associated themselves with our work, chief among whom is the president of the United States, Hon Will. | liam H. Taft. who has signalized his approval of our purposes by permitting | the league to give its annual banquet ir | his honor. Having secured the co-opera- | ton of such eminent authorities, the | league can not fall to realize its higt
 but perfectly practical aims.
 l Already progressive men in every de-
 pertinent of life are responsive to]its cal | for help. The hero of Manila bay, George | Dewey. has heartily approved the pro- gramme in its entirety and lends the full weight of his worldwide influence
 for the arbitration plank no less thar for the armament plank. I Six senators of the United States are among the directors, two of whom are | to assist at the banquet, the Hons. VII. liam A. Clark of Montana and Robert l L. Tayler of Tennessee.
 Eminent jurists recognize the value oi | these efforts and lend such assistance al
 is beitting their positions, among whom l federal and state courts. The foremos | educators famed for familiarity with tho
 past provision of the future, and prac
 tical administration in the present, talk, pleasure in giving the benefit of theil personal assistance and of their valued institutions, through free scholarship fol l young men and women who manifest thu
 best understanding of things that mak'
 for nationa. security and for internationa peace and justice.
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