The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-05-12
ENDORSE PLAN TO
CELEBRATE PEACE
Report of Committee on Resolutions
is Chief Feature of Program at
Baltimore Conference.
Foster on Mexican Trouble.

BY Associated Press.
Baltimore, Md, May 5.-The CHIEF
feature on the program today at the
third national peace congress was the
report of the committee on resolutions
scheduled for presentation at the
close of the afternoon meeting. The
resolutions are to be the crystalliza.
tion of the sentiment inspired the ses-
sions and which marks the develop
ment of the peace movement. The
resolutions indorses the Anglo-Ameri.
can arbitration treaties and approves
the proposed celebration of the hun
dred years of peace between the Eng
| list speaking nations At the after
noon session DR.. T. Lyenaga, a native
of Japan and Professor in the univer-
sity of Chicago spoke on peace in
Asia"
Baltimore, Md, May 5.-John w.
Foster, former secretary of state, and
one of the foremost authorities on in
ternational law, in an addresses be-
fore the third national peace confer
ence here today, declared that the
principal lesson of the present condi-
tions on the Mexican border was the
need of better neutrality laws. Mr..
Foster suggested three notifications
which, in his opinion, the present laws
should undego:
First, some restriction should be
placed upon the free commerce as a
| mercantile commodity Of arms and
amunitions of war, and power should
be conferred upon the president to
limit or suspend, in his discretion,
their export across the border in time
of disturbance or insurrection.
Second, it should be made unlaw-
| full for Americans to enter the mill
| tary service of any power or chief at
war with nation with which we are
at peace. 1t was the personal aid of
Americans that gave strength to the
Canadian rebellion in 1888, to the late
Iinsurrection in Mexico, and to the re-
cent civil wars in Nicaragua and Hon
duras. In this respect the laws of
Great Britain, France, and other coun-
| tries are in advance of ours. The
British Foreign enlistment act of 1870
makes it unlawful for any British sub
| ject to enter che military service of
any power at war with a nation with
which it's government is at peace;
and it subjects them to heavy fine and
proclamations on the breaking of hos
tilities in other nations, the British
government notifies it's subjects of the
penalties they will incur under their
own laws, and it further warns them
! that they will enter such service at
their own peril, in no wise obtain any
protection from their own govern
ment, and must suffer such penalties
as the enemy may infiict upon them.
We certainly should do no less than
this.
Third, greater power should be
conferred upon the president, in time
of civil disturbance on the frontier,
to limit or prohibit intercourse across
the border, to prevent the abuse of
our territory by foreign conspirators,
and in his discretion to enforce mar
, tial law on our soil within the zone of
disturbance.
Defects of our neutrality laws" was
Mr.. Fosters subject. He said in part:
I'm the intercourse of our country
with foreign nations it is our first
and most important duty to preserve
! the peace and cultivate relations of
friendship with our ceterminous
neighbors. And yet within the last
| few weeks we have seen local distur-
Dances in the northern states of Mex
leo famed into the flames of war
along the boundary line, and our en-
tire populatio nastounded by the rapid
large portion of our army equipped
for hostile operations. Those best in
formed tell us that this lamentable
condition of affairs of the contiguous
territory of the United States and
by the active participation of Amer
lean citizens. Great quantities of
arms and amunitions of war, evading
our custom-houses, have been sur
reptitiously introduced into service.
Large numbers of American citizens,
both singly and in bands, aecoutered
for war, have openly crossed the from
tier and joined the forces which are
seeking to overthrow a government
with which we are at peace; and when
worsted in battle have sought ref
uge within our borders, only to return