The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-10
STAND BY TAFT.
Unity Church Commends Presidents
Attitude on international Peace.

The Topeka Unity church has passed
the following resolutions commencing
President Taft:
Within the brief period of a lew
months the. cause of internatlonai
peace has been removed from the !
realm of things merely dreamed OIL
and hoped for to the realm Oh prac-
tical politics In December OF last
year President Taft stated in pup
lie address that,
"If we can negotiate and put
through a positive agreement WIN s SOM
other nation to abide by the ad9 d,,.+
ton of an international arpltraI lid
in every issue which can not pc tSiSN
by negotiation, no matter viz or.
wolves, whether honor, terIitoIy ~
money. we shall have made a ions Il
forward by demonstrating that II 20
possible for two nations, at least, ~
establish between them the SAM o.,;-+e
tenn of due process OF law tna o.o1-arn-
between individuals under
ment." a h,,
This declaration was promPtteo +b bs
the presidents personal bellel III "a
genuine brotherhood OF all men Tie
by his unbounded conhdenGe III ad
power of peace and good Will 10 80. n
the world upward and onward toWsi ,. u
Justice and righteousness. II lIhe e. " ct
voiced the sentiments or lhS So
body of the American pSoPIo o,o,Iev
deprecate the distrust ana Je at
which engender international passlot ~
and Stimulate the accumulation
armies and ornaments, who can nilu :,
no higher justification for pupnc We
than for private dueling, anu , mee
earnestly desire the WoLtu - arm
from its present needless state OF e.
ed truce. Besides this, the deciai a n',,I
was a noble challenge TO Ihe oU
sciences of the statesmen anu zpio 1oi
of other nations, which by It's SSi;sS
simplicity and perspicaclty 80 ,,1oet
Cd its a,Ifbor a sthe leader of the most
beneficent practical movement III ~
cause of higher civilization "hlch 'ii0
modern world has witnessed; 41,a+
II was most gratifying lhdeeu, nc. 4t1e
this challenge should be maue OS-tI.t
chief executive of Americas foreIll t1st
state hut not less gratifying was tne
irnrnedia+e and cordial response "hiCn
a. -acaived from Great Britain, win
ys,horo vUe are united by bonds OF pIoo"'
language. institutions and coiIliIon "a.
terests. In the house or commons, 81
TSdvard Grew. acting as the Responsible
$3.50 of tbe british government, de-
clared that his government "ouiu
deIigh+ed 10 receive a definite proposal
mon the subject of President IaII
rnornentous declaration. He gave II as
his opinion that such proposal wou''
receive the deliberate SANCTION ol Pdi
lament, ana ne dOuSN'
that: IN
bondage. increasing bondage, and II Is
not impossible that in some OF tlle
future years they will discover, as IN
dividuais have discovered, that the law
is a better remedy than force, and tnat'
in all the time they have been IN DON
dage, the prison door mas oeeh i'On'
on the inside"
The definite proposal has been maze
and a general treaty of arbitration pc
tween the two nations, which VIII open
a new era in international relations, Is
now in process of preparation. On
April %, at a great meeting IN Gulio
Hall, London, British sentiment IN
favor of the negotiations was tormu-
lated and expressed and Prime Minister
Asauith, speaking from platform over
which the stars and stripes and the
Union Jack were intertwined, commit
ted his government to the support Oh
the contemplated treaty in the follow
ing words:
''The profound significance of the
new departure is that between Great
Britain and the United States, what
ever the gravity of the issue and the
magnitude of the interests involved,
whatever the poignancy of the feelings
it arouses, there will be a definite
abandonment of war as a possible So
luton and the substitution of argument
for force and the supersession by
judicial methods of the old ordeal of
battle
Speaking from the same platform.
Mr. Balfour, the leader of the parlia-
mentarv opposition, pledged his party
to hearty support of the proposed
treaty and the enthusiasm of the Eng
lish people, generally manifested, in
dicates their desire to remove for all
time the possibility of war between the
two great branches of the English
speaking race.
The contamination of this treaty,
however, will very likely be beset by
many difficulties. 1t is possible that 1T
will be hindered by petty politicians
striving for party advantage, be mis-
represented by the sensational press, be
opposed by sinister and selfish inter
ests and be derided by all those who,
looking upon such projects as platonic
and doctrinaire, are unable to estimate
their splendid consequences. If the
treaty become a law it must be be-
cause the efforts of the distinguished
statesmen who are responsible for it
are sustained by a powerful public
sentiment.
Believing that it is the privilege and
the province of the churches of this
country to create and to lead public
opinion upon this great subject, the
minister and congregation of the Uni
tartan Church of Topeka, Kan, hereby
convey to President Taft their hearty
and unqualified approval of his efforts
to secure the inestimable blessing of
international peace, without force and
without arms, and assure him of our
earnest sympathy and active, loyal sun
port in bringing to a successful con-
cIusion this feat which we regard as
unparalleled in the history of diplo-
macy; and we further hereby convey to
the senators from Kansas our earnest
desire that a comprehensive arbitra-
ton treaty of the character proposed
bv President Taft shall be concluded
between the United States and Great
Britain. r. A. BURCH,
Committee on Resolutions,