Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-05-05
LATIN AMERICA
AND ARBITRATION
Argentine and Uruguay Seek
ing Peaceful Solution of
Platte Dispute
NO MORE RACIAL WARFARE
Religion Has Been Also Elimin-
ated as Casus Belli Among
Nations

: Baltimore. May THE countries OF
! Latin America were held up as exam
pie TO the entire civilized world and
an inspiration to al! who are interest
ed in the maintenance OF International
peace, in an address delivered here
yesterday afternoon by Dr. l.. S.
Rowe OF the University of Pennsylya-
MIA. Delegate to the Pan-American
Peace Congress of 1906, before the
third National Peace Conference.
When one stops 10 consider the
International difficulties which the
! countries of Latin America inherited
| from the colonial period" he said.
the credit due them for their stead
fast adherence to the principle of in
teRlational arbitration is greatly in
| creased. The international questions
| confronting them during the latter
| half of the nineteenth century and
the beginning OF the twentieth have
| been far more difficult and delicate
than those confronting the countries
| Of Europe and yet. with two excep-
tions. they have all been adjusted
either through direct diplomatic nego-
tiations or by means of arbitration.
The doctor touched on the many
puzzling and irritating boundary dis
putes which South American nations
fell heirs to when they came into
freedom, and passed to the crucial
| IT, u-h
Argentine. Brazil and Uruguay had
Paraguay crushed and helpless. For
time" he said. 'it looked as ii Para
quay would be made the Poland of
South America If the usual European
standards as to rights acquired by con-
quest had been applied, Paraguay
! would today no longer exist on the
map as an Independent country.
AT the suggestion OF the Argentine
| Republic it was agreed by the con-
quering triple alliance that victory
does not carry with it the right to
dismemberment, and although Para
quay had been the aggressor in the
struggle. the people of the country
were not made to suffer because of
! the ambitions of a political dictator
| The Argentine Republic and Uru-
quay are today confronted by an in
! ternational question SO difficult and
| delicate that it can only be compared
with our own policy with reference to
the mouth of the Mississippi. 1t IS
we'll to remember that neither the
government nor the people of the
United States would for a moment en-.
tertain any compromise with refer.
ence to our absolute control of the
Mississippi. Difficult and dangerous
as is the question of the control of
the river Platte, the Argentine and
Uruguay are conscientiously endeav-
oring to find satisfactory solution
With century of record of achieve
ment," he concluded, the countries
of Latin America enter into the pres
ent world situation as an important
I factor in sustaining and developing
the principle of arbitration and in the
maintenance of the worlds peace"
Gospel Of Peace.
Baltimore, May 5.-"The Newer
Propaganda for Peace" was outlined
by Prof Samuel T. Dutton of Teach
ers' college. Columbia University, be-
fore the Third National Peace Con-
gress at todays session. Prof. Dutton
said in part:
1T is evident that the hour has ar
rived when the gospel of peace must
be widely and earnestly preached
ing for the establishment of perpetual
peace. Human progress and the
growth of the institutions of civiliza-
ton are charged with that altruism
and with that sense OF solidarity which
are fundamental in the peace move
ment. Men and women the world over
must apprehend and appreciate these
things. The five hundred peace socie-
ties of the world are doing much but
their work as yet lacks organization
and direction. Those who are able
to finance the peace cause may justly
insist that the peace forces in this
country should be federated upon
basis of equality and cooperation that
the whole land may be covered and
that such wise. constructive and ed
ucative program of propaganda be or
ganized as will give the United States
distinction and enable her to take a
place OF leadership along the new
path.
Assuming that this may be brought
about, what shall be the nature of
the propaganda which in the pulpit,
on the platform, through the press by
means of books and tracts is to be
presented? To most people it will
come as a new idea that the age of
war has passed, that as we can see
in Europe today vast museums full
of ancient and medieval weapons
kept as souvenirs of the barbaric
past, SO it may be predicted that a
few years hence the horrid engines Of
destruction which modern genius and
science are constructing will be OBJ
jects of historic interest rather than
[of practical use.
There will be, unless all signs
fail. no more racial wars. Again.
there are to be no more religious wars
wars Of races and religion having
passed, 1t can be shown that nothing
remains to cause war except national
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