The Washington herald., 1911-09-10
First Steps Under Recent Carnegie EndOW-
ment for Abolition of Strife Taken
at Berne, Switzerland.

arguments based upon indisputable facts
which by their logic and the absence of
a maudlin sentamentalism will be suf-
flcient to convince the hardest-headed
man OF business of the folly and absurd
ity of war.
1t is designed, James Brown Scott
says, to convince the men to whom bar
gaining, trade, and exchange of values
are everyday affairs, that what is pos
sible in disputes of business and trade
among men as individuals is quite as
possible, and equally as sensible between
nations las aggregations of individuals.
Paul S. Rainsch, professor of constitu-
tional law in the University of Wiscon-
sin. and Roosevelt, professor at the Uni
versity of Berlin, 19i1-12. is the delegate
OF the United States to the conference.
Senator BurtOn'S Views.
Economics and peace are more close
ly connected than may, az first sight.
appear" said Senator Theodore II. Bur-
ton, of Ohio, in discussing the Berne
conference. Senator Burton is president
Of the Ohio Peace Society, which has
headquarters in Cleveland. and. by rea-
son of the fact that 1t was established
in 1SzS, lays claim to being the oldest
PEACE society in the United States.
Look back over history" continued
Senator Burton, "and you will find that
great revolutions have been provoked by
unjust and oppressive taxation. There
were Magma Charta, John Hampden, the
French revolution, and our own REBEL
ion against taxation without representa-
ton that gave us this great nation. ]
believe that this is one of the strongest
incentives toward peace and universal
arO vi I WI
that it is the highest and noblest, but
feel that it is the strongest. With the
two billions of dollars of taxes imposed
upon the nations of the world to main
tain armaments OF war, the time Is rap
IDLY approaching when a revolution of
feeling against this Senseless expenditure
will drive people to the peace element.
Then again." sad Senator Burton.
take the interference with trade; that
touches the world more closely than one
imagines. 1t IS not only the nations
that are at war that suffer in this re-
gard. Where all are reaching out fran
tically for foreign trade and the world
market amid the keenest of competition,
business men are growing more and
more cautious as the markets extend
about letting national ambitions or race
rivalries interfere with them.
Unjust taxation and interference with
trade are two of the biggest forces that
have brought about what l regard as an
unparalleled change in public feeling,
against war that prevails to-day.
Another great force that is in perfect
accord with this movement is the IN
dOrsement of the work or American
statesmen, scholars, and publicists by
the hearty letter recently sent out BY
the Pope. 1 have had great reason tC
admire the consistent efforts of the popes
in all ages, il not to maintain. peace. al
least to restrain violence History will
take us back to Gregory VII very easily
and an examination of the state Of
Europe, even in feudal times. will show
the powerful restraining influence which
the popes exerted upon kings, emperors
and rulers who defed all other law. The
popes practically policed Europe for cen
turieS.
Taft's Peace Evolution.
''I have watched President Taft's evolu
ton in matters of peace with profound
interest He reached his climax wheI
on July of this year he told the dwell
ers in the Soldiers Home at Marion