The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-25
LAKE M0H0NK PEACE
 MEETING HAS CONVENED
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 at this time of such treaty with
 Great Britain would be the greatest
 event in the history of international arbitration.
 That the proposed Anglo American
 treaty would meet opposition in the
 Senate is hardly possible. That body is too intelligent and high minded to
 stand In the way of a reasonable pro-
 posal of such importance" Mirza Ali Kuli Khan, charge d'af- faires of the Persian legation, told the
 members of the Lake Mohonk confer ence on international arbitration here today that the present peace movement was eminently practical. He scored its critics as prisoners in the cell of
 their own imagination" whom "the lovers of peace should pass with in-
 difference or treat With patience" re-
 mlnding them that all things perma- nent come from a slow and gradual evolution.
 Body of Investigation | The speaker advocated the creation by the peace movement of mobile body of | Investigators to travel throughout the world to investigate conditions in every nation and report with fairness on actual | facts. This would prevent the voice of the oppressed from being drowned in the | uproar of the stronger who coins logic lo JuStlly HIS oppression or the WeaK. Such complaints of the weak should not be mistaken for expressions of local dig content To safeguard the rights and in l terests of the weaker nations Is to pre- serve the balance of power upon which l depends the peace of the word.' He l also advocated the creation of an inter- national police force to insure the fair | application of an international code of | laws In which he declared lies the only | O ra ttOna1 | Mirza Ali Kuli Khan warmly com- mended the part of the United States in the peace movement and pointed to the Pan-American Union as "a living testi- | mony to the fact that even racial. reli- gious and climatic differences cannot op- pose the principles of human solidarity Hicks Talks Relations between the United States and the Latin American republics were dis
 cussed by John Hicks, owner of the Oshkosh, Wis, Northwestern, and for eight years minister to Peru and Chile. His ubject was:
 Our Latin American friends are too polite and too crcumspect publicly or frequently to make known their fears or to say much that will shock the prejudices of their American neigh
 bors, but the fact Is that the black spectre that Is always berore them is
 
 north. From Mexico to Chile there Is the same nameless feeling of appre- hension that their political life Is al- ways in danger that 1t is only a ques- ton of time when the United States will deprive them of their political ex- istence.
 This dread of aggression on the part of the United States poisons all the relations between the countries of
 the north and south and Is at the root
 of the malign influence that has ex-
 isted in business circles against Amer
 ican commerce. These people feel that
 if the North Americans are encour-
 aged, in few years they will prac-
 tically own the country, and that the only safe way Is to throw their trade to German or English houses They
 find, the greatest proof in the action of the United States in its diplomatic conduct stoward Colombia when sud- denly and without warning a section of that republic was organized into an-
 other republic, diplomatic agents ex-
 changed and a contract for the con- e~sruction of the Panama canal exc e ted and delivered. all within the / xSe of a week. They are beginning
 A>sealize the full meaning of the F<s used by one of our greatest plS s in regard to the transac- tiohS you want to get ahead of your Uncles Sam, you've got to be mighty quick on the trigger
 "In our relations with the sister re- publics of the south the burden rests upon our government to see that no canon of the law of nations Is violated.
 We stand as an example of honor and
 national integrity to the other repub- lies, and every American citizen is
 interested to see that the national honor Is preserved. No policy will ever be acceptable to the American people that does not accord to each of the southern republics all the powers of nation.
 "When this is accomplished arbitra- tion will come as naturally as the suc- cession of the seasons and the thousand and one pretexts for war. will be swept aside"