Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-05
PEACE PLANS To
Be PRESENTED BY
COMMITTEE TO-DAY
OuAmerican Arbitration
Treaty Will Probably
Be Endorsed.
WOULD MAKE STATES
PROTECT FOREIGNERS
Lyman Abbott Tells Delegates
War Is Sometimes Justi-
fable and Necessary.

BALTIMORE, May 5.-Ihe chief fea-
ture on the program today at the third
national peace congress was the re-
port of the committee on resolutions
which was scheduled for presentation
at the close of the afternoon meeting.
The resolutions are expected to be a
capitalization of the sentiment which
has inspired the sessions, and which
marks the present development of the
peace movement.
one of the resolutions indorses the
Anglo-Ameritan arbitration treaty and
calls for its ratification. Another asks
tina Congress pass such acts as will
make the government hold each State
responsible fer any outrage committed
upon the person or property of foreign
subjects within the State. Still an
other resolution approves the proposed
celebration Of the 100 years of peace
between the English-speaking nations
and will pledge its support to the move
nent.
Japan Anxious for Peace.
Al the forenoon session DIR. r.. lyena-
ga, a native of Japan. and d professor
in the Chicago University, spoke on
peace in Asia" Or. Iyenaga said
that what vitality concerns Japan is
the continuation of peace in Asia, and
declared that. his country, to further
that end, had left no stone unturned SO
far as lay in her power. Among such
means he said the most efficient is the
An~elo-Japanese alliance. DR.. Iyenaga
secuted the idea of wal between Japan
and the United States. The new treaty
concluded between this country and
Jaran a few months ago vas a signal
proof of the Ions standing friend hip
between the two nations-a friendship,
in the speakers opinion, that was an
other guarantee of peace in Asia.
speaks of New York Vice.
DR.. Lyman Abbott. in the course OF
his address, referred TO the city of New
York as an illustration of the folly of
unpreparedness to combat evil with
force when necessary. He said;
I'm New York our mayor found that
the police were making many useless
arrests and that these arrests were at
tended by unnecessary brutality. He
took away the clubs of the policemen
and cut down the force.
"But while needless arrests have been
eliminated there has been a retrogres-
sion ow1ard vice which has made New
York worse than it has been in twenty
years. To take away the club from
F., the arm of authority and to leave the
power in the possession of the Black
Hand was folly which could only end
in one way
war Sometimes Justihable.
DR.. Abbott declared his belief that
war was sometimes ~justifiable, and that
the making of treaties would not abol-
ish the use of physical force.
when bands of m~arauding dyna-
miters blow up our buildings, our
offices, our homes, can we appeal to
their r~eason?" DR.. Abbott asked. ny,
because they haven't got it. II one
m~an-of-war had gone up the river TO
Turkey when the Armenians were be-
ing murdered it would have been bet
ter than an appeal to reason. TIT mas
sacres would have stopped.
What Is desired is not only peace,
but peace founded upon righteousness,
with law and order as its companions.
We are seeking, first, justice and then
peace, and what we want to find out is
how far it is possible for us to stay at
peace with our fellow-men.
Disarmament must follow peace and
not peace follow disarmament. Peace
must be the cause of disarmament and
not disarmament the cause of peace"
In the Far East.
Price Collier, recently returned from
India, China, Japan, Manchuria, Sibe-
ria and Russia, addressed the congress
on the topic What Are We Doing for
Peace in the Far East?"' One of the
great causes of international DISTRICT,
he said, was international ignorance.
1--WE can do much for peace by knowing
one another better. The greatest peril
to peace today is not brown nor yellow;
1t is white. It is white ignorance, white
prejudice and the sheltered snobhery
and suburban sectarianism OF the
white man."
Mr.. Collier declared that the natives
OF India were no more fit for self
government now than the inmates of a
menagerie." He praised the British
government of India and said that a
society of white men in America was
now trying to stir UP sedition in that
country by sending money and litera-
ture.
Fe deprecated the possibilities of war
with Japan and said that country would
have her hands full for many years to
come developing her interests in For
mosa. Korea and M~anchuria. Bank
ruptcy. not battle he declared, lis her
chief concern
Ambassadors Criticised.
Our ministers and ambassadors
abroad should, of curse, protect to the
utmost our trade and commerce, and
see to it that we have equal privileges
with our rivals. We are nowadays per-
hitting our diplomatic representatives
to AXE active part in the selling Of
goods n the getting of contracts. 1t
Is considered a feather in a dirlomats
CAP If he succeeds in getting the con-
tract for the building of a Gunboat. I
consider such activity a disgrace to
him. and a disgrace to the country that
EMPLOYS him. Is Democracy to be sent
abroad to rlay it's rart among other
nations in the gabardine of Shylock?
BIG COAL MERGER.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. May 5.-A