The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-05-02
Meeting at Baltimore, which
Opens Tomorrow, Will
Seek to Awaken the Con-
science Of People.
FAMOUS PEOPLE ARE
TO MAKE ADDRESSES
President Taft Will Open the
Congress Wednesday Aft
er an Invocation by Cardi-
nal Gibbons.
(American News Service)

tAmeri9n News Service,
Baltimore. Nd, May 2.-"Peace on
Earth is the slogan of the foremost
men of the nation who have come
from all parts of the country and are
here today preparing for the opening
OF the Third National Peace Congress
tomorrow. Baltimorean hospitality is
being exercised as probably never be-
fore in the history of the city. The
visiting peace advocates have been
given the keys of the city and hosts
and hostesses are vieing with each
other to do homage to the national
| figures upon whom all eyes will be
turned during the next three days.
The peaceful invaders" will not
"evacuate" Baltimore until Saturday,
meantime, spending three strenuous
sessions wrestling with the stupen-
dous problem of anti-war.
The Significance and import of the
Third National Peace Congress can
hardly be exaggerated. Its forerun-
ners. held In New York in 1907 and
Chicago In 1909, put in tabgible shape
the movement that had long been con-
sidered but dream of idealists. This
one will take up the burden where
the others left off and 1t is expected
that certain action will be taken that
will put the future of the movement
in a definite line of progress that will
lead to the achievement of concrete
results.
Two Leading Phases.
The congress will deal with the two
leading phases of peace -work-the
awakening of the public conscience
by addresses directed against the folly
and the injustice that result from
war, together with the economic waste
of universal armaments; and the prac-
tical means Of making war difficult
by establishing institutions which will
take away the excuses OF war.
II Is realized that 1t lies within the
power Of the treaty-making branch of
the various governments today to set
up these institutions, either in the
form of an international court of JUS
tice. or of treaties which will provide
for inquiry or formal arbitration
either by endowing the interparlia-
mentary Union with real legislative
functions or developing the Hague
conference in that direction by the
confiscation Of international law; or.
by that which would perhaps take the
place OF and make unnecessary an in
ternational police, an agreement be-
tween the leading powers to stand
back Of the decisions OF an internation-
al court or arbitral tribunal. But
whether the governments take action
in this direction depends largely on
the pressure which the public may
bring to bear. Consideration of this
will be one Of the most important
tassk of the congress.
The congress will be opened in Nc
Coy hall on Johns Hopkins university
tomorrow afternoon by President Taft,
following the invocation by Cardinal
Gibbons. Mayor Mahool. of Baltimore
will deliver an address of welcome to
the visiting peace advocates. Hamil.
ton Holt. president of the congress.
will then speak on "A League of
Peace" Andrew Carnegie, DIR. Ben
jamin Trueblood OF the American
Peace society. Boston; Prof. Leo S.
Rowe, of the University of Pennsyl-
vania. and Hon. William c. Dennis, of
Washington. ID. c., will also speak at
the opening session. Rev. DIR. Lyman
Abbott and DIR. Albert Shaw will de-
liver addresses on "A Substitute For
War;"
On the Program.
the program OF Thursday and Fri.
day are:
James Brown Scott, of Washington !:
Allen s. Will: Pres. Samuel p
: Brooks, of Taylor university; Prof
Phi;ander p. Claxton. of the Universi.
ty Of Tennessee: Prof. Edwin b.
Craighead, of Tulane university, New
Orleans:: Hon. Champ Clark, Speaker
of the house of representatives; The
Minister of Belgium: DIR. T. Iyenaga,
Of New York City; Baron d'Etourfnel
les de Constant: Rev. Frederick Lynch
OF New York City; Mrs. Mary Wright
Sewall, of Boston. Mass, and Senator
Henri La Fontaine. president of the
Permanent International Peace Bureau
Of Berne, Switzerland: Huntington
Wilson. Assistant Sesretary of State:
Prof. John II. I.atane. of Washington
and Lee university: Congressman
Richard Bartholdt. of Missouri: Prof
r. II. Griffin. Dean of John Hopkins
university: Congressman James a
Slayden. OF Texas: F. w. Boatwright
president Of Richmond college; Sena
tor Theodore E. Burton, of Ohio: Hon
John Barrett. OF the Pan-American
Union: A. d. Call. president of the
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