New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-16
BARRETT SOUNDS ALARM PEACE ADVOCATES MEET
Lake Mohonk Conference Begins
Three-Day Session.
DR.. BUTLER MAKES POINTS
Hints at Present Politics in Re.
marks on Need of Inter
national Mind"

Mohonk Lake y. Y, May 16-The OPEN
Ing address at the Lake Mohonk Confer.
! ence on International Arbitration. which be-
gan three-day meeting here to-day, was
delivered by Or. Nicholas Murray Butler.
president OF the American Association for
International Cancellation.
| Referring 10 the propitious signs Of peace
when the conference of n year ago was
held, Or. Butler spoke OF the change that
came within sixty days after that meeting.
when war clouds doomed large in the trou-
bles among Great Britain, France and Ger
many adding:
This conference should hold in everlasting
honor the German Emperor and the respon-
slble statesmen of France Germany and
Great Britain, who solved the difficulties
ard allayed the dangers OF the summer OF
! 1911 without permitting the precipitation OF
a colossal and devastating war.
| DR.. Butler spoke OF the rather lame and
impOtent conclusion" OF the consideration
by the United States Senate OF the projected
arbitration treaties with Great Britain and
| France and said:
! The debate fortunately conducted in open
session, revealed that few members of the
! Senate have any real grasp of our interna-
I
OF our international responsibilities. IL IS
! fair TO say that very large majority OF
! the Senate approached the consideration o,
these treaties with entire good VIII anu
| with favorable mind. They appeared, now
ever, to be so little accustomed 20 the study
OF international business and 10 rejecting
J upon the relation OF treaties Ike these 70
the movement of the best opinion through
out the world that many Of them we're
easily led TO give weight TO obstacles ana
! difficulties that were either irrelevant or
wholly unimportant
| The president spoke OF the war between
! Italy and Turkey as an unhappy and dis
couraging event.
! He urged the need Of bringing to the con-
sideration Of public business in its interna-
tional aspects what he called the inter
national mind" which he thus defined
| The international mind is nothing else
! than that habit OF thinking OF foreign rela-
| tons and business and that haOlt OF deai,
! ing with them which regard the several
nations of the civilized world as frlendIy
! and cooperating equals in aiding the prog
ress Of civilization, in Developing coinrnsIuo
! and industry, and in spreading enhgnteh-
ment and culture throughout the world
! When Secretary Hay said that American
/ diplomacy had but two controlling maAIms,
/ tho golden rule and the open door, no
spoke with an international mind. Inc
policy of swagger. that OF swinging sucAs,
/ either big or little, and that Of threatening
| TO double or treble the military armaments
/ and PREPARATIONS OF some other ndtion aIe
not Compatible with the possession OF an
| International mind.
Some OF his hearers suspected hint at
the politics of the day when Dr. Butter
said, among other things;
! In not a few OF the unpleasant interna-
! tonal discussions Of the last lie" years INC
/ nil tod
chief offenders We are given 10 loohlus
with far too much leniency upon a prassa-
dCcio and a bravado which ape true courage
! and genuine patriotism. as wen as n.y..
| rhCse wearisome platitudes which are
| Convenient refuge for those who refuse 10
/ learn 10 think. - l.. 49, M
! The political braggart at home is the po-
IitjcaI bully abroad Unfortunately our
conternporary American public hfe onets
| Illustrations in abundance OF the unhappy
effects of constantly CARVING On go ~ 30
discussion both on the platform an IA Sc &C.
press with the manners OF the PliIIe mp
| and the language Of the hlnatc asylum ~
iarre mart OF the American pubic mas pc
| como 90 accustomed TO highly seasoneI
! political food that II is no iulsgt az, We
! with a merely nutritious poht'cal dlet W.,
! Ar,ericars must be content TO wait UNI.
the present unhappy tlde OF tuIDulet . -, az,
! bad manners has ebbed before We can NehC
ura to Law claim once moro 10 Pld.e
| inaderehin in the development or constfuc-
rive international policies. REFORM OF ih'ea
national procedure, like charity peeihs at
home. !, ON. heat ~ Iift
| ,oiiticar discussion. both national and mr. IT,
national. up out Of the mlre St perso"ih ns,-
and unseemlv controversies oet"eSh u nTr,,
e an and nriyate interests on TO the hign
srornd Of principle. 1t is not fasnionan ~,
;ns, now in some influential quarters u
| have any fixed principles
John Lewis. editor Of The Toronto star,
said in an address that the gradual deNei-
Ionment Of a worlds citizenship wouId mar
war impossible by providing an ou''e' io'
energy and heroism.
As means of fastening THIS ueNe'op''e.s
he advocated national university Al" a.
International journal
Other addresses were delveren py
| uel r. button, OF New York Ut neh'a'..'
. T Trueblood. Of Washington anu III
hort Cobalt OF Berne, Switzerland