Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18
ARBITRATION AT
LAKE MOHONK
Advocates Of Peoce From Many Ma.
tlons Meet to Promote Worldwide
Peace

Lake Mohonk, May lin his ad-
dress before the delegates TO the
eighteenth annual meeting OF the Lake
Mohonk Conference on International
Arbitration, William G. Deming. OF
Cheyenne, declared today that the sue
cess OF the movement for internation-
Oh peace was conditional on the sup
port OF the press of different nations.
The time has come, he said. when Ii
has become the plain duty OF the press
TO take more than a bueiness interest
in the movement for the abolition Of
war Mr.. Deming said in part:
Acting in unison, with high and pa
triotic purpose, the newspapers and
magazines by systematic and persist
ent effort can place the United States
in the vanguard of nations ready. anx.
ious and willing to discard the bar
barisms of war.
They create a sentiment within
twelve months which viii force Con.
gress to invite every civilized nation
on the globe TO become an irrevocable
party to an international court, that
will settle every difference which can
possibly arise between nations. includ-
ing all questions of honor, and there
by reduce the armamenis OF the world
to mere police footing,
The press of the nation has not
only a great positive duty in the prem.
ises, but its failure or neglect to seize
the opportunity is nothing less than
criminal"
Learned lawyers of the United
States Senate may bubble over Senate
prerogatiyes as to the treaty making
power; lingo statesmen and capital
istic newspapers may create boyle
questions of honor over which to
throw nations into the horrors of war
but the simple fact remains that the
powers of earth can proclaim and es-
dietment of our national intelligence,
1T is needless to tell this learned
assembly of the enormous demand
militarism makes upon the resources
of the country.
For more than thirty years the
United States has expended for the
creation and maintenance OF armies
and nayies. for pensions and interest
upon war debts. seventy-two per cent
of IT'S revenues, while only twenty
eight per cent has been used for the
administrator and maintenance of
civil affairs.
These figures are the severest in
dictment of our national, intelligence.
and yet it is within the power of the
press to say to Congress: Thus far
and no farther shall thou got
The press should await no psychic
logical moment No miracle will
transpire. We should go forth by the
light we have and with the homely
weapons at hand"
World Wide Peace.
The session was given over at night
to a further consideration of world
wide peace. Messrs. Chr. l.. LANCE
of Norway. general secretary of the
nterparliamentary union, and Otried
Nippold, professor Of International law
at Berne University, Switzerland, de-
liyering addresses.
Mr. Lange reviewed the growth of
the interparliamentary union from a
membership of 20 to a roster of $780,
and stated that the time was now
ripe for a progressive move by the
people toward the establishment of a
peaceful understanding between the
various nations OF the globe. Mr.
LANCE said in part.
States are independent and sover
eign therefore treaties between ma
tons have to be concluded. Neither
is there any superior authority that
can create courts of justice and en-
force their decisions: therefore, ar
bitration, which demands the previous
consent of the parties, Is the regular
method of solving international dis.
putes.
81 shall try to tell how the Inter
parliamentary Union attempts to ad-