Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-01
PEACE congress
now IN SESSION
Nineteen Countries of the Vest
ern Hemisphere Are Repre-
snted at Meeting.
CARNEGIE ASSERTS U. S.
WOULD ASSIMILATE FOES
When They'd Get Tired March
ing, He Says, They'd Set
tie Down.

ST. LOUIS, May line fouftn
American Peace Congress opened its
three-day convention in this city to-
& day Delegates from nineteen coun-
tries of the Western Hemisphere were
n attendance. Andrew Carnegie, one
Of the three honorary presidents,
made the principal address today.
Mr.. Carnegie said;
sLittle do our people realize the
ess.S of what is called national de-
fens. Z against imaginary foes Of army
and naval officials, doomed to live
4 peace ful days and spend their lives
dream ing of active life which they are
aesfine b never to experience. Not one
ADMIRAL or captain, not one officer IN
our army or navy was ever engaged
IN war, ever fired hostile shot, II
4 1--we exse1 vt the petty skirmishes in
vafved inv expelling Spain from our
[eontfnei1t.
a.rhe Jar my estimates for this year
+ arc S149At5, 1870. Navy estimates Sl54,-
100000. The actual expenditure
usl1allyG xceeds the estimates by
sonne min 10. ps
.sHere ure find that in round num-
<hers. alwa VS. tending to increase, our
military aid naval expenditures COM
blned exec seds $500, 900 per year,
/ 3nst about 81 00,00o,000 every working
fiav. a ruint 'usA insurance price TO pay
Tor supposed security from invasion,
Nom which we have been free for 100
Ears and which today is imprac-
Effcable.
IT is held tn at one of our prime
reeds today is residences for our am
| hassadors abnoada the supply of mil
/ lionaires willing to serve being
limited Why not decide to vote no
more dreadnoilghs till the five now
under construc ton are completed? A
1 single one omitted and we have S15,-
Una. 600. sufficient. to pay for sixty en-
bassies costing $3.50 900 apiece.
THE last census shows that we
/ have no less than 22,O00,000 men SUBJ
iect to militia duty. Imagine an in
xading force preparing abroad to at
tack this force we hold in reserve.
British authorities consider 1t
might be possible for an enemy to
land as many as 100000 men upon
their island in three weeks.
I'VE could cope with seven times
this number of invaders. if we could
only induce them to accept our in
vjfation to march far enough inland
and partalxe of oar hospitality until
they were rested and gave US notice
they were ready to begin operations.
We would probably conquer without
firing a shot. Thousands might de-
aide to stay in the great West and
ksakk and save until they could buy
YARN. We might turn invaders into
citizens.
sMr. Chairman, I should like to go
as missionary to the invaders camp
and preach the blessings of
triumphant democracy.
aSince nations are now bound to-
Eether as members of one body in
feleRraphic communication, and their
Yearly commerce reaches three thou
sand millions of dollars. it Is unreal
sonable that any one nation should
longer be permitted to disturb the
general peace, in which all nations
are more or less concerned.
LET us recognize the truth that
man killing man as a means of set
~tling disputes is the crying sin, curve
and disgrace of our time. and bars
our claim to civilization, that as long
as we tolerate man-kiTling as pro-
tsegsion we remain barbaric-yes,
During the three days attention will
be centred on four subjects which
bear an intimate relation to the
movement for world peace. The first
If these is a "world court" Such a
court was agreed upon at. The Hague
conference in 1907. but definite action
failed because of the inability of the
delegates to agree as to its compost
ton.
Another topic is the Limitation of
arnnaments," which is considered
timely, in view of the recent arma-
ment craze in France and Germany,
and the revelations made by DR..
Iiebknecht respecting the methods Of
the Krupp company in the latter
country
Consideration will be given to the
proposed celebration of the signing of
the treaty Of Client. which inaugu-
rated a hundred years of peace be-
tween Great Britain and the United
STATES The fourth topic is the Pa
mama canal and the situation which
has arisen in connection with the
opening thereof through the proposal
I'd violate the -Pauncefote treaty
III tto <tPPiCofiph W viz RNSHA~ -
canal tolls
Congressman Richard Bartholdt, of
st Louis, president of the American
| Pesce Congress, In his annual address
referred to the war In the Balkans.
stem or fifteen years ago." he asid,
s'the lighting of a match in the Bal
kans would have caused a European
roslflagration. But today the great
powers, averse to disturbance, are
enforcing peace conditions by using
the rod against the unruly children"
Benjamin F. Trueblood, secretary of
the American Peace Society, spoke on
-The Present Demands of the Peace
Movement"
Mr.. Trueblood urged that the United
states take the lead for an agreement
among the powers for limitation of
armaments.
WOMEN HEAR OF TEMPERANCE
The Rev. Harvey Wood, of New
York city, delivered a lecture on tenn