The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-05-09
TALK srIRs PEACE CONGRESS
Sneaker Declares Show of Strength
Prevents Trouble.

St I,ouis-The Peace Congress SYM
nos;,,m on disarmament took an unex-
pected turn when two delegates took
;ssue with speakers on the platform
and declared their theory of disarm-
ament impracticable. Andrew b.
Humphrey. general secretary OF the
American Peace and Arbitration
League. and Henry A. Dadmun, secre-
tarv Of the Army and Navy league,
were the delegates who opposed what
appeared to be the general sense OF
the meeting.
Mr.. Humphrey said he represented a
society standing for an armament con-
sistent with existing conditions and
sufficient to preserve peace.
Mr.. Dadmun declared disarmament
did not prevent the war of 1872, nor
in 1861, when the navy was practical
ly dismantled.
"There is no telling how soon the
United States will have to go to war
in the interests of humanity" he con-
tinued. cit was my good fortune to
attend the last conference at The
Hague. 1t was the weight of our
navy that gave weight to our words
at that conference. A display of force
makes it unnecessary to use force.
eff we enter the 1915 Hague con-
ference with a fifth-rate navy and a
weak naval policy the American dele
cations influence will be exactly fifth
rate
That the United States is under a
moral obligation to admit the ships OF
other nations to the Panama canal on
the same terms on which it admits
American vessels was urged in an ad-
dress before the congress by ex-Vice
President Fairbanks.
81 do not believe" he said, "that
we should force Great Britain to re-
sort to an arbitral tribunal to deter
mine a question that has no basis
either in fact or that in good consid-
GRAFTON of national good faith and ma
tional honor should be settled by our
selves; and if we rightly understand
it, there can be no doubt that it will
be setted in entire harmony with our
manifest national duty"
Mr.. Fairbanks, in reviewing the
history of the canal negotiations, said
that when the Hay-Pauncefote treaty
was before the senate committee on
foreign affairs, the right of the United
| States to discriminate in favor of her
coastwise traffic was considered fully.
Andrew Carnegie delivered an ad-
dress at the morning session, and was
declaring that President Wilson would
win immortal glory by dealing with
the question of world peace, when he
was interrupted by man who called
out:
"How about Japan!'
"Well," replied Carnegie, "Japan
has 10 battleships and we have 33 and
more coming" The questioner ad-
mitted this, but said, "Right now we
are in mortal terror"
Then Carnegie appealed to the au-
dience:
"Let every one who is not afraid OF
Japan stand up" said Carnegie.
Virtually the entire audience, which
filled the large music hall where the
sessions are being held, stood up.
Carnegie then turned to his ques-
toner, saying: Nobody is in mortal
terror but you"
eff man wishes to select the SAT-
est life possible, the one freest from
all danger of violent death, let him
enter our army and navy" said Mr..
Carnegie. "There is not workman
attending machinery or erecting build
ings, or railway employe, or po-
liceman, the soldier of civilization,
whose duty is never to attack, but al
ways to protect, not one but runs far
greater risk of sudden injury or death
than the soldier or marine of our coun-
] try does today -