The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-05-27
URGE NATIONS TO
join PEACE FETE
International COnfereeS Extend
], Invitation to All.
MARKS CENTURY OF PEACE.

Resolutions Are Unanimously Adopted
Inviting Cooperation Of Nations In
Making Celebration of the Signing of
the Treaty Of Client In 1915 a World
Event In Cause of Peace.
Lake Mohonk, N. Y.-At the conclu-
sion of the international conference
here to arrange for a fitting celebra-
tion Of the signing CT the treaty of
Client In 1915, at which time one hun
dred years Of peace between English
speaking peoples will have been com.
pleted. the following manifesto was
unanimously adopted by the conferees
and Is presented to the English speaking
world and to those In other nations In
terested in the cause Of universal
peace:
Representatives of Great Britain,
OF Newfoundland, Of the United States,
of the Dominion of Canada, Of the
commonwealth Of Australia and of the
municipality Of Client, having been in
conference concerning an appropriate
celebration Of the centenary of the
signing OF the treaty Of Client, which
marked the end Of the last internation-
al war between the British and Ameri-
can peoples. unite In offering to the
governments and the peoples of the
civilized world an earnest invitation to
take part In making this celebration In
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OF peace that 1t commentaries.
We invite such cooperation to the
end that 1t may be made clear and un-
mistakable to public opinion every
where that the time has come when
international rivalries and differences,
though numerous and severe, may be
settled without the carnage and the
horrors Of war. Although II be unrea-
sonable to disregard the possibility of
conflict arising In the future out OF
mutual or partial misunderstanding,
yet we gratefully recognize that the
chances of misunderstanding have
been largely eliminated by the degree
In which modern science has facilitat-
ed intercourse and accelerated com
munication. We are therefore encour-
aged to hope that the development OF
letters, science and the arts, OF com
merce. industry and finance, of mutual
knowledge, trust and good feeling on
the part of those who owe different
allegiances and who speak different
tongues may probably absorb the en-
ergy Of mankind as well as offer OPP
portunity for the display Of the noblest
and finest traits of mind and of char
acter.
Great Britain has been a colonizlng
nation, and the United States has
drawn to the population various and
powerful elements from different coun-
tries and from different flags. There
fore a century of peace between Great
Britain and her dominions beyond the
seas on the one hand and the United
States on the other hand touches di-
rectly both the interests and the imagi-
nation OF every land to which Great
Britain's IONS have gone as well ms
those of every nation from which the
present day population OF the United
States has been drawn. Such q cele-
bration will not only mark the close of
a century OF exceptional significance
and Importance, but II will call atten-
ton to an example and an ideal that
we earnestly hope may be followed
and pursued in the years to come.
What nations have done nations can DO.
We respectfully request his maJesty's
secretary Of state for foreign affairs
and the secretary of state OF the Unit
ed States to transmit this invitation
through the proper official channels to
the governments Of the world In order
that both by the participation OF gov
ernments and by the cooperation of
men of good will In every land this
celebration may be SO carried out as to
mark not merely the close of 100 years
Of peace between English speaking
peoples, but the opening OF what we
sincerely trust will be a fresh era of
peace and good will between all the
nations Of the world.