The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-02
HAGUE TRIBUNAL
WAS DISCUSSED
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Peace Congress In Session In st.
Louis Took This up Today
and Hears Prominent
Speakers.
JAPs GET ATTENTION
Booker T. Washington Feels Sorry
for the Americans Who Cannot
Compete With the
Japanese.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
ST. LOUIS, May Problems of
the Hague conference were today
considered by the third general ses-
sion OF the peace congress, with
James Brown Scott, secretary of the
Carnegie Endowment for international
peace, presiding.
"The Hague tribunal, its present
meaning and future promise was
discussed by Professor William I. Hull
of Swarthmore college; Active pro-
motion of International peace as
primary policy of the United States"
by Professor Paul S. Reinsch, Uni
versity of Wisconsin, and the "Pan-
Teutonic pledge of peace by Edwin
T D. Mead, director of the world peace
foundation.
Delegates broke away from the
peace topic this afternoon long enough
to take sightseeing trip about the
city and attend reception at four
o'clock at Shaw's Garden.
On the Japanese question former
Vice President Fairbanks last night
declared from personal experience in
the east. he knew that Japan did not
want war with this nation--that no
one wanted to fight the United States.
Booker T. Washington said that for
years we had been sending mission
aries to Japan to teach the Japanese
THE better way Of living and now that
! they are coming here there comes a
demand for their exclusion. He said
/ he felt sorry for Americans who de.
manded the handicap from the Jap.
anese for fear of not being able to
compete with them.
/ Fairbanks scored the war scare
makers, suggesting the most effective
way to obtain peace would be to
eliminate certain class of polite
ians who are under the influence OF
men who would obtain profitable con
tracts in the event of war or a war
scare sufficient to cause the govern
ment to buy additional munitions I
He also urged that the United States
keep her word with England on the
question of Panama tolls.
Warfare between nations is i'm
moral This was the declaration to
day of Professor William l. Hull, Of
ISwarthmore College.
by parity of reasoning" declar
ed Professor Hull, "it may be justly
contended that nations have no more
right to commit the immortality oil
waging war than kings possess the
divine right of ruling wrong: and tha
jurisdiction to prevent immortality O
warfare may be vested in a court ex
terror to the several nations" Pro
fessor Hull went on to point out tina
the United States supreme court has
recently decided. In prohibiting white
slave trade between states that g;
right exercised In morality cannot b,
urged to sustain right exercised II
morality" Arguing for the immed
late establishment of a worlds su
preme court the speaker quotet
Wilson's inaugural in which thu
president said: "The firm basis @
government is Justice as basis TO
his argument that "it is as logical 70
the supreme court of the forty-eigh
states Of the union to adjudicate th,
laws of the United States as 1t woult
be for the supreme court of the forty
) six states in the family of nations t,
: Iadiudicate the conventions agreed
: upon by that family at The Hague
/, AS an example of the substitution o
I trial by laws instead of by battle, th
speaker referred to "Englands in
! spring example in substituting Law
and courts for war within her owl
borders.''
Another speaker today who receives
a great ovation was President Charlie
, f. Thwing Of Western Reserve I'm
j versity, and president OF the Inter
collegiate Peace Association. Declal
ing college men, as whole, are ir
tensely patriotic, President Thwin
said, "But what is needed today j
! not less of national patriotism, bu
g more OF international patriotism.
e Commerce, finance. communication b
} letter, telegraph, cable and telephone
/ the Concordia movement; the Cord
Fratres movement, and the migratio
9 of students, according to Presiden
9 Thwing, are the four greatest factor
: in the hurrying of universal peace.
e Andrew Carnegie, who was E
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