Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-03
Peace Congress Delegates
Adopt Resolution at
St. Louis.
CHANGE IN LAW SOUGHT
Holds Exemption of American
CoaStWiSe Shipping From
Fee Payment Is Wrong.

st. Louis, No, May 3-The national
peace congress today adopted resolu-
tions urging repeal of the clause of
the Panama canal act exempting Amer
ican coastwise vessels from payment
of tolls. The congress also appealed
to the California legislature and to
the national administration to secure
such just and impartial settlement of
the question of alien ownership of
land as may not discriminate against
citizens of a great and friendly pow
er, and turn long standing friendship
into enmity ana friction for the future
"A Century of Anglo-American
| Peace" was the topic for considera-
tion at the peace congress today.
William Renwick Riddell, supreme
/ court justice of Ontario, said ques-
/ tions more difficult of settlement than
any settled by war had been adjusted
( peacefully between the United States
and Great Britain.
WORLD EXAMPLE SET.
Canada and the United States
have set the world the example
of new kind of international
relation" said John Lewis, editor
of the Toronto Star, at the
fourth American peace congress here
today. Mr. Lewis spoke on "The
Identity of the Interests of the United
States and Canada.
The modern peace movement is
not visionary or sentimental neither
! is It Wholly based upon business in
terests," said Mr.. Lewis. ut is sim
ply a part of the progress OF civiliza-
tion. 1t advances with the growing G
recognition that the true interests OF
nations are not conflicting, but identi,
cal. The more usefully governments
and nations are employed, the less
they have to fight about
THE growing interest of govern
ments in social reform is one of the
forces making for peace. The inter
national gatherings of scientists and
others having common interests are
the beginnings of the parliament OF
man. The scientist who is seeking q
cure for tuberculosis in Germany car
have no rational cause of quarrel with
the man who is seeking a cure for tu
berculOsis in France. In Canada OF
in the United States, we men auC
governments are busy in fighting dis
ease, dirt insect pests and weeds il
the physical world-crime and ignor
ance and injustice in the moral world
The more society concerns itself witt
hn hn n
, war. In these conflicts also will bt
found the true outlet for human ener
gy and human combativeness. Tht
militants are right when they sa!
that action and conflict are necessar!
for the full development of human
character, but they are after tn,
, wrong enemies.
/ ENEMIES WITHIN STATE.
Man has no natural enmity witt
man His worst enemy is within him
5 self, and just so the worst enemies o
state are within the state. TIL
5 broad conception of patriotism is pull
. lie service as contrasted with selfish
t ness, and there is no reason why pull
a lie service should stop at a nationa
e boundary or why there should not b
: a patriotic citizen of the world.
Canada and the United States haV
a set the world the example of a neN
: kind of international relation. DiS
S putes far more serious than those tha
= have led to war elsewhere have bee
t settled by arbitration. But We mus
+ not be satisfied with a mere negi
tive advantage, freedom from va
and from the apprehension of wa
We must make full use of our excel
= ional advantages. We must look, nc
o backward to the year 1913, but TO
u ward to 2013.
THE three stages Of deveIopmer
. may be thus indicated-in 1913, wa
in 1913, peace, in 2O13, friendship an
active cooperation in social reform
inspired by all the courage and enc
gy which were once devoted to wa
Our anniversary celebration should
p not merely peace, but of civilization
the principles of industry and scisnc
Our anniversary sculptors and pain
ers shall show nations, not res
Y ing, but fighting side by side again!
n the common enemy of mankind"