The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1913-05-27
URGE NATIONS'T
JOIN PEACE FETE
IlienalIooaI CealorpDs ezlDol
Invitation 10 AL
MARKS !! CENTURY Of PEACE.

Resolutions Are Unanimously Adsetsd
Inviting ce.epsratisN Of Natiens In
Making Celebration sf ths eisnins q
the Treaty es ohsnt In 1915 Wseld
Event In csuss ef Peace.
Lake Mohonk. N. Y.-At the conciu-
sion Of the international conference
here to arrange for Q ntting ceIebra-
hon Of the signing Of 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 10 the cause Of universal
peace:
Representatives Of Great Britain.
Of Newfoundland. Of the United States.
OF the Dominion OF Canada, Of ths
commonwealth Of Australia and Of the
municipality Of Ghsnt having been IN
conference concerning an appropriate
Of the centenary Of the
signing Of the treaty Of Client, which
marked the end Of the last information
al war between the British and Ameri.
can peoples. unite In Offering to the
and the peoples Of the
civilized world an earnest Invitation to
take part In making this celebra ton in
every way worthy Of the hundred years
OF peace that It 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
rivalries and differences.
though numerous and severe. may be
settled without the carnage and the
horrors Of war. Although 1t De unrea-
sonable to disregard the possibility OF
conflict arising In the future out Of
mutual or partial misunderstan nding,
ret we gratefully recognize that the
chances Of misunderstanding have
BEEN largely eliminated BY the degree
70 which modern science has facilitat.
ID intercourse and accelerated COM
municatton. We are therefore encour-
lged 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
lllegiances and who speak different
Eongues may probably absorb the en-.
,rgy OF mankind as we'll as offer op.
for the display of the noblest
Ind finest traits Of mind and of char
lcter.
Great Britain has been q c0lonizing
nation. and the United States has
lrawn to the population various and
powerful elements from different coun-
ries and from different dags. There
ore a century Of peace between Great
Britain and her dominions beyond the
'eas on the one hand and the United
states on the other hand touches di.
ectly both the interests and the imagi-
,att0n Of every land to which Great
3ritain's sons have gone as we'll as
hose Of every nation from which the
present day population Of the United
states has been drawn. Such a cele-
,ratiOn will not only mark the close Of
century OF exceptional Significance
Ind importance, but It will call atten.
ion to an example and an ideal that
- earnestly hope may be followed
md pursued in the years to come.
What nations have done nations can do.
We respectfully request his majesty's
Iecretary Of state for foreign affairs
md the secretary of state Of the Unit
ID States to transmit this invitation
through the proper Official channels to
he governments Of the world In order
hat both BY the participation Of gov.
and BY tho cooperation Of
men Of good will III every land this
may be 30 carried out a. to
mark not merely the close Of 100 years
4 peace between English speaking
'eoples. but the opening OF what We
incerely trust will be fresh era Of
|eace and good will between all the
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