The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-10-17

home of David Lowe Dodge, an illus
triouS merchant. In the same year,
the Massachusetts Peace society was
organized and out Of these two grew
the American Peace society-perhaps
now the most important organization
labOr1ng in the cause of peace. 1t Is
significant that in the United States
alone we now have eighty peace So
cleties while there are about 500 in
the world. Since the beginning of the
eighteenth century there have occur
red over 800 successful arbitrations,
all Of which have avoided armed hos
~tilities. We have also had the two
great Hague conferences Of 1899 and
1907, the last n representing forty
four, nearly all of the nations. These
conferences, the next one of which
will occur in 1915, are regarded as the
beginnings of an international legis-
latiVe body and-the international
court of prize and the supreme court
Of nations point to the genesis of an
international judiciary.
1t was in response to the common
idea OF the peace societies that the
American Peace congress movement
was started-animated by the convic-
ton that popular demand for world
peace must come through education
rather than through politics. These
congresses have consistently assem-
oiled the best leaders of the movement
to speak before large delegations of
people from all over the world-not
only peace society delegates, but edu-
Gators, citizens and statesmen holding
high rank in the departments Of gov
eminent. AS the result of Years of
constructive work, the fourth Ameri-
can Peace congress was able to as
semble in st. Louis, the great city of
the middle west, one of the most re-
M a VI a h1n 81 y arif,1 NO. -
times.
"Hither in May came the apostles
Of universal peace. They gathered
from Atlantic to Pacific coasts, from
the u states, from the Great Lakes
region-they presented amazing fig
ureS OF the cost of War-they showed
that present day m%ilitarism is a heav-
Ter handicap upon civilization than ac-
tual fighting-they marshalled in i'm
pressiVe but depressing array, the
millions of men now under arms. TIC
he immediate and crushing expense
of maintenance, they added the indi-
rect loss suffered through the with
draWal of these legions from the pro-
ductive forces of the world.
In vivid words the horrors of war
We're depicted. Besides these pictures
IN sharp contrast We're sketched the
beneficial use to which the wasted
-. 'A1AAS1Afk W. putt
was startling, it was Fascinating, Ii
was mastery, it was convincing.
Three days before the actual open
ing OF h congress-, preliminary meet
ings We're held in. ST. Louis. Through
the churches and schools, ST. Louis
people were prepared for the coming
congress. On April 30 occurred the
Missouri oratorical contest of the Inter
Collegiate Peace association in which
prizes, of SIS and $50 were awarded tc
successful students. On April 80 the
beautiful Jefferson memorial in Forest
park, representing the expenditure Of
about $4,000 remaining from the
Louisiana Purchase exposition, was de.
Dictated. The several high schools o.
the city held special meetings, as.
sembled for the purpose of presenting
national officers of the various peac'
organizations devoted to propagand,
work.
"On Thursday morning, May /, TIL,
fourth American Peace congress open
ed at the Odeon, headquarters of TIL
| congress, where all of the general SEES