The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-08-18
PACIFISTS OF THE WORLD ARE
TO GATHER IN CONFERENCE
AT THE HAGUE.
CONGRESS OPPORTUNE
EUROPE HAS JUST WITNESSED
SCENES OF CARNAGE AND Is
ABOUT TO HEAR THE
il. kRUPP CHARGES. .

THE HAGUE, Aug. 1T.--This Is the
great exposition year in Holland.
Every city is in gala dress and 10 this
festive circumstances is added the very
romantic occasion of opening the
Palace of Peace, where the superna-
tional court Of justice will soon reign.
Stead proclaimed The Hague the
Capital of the world and in this
role IL VIII receive the twentieth uni
versal peace congress. every munich
pality Joining. and His Royal Highness
Prince Henry taking the protectorate.
This is the first time royal parsonage
has done such a thing, and II commands
the respect of the European leaders,
who a decade before could only scoff
at peace congresses. The program
lasts from August 1Sth-e3rd.
Holland is the proudest and most
democratic gem that crests the North
sea 1t is the one international State
which has given life TO every progress
sive act Of history which has chosen
her aowery canaled main land as a
starting point, including the Pilgrim
Fathers. Little Holland has dared
play the biggest roles in history. The
tnternationalist feels at home there.
and paetfists love 1t as their fatherland.
Several hundred Netherlanders are on
the committees and the twentieth
peace congress Is looked upon as a
national festival.
The Great Pact1sts.
Among the great pacifists present
are: NJ. La Fontaine, of Belgium; Go
bat and Arnaud. of Switzerland; de
Meday. lie Foyer. NJ. Guyot. and d.
Estournelles. of France; Alfred Fried
and Baroness Won Suttner, of Austria
Professor Quidde. of Germany; Mr..
Andrew Carnegie, ts the central figure
from the United States. as the donor
of the Peace Palace. Mr. Norman
Angel tRalph Lane). the author of the
Great Illusion" Mrs. May Wright
Sewall. of Indianapolis chairman of
the peace department of the interna-
tional council. and it's founder; Mrs.
Samuel Untermeyer. of the New York
Peace society: Mr.. Arthur d. Call. ex-
ecutive directors of the American
Peace society of Washington; Mrs.
Andrea Hofer- Proudfoot president of
the League of International Amity. Mr.,
and Mrs Frederick Nathan, of New
York
This congress is very opportune,
for the commoners of Europe have
walked TO the awfulness OF the bloody
uselessness of war, during this Balkan
fasco started for the love OF the holy
cross and patriotic devotion to free
the brother from the Turk, ending in
huge massacre of brother by brother
| for the sake OF the booty. Another
eye-opener for the tag payers and war
burdend peasants are the 900 separate
charges which have been brought
against the Krupp gun factory in the
trial just to begin in Berlin. wherein
Etheyeare exposed in creating war scares
for the sake of selling their wares
through lobbying legislators
Questions Before Congress.
Tha thfokerS of eyarv rouutrv 1cnk
with amusement upon governments
that expect to settle their diplomatic
and commercial questions by chopping
up innocent men with machinery. The
present military octopus cannot be
fed any other way but the resentment
OF the masses win soon overwhelm
these governments, and demand that
public disputes be settled with law and
| Justice After all the carnage, when
| the "leave-overs" Of the battle must
| fee from their homes to escape cholera
the diplomats sit at a distance and de-
eide over the wires what is what"
and whose Is whose
The twentieth peace congress viii
especially urge the questions of "A
| Code OF International Law" "Interna-
tional Police" Commercial Rivalry
and International Relations" "The
Limitation, and GrA~ual Proportional
Reduction Of -Armaments," and In fact
Will offer the world through It's great
est students Of tho question. legal lines
for its solution. They are Indeed
world patriots who plan = substitute
for human siauRhtar ~ q means o.
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