Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-08-11
HONOLULU MANS PEACE Plan
BROACHED TO MANY NATIONS

r. Difficulties between first class
power and a second class power or be,
tween any OF the lesser powers will
be arbitrated.
IL. Abolition OF death sentence OF
alleged spies to be insisted upon.
IA. Whereas the practise OF throw.
ing bombs into cities or places endan-
gers the lives of non-combatants, such
practise should be prohibited.
Is. Whereas lives and property OF
non-combatants have been constantly
endangered by floating mines, since
they have become factors in maritime
warfare, the use of marine mines for
the protection OF harbors, straits or
rivers should be prohibited.
Is. Whereas the Monroe Doctrine is
obnoxious to both European and South
American countries. and therefore will
create, sooner or later, international
questions or cause serious compiled
tons, II is advisable to abrogate the
same.
Letters Are Answered
At about the same time that the let
ter was sent to President Wilson, a
letter containing the same proposals
for peace was sent to the doctors
father in Germany, a man S6 years
OF age, who before he was retired by
the emperor, served as instructor in
modern languages in the imperial
schools of Germany.
The presidents reply to the pro
pcsals was received in due time, and
almost TO the surprise. certainly to
the great joy Of the doctor. seemed
TO favor the suggestions which the
plans carried. The first letter from
the presidents secretary is printed
here. Others received from him are Of
such nature that the doctor feels he
would be violating sacred confidence
IL he allowed them to be printed at
the present time.
Department of State,
washington, d. G.
November IA, 1914.
Doctor F. Schurman,
Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii.
Sir: The Secretary of State directs
me to acknowledge the receipt, by ref
erence from the White House. of your
letter of October 18th, and in reply to
inform you that your suggestions for
the permanent establishment of peace
have received the attention of the De-
partment.
am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
fSigned) E. c. SWEET,
Confidential Clerk.
1.-THE letter which came to me later
from my father" says DR.. Schurmann,
was the hardest blow I have ever re-
ceived. / had presumed up to the time
when received 1t that all the Ger
man people were wanting to see the
war brought to an end and had sup
posed that my father would fairly snap
lp any proposals Of the sort which !
should make.
ION the other hand, his message to
ne was one of scorn, that / should
.hink Of offering such proposals for
peace when the country was engaged
N a war which he felt could not re-
suit otherwise than with a final good
or Germany and for the world.
"sWe shall never conclude peace, he
wrote, until Russia is driven back
across her own country, until France
s on her knees begging for mercy,
ind Great Britain is sunk beneath the
,cean. Already we hear the death rat
lie In Great Britain's throat.
DR.. Schurmann says that this was
he first letter that told him how great
Y the martial spirit had sunk into the
rery heart of Germany.
"In every letter since that time,
lie says, my father and mother write,
,egging me to come back and fight
or the Fatherland, and suppose l
hould do so even yet were my
strength to come entirely back to me.
have three brothers fighting in the
var, also three brothers-in-law, and OF
ny near relatives. so are at the front.
Writes Secretary Bryan
Following the receipt of the favor
BILE letter from Washington, DR..
'churmann Immediately wrote again
o Secretary Bryan as follows:
Honolulu, T. H.. Jan. 16, 1915.
he Secretary of State,
washington, D. G.
near Sir
The reply to my letter of October IA
cached me November 10, ana am
realty pleased to know that my sug-
estions were deemed worthy of con-
Iteration.
Carefully watching developments,
m more than ever impressed with
he feasibility OF my thoughts and
ave ventured to further my plans by
rriting to the chief magistrates of
en- other neutral countries. A copy
4 such a letter is herein enclosed
nd is self-explanatory
On one point, that is clause ) in A
For the establishment Of peace be-
ween the warning nations" mention
ng the incorporation of-"The Meth
rlands and her possessions with Ger
Many we must not lose sight of the
act that the Hollanders have never
orgotten their struggle with England
or naval supremacy; that Van Tromp |
nd De Ruyter are still their greatest
eroes: that the wiping out of the
wo Dutch Republics in South Africa
S fresh in their memories; and that
1000 young Hollanders emigrate I
early to Germany in order to better
heir conditions becoming Germans
n fact.
7 hayo ooundod b,,n drodc of uoI.