The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-12-13
EX-PREsIDENT TAFT
ASKS COOPERATION
WORLD PEACE MOVE
IN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OF
PENSACOLA CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE, RATIONAL PLAN
SUGGESTED TO RECENT RE-
CURRENcE OF EUROPEAN EN-
BROGLIo.

Ex-President Taft has written to
the president Of the Pensacola Cham
Der of Commerce, asking him and the
other members of his organization to
cooperate in an effort to create senti-
ment among business men in favor of
a rational plan for world peace, to
be worked out through international
agreement after peace has been de-
ciared in Europe.
Arguing that the recurrence of such
conflict az now RACES in Europe
ought if possible, to be prevented, Mr..
Taft, in his letter urges the members
OF the organization to cooperate in
an effort to mould public opinion both
in this country and abroad, in favor
of league of the great powers, who
shall agree not to go to war in any
case, until the question has been
passed upon judicially, the nations
agreeing also to use their joint mill
tary and economic forces against any
nation refusing to keep the pact.
Mr.. Taft refers particularly to the
referendum Of the Chamber of Com
merce Of the United States of Amer
lea on the report of that body's spe-
cial committee on Economic Results
Of the War and American Business"
This referendum will come up shortly
for consideration on the part of the
business men here who are members
Of the Chamber of Commerce.
Reason For Request.
Mr.. Taft's request is made at this
time, it was explained yesterday, in
view of the fact that the referendum
In question outlines a plan for world
peace, almost identical with that con-
tanned in the proposals of the League
to Enforce Peace, which was organ
lied by Mr.. Taft, President A. Law
renee Lowell, of Harvard University,
and other men Of nation wide prorni-
nence at Philadelphia in Independence
Hall, last June. Mr.. Taft, who is
the president Of the league, writes
as follows:
sThe friendly reference made to
the platform of the League to En-
force Peace on page four of Referen-
dunn No. IL of the Chamber Of Com
merce of the United States Of Amer
lea seems to the officers of the league
to create a natural occasion for cali
ing it to your personal attention, and
to that of your members.
"At the same time / want to extend
a very cordial invitation to you, and
through you to the members Of your
organization, to join the reague and
to cooperate with it as actively al
you are able in the organization that
is about to be undertaken in your
state.
"The irremediable injury that would
result to the whole world in case q
way should not be found, at the close
Of the European conflict, to make wal
less threatening, and to render it less
frequent, has induced q, considerable
number of leaders in the realms both
of statesmanship and of business to
combine in an effort TO create senti-
| ment in our own and other countries
in favor of the proposals that were
put forward at the Philadelphia con-
ference.
"The obvious and urgent need thai
| led the committee of the chamber K
draw up its admirable report, and ths
board of directors to authorize its
| submission, is an eloquent argument
in favor Of combined effort to do al
which human ingenuity and devotion
can, to prevent the recurrence Of suef
catastrophe as the world is now ex
/ periencing."