The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-12
TAFTS PROPOSAL
IN LETTER HERE
Former President Would Create seHti-
ment Among Business Men 70
Favor Plan for Worac
Peace
WRITES TO ASSOCIATION
Industrial Body Here Receives sos
gestson Along This Lire
Thst May &c
Followed.


create Eeurtuslt among business men
Fl szyor OF rational plan to- world
pezee. to be worked cut through IL
terlatfonsI agreement after peace has
been declared IN Europe. are evil
de1es6 By personal Latter which
Ess made public yesterday. written
by him 10 the head Of the KsoE1k
Industrial association
arguing that the recurrence OF
r0pe ought, /. possible, 10 be pre-
vented, Ar Taft II his letter urges
the nse-nbers Of the Organization 70
cooperate II sa effort 70 mould pub
lie opinion both In this country and
abroad, IN favor Of z league Of the
great powers, who shall agree not 10
20 TO war in any case, UnrI the
question has been passed upon Judi
cfaIy, the nations agreeing also 10
use their joint military and economic
forces against any nation refusing to
keep the pact
Mr. Taft refers particularly TO the
referendum OF the chamber OF COM
rnsrce Of the United States Of Amer
tca on the report OF that bodv'z spe-
clai committee on economic results
Of the var and American business.
This referendum viii come up shortly
for consideration on the part of the
business men here who are members
Of the Industrial association
The Idea for Peace.
Nr- Tafr'g request Is made at this
time, II was explained yesterday, in
view Of the fact that TIE referendum
in question outlines q plan for world
peace, almost identical with that con-
tanned in the proposals OF the league
10 enforce peace, which was organ
lied by Mr. Taft, President A Law
renee Lowell OF Harvard university,
ard other men Of nation wide prou1i-
hence ar Philadelphia In Indepen-
dence hall. last June Mr.. Taft who
fs the president of the league writes
as follows:
THE friendly reference made to
the platform Of the league to enforce
peace on page four Of referendum
of the United States Of America
seems to the officers Of the league IL
create natural ocrasion for calling
1t to your personal attention, and to
that OF your members
AT the same tine | want 70 extend
a very cordial invitation to you. and
through you to the members II Jon:
organization, to ,oin the league ard
To cooperate with 1t as activeIr as
you are able IN the organization that
ff about to be undertaken in your
etate
1.-The irremediable injury that
would result TO the whole world In
case a way should not be found, at
tine close of the European conflict,
TO make war less threatening, and to
render it less frequent, has induced
considerable number of leaders in the
realms both Of statesmanship and of
business to combine in an effort to
create sentiment in our own and 9th
er countries, in favor Of the propos-
ais that we're put forward at the
Philadelphia conference
1.-The obvious and urgent need that
led the committee OF the chamber to
draw up its admirable report, and the
board of directors to authorize its
submission, il an eloquent argument
in favor Of combined effort to do
all which human ingenuity and de-
yotfon can, to prevent the recur-
renee of such catastrophe a. the
world is now experiencing"
Would Make Agreement.
The proposals of the league to en-
force peace, referred to in Mr. Taft's
communication. which were adopted
at the, Independence hall meeting
are:
That the United States Join
league OF nations. who shall agree to
the following:
l. The establishment of an in.
ternational tribunal or world
court, which shall pass on all
justfciable questions arising be-
tween nations.
g. The establishment Of an IN
ternationa1 tribunal TO be known
as a council of Cancellation which
shall pass on all non-justiciablc
questions, that is, questions
which cannot be settled IN &C
cordance with the principles of
law and equity.
g. The signatory powers to
use forthwith their joint economic
and military forces against any
nation which has Joined the
league, but which goes to war, or
begins acts Of hostility against