The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-05-15
WOI|dCouIlC0ngfess
Opens AuspiiciiOus|y
Movement Launched Wh' GIRLS Claim.
ed by lts Advocates to Be the
Greatest Step Ever Taken Toward
Lasting Peace ~

| court congress, a movement was for
mally launched which its advocates
claim is the greatest advance yet
taken toward lasting peace among the
world powers.
Prominent men from all over the
country, including William II. Taft,
Alton b. Parker, and Henry Clews,
were present, giving assurance. May
or Newton ID. Baker said in his well
coming address that the movement
rs not visionary, not impractical. I"
Others attending the congress are
Henry Lane Wilson, William Dunley
Foulke, DR.. Harry A. Garfield, Jere-
miah w. jerks, Prof. Samuel T.
Button, Thomas Raeburn White, Dr.
John Wesley Hill and Dr.. Albert
Shaw. John Mitchell and General
Booth are expected later.
Congressman William w. Wilson
of Chicago today was elected secre.
tary of the congress.
Plans International Tribunal
The congress plans an information.
al court of justice founded on an
agreement to which all the great pow
ers would be signatory. All sigma.
tory nations would submit their dis
putes to the court. One not so do
ing would be subjected to the COM
bined pressure Of the others. Each
speaker at the opening session dwelt
on the stable character of the con.
gress plan.
"This body is not so foolish as to
conceive that war will be made i'm
possible by such court" said John
Hays Hammond, chairman, in an ad-
dress opening the deliberations.
what we hope to do Is to minimize
the possibilities of war" s,
Aim to Be Practical y
Former President Taft said:
"A movement like this loses force
by making claims OF what It will ac-
complish. But we are trying to- be
practical. We are not rainbow chas-
ers and We are not Offering millen
MUM"
Mr.. Taft had not been scheduled
to speak at the afternoon session but
yielded to demands from the audi
ence that he do SO.
Judge Alton b. Parker responded
to similar appeals. He made an at
tack on the United States Senate,
which he said had nullified previous
attempts at treaty making which
would have insured the United States
against war with Great Britain or
France. He declared that the opinion
of the American people must be SO
decidedly nodded, that when the time
comes for an international agreement
the United States will be certain to
be a signatory, the Senate notwith.
standing. .sit
Expects European Welcome
And" he added. does anyone
doubt but that when the awful con-
fiiet In Europe is ended, the warning
nations, viewing their dead and their
devastated countries. will welcome a
plan which promises an end of such
disasters?" -
Mr.. Taft was the only speaker at
the afternoon session who alluded to
the delicate situation In which the
United States finds itself as result
Of the war. He said:
AT time when nearly all of Eu-
rope is at war and our own country
is uncomfortably near to the dis
turbance the launching of a plan, for
an international court of justice seem
propitious."
Mr.. Taft, Mr.. Parker and Balm
bridge Colby of New York. were the
speakers at the night session, their
addresses relating to the general top
ic of the United States supreme court
the prototype of world court" Mr..
] Parker was presiding officer.
Mr.. Taft Outlines Plans
Mr.. Taft outlined his plan for the
establishment of league of peace
and an arbitral court with the Object
of settling by arbitration differences
between the nations of the world and
preventing further wars.
Such a league should include AL
the great nations, Mr.. Taft explain
ed, with an agreement that should
any signatory power begin war
against another member without first
submitting its grievance to the court
all the other signatories would be
bound TO poin in a forcible defense
of members thus prematurely attack
ed.
That this idea of an international
tribunal is practical and feasible,
Mr.. Taft said, is shown by the sue.
cessful operation of the constitution.
al courts OF arbitration in this ,oun.
try which have settled controyers.
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