The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-12-17
Speakers Before Southern Com
mercial Congress Talk
About Peace.
TO PREVENT FUTURE WARS
Plans for the League to Enforce
Peace UnfOlded-David Lubin
on Agricultural Topics.


Southern Commercial Congress, in
seventh annual convention here
Many prominent speakers stressed
the necessity for preventing war,
rather than attempting to stop it
after strife has broken out.
Prof. Abbott Lawrence Lowell,
president of Harvard University and
chairman of the executive committee
of the League to Enforce Peace,
told the delegates that his league de-
sires to establish among nations n
vigilance committee similar in many
ways to those which were the first
steps toward legal authority on the
frontier in the early days of the re-
public.
Arguments to show the advantage
of peaceful settlement between ma
tions rather than resort to war also
were made by Philip II. Gadsden Of
Charleston; Oscar Straus, former
ambassador to Turkey; Herbert $.
Houston, chairman Of the leagues
committee on information, and John
IL. Stewart, a member of the league.
international anarchy" was the
subject of paper along similar
lines, prepared by Theodore Mar
burg, former United States minister
the congress. The League to En-
force Peace, organized at Philadel-
phia last June with former President
Taft as president, had charge of the
night session of the congress.
Mr.. Stewart in urging internation-
al peace declared that he did mot
believe it would be possible to make
the United States one of the lead
ers of or a member of any league
to enforce peace except there be
brought about radical change in
political and social conditions in the
direction of a national unity and a
more spiritual and less material and
mouthy patriotism"
There are two tremendously inn
portant tasks ahead of the United
States" he said. Zone of them is
the establishment of foreign poll
cy which will be truly and typically
American and the other the unifica-
ton of our citizenship in a patriotic
lnter-relationship which shall make
the hyphen an alien and an out
cast"
Mr.. Houston declared that "when
the South struck her colors so years
due 10
Ing, irresistible force of economic
pressure" and that today the En-
tente allies are exerting that same
pressure against Germany.
Il submit" he said, "that a force
powerful enough to end wars will be
powerful in many cases to prevent
them" The League to Enforce
Peace, he said. stood for prevent
ing wars through pressure.
Mr.. Straus. who when secretary
OF commerce and labor aiding in
organizing the Southern Commercial
Congress, urged the principles OF the
peace league, declaring 1--WE must de-
velop a new conscience which will
put no geographical limits upon right
and Justice"
Wars were declared to be the re-
suit Of condition of international
anarchy" in Mr.. Marburg's address. |
David Lubin, United States dele
gate to the International Institute of |
Agriculture at Rome, in the after
noon session, spoke for the farmer.
He said:
This country Is old and feeble, |
Just to the extent that we allow the
landowners to leave the land, and
the renters to take heir places. Who
would shoulder a gun and fight for
q boarding house?"
He urged that a system be provid-
ed by the government whereby in
dividual farmers might get sufficient
credit, and that steps be taken to
teach them proper marketing sys-
TEN.
Rural credits also were urged by
representatives of the House of
Southern Governors attending the
congress. Governor Manning of
South Carolina and Governor Stuart
of Virginia were the only Southern
governors participating but several