The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-06
National Economic League
Gives It First Place in Its
Report lust Made.

The proposals Of the League to En-
force Peace, Of which ex-President
Taft is head, are given first place in
report published by the National Eco
nomic League on behalf Of its national
council, which comprises a number OF
prominent residents of West Virginia.
Among these are i. G. Smith, OF
Clarksburg, Judge Ira E. Robinson
and William NJ. o. Dawson, member
of the public service commission, OF
Charleston, and Prof. E. H. Vickers,
of the West Virginia University, Nor
gantown.
When the League to Enforce Peace
was organized by ex-President Tart,
President Lowell of Harvard, and
others, in Independence Hall last june
the conference adopted a platform
consisting of four proposals, providing
as its main feature, that the United
States Join a league of the great pow
ers whose Joint military and economic
forces shall be used to compel the ma
tons to keep an agreement not to de-
clare war or begin hostilities, until a
dispute between any Of them has been
submitted either to an international
court or board of arbitrators. The
plan, however, does not provide for
the enforcement of the decree. Nations
may fight after arbitration, II dissatis-
fed.
The National Economic League is an
organization composed of men in r.
nancial, legal and educational circles,
its national council representing lead
ers of prominence in every state. It's
executive council comprises the fol-
lowing: Franklin X. Lane, secretary
of the interior; Jacob Gould Sherman,
president Of Cornell; David Starr Jor-
dan, chancellor of Leland Stanford
University; Louis D. Brandeis, Of Bos-
ton: John Graham Brooks, Frank j.
Goodnow, president Of Johns Hopkins
University; former United States At
torney General Charles j. Bonaparte,
Voorfeld Storey. former president OF
the American Bar Association; Ed
ward A. Filene, James Speyer, Harvey
., CNHSe Huu u. w. bcdloOA.
It's object is to educate and crystal
ize public sentiment and to make such
sentiment and effective force for good.
Each year a special committee is APP
pointed to study and investigate a sub
ject selected as Of being Of paramount
Importance, and to submit report.
Accordingly the following were APP
pointed to make an analysis of sugges-
tons for the most practicable means
of promoting peace: Samuel ]. Elder,
of Boston, counsel for the United
States in the North Atlantis fisheries
arbitration; William H. Lincoln, pres
ident OF the Economic League Of Bos-
ton; George Grafton Wilson, professor
Of international law, at Harvard;
George Weston Anderson, United
States district attorney for the dis
trict OF Massachusetts,, and Denys
P. Myers.
In setting forth the proposals OF
the Taft league their report says:
1.-THE program Of the League to En-
force Peace was overwhelmingly the
most popular idea, 1t has accordingly
been placed first. There were, how
ever, many expressions Of opinion in
favor of one or more Of its elements,
or very similar to the program as q
whole, or its elements. These have &C
cordingly been arranged so as to fol-
low 1t and form corollarles to It."
The League to Enforce Peace pro-
gram is thereupon set forth under
the head of international organiza-
lions as follows:
First. All justiciable questions
arising between the signatory powers,
not settled by negotiation, shall. sub
ject to the limitations Of treaties. be
submitted to a judicial tribunal for
hearing and Judgment, both upon the
merits and upon any issue as to Its
jurisdiction Of the question.