The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-04-04
WANTS LOCAL MEN
TO ATTEND meet
HATTIESeURG INVITED TO SEMI
DELEGATES TO PEACE
CONFERENCE.

President T. G. Hannah of the Com
incrcsal 6.uo oi Iiattiesburg mas Sc
ceiYed communication from ex-presi
dent VILLAIN Il. Tait, asking that dele
gates he ser; rom mere to the frs
annual national assenaiase of til.
| League TO enforce Peace, to De held il
! Washington or May % and p. Mr.
Taft is President OF the League.
WITH view to having the country's
business men vel! represented at the
Leagues first annual confercnc. Mr.
raft has sent a like invitation to all
Of the commercial Organizations which
have membership in the Chamber O.
Commerce Of the United States.
The national Chamber OF Commerce
cdopted through rete1endum held he
Gently, an international peace plaD
similar in characte.' to that outlined in
The platform Of tie League to En-
'torce Peace, which consists Of the
following four proposals:
An international court.
An international council of concil-
alton
Al agreement to use the Joint
1fmed anc eIonmic forces of all the
9ignatory powers to compel a submits
sion of al! International disputes to
the court or council before beginning
A0stilities or declaring war.
An international code.
The point OF difference between the
Tart Leagues plan and that of the
national Chamber OF Commerce. lies
III the third proposal. the latter or
&2ni@ation having failed to adopt by
q tWo-thirds vote. the "jo:nt armed
force" clause. The idea of economic
ooycott however was sustc:ael.
Mr.. Taft, in his sitter received here.
sums M the situation as follows:
The commercial organizations CON
'tituting the Chamber OF Commerce Of
the United States by their votes on
referendum Number Eleven express
ed approval of the fundamental prin
'ipio OF The League to Enforce Peace.
indeed ali the specific recommenda-
ions eXempting one were carried by
naJOrities in excess of twO-thirds. |
Am0ng the recommendations thus |
'dorted was ole favoring tie organi- |
dtion Of system of commercial and !
financial non-intercourse. to be applied |
. d nation which entered the pro
'osed league OF nations ana then went |
o war without first submitting a diff
erence which arose to an agreed upon
tribunal.
The enc recommendation which
allied to receive the two-thirds ma
GRITTY necessary to commit the Ma
'onal chamber 10 the proposition was
hat which provided for the use of
lnilitarT force in the
vent that commercial non-intercourse
roVed insufficient to compel nations
'hlch have proceeded to war to degisf
ON military operations and submit
lie questions at issue to an interna.
Onal court or council of cancellation.
whatever may be the ultimate de-
sion of the League of Nations when
lstituted upon this point it would
'ehl that for present practical pur-
0scs the League to Enforce Peace
ay be looked upon as an agency -,
rough which your organization NAV +
Ok for the common program en-
'aced within the approval of the ref :
endum vot..
1T is from this point Oh view, there
re, that your organization is asked
send a delegation to the annual
Getting OF the league"
When the Chamber of Commerce
ferendum was submitted last No
mber Mr.. TAFT wrote to the presi-
nts of local commercial organiza- :
ms as follows: b
The irremediable injury that would
suit to the whole world in case a .
0'lld not be found, at the close "
the k~IaDean conflict, to make war b
IS frequent, has induced a consider =
lie number of leaders in the realms
tn of ste .esmanship and OF bust
IS to corlbine in an effort to ere .
? sentiment in our own and other o.
untries II favor of the proposals | 81