Arizona republican., 1916-05-20
LEAGUE COMMENDED BY
 BUSINESS MEN
Republican A. p. Leased Wlre1

 MOHONK LAKE, N. r., May -9.-I Representatives sent to the Lake Mohonk conference on international arbitration by business organizations in a score or more large cities of the United States presented resolutions today commenting the League to En- 1 force Peace.
 l The Business Mems League strong ! lv condemned the perpetuation of militaristic aim and methods. It rec ognizes the need of adequate equip ment for national defense,' but dep- recated "any measures looking to- ward excessive military and naval in creases."
 The paragraph endorsing the league follows:
 We commend the constructive eff i forts toward world organization as eXemplified in the progress of the league to enforce peace, for concert of powers by which the signatories agree to have recourse to a justicial arbitration court for the submission
 of justiciable issues and a council
 of conciliation for n-justiciable
 questions, before resorting to hostile
 measures, and joint use primarily if
 economic pressure through non-inter-
 course and secondarily by military
 force to complete submission to this
 procedure"
 William F. Slocum, president of
 Colorado College, was a speaker at
 the closing session tonight.
 The Bolivian minister to the United States, Senor Don Igano Calderon,
 spoke before the conference today on the hopeful situation in the western
 world as a result of the doctrine of
 PanAmericanism.
 Tt is certainly with a feeling of hearty thankfulness," he said, that ' we find the spirit of n-American- . ism every day taking deeper root in , the public opinion of the republics of
 this hemisphere
 The Monroe doctrine will remain
 in force and will have the support |, of all the republics because America Q has been dedicated to democracy ir I many bloody battles, and is the cher l ished inheritance left to our care by 5 the heroes that fought and won oul f liberty and independence.
 "The English colonies had. from tn,
 beginning, marked advantages ovel
 the peoples of the southern conti.
 nents They grew and lived iron
 their inception in the practice O < self-government The colonists tha came here were men of high mora
 and political ideas; they came in
 spired by the spirit of religious lib e erty and freedom in the management d of their affairs.
 e If we pass to the history of tn e Spanish colonies how different tn
 picture, how painful the contrast. Tn d Spanish conquistadores did not com T, seeking for liberty; they thirsted fo Il gold and plunder. Mexico and Per d were then organized and populou s. countries and to subdue them n al mercy was shown; and disregarde K all humane considerations, brave an ,u daring as the Spaniards are they di e- not hesitate to butcher the Indian y' and submit them to most abjeC '- slavery.
 ct Inspired by the writings of th T. philosophers of the eighteenth cer LII tury, the great upheaval of the revo 1- lution, and following the example " the United States, the Spanish co
 onies undertook to free themselvt ed of their masters. For fifteen veal st they fought bitter and bloody fight lg until independence was achieved; bl S the habits of arbitrary rule remaine D. They entered in the life of indt u' pendence unprepared for the difficu CT duties of freedom and self-goverr
 ment
 ne But the period of apprenticeship ne passing, and peaceful, orderly govern ne ments rule in most of the Lat ne countries. They have entered ros es of genuine progress and self develop ne ment.
 US The Pan American doctrine meai
 the community of aspirations,
 ideals and interests of all the repul -te lies of America without infringing ( we each others sovereign rights; the GU ol tivation of one grand. generous sent ke ment of good will and co-operatiC le' in the noble task of working for maj ny kinds welfare, for peace and pr eh gress; Pan Americanism mea si- strong things and developing of o ez commercial relations, under the bas ed of mutual confidence and advantag ad the elimination of international wa
 through the spirit of righteousne all and justice toward each other" nat