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Show 'MOUNTAIN PEACE CONFERENCE APPROVES LEAGUE OF NATIONS 1 Delegates From Utah, Idaho and Wyoming Back of Plan for World Peace. Former President Taft and Other Speakers of International Fame Address Mountain Congress of League to Enforce Peace. Salt Lake City. The Mountain congress of the League to Enforce Peace, held in this city February "1 and 22, brought together probably the greatest galaxy of celebrities the peo-pie peo-pie of the inteniioiintuiii section have hail the pleasure of entertaining in the past decade. Reprosen-tative citizens from every section of the iuteniiountain country had journeyed to Salt Lake to take k ' " " J i ks J . v r I I f , y k- 4 hx - - 1 WILLIAM II. TAFT part in the conference, and to listen to addresses by speakers of international fame. " Similar meeting have. been held in eight other of the larger cities of the country, w hich have been addressed by former President William Howard Taft and other distinguished citizens of the United States, but none of the meetings were more enthusiastic than those held at SaJt Lake. Mi-; Taft formed the league to enforce en-force peace in 1914, and is president of the league. He sees no good reason rea-son why a question of such .supreme iliiw,,i!,M,i i. tl.c ,vl,nli ivni-td olwnl,! be made the football of partisan politics, poli-tics, and he does not believe that those who do not -agree with President Wilson Wil-son are justified in advocating the defeat de-feat of the covenant which holds out the hope of peace. Mr. Taft was, of course, the principal princi-pal speaker at the conference, some of the speakers of national fame who addressed the congress being A. Lawrence Law-rence Lowell, president of Harvard university ; George Grafton Wilson, professor of international law at Harvard; Har-vard; Dr. Henry Van Dyke, former minister to The Netherlands; Mrs. Phillip North Moore, President of the National Council of Women ; Henry Morgenthau, . former ambassador to Turkey; Dr. Charles R. Brown, Yale university ; Edward A. Filene, director chamber -of commerce, U S. A.; Captain Cap-tain Thomas Chamberlain. Frank- P. Walsh, former joint chairman chair-man of the war labor board, was detained de-tained in San Francisco and was therefore there-fore unable to address the congress. Former Governor John C Cutler presided pre-sided at the opening session of the congress at the tabernacle, which was packed to the doors. Among the prominent prom-inent Utahns on the program were former Governor William Snrv. Presi dent Heber J. Grant, head of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ; Rev. George E. Davies, pastor of the First Presbyterian church ; Dr. J. A. Widtsoe, president of the University Univer-sity of Utah ; 13. II. Roberts, former chaplain of the 145th field artillery ; J. Will Knight, member of the state senate; Professor .Levi Edgar Young of the University of Utah, and A. E. Harvey, Har-vey, secretary of the Utah State Federation Fed-eration of Labor. At the opening session of the congress con-gress at the tabernacle, Friday evening. eve-ning. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, former minister to The Netherlands, author, scholar and more lately chaplain and Teuton'nnt commander in ' the United States navy, voiced vigorous annrovn! HENRY MOUGENTIIAU j of the proposed league of nations as espoused by President Wilson. Demands for reparation on the part of Germany were expressed by Dr. Van Dyke, who also expressed sentiments against further warfare on the part of the nations. Dr. Van Dyke .not only strenuously voiced approbation of President Wilson's participation in the Paris peace conference and his labors in behalf of the league of nations, but be referred in a complimentary manner man-ner to rhe part former President Taft is playing in efforts to promote the proposed league. . He was most emphatic in his declaration decla-ration that the league as proposed does not interfere with this or any other country's domestic affairs. "1 hope no silly ass keeps us out of the league of nations." declared Dr. . V:m Dyke in concluding his references to the opposing op-posing congressmen and others. Professor Grafton Wilson took occasion occa-sion to berate the senators who are opposing the proposed league of nations, na-tions, though none were mentioned by name. Professor Wilson, during the course of a most able address, presented pre-sented arguments aiming to show conclusively con-clusively that the Monroe doctrine was not endangered by the proposed league, and that the objections brought forward for-ward by the opponents of the plan were untenable. j Ex-Governor John C. Cutler., chairman chair-man of the Mountain congress for a league of nations, made a strong appeal ap-peal for permanent peace and declareii the league as fostered by Pres'idenr Wilson was the means to such an end. State Senator J. Will Knight, representing repre-senting the associated industries of the iuteniiountain country, pledged the support of that organization to the proposed league. President John A. Widstoe of the University of Utah appealed for the league on behalf of the fanners of Utah and the other mountain slates. . former President Taft was lle guest of honor at a dinner given at the Hotel Utah Saturday, over iiOO prominent citizens being present. Following the banquet, former Governor Cutler made a short address, being followed by Governor Bamberger, who introduced Mr. Taft. The former president in opening his dinner speech referred- laughingly to his "peculiar pleasure" in being In Utah, and of the support given him in 1912 by the state. He then told of his mission in Salt Lake and of the efforts ef-forts he and the other speakers en-tour en-tour iii the interest of the proposed A. E. HARVEY league of nations were nraking to educate edu-cate the people regarding the covenants' cove-nants' of the union.' Dr. Henry Van Dyke, former minister min-ister to the Netherlands, followed Mr. Taft with an address in which he declared de-clared victory in the war must be made practical by a league of nations. na-tions. The two-day's session of the congress culminated in a mass meeting at the Tabernacle, Saturday night, presided over by President Heber J. Grant,' and attended by over 10.000 people, at which former President Taft was the principal speaker. Mr. Taft declared unequivocally in favor of the league of nations, and was strong in his denunciation denun-ciation of the senators who have offered of-fered opposition to the league. Tlie ioriner chief executive confined his 'address largely to an explanation of the various tenets of the proposal as drafted in Paris and to an expression expres-sion of the results of the entrance of the United Stales as a member of the union of nations. lie declareii that the formation of the league meant "open diplomacy" with everything in international relations rela-tions open and with the "cards face up upon the table." Mr. Taft closed his address with a stirring appeal to' the women to support sup-port the league of nations. i'recei.ing Mr. i;ift. A. E. Harvey, secretary of the Utah State Federation of Labor, in an able address declared that there ought to be a voluntary union of nations, a league of nations to adjust disputes and difficulties and to facilitate the world's progress In accord with the highest principles. Following the address by former I' " ( j I " j x 9) I'll. HENRY VAN DYKE President Taft at the Tabernacle Sat- urday night, nine thousand delegates I from Utah. Idaho and Wyoming voted to adopt a resolution expressing the: r conviction that the League of Nations was the means of guaranteeing tiiat peace, liberty and justice will be established estab-lished and maintained on an enduring foundation. "We need to apply the principles of personal and domestic municipal and national morality more widely," declared de-clared Dean Charles It. Brown of Yale University at the Saturday morning session in t lie Assembly hall. Other speakers at the morning session were Mrs. Philip North Moore, president of the National Council of Women of the United States, Professor Levi Edgar Y'oung of the University of Utah and Brigham II.. Roberts, chaplain of t lie 140th Utah field artillery. At the Satiivday afternoon session at the Taber.iacle, Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell, pres .lent of the Harvard university, uni-versity, presided. The other speakers were Captain Thomas G. Chamberlain, Henry Morgenthau, former United States ambassador to Turkey, ami Edward Ed-ward A. Filene, director of the United States chamber of commerce. "The soldier .fought to make the world safe for democracy, and he is going to fight to keep it safe," said Captain Chamberlain. Former Ambassador Morgenthau made a strong appeal for the support of .the American people to be placed squarely behind the league of nations plan. ; Answering critics of the league of nations plan, Dr. Lowell declared that no longer was it possible "for us to wrap ourselves in a cloak of glorious isolation. We cannot avoid our responsibility respon-sibility is a great nation. Business men, Mr. Filene said, realized the great need of a league of nations, and did not look upon it as an Utopian thing. In their practical vision, vis-ion, he said, they strongly favored the formation of such a league to maintain world security. Mrs. rhilip North Moore, president of the National Council of Women, who was one of the speakers at the Mountain Congress, was the guest of honor at a luncheon Saturday, attendee by representative women of Utah, Idaho Ida-ho and Wyoming. Preceding ti.e luncheon, Dr. Charles R. Brown, dean of the School of Religion at Yale university uni-versity made a short address. Mrs. Moore, in- an address following the luncheon, told of the aims of the league and extolled the war work of me wunieu ol ine iiaiiuii. Mrs. Moore said it was her privilege to present liie team work of the women of the country during the period of the war and that she knew they were ready to bear a larger share of responsibility respon-sibility in the new readjustment of life and principles for which the league of nations stood. The celebration of .Washington's birthday anniversary in Salt Lake will live in the annals of Spirit of Liberty chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. The members of the chapter chap-ter and their guests were accorded the privilege of hearing Dr. Henry Van Dyke, former minister to the Netherlands, Nether-lands, in an address following a luncheon lunch-eon at the Hotel Utah. I , S f ' ' ' i - I MRS. PHILIP NORTH MOORE. |