Show PLEADING FORM FOR TE THE PEACE OF NATIONS War N t Inevitable According to Former Secretary of State OUR OWN HISTORY CITED CITE THREE THESE THEE CONFLICTS SHOULD SOUD NOT HAVE I V OCCURRED I Hartford Conn May 11 The two I Imos most mos trying tong problems that the te third i Hague Hage conference will wi face are ar those I of the inviolability of of ocean corn com commerce cm 1 merce in war and the limitation of armaments I Thus declared Edwin D Mead Med cli di director 11 rector of the te international school of peace Boston in addressing the New England arbitration and peace confer conference conf conference r rence ence today He continued The Te question queston Is now a great get moral one The arguments argument for fox the great geat armaments especially for the great navies which are ae now vastly vasty more a danger than a defense are not respectable respectable table arguments It I would surely be hard to con conceive conceive of anything worse wore than the jingoism and of the re recent recent recent cent speech of the secretary of the navy nav at Philadelphia urging a bigger r navy nav to t prevent our being trodden upon by other nations and to make more business for the steel ste l trust trustIn trust trustIn In comparison with wih this Mr Mead read former forer President No Nobel Nobel Nobel bel prize address in which he pointed out that there was wa no insurmountable difficulty John W Fosters Address Add John W Foster was a speaker at atthe atthe atthe the afternoon session on War Not In Inevitable Inevitable evitable Illustrations From the His History History tory tor of Our Country Countr Mr Foster oster raised the question whether it was wa reasonable to expect peace among the nations naton and stated that the te prevailing answer to the ques question que question tion would be in the negative After combating this position at some length Mr Foser Foster took up the three foreign wars war in which our coun country countr country try tr has been engaged and discussed them In detail deti The war of 1812 with wih Great Britain he contended although justified under international law was wa entered upon against the better beter Judg Judgment judgment judgment ment of the country count President Madison and nd a large mi ml minority in Congress strenuously op opposed posed It and It was wa only entered upon nider the lead of the party part known as the War Var Hawks Hawles at the te head of whom were Henry Henr Clay John C Calhoun and other young public men with the boast boat that we would dictate a peace at Quebec War Wat Va Was Vas Fruitless Fite Five days after af r Congress declared war and long before the news reached England the orders order In council councH which were the te main cause cau of the te war wa were repealed Peace P ace was w was made without settling a single question about which the te contest was wa begun Never was wasa wa a war more fruitless in its It conclusions conclusIons It I was wa neither Inevitable nor necessary necessary sary sar In the judgment of or history the war with Mexico was wa provoked on our part and was W largely inspired by the spirit of slavery extension The war with wih Spain seems charac characteristic characteristic of that of or 1812 in which the President was wa strongly opposed to a resort to arms ars and struggled for peace to the last last and it i was wa Congress and an excited that I press unnecessarily forced hostilities The Te Spanish gov government government would in the te end have yield yielded ed to the demand of our government if time had been allowed for negotiations tons Mr Foster Poster then made a review of the relations of or the United States with wih Great Britain and Canada to show how the te many man irritating questions dur during durIng during ing the last las hundred years yeas had been settled peacefully The naval disarmament agreement for the great geat lakes lakE which has been in force for nearly nealy a century was wa cited to show how an enlarged disarmament ment might be put into practice |