Show r AT INSON t MOTIVES DFWAB BOSTON MAN V SPEAKS A3 THE COMMEBCIAL CONGRESS V Object Is to Lie Cheat Ambush Strike the Enemy In the Back and V to Destroy Life and Property If Philadelphia Oct HThe second days ECS fon of the international commercial com-mercial congress < pened today with a large attendance of delegates United States Senator Boles Penrose pr sld das d-as chairman Assurance was given by him that President inley will visit the congress bef < Jie its close The feature of the jnornlng session was an address by Edward Atkinson of Boston on the Interdependence of Nations Mr Atkinson spoke > In faVor fa-Vor of tariff and currency reform Referring Re-ferring to Kauts essay Eternal Peace and its prediction of the suppression of war by force of mutual commercial benefits he said < We seem to be far away and yet w e are nearer to that conclusion than ever before perhaps very near The terrible terri-ble cost of preparation for war isbe coming an unbearable burden to any European state The present forms of society cannot exist much longer tinder its pressure it is i leading to anarchy When such men Roosevelt setup the strenuous life of the soldier asa worthy object of attainment in and for itself rather than an obnoxious necfii sity as a matter of national defense I can only pity the ignorance which leads to such a viclous conclusion He expressed the opinion that the dawnmgr century will witness the sup < pressJon M the hell of war by the beneficent V of commerce He concludedDy drawing a comparison be tw een the effects of commerce and war The former he said is governed by probity integrity trutti and a high standard of character mutual trust and mutual service andnvhjle its motive is gain it is not thecost ofrotihers but to mutual benefit Admitting that the conduct of a war has dev eloped Mgh and noble qualities and in defensfe of liberty is justifiable and sometimes necessary he maintained maintain-ed that its moth is to lie to chedt to ambush V to strike the enemy V in the back or the flank to secure the gun or other instrument of carnage by Which his forces may be slaughtered without I power of defense on his part often to destroyhie property to devastate his country and by every evil method that would be thought dishonorable and fraudulent in commerce to secure the ends that are sought in warfare The other speakers were Henry Miles representative or the Montreal board of trade J H Sternberg of Pennsylvania Pennsylva-nia V A D Tompkins of North Care line on Southern Coton Inrustries and Leo VO Gen representative of the AixLaChapelle board of trade The congress then adjourned until Monday |