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Show ' ' ' ' -;S i. I ! "I . O ;W OWE OTY come to hate it aa the devil hates hoi water. No government in the world is f oing to propose any such-thing at The I ague conference or 'anywhere else. What probably will be broached is a halt in this mad haste to increase armaments arm-aments and still again increase them in a nonsensical. degree." Mr. Stead declared the spirit of arbitration ar-bitration prevented a war between Germany Ger-many ana France at the time of the Morocco difficulty. . William J. Bryan, who was on the platform, was called for by the audience. audi-ence. .- "I am on the programme for Wednesday Wed-nesday afternoon, m he said, "and then I will be able to say to Von what I desire to say. Tonight I wished to have the pleasure of hearing those who have eome from foreign lands to talk to us. . All I wish to say is that we are drawing arguments from unexpected sources. I have often heard that there should be universal peace because man was made in the image of God, but this is the first time I have heard it argued that peace should result from his being made in the image of an ape." Mayor McClefian delivered the address ad-dress of welcome. His subject was ".The Spirit of Nationality' WALKER PROPOSES WORLD'S CONGRESS TO URGE PEACE " NEW YORK. April U. Announcement Is made today that John Briaben Walker has sent to the peace congress a communication commu-nication In which he suggests a world's peace congress and offers to defray the preliminary expenses out of bis own fortune. for-tune. It Is stated that Walker will push his plan to the end, regardless of the determination deter-mination of the body now meeting In this city. In brief. Walker's plan provides for a congress composed of the ablest thinkers of all countries selected for their sincerity of purpose and broad comprehension compre-hension of the problems of nations. The conclusions reached by such a body of men. Walker believes, would appeal to both rulers and peoples with a force that would in the long run prove irresistible. Walker Is owner and publisher of the Cosmopolitan Magaslne. i:SW YOXtX, April 16. The peace congress, so successfully inaugurated under tie Joint auspices of the city, State and Nation, saw Its busiest time today. Flye . regular sessions were scheduled, aa weU as a conference and three receptions. 'Great .crowds are attending the meetings, and the sentl-' sentl-' ments and ideas of the distinguished speakers in : advocating , world-wide peace are received with, enthusiasm. Today there was" a regular session .Tie voted to VThe Relations of Women to the Peace Movement,", at Carnegie . hall, at 10:30 o'clock. Mrs. Anna G. Spencer - presiding. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe and Mrs. May Wright Sewall were the guests of honor. Among the speakers ' were Mrs. Lucia A. Mead, Mrs. Ellen M. Henry, Mrs. Mary .E. Woolley, Mrs. Frederick Nathan, Miss ' Jane Addams, Sir Edward Elgar and William Areher. . At 3 o'clock there was another session ses-sion at the Hotel Astor, addressed, by Baron D'Estournelles, Oscar 8. Straus, James W. Vancleave, Nahnm Bached er, John Barrett, Edwin Ginn and Wil: Ham McCarroll. The subject for the meeting is " Commercial and- Industrial Aspects of the Peace Movements." At 4 o'clock in Carnegie hall there will be a young people's meeting addressed ad-dressed by W. T. Stesd, Dr. Nathan C. Schaeffer, Baron D 'Estournelles De , Constant, Senorita Huidebero of Chile, Dr. James Walsh, Prof. Henry T. Bailey Bai-ley and Babbi Stephen Wise. The Columbia Co-lumbia and Yale club will be present . at the evening session at Carnegie hall at 8:15 o'clock. It will be a university univer-sity meeting and will be addressed by President Eliot of Harvard, Dr. John Khys, pro-chancellor of the University of Oxford; the Be v. E. S. Boberts, Miss Jane Addams, Dr. Felix Adler, Edwin D. Mead and President Edmund J. James of the University of Illinois. Another evening session will be held in Cooper Union, presided over by James Duncan of the Federation of Labor. The subject of the meeting is "Organized Labor in Belation to the Peace Movement." Algernon S. Crap-sev Crap-sev of Bochester and W. T. Stead will , address the meeting, as will John B. Lennon, James O'ConneLI, Dennis A. Haynes, Frank Foster, Daniel J. Jieef e, John F. Tobin. Joseph Valentine and James J. Murphy. NOT ALL HARMONY AT CONGRESS OF THE PEACEMAKERS NEW YORK,' April 16. The national nation-al arbitration and peace conference opened in earnest yesterday. Secretary Boot in a speech pointed out the propositions which the United States government will have to make at ' the coming conference at The Hague. He warned his hearers not to expect too much at this second conference. The President, in a letter to the congress, con-gress, expressed the hope that the com- ing conference might result in the adoption adop-tion of an international arbitration treaty. Secretary Boot in seconding this hope declared the United States ' thought it proper to urge again the discussion dis-cussion of the subject of the limitation of armament of the nations on land and sea and the abolition of the practice of using force in the collection of debts owed by one nation to the citizens of another. Mr. Carnegie paid a tribute to President Roosevelt and expressed ex-pressed the wish thst Mr. Booso- velt might be the peacemaker of the future. fu-ture. He declared, however, that Emperor Em-peror William is the man among all men who holds the peace of the nations na-tions in his power. Mr. Carnegie said it was unjust to sneak of the Emperor as a menace to the peace of Europe, adding that in twenty years on the throne the German ruler had spilled no blood nor called an international war. Governor Hughes declared that war is barbarous and had been robbed of its individual heroism and much of its valor. The .speakers included Baron D 'Estournelles de Constant, member of the .French senate and head of the International In-ternational Conciliation committee and Secretary Oscar S. Straus of the Department Depart-ment of Commerce and Labor, who spoke on "The Peace of Nations and Peace Within Nations." 8ecretarv Straus was followed by Professor "Hugo Munstcrbcrg of Harvard Har-vard university, who declared that peace had no more earnest supporter than Germanv. Professor. Munsterberg declared conscription con-scription was not a burden in Germany, and thereby called down upon himself . the emphatic criticism of Mr. Carne-. Carne-. gie, who said: "That statement is one of the greatest great-est surprises I ever have heard. I wiah he wonld go to our mills at Pittsburg and ask the thousands of men why thev came here." Thousands of people, added Mr. Carnegie, Car-negie, left Germany and came to America Amer-ica to escape military service. W. T. Stead then said: "There has been all sorts of talk about disarmament. I have heard'it in very country in Europe and I have |