Show ENEMIES OF WAR HOLD A CONGRESS SECOND NATIONAL PEACE CON FERENCE IN CHICAGO EMINENT MEN ARE PRESENT statesmen Ota diplomats and political economists assemble and discuss the final elimination of armed conflicts Ch chicago leago the sessions of the second secand Nat national ionni pence congress which opened ip ili orchestra hall hal monday aft amoon attracted 0 to o chicago ciany thousand earnest earliest enemies or of war batong them being many distinguished state diplomats and political economists president tat Is the bon honorary president or of the congress and secretary of war jacob at dickinson Is itis active president but belth or cr of these gentlemen Bont lomen was able to be present owing to their in UCB ties however there was no lack of i mon to preside over dver tit tho mons blon As AH it a to the congress special peace services wore held in many chicago churches sunday morning peace meetings inee tings arranged by labor and socialist organizations weso were hold in the afternoon and lit in the evening viere was a big mass meeting at which addresses were delivered by rev key jonlyn lloyd jones and rev emit 0 hirsch both of chicago and president jacob face gould iuan nian of cornell university 1 welcome to the congress orchestra liall hall was filled to the limit monday when the first session was waa called to order by robert treat pattie of doston boston tho the presiding officer for governors mayors and hundreds of clubs had been asked to appoint delo gates bates and most moat of thern had responded spon ded president D ad dross dress the samo same he delivered several weeks ago before the hamilton club was read and the congress was then formally welcomed by gov charles charlea S doneen dencen for tile tho state mayor fred A busse for tho the city anti and rev A eugene bartlett chairman ot of the reception committee the secretary then read al a brier brief letter from president tatt taft in k which the chief exe executive culive heartily commended tile the alms ahns of the congress mass aless anna D B eckstein Eckste ln of doston boston next was waa introduced to the meeting and read a world petition to the third hague conference this was followed by an all address by dr benja min F secretary of the tha american peace society on tile the present position of the peace movement what has been accomplished or dr said in part lot let me sketch in tho the barest outlines what has already been at accomplished com shed tho the interpretation will wili take care of itself 1 I the roen men anti and women now a ll 11 g great re at host who believe that the day Is past when blind brute force should direct tho the policies of nations and preside fit at tile the settlement of their differences feren ces are ara now thoroughly organized A hundred years ago there was not a society lit in existence organized to promote appeal to tile the forum of reason anti and right in the adjustment of international controversies today to day there are more than BOO nearly every important nation having its ili group of peace organizations their constituents are numbered by tons tens of thousands from every tank rank and class in society philanthropists men of trade and commerce educators and i jurists workingmen statesmen rulers ven even triumph of arbitration ill 11 II the position which the peace movement has reached la is no less distinctly determined by the practical attainments tain ments of arbitration wo we are this year celebrating what ft hat is really the une one hundredth anniversary or of tho the birth ot of our movement for it was in 1809 that david L dodge a christian nier mer chant of new york city W wrote rotc the pamphlet which brought the movement into being and led six years leafs later to tho the organization in his parlor in now york of tho the first peace society in the world there hai had thoin then been no arbitrations arbit rations between nations in our modern sense of the word nations in tile iho years since 1809 mora inore than important controversies have hake been settled by bi this means not nol to mention an all even greater gi eater number ol of less lesa important cases the settlement of which involved the principle of arbitration bit ration within avrille the past 20 years scars so BO rapid has been the triumph of b f arbitration that more than international differences have been disposed of by this means or between five and all aft a year for the whole 20 years arbitration is no longer an experiment it is the settled practice of 0 the na nations dons A scare of disputes today to day go naturally to arbitration where one elves cives rise even to talk of war the hague conferences s ill III in order to dett determine further the advanced posit position lon which the peace mol ament lias has attained attal nel lit n ito practical side tile the two hague epi conferences ifer all nicil 1 I what they have accomplished complis hed indal bp be taken into account gottlib gott lit it Is IN still tho habit or of ayno per soils to peak lispare g angly of these great ant anil ani their results tile first conference gave us its the permanent pernia tient international court of arbitration to 24 powers finally became parties it by ratification of the convention tills this court has tits now for eight been ip in successful operation am all not less than four contro hersted havo hav been to it during the past year he second hague conference enlarged and strengthened the convention under linder which this athla court WAS wan set fiet up tit anti and guddo tho court ali the e tribunal not of 25 2 1 powers but of all the nations of the world tile the high water mark of the work of tile the second hague conference wan reached lit in its action lit in regard to future inee meetings tings of the conference the principle of periodic routings of the conference liere here atey was approved without it a dissenting voice thu tho late date oven even of tile the third con conference confer terenca enco was fixed and the governments urged to appoint polut at least two years lit in advance an lit in to prepare the program m of the meeting boanni dean boan W NV P stagers of the cincinnati Lawsell ool brought this session to a close with an ail eloquent glo quent talk on the dawn of universal peace addresses monday 11 evening monday evenings meeting epting ni was do voted to to tile the drawing together of tile the rations aud and was presided over by dr hirsch tho the addresses were on oil independence interdependence of nations by prof paul S of the university of wisconsin racial progress towards universal peace borov 11 II T lC ealing of nashville tent I 1 and the biology of war by P resident president david starr jordan of leland lefand stanford jr sity at the same saine tinia another meeting was in III session jn in music alus a hall all with aless jane Add airis in the chair the sl speakers eakers there were joseph B durtt burtt of chicago on fraternal orders and peace prof graham taylor of chicago commons on victims of war and ln industry lodusty dusty Sanit samuel lel gompers Gom pera president of the american federation of labor on organized labor and peace and allot john spargo of yonkers N Y on international socialism as a peace factor commercial and legal views two big meetings were hold tuesday morning one on commerce and industry presided preside d over by george E roberts president of tho the commercial national bank of chicago and the other on oil women anti and peace with mrs airs ellen at Henrot lh oi of chicago as aa chairman the farmer session wis was addressed by belton gilreath of Bir dinning ming ham barn alit ala IV A mahoney Ala honey of columbus 0 1 james arbuckle consul of 0 spain and colombia st louis and marcua II at marks president of the national association of clothiers Clo thiers new york city the women heard interesting speeches by mrs airs philip N moore president of the general federation of clubs cluba miss jane addams anti and mrs lucja ames mead of boston boa ton some legal aspects of the peace movement was the general topic ol of tho the orchestra hall meeting tuesday afternoon and was willlam william J calhoun of chicago prof willlam william 1 I hult huh of swarthmore college discussed cuss edthe the advances registered by the two hague conferences and james brown scott solicitor tor of tile the state department part ment talked about some questions which the third hague conference probably will con consider legal problems capable of settlement by arbitration tra tion was the subject 0 of a learned paper by prof charles cheney hyda of chicago special collegiate session lemandel ih lh mandel hall at the university ot of chicago tb a special session was held for universities anti and colleges a feature of which was an oratorical con test participated in by students lout louis s P Lochner ot madison wis spoke on the cosmopolitan clubs the general session of tuesday evening was perhaps the most interesting ot of the congress next steps in leae peacemaking was the topic the audience was aroused to great enthusiasm by an eloquent and skirted address by congressman richard bartholdt of missouri president of the american group croul union an r wier other paper that met with deserved applause was wag that of bf edwin D mead of boston on the arrest in competitive arming in fidelity to the hague movement ll 11 the special collegiate session was continued tuesday evening in music hall with president notion nollen of 0 lake poleat university jn in tho chair president S P brooks of baylor university texas spoke and a stereopticon lecture on the federation of the world was given dy by hamilton holt of the independent ti among tho the diplomats who came to chicago to attend the peace congress were ambassador count johann heinrich von bernstorff of Germ germany hermaa do de lagercrantz envoy from sweden yu ting fang envoy from china alfred mitchell innes counselor ot of the ilie british embassy a and n d dr kont of the universo university ty ot of the japanese turkish and french embassies also we were re depre j I 1 |