| Show Practical W Work od for tor the Worlds World Peace The Comini of the Mahone i LIke L Ve ll on International Arbitration AnElA ABELY has han n a great creat reform shown O more striking evidences of ot proe pro R gless than has the tho peace and arbitration during the past Imst few teW years Since Sinco the drat Hague conference in III 1839 1899 an nil series s of or events hits his hit been beell tending In Inthe Inthe the direction of or better belter International relation Set Bet over against a I groat war parr wo no find a It successful Hague court Bottling tour for Ul CAC a 9 Involving I 11 II M H na 1111 nations l 1 a I of or treat treaties ies les M H in to number limited lit III scope but Jut nevertheless strong l guarantors of oC peace an nn arising world sentiment which did not a Il little litho to terminate the thc Russo war 1 and the thc de IC development of oC an at International respect and un good gool will which Juts Ima hll 1 well ex expressed ext pressed Itself through t iueli buch lul agencies b t us the tho Alaska Ala Al asks boundary tribunal the tho North sea BD and ond the tho Algo AIO conference Arbitration has be bu become become come COlne n Il world subject su engrossing nuke tho the und mid peace societies exec executives executives and private citizens At t t this moment mom the great nations are nii 01 witnessing Impressive demonstrations of ut t interest In the tho a second Hague ue con COli conference ference are which 1 meets Juno June ID 15 in our aul own on on n country country a 0 great national arbitration arbitration tion lion and peace acute congress recently drew together In hl New York thousands of oC Americans Amerl cans and und secured l recognition from Crom f ram city alS elt t state atalo and ii nation It U UIs ItI Itis Is I indeed encouraging enc that tho to h com IQ coming ing tag Hague conference should evoke so sit sits great and 1 s frond Interest The rite reasons for Cor this general Interest will rill hardly ho bo found In III anything un nn I new I that has hus beets been said of the tho horrors honors of or orVal war Val the burdens militarism or 01 the expense c of or groat meat armaments The explanation atlon la Is rather r that the tho nations nation are lire finding new ways to adjust many controversies m 4 ICs s without bloodshed or 0 11 r dishonor and that the people are com coming coming ing to realize that any an present hope hOlC of doing away awa with Iles not in removing r Its causes but hilt In lulling hew new means manes of ot dealing with those hose I I causes not lot by unqualifiedly condemn O O 0 vw Y though its members still come an tuI Mr Ir Smileys guests and amI Its Us personal na nature lure ture In Is ns os strong stron us as ever It Il has hns como Caine tobo to bu regarded almost as IS a national In Institution Not tho the least striking feature of ot tho the conference Is Its Luke Lake Mohonk where suits within n IL hundred miles of oC Now York orl City aul 1111 on a 11 estate o tute nature has Inas given nH IH lino line a n sped men Inca of her liar handiwork ns as can con be fount found east Of or the tho tackles hackles Crag Cm lakewood hind tUH an null and d ulley tins are thrown f together In to a It bewildering and Inspiring comb combi nation which once ante Keen acan is rover never t for forgotten forgot gotten gotton got ten The Tho thirteenth annual meeting mooting of or th the conference Is lo to take tac place May 22 24 2 with Dr Nicholas Murray Butler Duller president ot of Columb i t university n ns ne presiding slitter Among I r g the IIII ers will be bc Chief Justice Ju S K E I Bald Baldwin Baldwin win uIn ot of Connecticut Hon lion John liar rett director International bureau o of oC American r republics e P Ubil Ca Senor aC Enrique C C Creel CreClI ambassador from train Mexico Senor 1 b n r tole Calderon minister from flom Ho lIo 1 kt lion Horn 1 Bartholot M C CI Cof American liner Iel tn head bend of or tho iho t er tt l I nry c ry lion lien Bartlett Tripp TripI of ot South 5 I 1 Dakota ln 10 to Austria DrAnd Dr Ur Benjamin P I Tr II of Boston and on l lion Hon H nu n u Francis 11 U Loomis former as 11 secretary of ot state There I Is isn reason to think that Dr Andrew tt n drew D DWhite White who wire was a u 1 member ot or o the first firs Fin G ua conference will 1 4 speak Speech cs es on educational phases Ih I will bo lie made modo by b time the United cited States commissioner o ot of education and the 1111 hit New v 1 York rash sUite state commissioner of oC education and the tho relation n of oC o f colleges es t to o the he t nil arbitration movement will be b made the time subject of or a n discussion Among the college men expected are aro a 1 Presidents Eliot of ot Harvard Angell ot or Michigan Fn Thwing of ot Western t ens of ot George Washington n o of at Rochester c vu r of tf Smith 5 1 Taylor o Qt f Vassar and of and Professors sors H W V Rogers of or Yale Yo Ie J B D Moore of Columbia Colum ln J It H Beale of oC Har liar Hart Haryard t yard R H I T lay Kly of Wisconsin W W Willoughby of or Johns Hopkins J F i I iI lag InS war but by codifying International law la 11 allaying International distrust mud and lint extending and antl making more judicial the application of oC arbitration through Tim rho Hugue court mid and nm Vito agencies In tho acceptance ot oC this principle Ille the thc movement against war tsar has haH found a II basis for Cot sure oven cven If It slow alow Ilo progress In this connection It Is in interesting to note not the work of ot one nun man und and of or an un Institution of or his creation which for twelve years past has hail been urging nn h the tho American Am public with no success tills thin 1 very vry principle which IH is IHnow isnow now being so generally generall accepted a That man Is Albert K Ii I Smiley Smile n a business businessman lne K man mail of ot clear Insight the owner of a II avast avast vast private estate at III Lake Mohonk N Y Here l h 1875 he Invited about GO 60 prominent to meet mc t as us his hili guests Und bud hum from Unit that ruttier unique house housu party part grew the thu Latta Mohonk conference on m International arbitration lion tion which hUH hits become of ot consider considerable able national significance The Tho confer canter conference flea ence IH Is as bolus boles j the first and only meeting mooting In the In 11 Interest Interest terest t relt of ot Peace at which It III Is distinctly dl that thal neither peace nor war hall shall ho lIe discussed Attention Is III s con COI concentrated cond on arbitration anti and kindred IB nil practical ul means of adjust adjusting lag ing In International differences Tho wis wisdom wisdom dom of oC this course hits has been beau demon demonstrated demonstrated In n tho the growth of the limo th conference In and Influence an annual annual nual meeting now numbers more than I three hundred 1 persons eminent In lit nil all walks of American life tho Ina highly cos COli cosa diameter character of ot the tho th made mn o possible by Its limited scope con eon constituting HH its greatest strength Three great relt measures steadily und anti Persistently advocated by y tho the confer canter conference ence have been heon 1 t An Alt n court of arbitration 2 Arbitration I ties both special and GeneraL 3 I Borne form tonn of at International congress with Ith advisory powers It will bo be scan neon that the conference nun hun not nut hesitated to hold out a 11 Irish high hut but true to tu tits th practical having dialed HH its Ideal It Ith h has hila s begin at lit the tho foot toot of C the ladder lu n up tho practical details lead laud leading lauding ing Ine to tn It It Now that tint nn nu International court hUB has n II tact fact and tho the move movement movement ment nent for tor QI arbitration treaties has hulS as ns um d considerable proportions tho tito conference Id Is specially the tho importance that the Iho lingua conference of lit this year hike n u short toward nn an International congress by J making hip conference n a permanent institution with regular periodic Il nicer nicut hl 8 limo Tho ho conference n u n vent mt at 11 through which un tin educational nanda Ganda Is s carried on throughout tho the year CAr An in Illustration of ot th the practical nature of Its work IH Is seen In the fart fact that hat in n the uio past pant three years yearn eurll It lUll linn up a 1 voluntary aa tie of lit of ot the tho hu organizations of t the thu 0 country 37 states mates through whIch l it can exert x rt an afi Immediate immediato and powerful li h In nn 1111 tho the general public It t has oleo alI iio secured the 1110 active cooperation of ot tie a n third of ot the thu colleges college of ot the United n t d States Tor l or these J reasons reason nl mil Colby Colb of or Dartmouth M 1 Stalker of ot Iowa luau K E l Russell ot of and S SO Se SC O e Mitchell of Richmond Other men who have ac no accepted Invitations uro tiro Justice D J Brewer of oC tho the United States supreme court Chief Justices Beard of ot Tennes Tennessee see se Knowlton L of ot Massachusetts and an 1 Douglas of at Island and Justices Moore of lit Michigan and Potter of oC Penn Pennsylvania sylvania Congressmen Hill of ot Con Connecticut Connecticut Smith of at Illinois Goldfogle and Wiley of Now New York and Granger or mit Rhode Island Bishops Coleman ot of Delaware and Lawrence of oC Massachusetts Massachusetts Senor minister from Irom Argentina and cud Senor Cortes ones minister from Crom Colombia non lion John D Long IonS ex of oC the tho navy lIun tear Hear Admirals C P F J Goodrich T TP TF 1 P F Jewell and A S 8 Barker Durker U S N Governor Crawford or of South Dakota and MeLtinG McLane of at New Hampshire Jones of at Minnea Minneapolis polis polls Hon Bon H B D F of or Washington Gen Stewart U L 1 Wood Woodford Woodford ford und and Alton Allan 13 n Parker cr or of NOW New N NewYork York Edward M II Shepard of ot Brook Brouk Brooklyn lyn I 1 Hun Hon Frank J of or Vermont Hon loo Charles p Nelli United tell commissioner of tit labor loboI Editors McKel McKelway way of or the tho Brooklyn Eagle of ot till the Philadelphia Public Ledger of ot the Boston no toll Transcript Hoyt of ot the tho Albany Argus Abbott of ot tiro Outlook of ot the tho Now York Ob Observer Observer Observer server and Wart Ward of or If the thc Independent lord delegates train from more moro than 60 10 leading chambers of at commerce rind and hoards of ot trade trado to whom wheat one of oC tho rho six slut sessions will bo hu given for discussion of ot time tho of nt tho the man roan to 10 the furtherance of or the tho arbitration movement H U c PHILLIPS |
