Show A nip nm T s ya A rw girm airm REAT GREAT CONGRESS OF PEACE ID IN WORKERS illais ii H 1 ki thousands of the op opponents ponente of warfare including many diff distinguished anguished ingui shed diplomats and statesmen gather to discuss disarmament ind and worldwide Arbit arbitration arbitration ratio n chicago every civilized country on tile the globe was represented represent edin in the thesel see ond national peace pace congress congress alch which began here monday the ga gathering was the greatest of its kind ever held in ame america rica and brought to chicago some persons who are zealous workers in tile the cause of oc worldwide world wide peace among these were eminent statesmen and diplomats of this and other nations unfortunately official duties prevented both Pros president ident taft the honorary president and secretary cof war dickinson the president of the congress from being present on sunday there especial services in most of the chicago churches peace inee meetings tings under the auspices of socialist and labor organizations and a lar large lare t e mass meeting which was ad aar dressed by president schurman of cornell university rev jenkins lloyd illoyd jones and dr enill G hirsch of chicago chiago c welcome to the congress orchestra hall was filled to the limit monday when the ille first sess session loil was ivas called to order uy b y robert treat I 1 paine of boston the pr presiding bIding officer ceil for mayors and hundreds ils of clubs hail had been asked to appoint dole dele gates agates and most of them had responded spon ded president dickinsons Dickin sons address the same he delivered I 1 several weeks a ago 0 bedfor before i the ilie hamilton club 1 was and alpe congress was 11 then aei 1 formally eldor ed by gov abar charles ia S deneen for the state mayor fred ered A bus busse e for the city andrev and rev A eugene bartlett chairman of bf the reception committee the secretary then read a brief letter from Preg president ident taft ta in which the chief executive heartily commended the almlof of the congress miss anna B eckstein of 0 boston next was introduced to the ine meeting eting and read a world petition to the hague conference this was rk 2 14 A X william J calhoun followed by an address by dr behija benjamin P R secretary of the flie american peace society on oil the present position of the peace movement what has been accomplished dished dr said in part let me sketch in the barest outlines what has already been accomplished shed the interpretation will take care of itself 1 I the men inen and women now a great host who believe that the day is past when blind brute force should direct the poli policies cles of nations and prelude at the settlement of their eilf difference feren cen r re now thoroughly organized A hundred years ago there was not a society in existence organized to promote appeal to the forum of reason and right in the adjustment of international controversies s today to day there a are e more than nearly every important nation having its group of peace organizations the organized peace party has its international peace bureau at berne 7 switzerland binding all 01 its sections into one world body it has its international peace congress which has held 17 meetings in 20 years con grosses over which statesmen now feel it an honor to preside triumph of arbitration ill 11 II the position which the peace movement has deac reached is no less d distinctly Is s determined by the practical at taIn ments of arbitration we are this year celebrating m what is really the one hundredth anniversary of 0 the birth of our movement for it was in 1809 1909 that david L dodge a Chrisi christian lail merchant of new york city wrote the pamphlet which brought the movement into being and led six years later laic r to the ork organization animation aniza tion in his parlor in new york of th the e first peace society in the world there had then been no jio between nations in our 1 modern sense of the word nations in the years since 1809 more than important controversies controvert have been settled by this means not to mention an even greater number of less important cases the settlement of which involved the principle of arr titration bit ration within the past 20 years so rapid hag ha been the tri triumph of arbitration tia tion that more than international differences have been disposed of by tills this means or between five and six a year for the whole 20 years the hague conferences ill III in order to determine further tile the advanced position which tho the peace movement has attained op its practical side the two hague conferences and what they have accomplished complis hed must be taken into account it is still the habit of some persons tos pleak disparagingly of these great gatherings and their results the first hague conference gave us the permanent international court of arbitration t to which 24 powers finally became parti parties es by ratification of the convention co this cruit has now for eight years been in successful operation and not less than fot four contro ver sies h have ave been beeh referred to it during the past year the second hague conference enlarged and strengthened tile convention under unde r which this court was set up anti and madie made the couri cour t the he tribunal not of 25 powers but of all the nations of the world ohp the high water mark of the work of the second hague conference was reached in its action in regard to future meetings of the conference the principle of periodic meetings of the conference hereafter was approved without a dissenting voice the ant date e even of th tho third conference was fixed dixe d and the governments urged to appoint at least two years in ill advance an international ter national commission to prepare the I 1 program ro grani of tile the meeting addresses monday evening monday evenings meeting was devoted to the drawing together of tile the nations and was presided deu over by dr hirsch the adois addresses seS were on oil independence versus interdependence of nations by prof paul S of the university city of biscon wiscon sin racial progress towards toward s universal peace by Jle reeoh vH T kealing of nashville tenn and the biology of war by president david starr jordan of leland stanford jr university at the same time another meet ing was in session in music hall with miss jane addams in in the chair the speakers there were joseph 13 burtt 0 of f Chi dagg on fraternal orders and peace prot prof graham taylor of chicago commons on victims of war and industry samuel go gompers apers president of the american federation of labor on organized labor and peace and john spargo of yonkers N Y on Enter international international national socialism as as a 0 peace factor commercial arid and legal views two big meeting were held tuesday in morning orning one on commerce and industry presided over by george E rob Roberts er ts president of the commercial national bank of chicago and the other on women and peace with mrs ellen at henrotin of chicago as chairman the former session was addressed by belton gilreath of birmingham ala W A mahoney of columbus 0 james arbuckle consul of spain and colombia st louis and marcus M marks president of tho national association of clothiers Clo thiers new york city the women heard inter intel ial jp richard bark bartholdt fol dt esting s speeches pe by mrs philip N moore president of the generl genera fedr fed oration of W oj clubs miss jane addams and mrs lucia ames IN meace ea I 1 of boston some legal aspects ot of the peace movement was the general topic oi of the orchestra hall meeting tuesday afternoon and the chairman william f calhoun of chicago prof william 1 I hull of swarthmore moro college di dis cussed the advances reg registered I 1 estered by tho the two hague conferences and james brown st scott ott solicitor of the state do apartment part ment talked about so some lma questions t which the third hague conference concur eliee probably w will ill consider legal problems capable of settlement by arbi tra tion was wa s the he subject et of a learned paper by prof charles cheney hyde of chicago in mandel hall at the university of chicago a special session was wa held for universities and colleges colleg qs a feature of which was an oratorical 1 contest participated in by students louls louis P lochner of Alad madison lson wis spoke on the cosmopolitan clubs 1 the general session of tuesday evening was perhaps the most interesting of the congress stops steps in ill peacemaking was the topic the audience was aroused to great enthusiasm by hn an eloquent and spirited address by Congress congressman unan richard bartholdt of missouri president eriV of the american group union another paper that 1 net with deser deserved applause was that of edwin D Ale mead adof of boston on th the eAr arrest carrest rest in competitive arming in fidelity to tho the hague movement Mo vemont among the diplomats who came to chicago to attend the peace congress c were ambassador count j johann heinrich von bernstorff Burn of germany herman de lagercrantz elvo envoy y from sweden wu ting pang fang envoy from china alfred mitchell innes counselor of the british embassy and dr halvdan kont of the university of norway the japanese turkish and french embassies also were represented |