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Show 10 their cyclone cellars and shout timorously to their representatives to vote at once and as much as possible In order that great ships and puns and forts may be built to protect them from their fears." illEj Mi ' ' Somebody Profits by the Chicanery and Graft of "Patriots" Mohonk I-aUe. N. Y.. May 18 The I sixteenth annual meeting of the Lake Mchonk Conference on International Arbitration began its three day sea-i sea-i slon here today. Diplomats, educa-I educa-I tors, jurists and clergymen from many parts of the world received the welcome wel-come of Albert K. Smiley, the found-! found-! er and host of the organisation. I Dr. Smiley was followed by Nicholas Nich-olas Murray Butler, president of Columbia Co-lumbia university, president of the American Congress for Internal lonal Arbitration. Dr. Smiley declared with greatest force that International arbitration was soon to be undertaken In the establishment es-tablishment of a permanent international interna-tional court at The Hague. The most striking feature of President Presi-dent Butler's address was his assertion asser-tion that "somebody makes something ' by reason of the huge expenditures in , preparation for war," and his congestion, conges-tion, that "the same sort of ability that has exposed other forms of po-I po-I Ktlcal chicanery and graft should In-! In-! vestigate the sincerity and disinterestedness disinter-estedness of I ho lively types of pat-liotlsm pat-liotlsm which accomplish these military mili-tary and naval debates the world over " Mr Butler continued: "Just at these times war people begin to see visions, and the poor, gullible people, rush off |