CONTENTS. OPENING REMARKS BY ALBERT K. SMILEY, LL.D......... OPENING ADDRESS BY THE CHAIRMAN, NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER, LL.D., PRESIDENT OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY THE PRESENT STRENGTH OF THE ARBITRATION AND PEACE MOVEMENT, BY BENJAMIN F. TRUEBLOOD, LL.D., SECRE- TARY OF THE AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY. INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION AS AFFECTED BY NEW WORLD PROBLEMS IN THE FAR EAST, BY REV. ARTHUR JUDSON BROWN, D.D., SECRETARY PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF FOR- AN ECONOMIC VIEW OF WAR AND ARBITRATION, BY PROFESSOR A CONTRIBUTION WHICH THE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES CAN MAKE TO INTERNATIONAL GOOD WILL, BY VERY REV. W. MOORE EDE, D.D., DEAN OF WORCESTER, ENGLAND.. THE DUTY OF THE CHURCHES IN REGARD TO INTERNATIONAL PEACE, BY REV. WILLIAM THOMAS, OF LONDON. THE IMPORTANCE OF RIGHT INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING, BY JOSEPH A. CHISHOLM, K. C., MAYOR OF HALIFAX... FAR EASTERN DEVELOPMENT IN ITS RELATION TO INTERNA- TIONAL PEACE, BY MR. MASUJIRO HONDA, OF THE ORIENTAL INFORMATION AGENCY, NEW YORK.... SOME NEGLECTED ASPECTS OF THE PRESENT INTERNATIONAL SITUATION IN SOUTH AMERICA, BY L. S. RowE, PH.D., LL.D., OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. HOW WE SHOULD REGARD LATIN-AMERICA, BY PROFESSOR PROGRESS TOWARD AN INTERNATIONAL COURT OF ARBITRAL JUSTICE, BY HON. JAMES BROWN SCOTT, J. U. D., THE HOPEFULNESS OF THE KNOX PROPOSITION, BY HON. H. B. F. MACFARLAND, OF WASHINGTON, D. C.. THE PROPOSED INTERNATIONAL COURT OF ARBITRAL JUSTICE, BY HON. SIMEON E. BALDWIN. LL.D., OF NEW HAVEN, TREATY OBLIGATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES AS RELATED TO THE CONSTITUTION AND SCOPE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT, PRESIDENT TAFT AND THE INTERNATIONAL COURT, BY MR. THE INTERNATIONAL COURT A WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENT, BY Fourth Session. THE FEARS WHICH CAUSE THE INCREASING ARMAMENTS, BY .... THE VALUE OF CONSERVATIVE WORK FOR PEACE, BY ST. CLAIP RACIAL ADJUSTMENT IN ITS RELATION TO WORLD PEACE, BY AMERICA'S OPPORTUNITY AND DUTY, BY REV. HUGH BLACK, D.D., DISCUSSION.. PAGE 90 90 92 94 95 97 102 107 112 117 119 12 I 124 126 Fifth Session. MEMORIAL SERVICE IN HONOR OF THE LATE KING EDWARD.... 129 129 GEORGE W. KIRCHWEY, LL.D. 130 LYMAN ABBOTT, D.D., OF NEW YORK. 132 REPORT OF WORK OF THE LAKE MOHONK CONFERENCE AMONG 136 138 PRESENTATION OF THE PUGSLEY PRIZE, BY MR. CHESTER DEWITT PUGSLEY. . . . . 144 145 ACCEPTANCE OF THE PUGSLEY ESSAY PRIZE, BY MR. GEORGE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS OF DELEGATES OF BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS PRESENT AT THE 145 147 PAGE 148 155 LIST OF COOPERATING AND CORRESPONDING BUSINESS ORGAN- 159 164 PEACE SENTIMENT IN THE FAR EAST, BY FRANCIS E. CLARK, 173 THE PROHIBITION OF NAVAL FORCE IN DEBT COLLECTING, BY 176 Sixtb Session. THE SOUTH AND THE PEACE MOVEMENT, by Mr. Belton GIL- VANIA... 178 179 182 185 THE ASSOCIATION OF COSMOPOLITAN CLUBS, BY MR. LOUIS P. THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF PEACE, BY MR. EDWIN D. 188 THE PRESENT CONFERENCE AND ITS LESSONS, BY ELMER ELLS- 193 REPORT OF COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER THE ADVISABILITY OF A 196 197 198 LIST OF MEMBERS PRESENT AT THE SIXTEENTH CONFERENCE.. 201 FERENCE. 207 ACCOUNT OF INCIDENTAL MEETINGS HELD DURING THE SIXTEENTH I. MEETING OF COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL II. MEETINGS OF SECRETARIES OF ARBITRATION AND PEACE SOCIETIES. IV. MEETINGS OF BUSINESS MEN. V. MEMORIAL SERVICE IN HONOR OF THE LATE KING EDWARD VII. ESSAY BY MR. GEORGE KNOWLES GARDNER... 216 216 216 217 217 220 ANNOUNCEMENT OF THIRD PUGSLEY PRIZE (1910-11). 227 FERENCE. 229 THE JACKSONVILLE (FLA.), BOARD OF TRADE ESSAY CONTEST, BY 235 INDEX... 239 PLATFORM OF THE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL LAKE MOHONK CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION, 1910 (The platform is the official utterance of the Conference and embodies only those principles on which the members unanimously agreed.-ED.) The Sixteenth Annual Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration congratulates the people of the United States on the marked progress which the past year has witnessed in the age-long struggle for the substitution of the reign of law for the reign of force in international affairs. It notes with deep satisfaction the significant announcement of the Secretary of State* that the proposed constitution of the International Court of Arbitral Justice recommended to the powers in his identic circular note of October 18, 1909, has been received with so much favor as to insure the establishment of such a court in the near future, and it pledges to the President and the Secretary of State the hearty support of the Conference and invokes the co-operation of men of good will everywhere in bringing this beneficent result to pass. The Conference has further noted with profound interest and satisfaction President Taft's recent declaration† in favor of the submission to arbitration of all matters of difference between nations without reservation of questions deemed to affect the national honor, and the Conference expresses the earnest hope that the President and the Senate of the United States will give effect to this wise and far-seeing declaration by entering upon the negotiation of general treaties of arbitration of this character at the earliest practicable moment. The Conference reaffirms its declaration of last year respecting the portentous growth of the military and naval establishments of the great powers and calls renewed attention to the fact that the rapid development of the instrumentalities of law and justice for the settlement of international differences furnishes to the statesmanship of the civilized world * Pages 9, 75. † Page 95. the long desired opportunity of limiting by agreement the further increase of armaments. The coming celebration of the onehundredth anniversary of the arrangement between Great Britain and the United States definitely limiting the naval force on the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence to four hundred tons and four eighteen-pounders calls renewed attention to the continued menace to the peace of the world caused by the prevailing conditions and emphasizes the fact, so well expressed by former President Roosevelt in his Christiania address, that with "sincerity of purpose, the great powers of the world should find no insurmountable difficulty in reaching an agreement which would put an end to the present costly and growing extravagance of expenditure on naval armaments." OFFICIAL MESSAGE FROM HON. PHILANDER C. KNOX, Secretary of State INTERNATIONAL COURT OF ARBITRAL JUSTICE The reception by the nations of Secretary Knox's identic circular note of October 18, 1909, suggesting a plan for the establishment of a permanent international court of arbitral justice, had been the subject of much conjecture. The Secretary of State honored the Lake Mohonk Conference by making it the occasion of the first public announcement on this point. In concluding his address (pages 67-75), Hon. James Brown Scott, Solicitor for the Department of State, said: "The Secretary of State, the Hon. Philander C. Knox, authorizes and directs me to say officially that the responses to the identic circular note have been so favorable and manifest such a willingness and desire on the part of the leading nations to constitute a court of arbitral justice, that he believes a truly permanent court of arbitral justice, composed of judges acting under a sense of judicial responsibility, representing the various judicial systems of the world and capable of insuring the continuity of arbitral jurisprudence, will be established in the immediate future and that the Third Peace Conference will find it in successful operation at The Hague." ‡ Page 109. |