HON. WILLIAM N. ASHMAN F. W. AYER GEORGE W. BAILEY JOSHUA L. BAILY MRS. J. HENRY BARTLETT RABBI HENRY BERKOWITZ HERBERT K. CASKEY MRS. FRANK MILES DAY RUSSELL DUANE FRANKLIN S. EDMONDS JOHN EDMONDS JOSEPH ELKINTON MRS. EDWARD BEECHER FINCK BISHOP CYRUS D. FOSS MRS. EDWIN C. GRICE REV. FREDERIC A. HINCKLEY MAHLON N. KLINE MISS ELIZABETH LOWRY J. GIBSON MCILVAIN LOUIS C. MADEIRA, JR. COL. SHELDON POTTER CHARLES RICHARDSON REV. WILLIAM H. ROBERTS, D.D. DR. LEO S. ROWE Bryn Mawr THEODORE N. ELY Cinnaminson, N. J. ALEXANDER C. WOOD Doylestown WILLIAM C. RYAN HUGH B. EASTBURN Easton B. F. FACKENTHAL, JR. Erie EMORY A. WALLING Flora Dale C. L. LANGSDORF George School JOSEPH S. WALTON Gettysburg CALVIN HAMILTON Hanover JESSE FRYSINGER COL. A. LOUDEN SNOWDEN MRS. CORNELIUS STEVENSON C. W. SUMMERFIELD WILLIAM ROTCH WISTER DR. WILLIAM P. WILSON RICHARD WOOD STUART WOOD CLINTON ROGERS WOODRUFF STANLEY R. YARNALL DR. JAMES T. YOUNG Harrisburg ROBERT S. CONKLIN VANCE C. McCORMICK Haverford DR. DON C. BARRETT PRESIDENT ISAAC SHARPLESS Kennett Square C. J. PENNOCK Lancaster DR. NATHAN C. SCHAEFFER Lansdowne JOHN M. SHRIGLEY REV. WILLIAM BOYD WALTER W. HAVILAND Lebanon EDGAR A. WEIMER Meadville FRANKLIN E. SOUTHWORTH FRANK J. THOMAS PERMANENT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Appointed by the President in accordance with a resolution of the Conference. STANLEY R. YARNALL, PHILADELPHIA, CHAIRMAN MISS EMMA BLAKISTON, PHILADELPHIA GEORGE BURNHAM, JR., PHILADELPHIA MISS MARY A. BURNHAM, PHILADELPHIA PRESIDENT LAWRENCE A. DELUREY, VILLA NOVA COLLEGE HON J. BENJAMIN DIMMICK, MAYOR OF SCRANTON FRANKLIN S. EDMONDS. PHILADELPHIA HON. GEORGE W. GUTHRIE, MAYOR OF PITTSBURGH DR. JESSE H. HOLMES, SWARTH MORE COLLEGE WILLIAM W. JUSTICE, PHILADELPHIA MAHLON N. KLINE, PRESIDENT TRADES LEAGUE, PHILADELPHIA RABBI J. LEONARD LEVY, PITTSBURGH RT. REV. ALEXANDER MACKAY-SMITH, BISHOP-COADJUTOR, DIO- PRESIDENT JAMES D. MOFFAT, WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON COLLEGE, HENRY C. NILES, YORK HON. WILLIAM P. POTTER, JUSTICE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA DR. LEO S. ROWE, PRESIDENT AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND DR. NATHAN C. SCHAEFFER, STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC MRS. CORNELIUS STEVENSON, PHILADELPHIA MRS. CHARLES NEWBOLD THORPE, DEVON THOMAS RAEBURN WHITE, PHILADELPHIA DR. WILLIAM P. WILSON, DIRECTOR PHILADELPHIA MUSEUMS ASA S. WING, PRESIDENT PROVIDENT LIFE AND TRUST COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA FOREWORD The Third Hague Conference, by agreement of the nations of the world, is to be held in 1913. Two years before it meets, in 1911, the powers will appoint representatives to consider a program for the conference; to make preliminary studies; and arrange for definite and intelligent consideration of important international questions, so far as can be done in advance. The United States group of the Interparliamentary Union followed the Second Hague Conference with much interest, and, in common with other friends of peace and international arbitration, felt that greater results would have followed if the delegates to The Hague had been supported by an intelligent public opinion. The Pennsylvania Arbitration and Peace Conference was indirectly inspired by the leading spirits of our national group of the Interparliamentary Union, who earnestly desire a series of important State conferences to be held before 1911 and 1913, "to form and provide for an effective representation of public sentiment upon the great issues, making for international friendship and world organization that should signalize the Third Hague Conference." It was the united effort of the organizers and active workers of the Conference to keep this practical aim in view. They tried, it is believed with success, to arrange a series of meetings representing the cause of peace along the lines of strongest popular appeal, addressed by able men and women of recognized conviction, dignity and authority. The desire uppermost was that delegates should carry away clear, definite knowledge of the fundamental facts of the arbitration movement, an intelligent view of the steps to be taken to establish permanent world peace, and a conviction that the questions involved are such as appeal to broadminded, patriotic Americans on a basis of practical reason. A State Peace Conference was held in Texas in 1907, although on rather different lines from those of the Pennsylvania conference. Pennsylvania leads the States in the important movement outlined above. North Carolina is already planning for her State conference. It will be the effort of the permanent committee appointed to continue the work of the Pennsylvania Conference to encourage other States to arrange for similar gatherings. The United States group of the Interparliamentary Union, composed of our most influential Senators and Representatives in Washington, is convinced that our country is in need of education along the practical and reasonable lines indicated above; that a united public opinion will result in a definite program; that Mexico and the South American Republics are ready to second the United States, and that a united America will have a powerful influence on the governments of Europe. The response of Pennsylvanians to the call of the conference indicates the desire to promote international arbitration and the establishment of permanent courts of justice for the nations. William Penn planned for the "Peace of Europe." It is fitting that the people of his province, grown to a mighty State, shall work for the peace of the world. |