Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1909 — URGE TAFT TO ACT AS PEACE ADVANCE AGENT [ARTICLE]

URGE TAFT TO ACT AS PEACE ADVANCE AGENT

Member of Parliament Addresses Conference at Mohonk Lake. Mohonk Lake, N. Y., May 21.—J. Allen Baker, a member of the British p*arliament, emphasized the continuous neighborliness and good fellowship of the United States and Canada as an example for the nations of what the absence of armaments and fortifications on an international boundary will do to promote peace. “I largely indorse,” said Baker, “what President Butler has said as to the emotional insanity of the present mad race for battleships in Great Britain and Germany. Our house of commons is the chief sinner in having started the crazy competition in building Dreadnoughts.” Business men representing fiftyeight chambers of commerce from nineteen states and Canada, adopted a resolution urging President Taft “to take the initiative in leading the nations to a concurrent limitation or reduction in the armies and navies of the world.”