Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1909 — TAFT ENLISTED IN CAUSE OF PEACE [ARTICLE]

TAFT ENLISTED IN CAUSE OF PEACE

Lake Mohonk Resolutions In Hands hi President. Washington, June B.—President Taft has received from Representative Barthoidt of Missouri, a copy of the platform adopted by the recent conference of international arbitration at Mohonk Lake, N. SY. Taft also discussed the matter of international peuce, for which the conference contends, and promised to give to the development of the idea the attention which such an Important matter deserves. The resolutions especially urge the early initiative of the United States in the establishment of an international court of arbitral justice, the negotiations for a general treaty of arbitration between all nations and an examination Into the possibility of an agreement as to the limitation of national armaments. ?