Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1904 — ASK THAT BIG WAR END. [ARTICLE]

ASK THAT BIG WAR END.

Japan and Rnsaia Importuned by International Peace Congress. The international peace congress at Its session in Boston adopted resolutions calling upon Russia and Japan to end the present war and upon the signatory powers of The Hague convention to press upon the governments of Russia and Japan the importance of putting an end to tho strife. It was voted to send cablegrams to Frederick Passy of Paris, Hodgson Pratt of London and Elie Ducommun of Bern, extending th* greetings of the congress. Mr. Passy, the great peace worker of France, was hailed as the “grand old man who has fought the good fight and kept the faith from the day* of email things to the day of great things.” Secretary Trueblood read the message to the conference from Sir Thomas Barclay given to the Associated Press in London. Sir Thomas said the next greatest step taken in the history of International relations would, he expected, be a treaty of arbitration between Great Britain and America. Baroness von Suttner of Austria was introduced and greeted the delegates both iu English and French. Rabbi Levy of Fittsburg, Pa., and Baba Bliarati, a Hindoo, also spoke.