Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1907 — Stead Would Avert War. [ARTICLE]

Stead Would Avert War.

William T. Stead, tlie famous English editor, has recently arrived in this country, where he expects to make a stay of several weeks, partly for the purpose of attending the peace conference at New York.- In a newspaper interview Mr. Stead expressed himself as strongly in favor of the united action of Great Britain and the United States in the coming Hague conference toward disarmament, nnd the promotion of international amity. He particularly urged the carrying into effect of article 8, which was unanimously recommended by the former conference. This would treat a dispute between two nations the same as a dispute between two individuals, and recommends that before proceeding to hostilities each party should call in a special mcdiatcyr, corresponding to a second in a private duel, who should be allowed a period of not exceeding thirty days in which to settle the dispute. If such a procedude had been followed, he said, neither the South African nor the Russo-Japanese war would have broken out when it did.