Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Oct 20, 1904

The thirteenth session of the Universal Peace Congress closed in Boston, October 8, an unusually large amount of business having been transacted. A carefully prepared paper on the economic causes of war was read at the session, stating that formerly the chief cause of war was the desire for plunder, and that now the chief cause is the desire for expanded markets. During the year since the last congress, ten arbitration treaties have been signed, but as yet no such treaty has the signature of the United States. The congress refused to express disapproval of the large and growing navy of the United States. A resolution was indorsed providing for a regular international peace congress, which is spoken of as being, “perhaps, a first step toward the political organization of the world as one body.”