Chapter 1: The Progress of Real Internationalism: Opening Address as Chairman of the Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration, May 22, 1907

This Conference reassembles as an auspicious moment. Our country is still ringing with the echoes of the lofty sentiments and noble ideals which found expression before thousands of attentive auditors at the National Arbitration and Peace Congress held in New York a month ago. High officers of government and leaders of public opinion at home and abroad there united in giving voice to sentiments which mean, if they mean anything, that a new era is dawning in the moral history of mankind. Moreover, before another month has passed, the representatives of more than two score nations will assemble at The Hague to constitute a second International