As interests become common, destructive combats will vanish.

All alike will be interested in peace.

It is a gratifying sign that within recent years the people of America have taken a prominent part in peace movements, and have inaugurated peace congresses, the members of which represent different sections of the country.

Annual gatherings of this order must do much to prevent war and to perpetuate peace, by turning people's thoughts in the right direction.

Take, for instance, the Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration, which was started by a private gentleman, Mr.A.K.Smiley, who was wont every year to invite prominent officials and others to his beautiful summer place at Lake Mohonk for a conference.