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... ntent at http://about.jstor.org/participate--jstor/individuals/early-journal--content. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not--for--profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. EDITORIAL COMMENT of the nations, and in support of the proposition of the British government for limitation of armaments. It respectfully and urgently requests the President and the Congress of the United States to take the initiative, so far as prae ticable, in an endeavor to complete the work of the Second Hague Conference in these various directions, and especially to secure an agreement among the military and naval powers for a speedy arrest of the ruinous competition in armaments now prevailing. As an immediate step to this end, we urge our government, in obedience to the charge of the Second Hague Conference, as well as the first, that all nations should earnestly address themselves to this problem, to create a special commission of the highest character for its consideration, whose report shall serve as a basis for the action of our delegates at the Third Hague Conference. Resolved, that this congress earnestly indorses the movement so auspiciously begun by the governments of Denmark and Great Britain to provide at public cost for constructive measures to promote international good understanding, hospitality, and friendship, and appeals to our own government for broad and generous action upon these lines. Resolved, that this congress, representing all sections of our great country, appeals to our churches, schools, and press, our workingmen's and commercial organizations, and to all men of good will, for increased devotion to this commanding cause and such large support of its active agencies as shall strongly advanee the great measures which are to come before the next Hague Conference, and shall maintain our nation in high and influential leadership in behalf of international justice and order. THE FIFTEENTH LAKE MOHONK CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION The fifteenth annual Lake Mohonk conference on international arbitration met at Lake Mohonk, Ulster County, N. Y., May 19, remaining in session till May 21, 1909. The meeting, well attended and enthusiastic, has a two-fold claim upon the public at large: first, by reason of the remarkable, powerful, and thoughtful address of its chairman, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University; and second, because of the platform adopted by the conference, which is sanity itself. It is to be regretted that space does not permit the JOURNAL to print in full President Butler's address, outlining as it does the progress made within the last few years and the causes which threaten the world's peace at the present day, which President Butler found to be the strained relations between Great Britain and Germany, based upon a misunderstanding of each other's motives. Part of Dr. Butler's address follows: The history of the second Hague Conference is still fresh in our minds. Although not everything was done that we had hoped for, yet when the cloud of THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW