been accepted by the Governments of the South
African Republics. The acceptance, if any, had been hedged in by
all sorts of restrictions, for instance, in making it conditional
that England should drop the suzerainty, a condition which Her
British Majesty's Government could not accept. True, arbitration
was mentioned. But arbitration of what kind? about what? Could
England recognise the right which the Boers had given themselves,
to violate over and over again the Conventions of 1881 and 1884?

"Really it was astounding to see such an amount of sympathy wasted
on people who had constantly set at naught Art. 14 of the 1884
Convention with respect to the Uitlanders, who had come and
brought them civilisation, energy and wealth.

"A retrospect history of the Boers would quickly show that their
hatred of the English was in the first place due to the protection
which the latter had given to the natives. It is clearly apparent
from documents dealing with the Bloemfontein Conference, that when
Mr. Krueger brought forward the arbitration question he merely meant
to throw dust into the public's eyes. Now he (M. Yves Guyot)
considered it to the interest of the Congress to point out that its
members, generous-minded as they were, were irresponsible people.
What authority did they attribute to resolutions, blame and
reproach, addressed to governments who are themselves responsible
for the destinies of their countries?

"Their resolution might be couched in words as strong as they
liked, but what effective sanction could they give it? Was it not
to be feared rather that by its very violence their language might
fan the flames, or rake the embers of new conflicts instead of
making its peaceful influence felt?"

M. Guyot's speech was listened to with silent and earnest attention,
though now and then objections were heard.

Then after Dr. Clark, Mr. Frederic Passy, Mr. Moscheles and Mr. Arnaud
had made their observations the final decision was put off till the next
day.

On the 2nd of October the Russian delegate, Mr. Nevicow, read the text
of the resolution as it had been amended by the commission:

_Motion of the Commission._

"The Ninth International Peace Congress after hearing the report on the
events of the year sent by the Berne Bureau, though without pretending
to assume the right to p