The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-28
WAR MADE IMPOSSIBLE.
~ MOVEMENT FOR INTERNA-
TIONAL ARBITRATION.

cor gress MemOriarzed 20 Promote an
Arylo- American Treaty STIMULATING
that All Ouarrels Shall Be Submitted
~ Arbitration-More Than One-Third
~ the House of Commons Are in
Favor OIL
From, the New York Horld
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-The memorial to
gonoress presented to-day in the House by
Mr. Belmont in favor of arbitration for the
sottIement Of international disputes is a
oo7ent and noteworthy appeal. OF the six
.ioro+ories. one is Mayor Hewitt, of New
\ York and the other five-David Dudley
4 Field. Andrew Carnegie, Dorman B. Eaton
. i Norris X. Jesup and Charles A. Peabody
1 we're appointed by Mayor Hewitt pursuant
4 "a resolution passed at a recent public
meeting in New York city, which was held
for the express purpose of urging the accep-
lance of a treaty providing that all future
i disnutas between Great Britain and the
4 frnitad States shall be settled by arbitra-
i ton Two hundred and thirty-three mem
hers of the British Parliament are in favor
II of such treaty.
Tie aim of the proposal is to confirm the
l friendship and increase the security of each
nation. If we look beyond ourselves"
II ,v tho net TONERS, lit is something to con
II .dar what may be the effect OF such a
II treaty as we propose upon the future of
4 mankind While it is true that if our two
II nations cannot agree to form such treaty
4 no other nation can, it is also true that
Il when once we shall have made it our ex-
Il ample must have an influence upon other
l branches of the human family. If the
i world should see, as we hope it will, that
/ fine two great English-speaking nations
/ have promised to live Ill peace with each
| other and have kept the promise and pros
| nered in tho keeping, it would not be long
| tafore the spectacle would attract the at
tention and the sympathy OF other nations,
| and bv the force of self-lnterest lead them
L | 10 disburden themselves by their intolerable
| ornaments and, leaving the ranks of I'M
| prosperous war take the side of prosperous
/ peace'
Its the daily prayer of one of the churches
| of ChriStendom: Give us peace in our
: | time, and a Ike prayer goes up from every
) | holy temple.
War is not what it used to be in the days
3 / of our fathers. The General of our army
4 has lately declared. on a public occasion,
4 that the weapons of warfare have become
1 so destructive that they must needs cause
Il wars TO cease and oblige nations to resort to
u arbitration for the settlement of their dis
putes, or, he might have added, modern
warfare will reduce mankind to the barba-
rsm of the primeval ages.
War being an unspeakable evil, how shall
nation be prevented from attacking an
II other for some cause, real or feigned, some
II grievance or some rretenseg This IS the
II answer: by agreeing beforehand that it
3 will not attack without first offering to sub
II nit its grievances to impartial arbiters
This would at once put an end to simulated
: Il grievances and furnish a remedy for real
6 ones. It would substitute the arbitrament
3 II of reason for the arbitrament of the sword.
} Since the general pacification of 1915
L there have been nearly sixty instances of
II arbitration for the settlement of interna-
II ticnal disputes and a detailed review of
4 them shows that the results have been emf
0 | nently practical and salutary. The Berlin
Congress of 1873 was really court of arbi-
tration.
The Berlin Congress of 1884, in which
fifteen different powers were represented,
held for the settlement of the relations be-
tween the different States on the Congo,
contained provision for arbitration in case
Of disputes between these States
\ Switzerland in 1888 proposed to the United
! States to enter into an arbitral convention
= Tor thirty years, binding the contracting
z parties to submit any differences arising
between them to a tribunal of three mem
II hers, one to be chosen by each party and
the third by those two, or if they should
disagree by a neutral government Regard
II llE lulS proposal Jtle PRESIDENT maze Use OF
II the following language in his annual mes
i sage to Congress- THE Helvetian Confei-
Grafton has proposed the Inauguration of a
class of international treaties for the refer
ment to arbitration of grave questions be-
tween nations. This government has as
Sented TO the proposed negotiation of such
treaty with Switzerland
Colombia and Honduras have entered
INTO treaty by which they have bound
themselves to submit all differences to arbi-
ration the arbitrator to be the President
ol the United States for the time being, ii
Inc parties do not agree upon different ar
bitrat0r
Ihese and many other instances cited are
deemed ample answer to the objection that
arbitration is not a practical measure for
me settlement Of international disputes.
ineobigation isreciprocal, infiicting wrong
On nobody. 1t is the only way for men to
20 IN civilized communities. When two
engage IN an arbitration, or in lawsuit,
one or the other must lose. But what is the
loss OF ten millions or a hundred millions
compared with the loss of a great war to
ooth the CombatantS!
4 1t is one of the traditions Of the Republic
} avoid entangling alliances. The treaty
advocated creates neither ENHANCEMENT
nor alliance. 1t does not bind America to
spouse the quarrels of England or vice
g versa Hence the memorialists say:
: We beg, therefore, most respectfully to ask
rom Congress the passage OF "a joint resolution,
sequestlng the President to propose TO the gov
elnuent OF Great Britain the making of a treaty
rtWeen the two nations, for limited period at
tast' providing in substance that in case diff
grelce should arise between them, respecting
ue interpretation Of any treaty which they have
maae or may hereafter make with each other,
E " any claim of either under the established law
nations, or respecting the boundary of any of
vuer respective possessions, or respecting any
EIong alleged to have been committed by either
gallon upon the other or its members or anv
Ivy omitted it shall be the earnest endeavor Of
,E osl ne 5"rsGcting parties to accommodate
ne Le ul1erVhse - conciliatory negotiation, and
, aI IN no ev ~ shall either nation begin a
Salnst the other, without first offering TO sub
h'l lhe difference between them to arbitrator,
[d@ ses as may be then agreed, or if there be no
Inherent agreement, then by three arbtrators,
I us % be chosen by each party and an umpire
g nose SO chosen; it being understood, how.
,sI, mat arbitration, as thus provided for, shall
10y nos SsNtend to any question respecting the indie
pVnuence or sovereignty Of either nation, it's
4lalty with other nations its form of govern
u1glt' IT'S internal affairs or its continental
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