Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-09-26

A HIGH COURT OF LAST RESORT TO
DETERMINE DISPUTES.

st How International Differences Might b
n, Adjusted If the Rulers Did Not Prefe
Gu Grim and Destructive War to Peac,
70 Arbitration In Big Affairs.
a. There is great deal of carelessness Il
j. certain popular demands for referring
r questions between nations to arbitration
II We all know what arbitration is in bust
70 ness 1t is very convenient way of ad
Q justing certain questions which arise be
c tween two friends, each of whom want
Q to do what is right, but who take differ
( ent points of view of the same subject
: Each of them chooses a man," as the
r old New England phrase has it. These
3 two ''men" choose third man. AL
{ parties meet together and talk over the
t matter, and the court thus made decides
But for practical purposes we do moi
compel every person who has question
arising with another person to create a
court which is to try that question If a
policeman catches a pickpocket in the
street. he does not appoint one person to
try the pickpocket and ask the pickpocket
to appoint another, while these two shall
appoint a third. If Mr.. Cheeryble in
London is not satisfied with the account
which Mr.. Goodchild in Kansas City
sends him, if Mr. Goodchild cannot make
Mr.. Cheeryble understand that account,
they do not appoint court which shall
determine how much is due and how
much Is not due There is a court ex-
listing to which that question can be re-
ferred and there are processes perfectly
understood by which that court can de.
eide it.
This is fair enough illustration of the
necessity which now exists that the great
nations of the world shall have perma-
nent tribunal, before which shall be
brought the important questions which
must arise in the affairs of nations with
each other. 1t is to be permanent tri-
bunal. There is not to be one tribunal
about seals and another tribunal about
boundaries and another about extradi-
ton. There is to be tribunal which
shall gradually gain the confidence of
the whole world, and which shall decide
these questions which have been left
hitherto to vague public opinion and to
what is called the arbitration of war.
Clearly we are approaching nearer and
nearer the creation of such a tribunal.
The greatest success was achieved |
when in 1889 10 different nations. here |
ON the coast Of the Atlantic, united to |
gether and established the supreme court |
of the United States. The thing has
worked so perfectly and simply ever
since that we have many readers to
whom 1t has never occurred that there
were might have been wars between
Massachusetts and New York, or war
between Missouri and Iowa, as bitter
and severe as half the wars of the middle
ages in Europe were. There might have
been such wars if it had not been that
the supreme court of the United States
has determined at least hundred cues.
tons arising between different proud and
independent states and has SO deter
mined them that each of the states has
acquiesced i'll the decision. Nay, it has
so determined them that half the citizens
of those states did not know that any
such questions existed. Between my own
state of Massachusetts and the state of
Rhode Island there was question about
boundaries some 40 or so years ago which
was more important than many of the
questions which have thrown European
states into war with each other. The su. ;
preme court of the United States deter. s
mined the question, and do not believe I
that half the people now living in Mas
sachusetts who were living then ever i
knew that there was any such question {
1t issue.
The SIX great powers of the world are
he powers who should agree on such a
nigh court of judicature, to exist as a
permanent tribunal 1t would be easy T
% arrange some system by which its L
judges should be appointed. Perhaps a S
rood system would be such as is indi. d
'ated in the custom which has been C
poken of above. Each of the six nations e
night name one of these judges, and the C
TX judges might nominate six other "
Judges, to be approved by majority of I
he high powers forming the court. il
AT first the new court would bava b
othing to do. Everybody would be shy =
I it, but it would exist. 1t would CON a
list OF men of the very highest rank who o.
ad distinguished themselves before the
'orld by their equity and wisdom. c.
At first the court would meet simnlv Il
Or Its own organization and to await fa
he reference to it of questions arising cC
etween great nations. In this period of tie
lsure these jurists might well be en- y,
aged IN digesting the international law a,
the world as it exists now and pub e1
shing from time to time their digest. fir
hey might determine certain princinles sl
A which they would rely in the iudg- in
ents which should eventually be pr
Fought before them. Before long, how ii,
'er, some real question would be sub II
Tilted to them. There would arise a ne
lestion whether the San Carlos river S.
as dirty brook running from the
'rthwest to the southeast, or another
rty brook running from the southwest l..
the northeast. As things stand now ns 90,
70 armies have to be called cut to fight u,
out the proper definition of some old o 'l
saty and thousand good fellows have ns
be killed before we can determine -
lch of two dirty brooks is the San ~
rios, Edward Everett Hale in New 1ei
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