The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-05-19
JUTICE HANDS TALK
ON ARBITRATION
II Greatly Interested Last Nights Beard
Of Trade Meeting.
ADDRESS TO BE REPEATED LATER
Board Compliments General Manager
Siiiiman, of the Traction Company.
Invitation to Attend the Lehish Val.
ley Railroad Depot Opening at
pittst0n Tomorrow.

E.X-Justice Hands address on IN
ternational Arbitration" ut last night i
meeting Of the board of trade was con-
sidered worthy of being heard ON an
other occasion and by a large audience
when he had finished n vote of thanks
was rendered him and President May
and Secretary Atherton We're chosen Il
committee IL arrange for a public
meeting. probably not until autumn
The address was based upon the pro-
ceedlngs of the National Arbitration
conference which met In Washingto On
April 80 and 80 tn further the United
states governments advocacy OF inter-
national arbitration, especially with
Great britain. Judge Hands remarks
nearly in fun. appear below.
At the meeting General Manager
Frank Siiliman. jr., Of the scranton
Traction company, received IN the re-
port of the public safety committee
and In its abortion u complimentary
notice not usually accorded corporation
officials. Following was the report:
TO the Officers and Mem1ers, Scranton
Board of Trade.
,ientlemen:-Nou committee On puplc
safety note with qualification the improve
mentS already made, and those cont 'ih-
ulated in the service of the Scranton TT &C.
ton company We believe these changes
and improvements (which are ON the ihe
of those recommended by your committee
two months ago) are due to the efforts ci
the general manager. Frank Silliman, n.
ari it Is our opinion that he should De
comm, nded by this board for his evident
desire to give to the people OF this citg
a hrs -claSS street car system.
Respectfully submitted,
r. w. Luce, Chairman
J. A. Lansing was unanimously elect
ed a trustee, vice W. II. Perkins, re-
signed John Proud and Thomas D.
Moore were elected new members.
INVITATION ACCEPTED.
An invitation was received from the
Pittston board inviting the Scranton
board as body to attend the opening
of the new Lehigh Valley railroad depot
at Pittston tomorrow afternoon The
invitation was accepted and President
May, Secretary Atherton and II. f.
Paine were appointed formal delegates
Much controversy was occas'oned by
an invitation to send delegates to the
| National Commercial Tariff convention
| in Detroit, June 6. The organizat!on's
| object is to eliminate tariff from poll
| tics. The Scranton board severa
months ago voted its approval of tn,
object without endorsing the organiza
ton, about which little or nothing wa.
known. The invitation read last nigh
was from the executive committee
among which appeared the name wv
! A. May President of the Scranton
Board of Trade" II was not will
President Mays consent that his nam'
was used. When this fact was an
nounced it threw cold water on th'
sending of a delegate and the invitation
was finally "received and action post
pOned.'
Judge Hand prefaced his remarks b!
| reading the resolutions adopted at th
conference. and by a statement of th
character and Importance of that gath
ering which comprised 400 delegate
representing fortysiX states and terri
tories. He continued: THE highes
reach of Jurisprudence is found in TN
two countries who speak the Anglo
Saxon tongue. 1t was not until WITHIN
the present century that the wager o
battle was abolished i'm the reign >
George H. Although its absurdit.
| had brought 1t into disuse-wager q
battle, which was a physical combat il
the presence of the Judges. of the plain
tiff and defendant or their champions
was kind of sacrilegious appeal to Coz
based on physical vigor. 1t had for it
excuse the superstitious idea that whel
two contestants submitted their dis
pute about the right of property to b.
pummelled out with clubs and baton
Providence would be forced to decid
the contest in favor of the right and tn
evidence of it was that the victor wa
the most successful in pummelling hi
creditor or debtor the most to jelly
And still the Judges set to decide not tn
justice Of either claim upon principle
of law ana justice, but upon the fac
as to which had whipped
ADVANCE OF CIVILIZATION.
'The advance of civilization from thi
barbarous practice and from the duel L
settle an imaginary point of honor. L
the adjudication of human difference
before Il court Of learning and judicia
thought and consideration uE,Dn prin
cipies OF reason, law and justice IN :
signal and evidently heaven -descende
that human nature looks with contemu
ON the bullies who now settle their civi
rights by flattened noses and blackene
eyes and bloody necks. Such Il pro
ceedinS renders the combatants fit Oul
for the Jail or penitentiary. but yet thi
proceeding was sustained by the law u
England as late as 1918
How much different i'm high prin
ciple IN the sight of men and angel
who value mind above matter, reaso,
above brute force. law and justic
above chance and misfortune. is it fo
two cultivated. educated. will not sa
Christian nations, to fight out thej
differences at the point of the bayone
and bullet ana then COM tugethe
when blood Is NJ. and hatred IL en-
gend2rcd 10 consult and wrangle owe
Il treaty of peace which is often mad
as far from th' issue first made a
the horrors Of war can drive men?
Looking over the field Of histor,
the blnOdshed Of the PAST. the so
late homes. the broken hearts. the sad
dened bruws of women in whose heroi
lives shine forth pre-eminently tn
virtues which can bring cheer to tn
desclation of peace in the battle of lif,
which every true man mist meet, tin
question resolves itself into this
there better way to settle Information
al differences than by the sword? Wa
the Geneva award as between the Unit
ed States and Great Britain or th
3chring Sea adjustments better tina
bloody war between the two most lii
eral. most favored and most Christia
! nations of the earth? | will put it /
another form. Is it bettEr for the tw
nations of the same tongue. the ton
, que distned to be the cclloouial an
business language Of the world: tw
nations with the most heroic history {
all the nations of the earth and able
make the bloOdiest war on record, t
adopt system of permanent arbitrn
ton to settle all differences by reason
, justice and law rather than by desc
lated hearth stones, ruined commerc,
embitter red hatrefs, and jealous. but:
instincts engenlcrcd when at last tn
same differences and hundred Other
must be settled by diplomacy and II,
gotiatinn or the intervention of thir
power as arbitrator to assist in til
adjustment?
BETTER FOR HUMANITY.
IT nroposc to answer this questio
briefly in the light OF history, cXpcr
ence and present prospects and fact
This question involves the other. gr2a'
er and more nomentous question
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