Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-21
TWO BIG PEOPLES.
Those Of the United States and
Great Britain.
THAT IS LORD RUssELL's VIEW.
Distingished British Jurist Talks Of Inter-
national Law AMI Arbitration. and Thinks
That What Uncle Sam and john Bull
Want Badly Enough to Unite Upon They
Can Have-which Is, Perhaps, the Rea-
son Why They Don't Unite.

SARATOGA. Aug. Glover 1900 people
assembled in Convention hall yesterday
TO listen to the address of Lord Russell Of
killowen, lord chief justice of England, on
international Arbitration before the
American Bar association. 1t was one of
the most distinguished audiences that ever
gathered here. When Lord Russell en-
tered the hall he was greeted with hearty
applause, and as he ascended the platform
the ovation increa sed and was more demon
stratiye. Beside Lord Russell there were
grouped on the platform United States
Supreme Court Judge Rufus w. Peckhari,
United States Attorney General Harmon,
New York Court of Appeals Judge Bart
lett; Hon. Courtland I. Parker. Of New
Jersey; United States District Judge Coke;
Hon. J. Randolph Tucker, of Virginia, and
others distinguished in the legal profes-
sion.
Points Tha. Make for Friendship.
After being introduced by Judge Storey,
president of the Bar association, and ac-
knowlcdging the honor done him Lord
Russell said: Eve speak the same lam
guage; we administer laws based on the
heirs in the rich traditions of political
freedom long established, and we enjoy
in common a literature the noblest and the
purcst the world has known-an accum,l-
lated store of centuries to which you, on
your part, have made generous cOntribu-
ton. Beyond this he unseen crimson
thread of kipship stretching from the
mother ishndS to your great continent
unite us. and reminds us always that We
b.long to the same, though mixed racial
family. Indeed the spectacle which we
today present iS unique.
Greatest Race on Record.
1--WE represent the great English-spcakinS
Communitics-cOmlu occupying %
large space of the surface of the earth
made up Df races wherein the blood of Cclt
and Saxon, Dane and Norman. of Pict
and Scot, are mingled and fused into an
aggregate power held together by the
nexuS of a common spccch-combining at
once territorial dominion, political in
Nuence, and intellectual force greater than
history records in the case Of any other
people. This consideration is prominent
among those which suggest the thcIne on
which l desire to address you-uamcly, in
tcrnational law.
Interested in international Law.
The English speaking peoples, masters
not alone of extended territory, but also OF
n mighty commerce, the energy and enter
Isi-e Of whose sons have made them the
great travellers and colonizcrs of the world
have interests to safeguard in every
quarter of it, and, therefore, in an cspe-
cial manner it is important to them that
the rules which govern the relations of
states inter 81 should bc well understood
and should rest on the solid basis of con-
vcnicncc. Of justice. snd of reason Ho
then passed to an extended consideration
of what Is international law; its sources;
the stnndard-the ethical standard-to
which it ought to conform; the character
istics of its modern tendencies and de-
yclopmcnts. and then added needful words
on the question. lately so much discussed,
of international arbitration International
law he defined as ''thc sum of the rules or
s'gcs which civilized states have agreed
shall bc binding upon them in their deal.
ingS with one another"