Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1896-08-28
4 WARM FRIEND OF PEACE
Lord Russell at the American
Bar Association.
DISTINGUISHED AUDIENCE

i 1900 people assembled today to listen
te the address Of Lord Russell, Of Kill
l6wen, lord chief justice Of England.
on international Arbitration, before
the American Bar Association. II was
one Of the most distinguished audiences
ever gathered here Lord Russell was
greeted with hearty applause. Be-
sides Lord Russell there was grouped
on the platform United States Surpeme
Court Judge Rufus w. Peckham,
United States Attorney General Har-
mon, New York Court Of Appeals
Judge Bartlett, and many other promi.
nent personages.
Speaking Of the movement for arbi.
tration, Lord Russell said in part:
In 1890 the senate and house Of
representatives Of the United States
adopted concurrent resolution re.
questing the president to make use Of
any fit occasion to enter into neogtia.
tions with other governments to the
end that any differences or disputes
which could not be adjusted by diplo-
matte agency might be referred to arbi.
tration and peacefully adjusted by such
means. The British house of com.
mons in 1898 responded by passing
( unanimously resolution expressive Of
the satisfaction it felt with this action
and with the hope that the government
Of the queen would render ready Co.
operation to give it teffect. The parlia-
ment Of Denmark and Switzerland and
the French chamber Of deputies have
4 followed suit
1T seemed eminently desirable that
there should be an agency by which
members Of the great representative
and executive bodies of the world in
terested in this far.reaching question
should meet on common ground and
discuss the basis for common action.
4 With this object there has recently been
founded the permanent parliamentary
committee in favor of arbitration and
peace, or, as it is sometimes called,
the interparliamentary union. This
union has permanent organization.
Its officers and members are not vain
idealists; they are men of the world.
I They do no claim to be regenerators Of
mankind, nor do they promise the mil.
lenium, but they are doing useful work
in making straighter and less difficult
the path of intelligent progress.
Speaking in this place, need only
refer in passing to the remarkable pam
American congress held in your states
in 1890, at the instance of the late
Mr.. Blaine, directed to the same peace.
sful object.
''It is obvious, therefore, that the
sentiment for peace and in favor of ar
bitration as the alternative for war is
growing apsce. How has this senti-
ment told on the direct action of ma
tionsg How far have they shaped their
policy according to its methods? The
answer to these question is that peaceful
and encouraging experience has shown
4 that over large area international
differences may honorably. practically
and usefully be dealt with by peaceful
arbitrament.
"There have been since 1915 some
sixty instances of effective information
al arbitration. Thirty.two of these
the United States has been party to.
and Great Britain to some twenty Of
them. There are many instances also
of the introduction of arbitration into
! treaties. Here, too, the United States
/ appears in the van. Are we, then, to
conclude that the millennium of peace
\ has arrived, that the dove has returned
to the ark, a sure sign that the waters
of international strife have subsided
4 peramnentlyg
II am not sanguine enough to lay
this fiattering junction. to my soul,
/ Unbridled ambition, thirst for wide
domain, pride Of power still holds
sway. although with lessened force
and in some sort under the restraint of
the healthier opinion of the wolrd. But
further, friend as | am of peace, l
would yet affirm that there may be
even greater calamities than war-the
dishonor Of nation, the triumph of an
unrighteous cause, the perpetuation Of
hopeless and debasing tyranny. 1t be-
hooves. then, all who are friends Of
peace and advocates of arbitration, to
recognize the difficulties and to dis.
criminate between the causes in which
friendly arbitration is and in which it
I may not be practically possible.
Arbitration will not cover the
whole field of international oontro-
versy, and until the great powers Of
the world in league bind themselves to
coerce recalcitrant member of the
1 family of nations, we have still to face
the more than possible disregard by
powerful states of the Obligations Of
good faith and Of justice, The scheme
of such a combination has been advo-
GATED. but the signs of its accomplish
ment are absent.
Il doubt whether in any case per.
manent tribunal, the members of
which shall be properly designated, is
practical or desirable. fear it might
/ assume intolerable pretentions. ("