The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1896-01-28
WHAT cAAuNcEy pEpew SAYS.
Combined Forces of the World Could Not
Invade America.


Combined Forces of the World Could Not
Invade America.
ALBANY, Jan. 22.-The annual session
of the State Bar association opened al
Odd Fellows hall in the presence of q
large number of auditors. President M
H. Robertson presided. The address OF
the evening was delivered by Hon,
Chauncey M. Depew on Patriotism and
Jingoism the LAYERS Duty" He said
II parts
Ours is,a lawyers government Twenty OF
our "a presidents have been lawyers as were
"a of the 81 signers of the Declaration of Inde'
pendence and 30 of the 81 members OF the CON
vention which framed the constitution OF the
United States. A large majority Of the mem
bors of both houses cf congress, and of both
houses of the legislatures of the several states
have always been and still are members OF the
profession.
The checks and safeguards against revolu-
tonary action which distinguish the institu-
tons of the United States from those of all
other demOcracics are the fruits of the wis
dom and foresight of great minds trained to
the law.
The greatest minister's and leaders for peace
whom l ever met were the generals whose
famo fills the world and whose victories wero
III our ClNll StllIt-pTunt anu ontTihuh uhh
Sheridan. During the whole of their lives
after the war they were the apostles and
preachers of peace There are occasions when
war IL both right and necessary, and nntion
must embark upon II without counting the
consequences, but the issue OF battlo is never
certain, nor does the arbitrament of war al-
ways end in right or justice
The United States is tho only nation so stu
ated that it can with honor and safety move
upon the pathway of peace for an interna
tional court Of arbitration. We have no fear
of the countries to the south or to th north OF
US, and IL Is 0J0 miles across the o. inn to the
nearest seaport of any European power. 81
great has been our prosperity, because of one
hundred and two years of peace and only five
of war, so free have we been from the strifes
which have exhausted the resources of Europe
that the taxing power of the government has
not yet touched for any purpose the renl and
persona property represented in our seventy
thousand millions of dollars Of accumulated
wealth,
According to the census Of 1850 we have
O,20O0O fighting men, The experience of the
civil war has shown that from them could be
drafted, mobilized and instructed In three
months 8,000,000 soldiers. All the transports
and naveS of the world could not land upon
our shores an army which could march 100
miles from the scacost or ever return to their
ships With all the world in arms against us
Int VAST lnttElOT OF our cOntlHtutt tACtDU Ill
our industrial and economic phases, would
know nothing of tho trouble and never see a
foreign uniform-except on prisoner of war.
Secure in our isolation, supreme in our re-
sources, unequalled in our reserves and free
from dangerous neighbor5, we occupy among
the nations of the globe position so exalted
and safe that to compare us with other coun-
tries would be absurd The statesman or the
itician who really fears for the safety Of
this country is fool. The statesman poll
tcian who does not fear (becauso he knows
bettcr), and who yet breaches of our weakness
and our vulnerabilty, is dcmagogue, and he
insults the intelligence Of the American peo.
pie.
This great reservoir Of force for all purposes
the American rcpublic-this mighty engine
OF war and most beneficent power for peace
on the face of the globe, can extend tho right
hand of fellowship to warning brethren across
the Atlantic and prOmulgate with honor and
dignity n scheme for international tribunal
and lead In the movement.
Had there been an international court OF ar
bitrntion In the Venezuelan NATTER Lord Sal.
isbury could not have pleaded that there was
boundary line embracing territory so long
and unqucstionably held by the British that
they could not in honor submit the question of
their title to the court The idea of securing
at any early date an international court repro
senting and embracing all the nations Of
Europe and of North and South America, In
probably at present utOpian.
1t 10 possible for Great Britain and the
United States, out Of this present difficulty,
to evolve tribunal OF international law and
Justice, which shall be in perpetual session,
whose members shall bo selected with such
care, whose dignity shall receive such recog-
milton and whose reputation shall bo 30 great
that each nation can submit to 1t any question
In dispute and bow to its decision with safety
and honor.