The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-21
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with the evils of war, have dreamed
the dream that the millennium of peace
might be reached by establishing a uni
yersad system of international arabitra-
ton. The cry for peace is an old world
cry. 1t has echoed through all the ages
and arbitration has long been regarded
as the handmaiden of peace. Arbitra-
ton has, indeed, venerable history of
its own. According to Thucydides, the
history of the Peloponnesian war,
Archidamus, king of Sparta, declared
that cit was unlawful to attack an
enemy who offered to answer for his
acts before tribunal of arbiters.'
In 1890 the senate and the house of rep
esentatives of the United States adapted
a concurrent resolution requesting the
president to make use OF any fit COCA
sion to enter into negotiations with
other governments to the end that any
difference or dispute which could not
be adjusted by diplomatic agency might
be referred to arbitration and peaceful
ly adjusted by such means. The Brit
ish house of commons in 1893 responded
by passing unanimously resolution
expressive of the satisfaction 1t felt
with the action of congress and Of the
hope that 1.-THE government OF the queen
would lend is ready cooperation TO
give effect to it. The parliaments Of
Denmark, Norway and Switzerland and
the French chamber of deputies have
followed suit
1t seemed eminently desirable that
there should be some agency by which
members of the great representative
and Legislative bodies Of the world. in
terested in this far-reaching question.
should meet on a common ground and
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With this object there has recent been
founded 'SThe Permanent Parlia ment-
airy Committee in Favor OF Arbitration
and Peace, or as II is sometimes call
ed. ''The parliamentary Union"
This union has a permanent organi
zation-itS office Is a Berne. It's men,
bers are not vain idealists. They are
men Of the world. They do-nou claim |
to be regenerators OF mankind nor do |
they promise the minimum. bur they |
are doing honest and useful work in !
making straighter and less difficult: the |
path OF Intelligent progress. Speaking |
in rhis place, / need only 10 refer, in |
passing. to the remarkable Pan-Ameri- |
can congress held in your states in 1890 |
a the instance of the late Mr.. Blaine
directed to the same peaceful object |
II is obvious. therefore, that the sem |
Il
tration as the alternative for war is |
growing apace. How has that sentl- |
ment told on the direct action Of ma |
tons? HOwlfar have they sh3ped their |
policy according 20 its methods? The /
answers IN these questions ara also |
hopeful and encouraging. Experience. |
has shown that. over large area inter
national differences may honorabiy
pra ctically. peacefully and use<uiiy be
dealt with by peaceful arbitrament
The have been since 1915 some Sixty
instances OF effective international ar
bltration. To thirty~t~o Of these the
United States has been a party and |
Great Britain % some twenty OF Them
There are many Instances also Of the
Introduction OF arbitration clauses into
treaties. Here again the United States
appears IN the van Among the frs, of
such treafies-if not the very f-~t-Is
the Guadaioupe-rIdalco treaty a Isss
between the United Sts-es ard Nexfoo
Since that date many staer Countries
have followed this example. Th.ss
facts. dun as the rectal ~ them ~
fuH OF interest and hope for the fatur.
But We are tneace 20 ca-clrsde ia
the millennium OF peace has arrived
that the dave has returned u The All, |
sIre sign that the waters ~ frte-rz-
tifsIl4l S-Tsie nave permanently e1b=fd-
ed? ] am not sangsene enough 20 Law
THIS fiarterinS u1crion 10 my sout. IN
oriiled ambiticn-thirst for Wild do
minloo-przde % power stiH hold sway
afs,s.igh believe with l~z~eued fore
and IN some sort under the restrain.
CT the healthier opinion OF the world.
But further. frs~TB5 as arm OF peace
would yet affirm that the-- nav Be
even a-r=a.rr calan1f7ies than wa--rh.
6ish0no- q a nation. Ire triarursn o,
an u1-iE'oFeoEls cause. ne perp~trsz-
fio1 % hopeless and de5asng tyraa-
ny.
War Is tcnors BE.
In tlsose wno DO thei: native rights main
tain:
In those whose swords an irua ba-rse-
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