The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-16

 which men will be ruled, pressing for solution and with no existing instru- mentality for the solution save war.
 The question is, can the travail of so- ciety bring forth higher instrument tality-the International Court of Ar bitration-to embody it's integration, di- rect and draft off it's surplus energy and discontent, and solve it's interna- tional problems in time to prevent a world-embracing holocaust. Otherwise put, the question is, can permanent International Court of Arbi tration be had?
 The answer depends upon whether or not the world, or some section of it, has sufficient of civilization to warrant their falling back upon it in the settlement of their differences, as their constituent atoms-private men-for the most part do; or are nations. as nations, still such barbarians that they have, and can have, no recourse save to wager-of- battle methods.
 The principle has been temporarily embodied and functionalized in num- Der of instances and the experiments have always proved practicable and all that could be desired-the court for in- stance, in which the Alabama claims were adjudicated.
 | The recent attempt, practically to es- l tablish such a court. carried through Britan's parliament and lost in con- gress, was so lost because. of hostility | to Great Britain growing out of the Revolutionary war, the war of 1912 and | the attitude oe many of Englands s statesmen during the civil war, togeth- CT with the desire of the United States to determine, eX parte the then pending Venezuelan imbroglio.
 | Great Britain's action in the recent Americo-spanish war, in holding off all | Europe and leaving the United States free to win victory where otherwise it might have courted defeat, has wiped out old scores and probably left us free to accomplish what before failed, so far as the above reasons of failure are con- l cerned.
 | The growing industrialism of the world is accompanied pari passu, with a growing d!snclnat'on to incur the in debteGness incident to the luxury of | war.
 Intelligence more and more looks upon the taking of one hundred thou l sand men from self-supporting pro- ducers of capital, farthering them for support upon the balance of the com munity, furnishing them with other capital to be burnt up in the use, bond | ing posterity to pay the, bills, then set ting the one hundred thousand men to slaughtering another like one hundred thousand and destroying their property and vice versa, then bonding posterity again to support widows, orphans and l cripples, all for some trivial difference that between individual men would furnish material only for an ordinary law suit; as piece of imbecilic insan- 1 ty.
 Conscience is beginning to demand | whether or not the powers that make for right are not sufficient, and capable of sufficiently effective combination, to prevent the intelligence and ingenuity of modern progress from now and again constituting itself but so much vantaa e ground for more effectually tearing the world to pieces and starting it back ward.
 Great Britain desires the establish ment of the court The Czar of Russia favors peace and general disarmament Spain might wish to come in out of storms. France, but for desire for re- | venge, Alsace and Lorraine, would be forced in by the ideal predileotions of her people, Weak nations everywhere naturally favor an arbter whose deci- | sions would be based upon reason rath- CT than force.
 As it is in the direction of industrial ism and constitutionalsm, the United States, the great exponent of civil lib- erty and the nation best fitted by insti- tutons and constitution to lead the van of such a movement and without which it could not succeed, ought to want it.; and when they do, the world can have 1t, as one can have ripe apple by the shake of the tree.
 "The way to resume is to resume" !" And the way to have an international court of arbitration is to have one, q s. regarding if need be. the forebodings of professors of international law and their reasons why such court would produce more bloodshed than it would prevent on the ground that civilization is not yet sufficiently civilized to be civ ilized.
 The way to get the court is to fill the executive office and congress with men capable of initiating policies and favor able to the advance In this part of the work, newspapers, pulpits, societies, po- litical parties and individual men all have work in these United States and the political party that first adopts the principle of international arbitration as plank of it's platform. and that first honestly sets about crystalizing this ar tcle of it's creed into being, will draw to itself the intelligence and well mean ing of the country.
 Suppost the court established and that, while created primarily fir the benefit of it's members, it should say to the world in it's constitution, as it ought. that, whenever desired by all parties concerned and upon payment of reasonable fees for it's services, it would arbtrate issues between member ard non-member nations or between na- tions both or all of whom were non- members; then suppose difference arose between two non-member na- tions; does any one suppose that, some where along the line from the inception of the difference through the eXhaus- tion of diplomacy and before the declar- ing of war, the weaker for defence or the stronger for magnanmity. or both for economy, would not propose resort tn ha f011rt9