The Topeka state journal., 1901-09-03

R Ar ANY optimists OF this coun-
H try and of England profess
to see the realization of
their hopes for universal
peace in an Anglo-Ameri-
can alliance, and to this
end they have been shap-
fng their plans for union based upon
the common sentiment that pervades
the peace loving inhabitants of both
countries Their animating sentiment
was voiced by our eminent country
man Justice David J. Brewer of the
United States supreme court in an ad-
dress recently delivered in Milwaukee
when he said: II desire most particu-
larly to refer to our efforts as a nation
in the direction of international arbi-
tration and the fastening Of that day
when peace shall reign and wars shall
be no more 1 want TO refer to the ef-
forts which this nation and the mother
country IGreat Britainl have been MAX
ing to bring about the blessings of ar
bitration, and ] am profoundly con-
vinced that no time is more opportune
to impress the wisdom and blessings
of arbitration than the present time,
when the world looks upon the war and
carnage in South Africa.
This country has thus far spoken ev-
cry time for those measures which will
make war less burdensome and less of
what Sherman declared it to be- And
1T is to the credit OF this nation that
she stood side by side with Great Brit
ain for peace at The Hague. Peace
will surely come Notwithstanding that
conference has been laughed at by
some and called a Miss Nancy affair by
others To my mind, this Hague con-
ference forms the turning point IN ar
bitration, and it Will hasten the blessed
day
These are the two nations, the Unit
ed States and Great Britain, that have
been more conspicuous in war than any
other, and it is natural that they should
be foremost in the efforts at peace and
/ believe their efforts Will be crowned
with the glory Of success and that they
viii bring about settlement by arbitra-
ton and that The Hague conference
will prove an epoch in the great ques-
tion of arbitration
That Justice Brewer has been a con-
sistent advocate of peace for many
years reference to his speeches and
writings is only necessary to prove.
Taking some excerpts al random, we
find, for example this from a lecture
before the Yale University Law school
in February of this year:
This nation must not appear before
p
and deliver must never be the motto
of the republic Victory must be sea-
soned with justice, and that nation as
that individual stands highest in the
worlds thought. becomes most potent
for good, which in the hour of triumph
manifests the most consideration and
ma agnanimity
notwithstanding all our great edu-
cational privileges. all our common
schools and the great work they are do
ing, there is a fearful volume of fgno-
rance More than that, there is in our
population a heterogeneous mass. We
are not all Anglo-Saxon. We do not all
spring from those races which we be-
lieve have the true ideas of self govern
ment- We have a great multitude COM
ing from those nations in which gov
ernment is a supposed enemy, multi
tude which has no idea of the meaning
of liberty restrained by law. 1t has
yet to be Anericanized, to be brought
into the realization of the limitations
upon personal action which come from
the highest obligations of liberty. More
than that, we have, Notwithstanding
our enormous resources and great ter
ritory, a large population which knows
nothing of the blessings of q home and