The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-07
ADDRESS OF HON.
 GEORGE W. TAYLOR
Delivered at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Monhonk Lake (N. Y..) Conference
 on International Arbiration

cannot see 1t that way. It all depends m the point of view. It was the duty of the Senate to think. to deliberate and to advise. They did 1t bravely ana well, and. trust. wisely too.
 Ideas are born and grow, they come and go. we know not whence no. nor where nor how. It has been told that William Mckinley, the Union soldier. was wounded. captured and imprisoned in a Confederate prison. While in nos- pital hel was initiated a Mason by Con- federate soldiers. More than thirty years after, William Mckinley. the President of the United States, ex- pressed the wish that the nag of the nation should be planted over the bones of the Confederate dead. Thus seeds of kindness born in the breast of the Confederate soldier. in Con- federate prison blossomed in the heart of that great American till they burst out in their fullness to be- the most beautiful sentiment of the last year Of the nineteenth century. Influenced by this sentiment, away to the East and far to the West. the sons and daugh- ters of the South are roaming. and in- to the South from North, East and West many a son has come to live in love and brotherhood with him who once was, and might still have been. his bitterest foe. All for the good of this nation and of all other nations and the betterment of humanity. and for the wiser and better solution of great problems which can be finally solved at home and abroad only by the complete reunion of the blue and the gray.
 I, too, have been a soldier and have felt all the glory and all the horror or war. have also seen and felt, and now see and feel, the spiendor and happiness of peace. and I love It with rn rk laa nA laaonn nf peace under the Big Stick" It Is a good. strong teacher. and what you get you hold on to. and encourage peace at home and abroad.
 It may seem inconsistent but fa- vor a good navy-what some would call a big navy. I voted in the last Congress for two battleships, and do not regret 1t. They will cost $lo.o00.- 900 perhaps. If a better or more practical plan for peace had offered l would gladly have doubled the appro- priation to $20,000.o00 for peace with out battleships. favor a navy to maintain peace and to enforce the mandates of an international court of arbitration. The boycott has been sug- gested this evening as the power to control nations and enforce the de- crees of The Hague tribunal. I can not assent to this proposition, no mat ter how earnestly urged nor how high and able It's advocate may be. The boycott will not do. It Is vicious in principle and would prove worse in practice.
 You must look further and deeper into humanity for the force to enforce international judgments. You have been told by one of our Justices that the mandates of our own Supreme Court have for years been executed by a baton in the hands of a woman. And why? Because behind the woman stands that great creative force of civilization, legislative power, the na- tional legislature, which created the Supreme Court itself, and Is founded in the confidence and respect of all the people
 Arbitration Is the very spirit of jus tice. I believe In 1t for itself. be- lieve, also in International arbitration. compulsory and plenary, to be admin istered by an international court. But I further believe that such a court. to be of benefit, can only be created and established by legislative force pro- ceeding from a regularly organized legislative body of the worlds repre- sentatives. formulating the public opinion and will of all the nations and thus commanding the respect and con- fidence of all the people. A court so organized can enforce its own rjudg- ments with baby's rattle. a1 II
 No argument Is needed to convince | an American audience that interna- tionai arbitration Is the best substi-