Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1907-07-13
THE HAGUE DELEGATES |
WOULD FRAME
new RULE
Each Nation Wants Upper
Hand and Is Ready
to Fight
For It.
AMERICA HAS GOOD
WILL FOR KOREANS
ChOdte So Informs That COuntry'S
Delegate and Then Says They
Must Address Federal
Government at
Washington.

The Hague, July 13.--It was official
ly stated today that Joseph II. Choate,
one of the American delegates. speak
ing to the Korean delegates yester-
day, said that America always has
felt good will towards the Koreans.
but manifested no opinion about the
present condition of that country. He
expressed the belief that no action can
be taken here, adding that II the
Koreans desire to make representa-
tions to the United States, they must
address themselves to the government
at Washington.
When VIII it End.
When the International peace con-
gress convened June Is, Joseph II.
Choate believed that the work could
be finished in four weeks. Now he
Is wondering II he will live long
enough to rest fond eyes upon his
native land again.
AS the burglar said to his lawyer
as he was about to be sentenced, ut
may be four years, and 1t may be
forever" So 1t as with the tortuous
deliberations of the much-touted
peace congress, or. as 1T Is officfafiy
known, the International Arbitration
Tribunal.
oFrty-six different nations are rep
resented at The Hague. No one rep
resentatives dares to express the
thoughts aloud, but every man OF
them knows that the present gabfest
is interminable.
Progress Impossible.
When the delegates fiocked to The
Hague the world seemed to think that
they would rush through a plan for
the disarmament of every nation un-
der the sun with about as much
celebrity as a county convention nomi-
mates a cut-and-dried ticket on q
written beforehand platform.
But when they got down to bust
ness they soon found that every dele
cumscribed and hedged in by Ifs.
lands" and other provisos that pro-
gress was impossible.
As a consequence, instead Of max
| ing ready to beat the swords of the
| world into plowshares and to melt
the cannon into medals for good
| boy" the talk soon resolved itseii
into a question of the fairest method
| of procedure between two nations In
case war should be declared neces-
sary.
Instead of introducing a hurry VI
resolution, providing for compulsory
| arbitration, they fell to discussing
| such questions as this:
"In case war is inevitable. shall the
| aggressive nation send word TO the
other. IN 80 days 1 am going to send
my fleet over and to blow you of
| the map so as TO give the enemy
| chance to prepare, or shall the at
| tacking power move Immediately up
on the others works without a word
of warning?"
Ridicule the Conferees
| Instead of declaring that there
| shall be no more wars, they are try
| ing to define the status of private
| property on the high seas in case
of hostilities.
| In other words, instead of laboring
! for the utter abolition Of war and fol
| the doctrine of compulsory arbitra-
tion of all international nisunder-
| standings, the peace congress dele
gates are simply trying to frame vi
a new set of rules to govern inter
national warfare.
To be very plain about this mat
ter Europe is beginning to litter a.
the "labors" of the peace congress
and the London Times, that journal
listic bible, which every true Britor
swears by, describes the members II
these words:
"They are a lot of cosmopolitan
swelled heads who conceive thai
friendship for every country but thell
own is proof of superior enlighten'
ment and moral rectltude, umii ol
astute in half measures, irrespective
of the import of the measures they
are asked to halve, and honest fana'
tics who believe that II only the con-
ference would decree a millennium
the millennium would begin