Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1909-05-04
SUMMARY OF WORK At HAGUE
PERMANENT COURT SETTLES
FOUR IMPORTANT lNTERNA-
,s TIoNAL DIFFERENCES.
TO INEVITABLY RULE FUTURE
CIVILIZED WORLD LOOKS TO
AMERICA TO FURTHER IN
TEREsTs OF PEACE.

Chicago, May 4. - THE Advance
Registered by the two Hague Confer
ences," was the subject of the address
of Prof William i. Hull of Swarth.
more college, Pennsylvania, at today's
session of the second national peace
congress. The speaker said that the
Hague conferences are to information
al law what the industrial revolution
of the 18th and 10th centuries was to
human industry, or what the rise OF
the. American republic was to human
government.
THE civilized world" said he, Sin
common with our own country, has
made use of many instrumentalities
in its great ascent towards Internal
ional peace and justice; but the
greatest OF them all II believe to have
been the two conferences at The
Hague. For these conferences, like
the great heroes or institutions of
history, embodied in themselves near
ly all the instrumentalities which
have been achieving for the world its
renowned victories of peace"
Prof Hull gave summary of the
work Of the Hague conferences, and
continued:
''The institution established by the
conferences at The Hague which
stands out pre-eminent in the mind of
the nations, is the permanent court of
arbitration. This pre-eminence is de-
served; for, although this institution
is not truly permanent nor is it a
genuine COURT, yet it is the pioneer of
its race and has already proved itself
Of incalculable utility, having settled
four important international differ
ences and attracted six others into
the path towards peaceful solution. A
national observance of international
law and obedience to International
justice cannot fail greatly to strength
en- individual observance of and obe-
dience to national law land justice.
The advance registered, then. by the
permanent court of arbitration and
the admiral code of procedure adopt
ed for it, is of profound ,sigificance
upon both the national and the inter-
national scale
The court of arbitral justice. al
though not set in operation by the
second conferenceg constitutes the In
ternational promised land of the world
today. Not only win the idea of such
court henceforth stand behind the
wrong Of warfare. but it will inevita-
bly, rule the future.
1.-TWO great Americans. Elihu Root
and Joseph H. Choate, were the Mos
es and Aaron who led the second con-
ference into the paths toward this
promised land; the conference as the
result Of infinite toll has led the world
across the desert to the Jordan; and
now 1t is the growing hope Of the
civilized world that Philander Chase
Knox viii be the Joshua who will
take it across that one last river--the
difficulty, namely, as to the appoint
ment of the judges. 3f
idw"L Looking back upon this brief sum
mary of the work of the two Hague
conferences, we must admit that the
past at least is secure. The allevia-
ton and prevention of many of war
fares former horrors, its restriction
with narrow limits. the protection Of
non-combatants and neutrals from its
ravages. the assertion of principles
and the establishment of practices for
its prevention and for the enforce
ment of justice; such were the great