The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-09-03
POLITICAL UNION
OF WHOLE WORLD,
Project to Be Discussed at a
Conference In Stockholm.
FEDERATION NOT INTENDED.
For First Time Delegates From All
Nations Will Talk on the Question
at International Peace Congress.
Germ of the Idea In Other Bodies.

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at International Peace Congress.
Germ of the idea In Other Bodies.
Political organization of the world
as a pertinent and practical topic for
present times will be the principal sub
ject of discussion at the meeting Of
the international peace congress at
Stockholm. Aug 20 to Sept. 5. This
determination was reached at a ses-
sion of the Berne bureau in Boston,
the official body having in charge the
arrangements for the congress. The
vote of the bureau was upon this point:
Further, 1t is concluded that at fu-
ture congresses only one great ques-
tion shall be placed in the foreground.
For this year it is the question of In
ternationai organization"
Edwin d. Mead, one of the four
American members of the Berne bu-
reau-the others are Samuel Z. Dut-
ton of New York, DR.. Benjamin r.
Trueblood of Boston, secretary Of the
American Peace society, and Mrs.
Belva A, Lockwood-says that the pre-
else meaning of international organ
izatlon" is political organization of the
world as a single body, just the same
as the subject of resolutions adopted
in 1908 by the Massachusetts legisla-
ture This idea has been also In the
minds of some, at least, of the Mo-
honk delegates who have repeatedly
in the Mohonk platform indorsed the
proposition of an international legis-
lative body and have even indicated
The Hague conferences as the germ out
of which the true world legislature
would probably be developed. At the
meeting of the Berne bureau at which
the above vote was adopted were
some twenty members, including Eng
lishmen, Frenchmen and Germans.
One of them was Senator La Fontaine
of Belgium, leader In the movement
for universal peace.
First Discussion of Question.
This viii be the first time that
body of representatives of many ma
tions, even though unofficial, has ever
discussed such a subject. Some writ
ers have seen resemblance between
this discussion and that at the great
peace congresses of 1S4S, 1S49 and 1850
at Brussels, Paris and Frankfort re-
spectively, where Elihu Burritt urged
his plan for a congress of nations and
establishment of a high court Of JUS
tice. Mr.. Burritt even used the ex-
preston IAN international legislature"
but his plan was as Mr.. Mead said in
the Old South Leaflet, No. LAG, contain
ing Burritt's addresses at these places.
finally realized at The Hague"
What Burritt and his fellow workers
had in mind was a single gathering of
delegates, like that of The Hague In
1899, to formulate code Of interna-
tional law or method of procedure for
all nations by the authority of all ma
tons for settlement of differences be-
tween them. This was realized at The
Hague by the holding of the confer
ence and establishment of The Hague
court of arbitration. Mr.. Burritt was
explicit in saying that his plan did not
propose any such organization as ex-
is0in the union of states in the Unit
cu GtdlCos . SlOlL Wdc w oO-
cure the peace of the world
No Idea of a World Federation.
The Stockholm discussion, therefore,
must be regarded as the first formal
public discussion in large way OF
political unity of all nations as single
organism But this discussion has
nothing of world federation idea In
it. Rather there is believed to be in
progress natural, inevitable develop
ment of the unity Of the human race
(existing in the very fact Of the races
being upon the earth) into formal
political union There are already
plenty of instances to illustrate world
legislation. more or less partial anC
incomplete, but still an expression OF
the will of nations. The conventions
of the universal postal union and both
of the peace conferences at The Hague
are conspicuous illustrations.
Still further. the second conference
at The Hague in 1907. proposed the
germ of the world judicial department
in the convention for an international
prize court. The recent international
naval conference in London. beginning
last December, In which ten nations
took part. including the United States,
proposed the formation OF practical
code. There Is good authority for TAX
ing this view of the probable develop
ment from this creation of the second
Hague conference.
Germ In Executive Departments.
AS to the executive department OF
the world. 1t is already revealed In
several minor executive Offices con-
nected with international bureaus.
The permanent Office Of the universal
postal union has constant executive
star. There Ii one connected with the
international body near Paris, having
to do with weights and measures. and
one connected with the permanent
court a. arbitration and the InternA: