The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-05-05

trOVersleS 20 tne courts for settle
ment.
"You will observe that the nations
are two-faced and that their posi-
tion is 50 shockingly inconsistent
as to be untenable before the forum
of either reason or morality. Let me
point out to you some of those in
constituencies. At home they pro-
hibit fights and the carrying of
weapons In the interest of peace
but abroad they glor1ry prepared
ness TO fight and armaments as the
only guarantee of peace. In other
words, governments do not regard
the obligation to keep the peace,
imposed on the citizens by the ma
ton, as binding upon the nation
itself, and by praising battleships as
implements of peace, they actually
reDudiate their own civil institutions.
Peace between individuals Is to be
maintained by law; peace between
nations, by force.
"There are more Inconsistencies.
1t is universally recognized that no
man should be a Judge in his own
case. Every nation on earth having
a lawful government insists upon a
strict observance of this rule within
its own domain. In International
disputes each government presImes
to be Judge in its own case, and
upon its decision, right or wrong,
depends the happiness and lives of
thousands OF its citizens.
Suppose we should allow indi-
viduas to do as nations do by shap-
ing our home conduct after the in
ternational pattern? Why, We would
relapse into barbarlsm. The mailed
hand would rule. Every house
would be an arsenal, men would
walk about armed to their teeth,
and blood would constantly now
foot-hlgh. But we cannot 20 back
ward. BY establishing courts the
nations first secured justice and
peace in their own domain; by Gre
ating the High Court at The Hague
they have taken the next step 10 a
higher plane. and secure justice and
peace in their relations with each
other.
81 wonder IL you fully realize the
worlds progress in tile direction of
international Justice? Within the
last five years more than eight
treaties of obligatory arbitration
have been concluded between the
nations, and our own country being
party to twenty-four of them.
This means that certain questions
may be arbitrated by voluntary ac-
ton. Twice within the last ten
years parliament of man has met
at the Hague with forty-four ma
tions attending the second meeting
and deliberating how judicial deci-
sions may be substituted for war.
A worlds tribunal to sit in judg-
ment over the nations controversies
was established at the first meeting,
and at the second it was voted to
make that court a permenant insti-
tuition, and all II needs today TO in
sure to us the boon of a world iu-
dietary is the appointment OF the
permanent judges. Thlrty-flve ma
tions voted for obligatory arbitration,
and they represented. in round fig
ures, thirteen hundred million inhab-
itants, as against nine nations with
a little over two hundred million
people who either refrained from
voting or voted against II. A vote
of six to one, mind you, by the gov
ernments If the people themselves
could vote, they would be sure TO
make II sixteen to one.
GAN reasonable beings are agreed
that war is one of the greatest ifI
no tthe greatest of the evils with
which from the dawn of history the
world has been afflicted. A remedy
has now been found. 1t is not the