New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-12-15

of peace, but abro ad they glorify pre-
paredness to fight and ornaments as
the only guarantees of peace. In
other words, governments do not re-
gard the obligation to keep the peace,
imposed on the citizen by the nation S
law, as binding upon the nation itself,
and by praising battle ships as imple-
ments of peace they actually repudiate
their own civic Institutions. Peace
between individuals is to be main
tanned by law; peace between nations
by force. And what is the result of
these contradictions? That the ma
TONS peace, which our civilization
safeguards as the most priceless boon
at home, is in foreign affairs made a
mere toy, a plaything in the hands of
governments and rulers to be either
cherished or broken at their arbitrary
will.
There are more Inconsistencies. It
is universally recognized that no man
should be judge in his own case.
This plain dictate of jnstice requires
no explanation and is enforced where.
ever human interests clash. Every
nation on earth having a lawful
government insists upon a strict OBJ
servance of this rule within it's own
domain. But does the nation itself,
in its dealings with other nations, OBJ
serve it? Not in the least. In inter-
national disputes each government
presumes to Judge in its own case, and
upon it's decision, right or wrong,
depend the happiness and lives of
thousands of it's citizens. How long,
we may we'll ask, will the worlds
sense of justice suffer governments to
thus apply one code of ethics to their
home affairs and another one to their
foreign relations? In a dispute are
governments any less interested
parties than are individuals in
quarrel, and should nations be per-
mitted to judge their own case any
more than individuals, especially
where the question of right or wrong
is one of life or death, peace or war?
Suppose we could turn the hands of
the clock backward and allow indl-
viduals to do as nations do by
shaping our home conduct after the
international pattern, do you know
what would happen? Why, we would
relapse into barbarism; the mailed
hand would rule; every house would
be an arsenal; men would walk about
armed to their teeth; and blood would
constantly flow foot high. It is the
kind of peace that prevailed when
might was right; it is the peace which
now prevails as between nation and
nation and which the advocates of
arm ments and battle ships uphold
and pray for. But we can not go
backward; we must go forward; hence
the rule of arbitrary power which now
controls International relations will
not be extended to Our domestic
affairs, but, on the contrary, the
mantle of law and order which now
covers the home affairs of each nation
will soon be thrown over and made to
cover and grace all the great nations
in their conduct toward each other.
1t is the inevitable logic of events.
By establishing courts the nations
first secured justice and peace in their
own domain; by creating the high
court OF The Hague they have taken
the next step to higher plane to
secure justice and peace in their re-
lations with each other.
The world is slowly, but surely,
rallying around the banner of peace.
It gravitates in an ascending line to
the higher plane of one common
brotherhood, where the shedding of
human blood for the sake of trade or
any other purpose is regarded as a
relic of barbarism, and where the three
watchwords of a new world organiza-
ton will be humanity, justice and
peace. In this onward march the
United States lead. It will be the
fulfillment of our country's sublime
mission. It will lend new signifi-
canoe to the flag and will cause all
mankind to bless'the Stars and Stripes
as the emblem of their salvation as
we'll as ours.
bitterly opposed to Cannonism, their
division nf votes AMONG tho ont;