The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-05-05

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or and interest. I ask other nations
to do only what I should be glad to
see my own nation do.
Advances for Peace.
The advance can be made along
several lines. First of all there can
be treaties of arbitration. There
are, OF course, states 60 backward
that civilized community ought not
to enter into an arbitration treaty
with them, at least until we have
gone much further than at present
In securing some kind of international
police action. But all really civilized
communities should have effective ar
bitration treaties among themselves
believe that these treaties can cover
almost all questions liable to arise
between, such nations, IL they are
drawn with the explicit agreement
that each contracting party will re-
spect the others territory and its alb
solute sovereignty within that terri
tory, and the equally explicit agree
ment that aside from the very rare
cases where the nations honor is vi
tally concerned) all other possible
subjects of controversy will be sub
mttted to arbitration. Such q treaty
would insure peace unless one party
deliberately violated it. OF course, as
yet there 10 no adequate safeguard
against such deliberate violation, but
the establishment Of a sufIicient num-
ber Of these treaties would go long
way towards creating world opinion
which would finally find expression
In the provision of methods to forbid
or punish any such violation.
The Hague Tribunal.
Secondly. there 10 the further de-
velopment Of The Hague tribunal, Of
the work Of the conferences and
courts at The Hague. 1t has been we'll
said that tho first Hague conference
framed Magma Charta for the ma
tions; 1t set before us an ideal which
has already to some extent been re-
allied, and towards the full realiza-
ton Of which We can all steadily
strive. The second conference made
further progress; the. third should
do yet more. Meanwhile the Ameri-
can government has more than once
tentatively suggested = methods for
completing the court Of arbitral JUS
tice, constituted at the second Hague
conference, and for rendering it Of
fective. It il earnestly to be hoped
that the various governments of Eu-
and of Asia, shall sst themselves ser-
'iously to the task of deytsing some
method which she'll aseomplish this
result.g,If.I may .vshture the sugges-
tton. 1t would be we'll for the states
men Of the world. in planning for the
erection of this world court; to study
what has been done in the United
States by the supreme court. can
not help thinking that the constitution
of the United States, notably in the
establishment Of the supreme court
and In the methods adopted for secur-
ing peace and good relations among
and between the different states, offers
certain valuable analogies to what
should be striven for in order to Sc
cure, through The Hague courts and
conferences, species Of world fed
GRAFTON for International peace and
justice. There are, of course. funda-
mental differences between what the
United States constitution does and
what we should even attempt at this
time to secure at The Hague; but the
methods adopted in the American
constitution to prevent hostilities be-
tween the states. and to secure the
supremacy Of the federal court in
certain classes Of cases, are we'll
worth the study Of those who seek
at The Hague to obtain the same re-
suits on q world scale.
Checking Armaments.
I'm the third place, something
should be done as soon as possible to
check the growth or ornaments, es-
pecially naval ornaments, by inter-
national agreement. No one power
could or should act by itself for it is
eminently undesirable from the stand
point of the peace Of righteousness.
that a power which really does be-
lieve in peace should place itself at
the mercy of some rival which may
at bottom have no such belief and
no intention of acting on it. But,
granted sincerity Of purpose, the
great powers of the world should find
no insumountable difficulty in reach
ing an agreement which would put an
end to the present costly and grow
ing extravaganza of expediture on
naval armaments. An agreement
merely to limit the size Of ships would
have been very useful few years
ago, and would still be Of use: but
the agreement should go much furth-
or.
A League of Peace.
Finally. it would be master
stroke II those great powers honestly
bent ON peace would form a league
of peace. not only to keep the peace
among themselves, but to prevent, by
force II necessary. its being broken
by others. The supreme difficulty in
connection with developing the peace
work Of The Hague arises from the
lack Of any executive power, Of any
police power to enforce the DEGREES
Of the court. In any community of
any size the authority Of the courts
rests upon actual or potential force:
on the existence of police. or ON the
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