The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-05-05

do actually make some progress in the
right direction.
Now, having freely admitted the
| limitations TO our work, and the quail
| ications to be borne in mind. / feel
that | have the right to have my
words taken seriously when / point
out where, in my judgment, great ad-
vance can be made In the cause of in
ternational peace. / speak as a prac-
tical man, and whtever now advo-
cate I actually tried to do when | was
for the time being the head of a great
anton and keenly jealous of it's hon
do only what l should be glad to see
my own nation do.
The advance can be made along sew
eral lines. First of all there can be
treaties of arbitration. There are, of
course. states so backward that a civ
ilized community ought not to enter
into an arbitration treaty with them,
at least until We have gone much fur
ther than at present in securing some
kind of international police action.
But all really civilized communities
should have effective arbitration treat
les among themselves. / believe that
these treaties can cover almost all
questions liable to arise between such
nations, If they are drawn with the
explicit agreement that each contract
ing party will respect the others ter
rtory and it's absolute sovereignty
within that territory and the equally
explicit agreement that (aside from
the very rare cases where the nations
honor is vitally concerned) all other
possible subjects of controversy will
be submitted to arbitration. Such a
treaty would insure peace unless one
party deliberately violated it. OF
course. as yet there Is no adequate
safeguard against such deliberate vio-
ficient number of these treaties would
go a long way towards creating
world opinion which would finally find
expression in the provision Of methods
to forbid or punish any such viola
tior.
Secondly. there Is the further de-
velCpment of the Hague Tribunal, of
the work of the conferences and courts
at The Hague. 1t has been well said
that the first Hague Conference franz
ed a Magma Charta for the nations: Ii
set before us an ideal which has al
ready to some extent been realized,
and towards the full realization of
which we can all steadily strive. the
second Conference made further prog
ress; the third should do yet more.
Meanwhile the American government
has more than once tentatively sug-
gested methods for completing the
Court of Arbitral Justice. constituted
at the second Hague Conference, and
for rendering ii effective. 1t Is ear
restly to be hoped that the various
governments of Europe, working with
those of America and of Asia, shall set
themselves seriously to the task OF
devising some method whish shall ac-
compish this result. If I may ven
ture the suggestion. 1t would be well
for the statesmen 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. cannot help thinking that
the constitution of the United States,
notably I'm the establishment of the
supreme court and in the methods
adopted for securing peace and good
relations among and between the Diff
ferert states, offers certain valuable
analogies to what should be striven
for in order to secure. through the
Hague courts and conferences. a spe-
cies of world federation for interna-
tional peace and justice. There are,
of course. fundamental differences be-
tween what the United States consti-
tuition 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 between the states, ana TO
secure the supremacy OF the Federal
court in certain classes OF cases, are
well worth the study OF those VINO
seek at The Hague to obtain the same
results on a world scale.
In the third. place. something shouiu
be done as soon as possible to check
tho yrowth of ornaments, especially
naval armaments. by international
agreement. No one power could or
should act by itself; for 1t Is emf