The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-10-08
PEACE BY TREATY.

War preparedness has so long been exploited az
the only guaranty of peace that, in the course of
time it has been accepted as true In time of peace
prepare for war is another of those sayings which
Is supposed to represent the wisdom of the ages.
But that these are at leastn more than half truths
Is evidenced by the profound peace which has ex-
listed between the United States and Canada for
nearly hundred years. this peace secured by
treaty signed by Great Britain and the United
States in 1914, known as the treaty of Client, in
which it was agreed that no warships should be
permitted by either nation on the Great Lakes.
For nearly hundred years, the people of the
United States and the Dominion have lived without
fear of the other. No mighty Notifications mar
the line of boundary; no Dreadnoughts menace the
commerce of the lakes. As triumph of the prin-
ciple of peace by treaty. and to the practi-
cability of that principle nothing more need be
said.
To make better known the practical workings of
the principle of "peace by treaty" rather than by
force of arms the American Peace society is pre-
pairing for a celebration of the one hundredth an
nversary of the signing of the treaty of Client, in
1914, and to this end has been working. That the
proposed celebration is received with satisfaction
by many leading men of this country is shown by
the letters given out by the Peace society,
Ex-Secretary Olney in one of these letters sets
forth the accomplishments of the treaty of Client,
and shows an appreciation of the character of that
treaty 1t really was the first indication of a re-
turning good feeling between the two great Eng
disappearing nations, and as such is worthy of an
international celebration, for what America gained
by the signing of that treaty, Great Britain also
gained. And neither nation lost iota of self
respect 1t shows an enlightened view of the great
possibilities of peace and far in advance
of its time as are the advocates of universal peace
in advance of their time now hundred years later
Cardinal Gibbons has said that, by maintaining
peace and good will between them, England and
the United States will become the guardians and
sentinels of peace and good will among the ma
lions of the earth. Certainly such destiny is
much more to be desired than that these nations
should by force of arms and big navies rule the
earth
No lesson of history is impressive of the
possibilities of ''peace by treaty" than this The
boundary line dividing the Canadian dominion and
the territory of the United States, stretching from
one ocean to the other has never been the subject
of contention since the western end of that line
was placed at the forty-ninth parallel For near
1y hundred years, by the benefcent operations of
the treaty of Client that boundary has been main
tanned, without any Notifications, without any
standing armies, and without any warships on the
Great Lakes. In the celebration of the centennial
of the treaty of Client, nothing could be more ap-
proprate than a and broader treaty between
the two great powers, pedgng themselves to arbi-
tration of all disputes that cannot be adjusted by