Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-05-06

). FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 8, 1910.
The advance can be made along
several lines. First Of all, there
can be treaties of arbitration. There
are, of course, states so 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 in
ternational police action. But all
really civilized communities should
have effective arbitration treaties
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
contracting party will respect the
others territory and its absolute
Sovereignty within that territory,
and the equally explicit agreement
that. aside from the very rare cases
where the nations honor is vitality
concerned, all other possible sub
jects of controversy will be submit
ted to arbitration. Such a treaty
would insure peace unless one par
ty deliberately violated it. Of
course, as yet there is no adequate
safeguard against such deliberate
violation, but the establishment of
sufficient number of these treaties
would go long way towards Great
ing world opinion which would
finally find expression in the provi-
sion of methods to forbid or punish
any such violation
"Secondly, there is 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 the first Hague con-
ference framed Magma Charter for
the nations; it set before us an ideal
which has already to some extent
been realized, and towards the full
realization of which we can all stead
lily strive. The second conference
made further progress; the third
should do yet more. Meanwhile, the
once tentatively suggested methods
for completing the court Of arbitral
justice, constituted at the second
Hague conference. and for render
ing it effective. 1t is earnestly to be
hoped that the various governments
of Europe. working with those of
America and of Asia. shall set them
selves seriously to the task of de-
vising some method which shall &C
complish this result. II I may ven-
ture the suggestion, it would be
we'll 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. l cannot help think
ing that the constitution of the I'm
tied States, notably in the establish
ment of the supreme court and in
the methods adopted for securing
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, a species OF world fed
Grafton for International peace and
justice. There are. of course, fun
damental differences between what
the United States constitution does
and what we should even attempt al
this time secure at The Hague; but
the methods adopted in the Ameri.
can constitution to prevent hostili.
ties between the states, and to secure
the supremacy of the federal court
in certain classes of cases, are vel
worth the study of those who seek
at The Hague to obtain the same re-
suits on a world scale.
"In the third place, something
should be done as soon as possible
to check the growth of ornaments
especially naval ornaments, by in
ternational agreement. No one pow
er could or should act by itself; fol
it is eminently undesirable, from thu
standpoint of the peace of righteous
ness, that a power which really doe
believe in peace should place itsel
at the mercy Of some rival which
may at bottom have no such belle
and no intention of acting on it
But, granted sincerity of purpose
the great powers of the world shoult
find no insurmountable difficulty IL
reaching an agreement which wOuli
put an end to the present costly ant
growing extravaganza of expenditure
on naval ornaments. An agreemen
merely to limit the size Of ships
would have been very useful a few
years ago, and would still be of use
but the agreement should go mucf
further.
"Finally, it would be a master
stroke if those great powers honestl!
bent on peace would form league
of peace, not only to keep peace
among themselves, but to prevent
by force If necessary, its being brok
en- by others. The supreme difficulty
in connection with developing the
peace work of The Hague arises
from the lack of an executive power
of any police power to enforce the
DEGREES of the court. In any COM
munity of any size the authority OF
the courts rests upon actual or po-
tential force; on the existence of a
police, or on the knowledge that the
able-bodied men Of the country are
both ready and willing to see that