The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-05
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nations TO do only what | should be
glad to see my own nation do
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 q
civilized community ought not to en-.
ter into an arbitration treaty with
them, at least until we have gone
much further than at present in Sc
curing some kind of international
police action. But all really civilized
communities should have effective
arbitration treaties among them
selves. | believe that these treaties
can cover almost all questions liable
to arise between such nations. ii they
are drawn with the explicit agree
ment that each contracting party VIII
respect the others territory and its
absolute sovereignty within that ter
ritory. and the equally explicit agree
ment that (aside from the very rare
cases where the nations honor Is
yitally concernedD all other possible
subjects of cont oversy will be sub
mtted to arbitration. Such treaty
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deliberately violated it, or course, as
yet there is no adequate safeguard
against such deliberate violation, but
the establishment OF a suflc.ent num-
he of these entreaties would go a
long way toward creating world
opinion which would finally find ex-
preston in the provision of methods
to 70 bid or punish any suc.. violation.
Secondly, there is the further de-
velopment of the Hague Tribunal, OF
the work OF the conferences and
courts at The Hague. II has been
we'll said that the first Hague confer
ence framed a Magma Charta for the
nations: it set before us an ideal
which has ALREADY to some extent
been realized, AID toward the full
realization of which We can all stead
ily st i've. Ehe second conference
made further progress; the third
should do yet more. Meanwhile the
American government has more than
once tentatively suggested methods
for completing the court OF arbltral
! Justice, constituted at the second
Hague conference, and for rendering
il effective II is earnestly to be
loped that the ;arlous governments
| IF Europe. Working with those oil
america and of Asia. shall set them
jelves geriously TO the task Of devils
ing some method which shall accomp
lish this resIlt. Ii may venture the
suggestion, il would be well for the
/ statesmen of the. world, in planning
for the erection of this world court
% study what has been done in the
| United States by the supreme court
cannot help thinking that the con-
stitution of the United States, notab
y in the establishment Of the su-
creme cou and In the methods
adopted for securing peace and gooo
relations among and between the dill
ferent states, offers certain valuable
analogies to what should be striven
Tor i'm order TO secure. through The
Hague courts and conferences, spe-
cies of world federation TO: interna-
t.onal peace and justice. There are,
Of course. fundamental differences be-
tween what the United States con-
stitution does and what we should
even attempt at this time to secure
at The Hague: but the methods adopt
d in the American constitution TO
prevent hostiltes between the states.
aud to secure the supremacy OF ~
Federal court in certain classes OF
cases, are well worth the study OF
those who seek at The Hague to OBJ
tain the same results on a void
scale yaFst4
In the third place, something
should be done as soon rs possible to
check the growth OF ornaments. es-
peelally naval armaments by inter.
national agreement. No one power
could. or should act by itself; for II |
Is .eminently undesirable. from the
IE9udpoinf Of gthespeace OF ofrghteous;t !
ness. that a. power which really does !
believe in peace should place itsell /
at the mercy OF some rival which may
at bottom have no such belief and no
intention Of acting on it. But, & ant
ed sincerity of purpose the great
powers of the world should find M
insurmountable difficulty in reachinf
an agreement which would put an end /
TO the present eoslls aud growing ex I