Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-06

member that words count only when
! they give expression to deeds or are
to be translated into them. The lead
ers of the Red Terrier prattled OF peace
while they stepped their hands in the
| blood of tn innocent; and many q ty-
rant las called it peace when he has
| scourged honest protest into silence.
Our words must be Judged by our
deeds: and in striving for d lofty ideal
we must use practical methods; and
| if W" cannot attain all at one leap,
We must advance towards it step by
step. reasonably content so long as
we do actually make some progress in
| the right direction.
Now, having freely admitted the
| limitations to our work, and the quail
tications to be borne in mind, I feel
| that have the right to have my words
taken seriously when | point out
where, in my judgment, great advance
| can be made in the cause of internal
tonal peace. | speak as q practical
| man. and whatever | now advocate
+ actually tried to do when ] was for
tn" time being the head of a great
! nation, and keenly Jealous of it's hon
or and interest. / ask other nations
20 do only what I should be glad to
SEQ my own nation do.
The advance can be made along sew
2r2l lines. First of all there can be
treaties of arbitration. There are, of
course states so backward that Il
civilized community ought not to en-
ter into an arbitration treaty with
them. at least until we have gone
| n
ing seine kind Of international police
action. But all really civilized ccmmu-
| mites should have efrevtivo arbi-
| tratiOn treaties among themselves. [
believe that these treaties can cover
almost all questions liable to arise be
/ tween such nations, if they are drawn
| with the explicit agreement that each
contracting party will respect the
others territory and it's absolute SOW
ereignty within that territory and the
equally explicit agreement that (asde
| rom the very rare cases where the
| nation's honor is vitality concerned)
| all other possible subjects of contro-
| vrrsy will be submitted to arbitration.
| Such :, treaty would insure peace I'M
| less ono party deliberately violated it.
| of course, as Yet there is no adequate
|
| latioE but the establishment of a
| sufficient number of these treaties
| would go Il long way towards Great
| inc world opinion which would finally
| find expression in the provision of
| methods to forbid or punish any such
/ violation.
| Secondly. there is tho further devel-
| opmcnt of the Hague Tribunal of the
| work If tn" conferences and courts at
| The Hague. 1t has been well said that
| the first Hague Conference framed q
| Magma Charter for the nations: it set
| before us an ideal which has already
| to SorIc extent been realized and to-
| wards the full realization of which we
can Ill steadily strive. The second
| Conference made further progress; the
| third should do yet more. Meanwhile
the American Government has more
| than cnce tentatively suggested meth
| DDS for completing the Court of Arbi-
| trail Justice. constituted at the second
| Hague Conference and for rendering
| il effective. 1t is earnestly to be hoped
| that The various Governments of Eru-
| rope, working with those of America
| and of Asia, shall set themselves seri-
| pusly 20 the task of devising some
method which shall accomplish this
result. If | may venture the sugges-
| ton, il would be well for the states
inen " 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-
irg peace and good relations among
| and between the different States. Of
| fers certain valuable analogies to what
| should be striven for in order to Sc
cure. through the Hague courts and
| conferences a species of world feder
alton for international peace and jus
! tice. There are, of course, fundamen
tai 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 well worth
the study Of those who seek at The
Hague to obtain the same results on
II world scale.
In the third place, something should
he done as soon as possible to check
the growth of ornaments, especially
naval ornaments, by international
agreement No one power could or
should act by itself: for it is eminent
lily undesirable, from the standpoint of
the peace of righteousness. that d
power which really does believe in
reace 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 nlrpose. the great powers of the