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to forbid or punish any such viola
tion-
The Hague Tribunal.

The Hague Tribunal
Secondly. there is the further devel-
oPment Of The Hague tribunal. of the
work or the conferences and courts at
Inc HaSue 1t has been well said that
Cne lrst hague conference framed Il
magma Charta for the nations; it set
before US an ideal which has already
10 some extent been realized, and to-
WARDS the full realization Of which we
can al steadily strive The second con-
ference made further progress: the
third should do yet more. Meanwhi1e
the American government has more
tnan once tentatively suggested meth
odS Tor completing the court of arbi-
traI justice, constituted at the second
Hague conference, and for rendering it
effective 1t is earnestly to be hoped
that the various governments OF Eu-
rope, working with those Of America
and Of Asia, shall set themselves seri-
ously to the task of devising some
method which shall accomplish this re-
suit If may venture the suggestion,
it would be welS 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
The q. s. Constitution.
I cannot help thinking that the con-
stdtution Of the United States, notably
In the establishment 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
secure. through The Hague courts and
conferences. q species OF world fedora
ton for~inteFnation&l peace and justice.
mere are, OF course, fundamental dif-
1erences 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 hostilfties between the
states, and 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 world scale
To Check Arnaameafs.
In the third place, something shousa
be done as soon as possible to check
the growth Of ornaments, especially
naval SrmamentA by international
agreement No one power could or
should act By itself; for il Is enafnsnfly
from the standpoint OF the
peace Of Righteousness, that q power
which really does believe In peace
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 pur-
pose, the great powers of the world
should find no insrrmountab1e diff
Guilty in reaching an agreement which
would put an end to the present costly
and growing extravaganza Of expendf-
ment merely to limit the size of ships
would have been very useful a fe-
years ago, and would still be OF use;
but the agreement should go much fur
Their.
League of Peace.
Finally, 1t would be a master stroke
4 those great powers honestly bent
On peace would form q league of peace.
not only to keep the peace among them
selves, but to prevent, by force If nee
sssary, its being broken by others. The
supreme difficulty in connection with
developing the peace work of The
Hague arises from the lack Of any ex-
scut1ve power, of any police pOwer-ts>-
enforce the DEGREES of the court In
any community OF any size the author
ty OF the courts rests upon actual or
potential force; on the existence of a
police, or on the knowledge that the
able bodied men OF the couNry are
both ready and wiling to see that the
iecrees OF judicial and legislative
bodies are put into effect In a new and
Wild communities, where there is vio-
ence, an honest man must protect him
'elf; and until other means of securing
his safety are devised, it is both foolish
md wicked to persuade him to sur
'ender his arms while the men who
ire dangerous TO the community retain
heirs.
Right to Protect.
He should not renounce the right 70
protect himself by his own efforts until
he community is so organized that It
an effectively relieve the individual OF
he duty OF putting down violence So
{ Is with nations. Each nation must
,eep well prepared to defend itself un-
IL the establishment Of some form Of
police power, competent
nd willing 10 prevent violence as be-
ween nations As things are nowe
UGH power to command peace through
ut the world could best be assured
y some combination between those
-reat nations which sincerely desire
,eace and have no thought themselves
Z committing aggressfons- The combt-
ation might at first be only to secure
eace within certain definite limits and
ertain definite conditions; but the ruler
+ statesman who should bring about
UGH a combination would have earned