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communities should have effective q
~bitration treaties among themselves
! believe that these treaties can cove,
almost al questions liable 70 arise bs
tween such nations. II they are drawn
With d explicit agreement that each
contracting party will respect the 9th,
er's territory and absolute sovereignty
within that territory. and the equally
explicit agreement that (astds from
the very rare where the nations
honor 10 vitality ~concerned) al other
possible subjects OF controversy will
DO submitted to arbitration. Such I
treaty should insure peace until one
party deliberately violated II. OF
course. as yet there II no adequate
safeguard against such deliberate VIC
lation. but the establishment of .
sumcient number Of these treaties
would go q long way towards creating
. world opinion which would finally
md expression In the provision Of
methods to forbid or punish any such
violation.
Work Of Hague Tribunal.
Secondly. there II the further de-
velopment Of The Hague tribunal. OF
Inc work OF the conferences and courts
at The Hague. 1t has been we'll said
that the irst Hague conference
framed a Magma Charta for the ma
tons: It set before US an ideal which
has already to some extent been real
lied. and towards the full realization
OF which we can all steadily strive.
The second conference made further
progress: the third should do yet
more. Meanwhile the American gov
eminent has than once tenta.
lively suggested methods for COM
pleting the court of arbitral Justice,
constituted at the second Hague con-
ference. and for rendering 1t effective.
1t Is earnestly to be hoped that the
various governments of Europe, work.
ing with those of America and of
Asia, shall set themselves seriously to
the task Of devising some method
which shall accomplish this result. II
| may venture the suggestion, 1t would
be well 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. cannot help think.
ing that the Constitution 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 be-
tween the different states, offers GER
tain valuable analogies to what should
be striven for In order to secure,
through The Hague courts and confer
ences. a species of world federation
for international peace and justice.
There are. of course, fundamental diff.
ferences between what the United
States Constitution does and what we
should ever attempt at this time to
secure at The Hague; but the meth
DDS adopted In the American Constitu-
ton to prevent hostilities between the
states, n 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 OBJ
tain the same result on a world scale.
Undue Growth Of Armaments.
In the third place, something should
be done as soon as possible to check
the growth OF ornaments, especially
naval ornaments, by international
agreement. No n power could or
should act by itself; for it Is eminent
lv pnAncfro hl0 FROM Tho ctorADDfrt -
the peace of righteousness, that a
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 1t. But, granted sim
certify Of purpose, the great powers of
the world should find no insurmount-
able difficulty in reaching an agree
men which would put an end to the
present costly and growing extrava-
gance of expenditure on naval arma-
ments. An agreement merely to limit
the size of the ships would have been
very useful a few years ago. and would
still be of use: but the agreement
should 60 much further.
Finally. 1t would be a master stroke
IL those great powers honestly bent on
peace would form a league of peace.
not only to keep the peace among
themselves, but to prevent, by force If
necessary, its being broken by others.
The supreme difficulty In connection
with developing the peace work of
The Hague arises from the lack of any
executive power. of any police power
to enforce the decree Of the court.
In any community of any size the au-
thority 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 country are
both ready and willing to see that the
DEGREES Of judicial and legislative
bodies are put into effect. In new and
wild communities where there is vio-
!ence, an honest man must protect
himself. and until other means Of se-