The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-05-05

erS of the Red Terror prattled of
peace while they STEPPED their hands
in the blood of the innocent; and
n,any "a tyralt has called it peace
when he has scourged honest protest
into silence. Our words must be
judged by our deeds; and in striving
for a lofty ideal we must use practf-
cal methods: and il We cannot attain
all at one leap, we must advance
towards IT step by step. reasonably
content so long as we do actually
make seme progress in the right dir
ection.
Now. having freely admitted the
Limitations To our work, and the quail
ificatioas to be borne in mind, feel
that I nave the right to have my words
taken seriously when point out
where, in my judgement. great ad-
vancement can be made in the cause
of international peace. I speak as a
practical man, and whatever | now
advocate I actually tried to do wnen
was for the time being the head of
a great nation. and keenly jealous
of its honor and interest. | ask other
nations to do only what I should be
glad TO see my own nation do.
The advance can be made along
several lines. First of all there can
he treaties of arbitration. There are,
of course, states SO backward that a
civilized community ought not to en-
ter into an arbitration treaty with
them, at least until we have gone
Mich farther than at present In Sc
curing some kind of International
police action. But all really civilized
communities should have effective ar
bitration treaties among themselves.
believe that these treaties can COW
er almost all questions liable to arise
between such nations, If they are
DRAWN with the explicit agreement
that each contracting party will re-
spect the others territory, and the
equally explicit agreement that (aside
from tae very rare cases where the
nations honor is vitality concerned)
all other subjects of controversy will
be Submitted to arbitration. Sucn a
treaty would insure peace unless one
party deliberately violated IL. OF
course, as yet there is no adequate
safeguard against sucn deliberate vi
olation, but the establishment of a
sufficient number of treaties would
go a long way toward creating
world opinion which would finally find
expression in the provision OF meth
DDS to forbid or punish any such vi
olation.
Secondly, there is the further devel-
opment of the Hague Tribunal. of the
work of the conferences and courts
at The Hague It has been well said
chat the first Hague Conference franz
ed a Magma Charta f0f the nations;
it set before us an ideal which has
already to some extent been realized
and toward the full realization of
which we can all steadily strive. the
second Conference made further prog
ress; the third should do yet more.
Meanwhile the American Govern
ment has more than once tentatively
suggested methods for completing the
Court of Arbitral Justice, constituted
at the second Hague Conference. and
for rendering it effective. II is ear
nestly to be hoped that the various
Governments of Europe, working with
those of America and of Asia, shall
set themselves seriously to the task
Of devising some method which shall
ACCOMPLISH this result 1t I may ven
ture the suggestion, Ii would be well
for the statesmen of the world, In
planning for the erection of this
world court, to study what has beer
done in the United States by the
Supreme Court. / cannot help think
ing that the Constitution of the Unit
ed States, notably in the establish
ment of the Supreme Court and in the
methods adopted for securing peace
and good relations among and be-
tween the different States, offers
certain valuable analogies to what
should be striven for in order to Sc
cure. through the Hague courts and
Conferences, species of world feder-
ation for International peace and jus
tice. There are, of course. fu1ldaznen-
tai differences between what the Tn
tied States Constitution does and
what we should even attempt at this
time 20 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 re-
suits on a world scale.
In the third place something should
be done as soon as possible to check
the growth of arEnaments, especially
naval armaznents. by international
agreement. No one power could or
should act by itself: for 1t Is eminent
ly undesirable, from the standpoint OF
the peace of righteousness. that a