Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-16
Justice Brown Relies on World
wide Public Opinion.
WAY OF PEACE IS BESET
Enumerates Obstacles to Abolition of
Martial Strife.
DEFENSE BY BELVA LOCKWOOD
Replies to F. D. McKenney's Criti-
cisms Of The Hague Tribunal.
Theodore Marburg Presides.

theodore Marburg Prestdes.
Worldwide public opinion, strong enough
to curb the warlike propensities of par
those who would abolish martial strife
declared Justice Henry B. Brown Of tn,
Supreme Court, retired, addressing thu
American Society for judicial Settlement,
Of International Disputes today.
The jurist's grafton, the sensation o.
the second session Of the peace confer
ence at the New Willard, warned the
delegates Of the difficulties that beset
their movement. It also contained a mes
sage of hope for supporters Of the pro
posed high court OF nations.
Justice Brown concluded his address
with the assertion that the first step 1r
obtaining world peace must be the limi'
tation Of ornaments by treaty.
$50 long as the great powers Of Eu'
rope persist in multiplying their dread
noughts and in training every man as 8
soldier. employment must be found fol
them to justify their existence" he said
1.-The world will not continue to burden
itself with the enormous expense OF mod
ern armament without an occasional
showing Of its necessity"
Contrary to expectations. the session
today was we'll attended. More than
two hundred assembled in the small
ballroom of the New Willard.
Theodore Marburg Of Baltimore. who
presided, introduced the speakers. He
also appointed a committee, with for
mer Commissioner II. B. F. Mcfarland
chairman, to nomite officers for cleo
ton at tomorrow's meeting.
Mrs. Lockwood Defends The Hague.
Interest was lent to the proceedings
when Mrs. Belva Lockwood arose at
the conclusion of an address by Fred
erick D. Mckinney, and took issue with
the criticisms he had made Of The
Hague tribunal.
Mr.. Mckinney, who was counsel for
the United States in the Oronoco
Steamship arbitration, said The Hague
court had not given satisfaction; that
it was not a permanent but q continu.
ing body, and that it had no right to
make victorious litigants deduct from
their awards funds to pay the eX-
penses of the case.
Mrs. Lockwood intimated that the
same criticisms might be made Of the
United States supreme Court. She de-
clared in favor Of The Hague and de-
Tended 1t.
Court of Justice Proposed.
In his address Mr.. Marburg said that
the first essential. If wars are to decrease
in number, is that there should be adj
ditional machinery to provide substitutes
for war. A true international court OF
justice, he maintained, offers at presen,
the most promising bid for the fruition
Of the society's hopes.
Emphasis was paced by the speaker
upon the fact that the society does not
stand for disarmament on the part o.
any one nation independently of other
nations.
The view that the men who have served
their country on the field of battle should
be ignored is not shared wholly by the
society, said Mr.. Marburg. A profound
and lasting respect for such men and for
the devotion which inspired their sacri-
fees is not inconsistent with the rational
endeavor to change the conditions which
have made past wars possible.
Justice Browns Speech.
Justice Brown. who followed him. said.
in part:
THAT war between states Of America
is always a possibility to be reckoned
with is evident, not only from the war
actually carried on between Pennsylvania
and Connecticut colonists in the Wyoming
valley, but from quarrel between Mtchi-
gan and Ohio In 1885, popularity known
as the Toledo war;" said Justice Brown.
How far Independent nations. connect
ed with no tie of q common constitution
,1h ha ind 70, yio1A IN
an international tribunal SO much of their
sovereignties as would be necessary for
the maintenance OF q permanent peace Is
a far different proposition from the one
presented in this country.
Even under the conditions Of our Con-
stitution we found the Supreme Court ut
terly inadequate to deal with a case
where q large number of states on one
side were arrayed against q large number
ON the other side of a political issue. In
vulSed over question which was thought
by both sides to go to the very essence Of
free government, 1t was monstrous to
suppose that q universal agitation could
be quoted down by the opinion OF q ma
jority Of nine men, although its judgment
might be acquiesced in In particular
cases.
Difficulties in Way Of Peace.
I'm order that international controyer.
sizes be judicially settled there must be ar
agreement Of all civilized powers in the
creation of tribunal, in the selection O,
its members and in the enforcement of 1t.
DEGREES. There are difficulties connected
with all Of these.
States which might be perfectly Willing
to abide by the decree of an impartia
tribunal. respecting boundaries. riparian
or water rights or pecuniary liability
might in our imperfect state of civil!za
ton revolt at the idea of submitting to {
decree curtailing their ambitions or i'm
pairing their independence
with regard to the personnel of tn,
court, this is a matter of exceeding diff
Guilty. Either the court must be so larg
as to contain representatives Of ever,
civilized nation, and thus become to-
cumbersome for practical use, or tn,
judges must be selected with reference t,
the particular case-the present plan. NJ
workable court could be impaneled whic
could deal successfully with all cases liza
BILE to be brought before it..
1T is easy to conceive Of two Latin ma
tons agreeing upon arbitrator or judges
who might be wholly unacceptable to tn,
nations of northern Europe. 1t woult
hardly be expected that oriental state
would be willing to submit their differ
ences TO occ .deNtal judges, or that Eng
land and Germany would ever consent I,
be bound by a court composed of Chimes
or Japanese. or even Of those composed o