The daily sentinel., 1910-05-05

all at one leap, we must advance to-
wards it step by step. reasonably con-
tent 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
ifications to be borne in mind, feel
that | have the right to have my
words taken seriously when | point
out where, in my judgment, great ad-
vance can be made in the cause of in
ternational peace. l speak as a prac
tical man, and whatever / now adyo
cate | actually tried to do when was
for the time being the head of a great
nation, and keenly jealous of its hon
or and interest. | ask other nations
TO do only what l should be glad to
see my own nation do.
"The adanvce can be made along
several lines. First of all there can
be 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
much further than at present in Sc
curing some kind of international po-
lice action. But all really civilized
blioulb nave tiCNtiNN al
bitration treaties among themselves.
l believe that these treaties. can cover
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 its alb
solute sovereignty within that terri
tory, and the usually explicit agree
ment that taside from the very rare
cases where the nations honor is vi
tally concerned) all other possible
subjects of controversy will be sub
mitted to arbitration. Such treaty
would insure peace unless one party
deliberately violated it, OF course,
as yet there is no adequate safeguard
against such deliberate violation; but
the establishment of a sufficient num-
ber of these treaties would go long
way towards creating a world opin-
ion which would finally find express
sion in the provision of methods to
forbid or punish any such violation.
Secondly, there is the further de
velopment of the Hague tribunal, of
the work of the conferences and the
courts at The Hague. 1t has been
well said that the first Hague confer
ence framed a magma charta for the
| nations; it set before us an ideal
] which has already to some extent
been realized, and towards the full
realization of which We can all stead
| lily strive. The second conference
made further progress; the third
should do yet more. Meanwhile the
American government has more than
once tentatively suggested methods
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justice, constituted at the second
Hague conference, and for rendering
| ii effective. 1t is earnestly to he
hoped that the various governments
of Europe. working with those of
America and of Asia, shall set them
selves seriously to the task of devils
ing some method which shall accom-
J plish this result If | may venture
the suggestion, it would be well for
the statesmen of the world, in plan
ming for the erection of this world
court to study what has been done in
the United States by the supreme
court. / cannot help thinking 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 between the diff
ferent states, offers certain valuable
analogies to what should be striven
for in order to secure, through the
Hague courts and conferences, spe-
cies of world federation for interna-
tional peace and justice. There are,
of course, fundamental differences be-
tween what the United States consti-
tuition 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 between the states, and to
secure the supremacy of the federal