Arizona republican., 1910-05-06
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] velopment of the Hague tribunal. of the work of the conferences and courts at the Hague. It has been i well said that the first Hague confer | ence framed at Magma Cnarta for the nations. is set before us an ideal which has already to some extent : been realized, and towards the full re- aiization of which we can all steadily strive The second conference made further progress the third should do yet more Meanwhile the American government has more than once ten tatiVely suggested methods for com pletins the court of arbitral justice. constituted at the second Hague con ference. and for rendering it effective. IL is earnestly to be hoped that the various goVernments of Europe, worlt ing with those of America and of Asia, shall set themselves seriously to the task of devising some method which shall accomplish this result. If | may venture the suggestion. it 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
 T cannot help thinking that the constitution of the United States. not ably. in the establishment of the su- preme court and in the methods adopt ed for securing peace and good rela- tions among and between the different states. offers certain valuable anal ogies to what should be strven for in order to secure. through the Hague courts and conferences, a species of world federations for international peace and justice. There are, or 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 court in certain classes of cases. are we'll worth the study of those who seek at the Hague to obtain the same results on a world scale
 In the third place. something should be done as soon as possible to check the growth of armaments, especially naval ornaments. by international agreement. No one power could or should act by itself; for it is eminent ly undesirable. from the standpoint of the peace of righteousness, that d 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 purpose. the great powers of the world should find no insurmountable difficulty in reaching an agreement which would put an end to the pres ent costly and growing extravaganza of expenditure on naval armaments- An agreement merely to limit the size of ships would have been very use ful a few years ago. and would still be of use; but the agreement should go much further
 Finally, it would be master stroke if those great powers honestly bent on peace would form League of Peace. not only to keep the peace among themselves, but to prevent. by force if necessary it's 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 de- crees of the court. In any community