The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-11-09
Strong Plea is Made fol
Their Adoption by the
Federal Senate.


of Charleston-coalb who was a
delegate and chairman of the West
Virginia delegation to the Republic
can national convention that nomi-
mated William Howard Taft fori
President in 1908, has given an in
terview to Frances B. cessner, In
behalf of President Taft's demandl
for the adoption of the arbitration
and world peace measures now pend
ing in the United States Senate. 1t
is we'll known that Mr.. dwards is a
warm and-persistent advocate of the
nomination of President Taft long
before the convention met and also
long before the West Virginia Re
publicans had formally announced
their choice for him. The endorse
ment by Mr.. Edwards of the Presi-
dent IS position on the arbitration
treaties acquires an added value
from the fact that Mr.. Edwards is
an aspirant for no Office, either of
honor or profit at the hands of tho
administration, and his views rep
hesent his thoughts uninfuenced by
any personal consideration. NJ.
Edwards, in his interview, gives his
views with his accustomed clearnas
and vigor and they will be found as
follows:
International Arbitration and the
President.
The reimbursement toward in
formation arbitration, in its origin,
springs ESSENTIALLY from the move
ment of mankind toward the inter
national democracy.
Jesus Christ taught the brother
hood of man; and the effort of men
to realize this glowing doctrine
broke up, at last. the Roman empire,
and gave to the benighted people of
the ancient world their first glimpse
of democratic fraternity in spirit
and in flesh. The democratic spirit
of the Christian church survived, al
though the democratic principle, as
expresser in mans relation to man,
under succeeding feudalism and
monarchical absolutism, well nigh
persisted.
The movement of the Rennais-
Belgium and of Italy, their Counts
ance, led by the great cities of
Flanders, their Dukes di Medici:
the movement of the Reformation,
led by Luther and the German
Princess, by Calvin and the free peo-
pies of Switzerland and the restless
Huguenots of France; the attempts
at political and religious readjust-
ment inaugurated under England's
Tudor Kings and carried forward
through Cromwell and his Purltans,
even to the subsequent placing Of
William of Nassau upon the British
throne, and extending on unto the
glories and the agonies of the
French Revolution. when fLiberie
Egalite Fraternite' proclaimed re.
newed realization of human brother
hood to hearkening mankind; all
these profound movements of the
human race, were but the awaken
ings and re-awakenings of the fra
ternal human spirit, which neither
the wanton bigotry of George MI,
nor the woes and tears of the
Napoleonic wars, nor the savage
suppressions of the Holy Alliance
were able to prevent.
"Nor have the attempts Of men
upon the western hemisphere to cast
into practical political mould
the primitive Christian doctrine Of
mans brotherhood been less pro-
nounced. The establishment of the
North American Republic of the
United States gave hope anew TO the
toiiing masses of the earth; mon
archical and oligarchic protection oil
the privlleger few was finally driven
from the Spanish and Portuguese
colonies. as well as from our own,
slave-beridden states. until liberty,
conceived in equity and confirmed
by law, now rules from the Straits
of Magellan to the frozen zones OF.
the Artic North.
With each succeeding century. the
masses of mankind move forward
and ever will move forward toward
a more and moro perfect realization |
of the primitive Christian doctrine
of the brotherhood OF man
Modern thought and the un.
doubted materialistic temper of the
present day. now and again, pro-
claim Christianity as the out-llved
tenet of by-gone age, but to my
mind. closer scrutiny of the drift
of mems most enlightened sentI-
ment discovers that the spirit OF
the true Christ was never an notant