The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-08-18


in which the only gamer IS the camp
follower-the man who goes in the path
of war for the purpose of seeing what
he can pick out Of it.
"There is peace between neighbors,
there is peace inside the family, inside
the tribe, and then as the tribes melt
together there is peace inside the ma
| ton. That is what nations are for, to
have a certain district inside of which
they shall not have war. Sometimes
| people within nation have been so
reckless and ambitious as to wage war
among themselves. When peace fails
inside the nation, we have no rem cdy
! for it except to have better laws. Civil
war has come and gone without any
| great damage. Wherever the lid is lift
ed allowing the baser passions of men
to sway them in any degree thore is
harm done, although there may be good
done at the same time.
eve have seen in the history of the
nations arbitration coming in to a
| greater degree. just as soon as dis
trict becomes reasonably civilized and
settled, lawsuits cease to come before
the courts, lawyers find other ways of
settling these differences.
"Now, without dwelling too long
upon this, men have met together and
have discussed these problems of inter
national law; they have agreed to ex4
! tend these principles, and they will
meet again in a few years with the
idea of extending these principles still
farther. For the settling OF certain
! questions arising between nations
courts have met and passed Judgment
and we look forward to seeing SLcso
courts made permanent, and the wise
provision in this last treaty of arbi-
tration is that every question which
arises between the United States and
Great Britain shall be settled, and sci
tied by aIbitration-settled in the cas-
lest and best way, instead Of being
settled by an appeal to force. IL is
vitality important that men shall not
60 about our streets shooting because
/. their honor has been trampled upon,
and it is also vitally important that
nations shall not wage war upon each
| other because their honor has been
offended. The cause of quarrels be-
:, tween nations, as between men, is often
. trifling matters of difference. We are
l ready to say to Great Britain, ready to
say to France, ready to say to Japan,
to Germany, and to all nations that
I, every question whatsoever we are will
ing to trust to the Judgment of the
civilized world. (Applause.) Knowing
what the civilized world thinks of these
things and knowing what the princi-
9 pies of international law are.
! Zone of the most serious question
that ever arose between Japan and
Russia and the United States has been
? the question of the fur seal. Nothing
/,
way in which it was agreed to settle
that difficulty, and so with other diff,
culties. That which has been long brew,
ing, long stewing, l should say, hes
been the question of the fisheries of
the coast of Newfoundland, but when
we came to lay it before a court OF
arbitration, it was settled so wisely
that not a whimper will arise from
either of the nations concerned.
$50 now the development of courts
of arbitration, the development of per
manent judicial courts, and the develop
ment of these conferences at which in
ternational law is extended at intervals
are furnishing an easier way, as wei
as a less expensive way, for the settle
ment of international questions. Their,
is no other way of settling difficulty
there is no other way of settling /,
difficulty. whatever that difficulty is. Al
the meeting in Washington last Deeem
Der, Mr.. Taft said that a treaty of arbi
tration ought not to reserve anything
which can not be settled by arbitration
81 do not want to talk to you abou
the horrors of war. Even the mos
humane war is simply continuous muir
der, the one way in which killing hu
man beings is legal on large scale
/ am not going to talk to you on tn
sorrows of war, although those sorrow
have risen to heaven. The sorrows o
war, IL they count for anything, ar
argument enough.
81 want to talk TO you a little Will
about the cost Of war. In early time
every man was a soldier, and In tn
early days their fights were inside 0
what they called the nation. The mos
stirring poems of war are based on sue
fights, and | remember one Of thes
poems that tells how after one exped
tioa they brought home a thousan
he'd of cattle and the head of him VIII
owned them-and that Is the kind o
wsv that has In poetry become In
degree glorious. Whenever NRpole0
gathered an army together, he woul
take them over 10 Germany and fee
them on Germany. Napoleon's can
paigns did not cost France much moi
than one hundred and 6fty millio
franes-a mere tTihe.
Just NJ tho nations esme 10 be I
peace inside themselves, II gave me
an opportunity 10 do something else b
sides being warriors. and 80 men hega
10 give their attention 20 science.
was only about two hundred years "a
that science hegHn 30 be taken seFiou
{ w. There came M ~ application 10
: Invention, and % there was peace insi,
( ihe nation there came ~ BE- dfYelo
menia lH mahiag eanpoHdeF, AeYel0
meats ln makinH better guns, deFeln
meHif in mahlne better FhlN
ffThf 90 ~ ifla saf fought
eaaien iHlta lni that naE Hni nHY
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