The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-11-04
Strong Plea is Made for
Their Adoption by the
FEDERAL Senate.

tH- ~ ~ 1891 NJ ~
William SEYMOUR Edwards the
distinguished lawyer and publicist
OF -Coalburg, who was
delegate and chair1nan OF the West
virginia delegationyto the Republt-
lpan national copyention that nomt
mated 4Hilliam Steward Taft for
lPresident IN gG8, has given an In
terview to Frances B. Cessner, IN
behalf OF Pf9sident Taft's demand
for the adoption OF the arbitration
and world peace measures now pend
ing in the, United States Senate. It
Is we'd 4snowa that Mr.. dwards Is
warm and petsfstent advocate Of the
nomination -of president Taft Ions
before the conYeat8en met and also
long before the West Virginia Re
publicans. had formally apounced
their choice for him. The enderse-
ment by Mr.. Edwards Of the PRESS
dent 3 position on the arbitrator
treaties acquires an added value
from the fact that Mr.. Edwards ia
an aspirant FOR no Office, either OF
honor Or profit at the hands OF the
administration, and his views rep
hesent his thoughts uninfuenced by
any personal consideration. M
Edwards in his Interview, gives his
views with his accustomed elearneg'
and vfgor and they will be found as
follows:
ilnternaStionial ArbftratiOn and the
President.
"The world-movement toward in
formation arbitration, in its origin,
springs esentialIy 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 Aesh. The demoCraCIe spirit
OF the Christian church survived, al
though the democratic principle, as
.expresser in mans relation to man.
under succeeding feudalism and
monarchical absoIutism, well nigh
persisted.
1.-The movement Of the Rennais-
Belgium and of Italy, their Counts
ance, led by the great cities OF
Flanuers. their Dukes. al : Medici;
the movement OF the Information,
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 readiusC-
ment inaugurated under England's
Tudor Kings and carried forward
through Cromwell and his Puritans,
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 Liberte
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
tngs and re-awakenings Of the fra
ternal human spirit, which neither
the wanton bigotry OF George III.
nor the woes and tears of the
Napoleonic wars, nor the savage
suppressions of the Molly alliance
were able to prevent.
''Nor have the attempts e 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 OF
the privileger few was finally driver.
from the Spanish and Portuguese
colonies. as we'll as from our own
slave-bertddeu states, until liberty,
conceived in equity and confirmed
by law. now rules from the Straits
of Magellan to the frozen zones OF
tho Attic North.
With each succeeding century. the
masses OF mankind move forward
and ever viii move forward toward
more and more; perfect realization
Of the primitive christian doctrine
OF the brotherhood OF man,
Modern thought and the I'M
doubted materialistic temper of the
zo-or+ Jov novv and again pro-