Arizona republican., 1911-12-25

prayed, when that contest was ended and the first Peace Conference. sum moned by the Emperor or Russia, met
 at the Hague. that a great internation-
 ;l war would never again be possible.
 How often our hopes have been dis
 aI pointed since that day. but We have
 no right to despair and to lose cOur-
 age, even in the midst of the awful carnage that is now going on in Chi
 na and North Africa Never was the desire for peace so ardent in the hearts oi men, never was the determination
 SD strong among the best men of all countries that every effort shall be
 made to limit the horrors and the
 causes of war and to bring before in-
 ternational courts of arbitration ques-
 tons in dispute between nations, as
 it Is at this present moment What
 civilized country would now allow du-
 cling. which was so common not
 many years ago. If We have courts
 or justice to determine the rights of
 individuals. why should We not have
 courts of justice to determine the
 rights of nations? The greatest power
 AAi -AiiltA ANi. itN iDDltSl lnSIIHtlOn. k
 the Supreme Court. why not establish
 supreme court for all the nations
 Of the earth? But. says the objector.
 who considers such scheme as vis-
 ionary and impracticable. You have
 the government, the police system, the
 military power back of the court of justice. to enforce the legal decision. Ih courts of arbitration. you have only neral sentiment. the just and impar- ual decision of nations not involved in the dispute, but the moral sentiment Ot all the world is a tremendous force. Few countries once admitting the right "i this supreme court of nations to ad- judicate matters brought before its tribunal. having appealed to its jecis- lon. would dare to violate it when once given. On the other hand. if it's au- thority should be denied and defied. II all the other nations stand back of the tribunal tO enforce it's decision as a police system. the country would be difficult to find which would press its resistence to the extent of active var. Even if such a nation were not 1t could not long survive the disgrace and isolation that it's un- lawful conduct would bring upon it. It may be true, that the world is not yet prepared for the establishment of international tribunals to which such authority and power can be gwen, but the trend is surely that way. The principle is already reco-- nlzed in the courts of arbitration which have been held. like the arbitra- ton at Geneva and the Congress of Berlin, generation ago; in the trea- lies in recent years between various nations tO refer questions in dispute which once of necessity would have brought about war, to peaceful arbi- ration and more than all. in the two ;reat representative Hague Confer nceS to which our own country, unit ng with Mexico. submitted the dis 'Cte arising in connection with the so- alled Plus claims. which were happily md peacefully settled by that court ight years ago. An, the abOlish- nent of war may come sooner than 'e even dare to hope today The next iague Conference may give the final cath blow to the foull monster Think the great evils of slavery and duel- ng and the subjectiou of women. mink of the atrocities that once were in war. the wholesale of helpless women and lit e children. the vile outrages and eacheries that have now been ban ihed. and pray and believe that this reatest of all evils will soon be con
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