New Britain herald., 1914-08-11
ADVOCATES | COURT OF NATIONS
Governor Hopes Tribunal Will Be Established by End of Century.

stonington, Conn.,, Aug. 11-Gover- DOT Baldwin, speaking on 'The Site pf the Stonington Fort" at the closing exercises of the centenary of the battle of Stonington yesterday, said in part:
 Anniversary celebrations of great Events have high motive and a true hse.
 'The tablet which we dedicate to- pay commentaries one of the marked eyents in the. history of eastern Con- necticut A naval force under the eommand of one of Lord Nelson's greatest commodores and warmest Friends, Sir Thomas Hardy, was driven pack by a few gunners on this spot 90 years ago. Some of those who Ferved the gunners so well came from Massachusetts, some came from the original militia of Connecticut, de Fached as the phrase ran, for such eervice under the act of congress passed April 10, 1912. Some of the men came from neighborhood volun- Eeers. Part of these probably learned
  ,art in their younger days as soldiers Tn the Revolutionary army. A man (vho was twenty years of age at the elcse of the Revolution, we must re- member, would have been but 51 years old in 1914. Wherever they learned it they learned it well.
 Progress Of Human Society.
 Since those days the use of heavy euns has become largely an affair of precise mathematical calculations vcrked out on paper. Electricity kives it's aid; the man who fires is bot the man who directs the aim. There is less of the human element n the buiness and more of the mach Lnical The results are more certain; he work is more deadly. Thus we pro- Iced in what to me, seems the grad bal progress of human society from Organized war to organized peace. It 5 gradual progress, but all too slow. It is a gradual progress for
 time interrupted, as at this hour, by war of the bitterest type between he greatest nations.
 America will this year present better record as to military affairs han does Europe The quieting of Mexico by Pan-American mediation vill make it a year long to be re- nembered here, as marking a new He of continental brotherhood with (ur sister republics
 United States Fortunate.
 'twe of the United States are for Enate in having no neighbors strong pough to measure swords with us. Ne are fortunate in having no allies call upon us to fight for them. We re fortunate that there is but one I4ople between New York and San francisco. for a stretch of 5000 miles, Europe is a. complex aggregate. of cparate governments, interlaced geo. Graphically, so as to give opportunity or frequent misunderstanding, and, ee may frankly say, sometimes, for [cts of oppression exercised by the Ereater powers against the lesser.
 "This great war which now darkens Europe and her Asiatic dependencies Fill be an object lesson, showing the mpolicy of risking such a state of ffairs as now confronts those conti- Ients
 Surely the human race must even uaIly come to some better mode of Adjusting international differences han the rule of the stronger. This var, now raging, may hasten along hat time.
 Court of Nations.
 Justice between nations is the only hing worth striving for by statesmen. Justice is best administered by judi Hal authority. hope that this very entury in which we live will not close before there is a real Judicial court f nations, auth orized to decide con- roversies: which diplomacy cannot ett1e. If that day comes it will cast 10 shadows over the past. The story f great actions like Gettysburg and Waterloo, and of lesser actions like hose in the pages of history and the (earts of men, and the defense of Remington witnessed by this tablet rill still remain treasured memory brewer dear to every son and daugt- er of Connecticut"