The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-10-22
Editor of Independent Says
Peace Societies Must Take
up More Constvastive Pol
icies.
ARMIES FOR DEFENSE
Suggests League Of Nations
to Reduce Men Under
Arms for Purposes Of P0-
Icing Nation.

"A more constructive peace policy
than has ever been suggested by the
peace societies Of the world. is neces-
sary before world peace Is ever at
tained," said Hamilton Holt, editor Of
the Independent, before an audience
at the Earlham college chapel Wednes-
day evening Some Aspects Of the
European War;" was the subject Of
the lecture by the noted journalist.
tute for war will have to be furnished
before nations will cease to leganze
war. Not until the nations are organ
lied politically a. citizens in the na-
tional are now organized, and not un-
til the power to make war ia taken
from kings and given to the people,
can We hope to have place in this
world" said the speaker.
Keep Armies fer Defenss.
The main theory which Mr.. Holt
believes will solve the peace problem
following the present war in Europe,
is as follows: The reduction of the
threefold power Of the state govern
ments, police power. offensive and de-
fensive power, to the one power, that
Of police power. His theory for the
disarmament Of the world Is for all
the countries who will agree to dis
arm. to reduce their standing armies
80 that their combined forces will
equal those Of the other countries who
refuse to disarn.
In this way, the offensive power
would be decreased to merely a de-
fensive power. Then, as the people in
the countries outside the alliance saw
the better conditions and lower taxes
ii the allied countries, they too would
;<,iv hn hn hN
ton of even the defensive power for
police duty only.
In treating the subject, Mr.. Holt
did not consider the actual war con-
ditions but he sought to solve the war
problem by suggesting a plan by
which universal peace might be Sc
cured.
Arguments Pure va0aries.
"The first point to consider Is the
unsuccessful attempts to stop the war
and the futile arguments brought out
by the anti-war agitators namely, the
moral, economic and biological argu-
ments," he continued. People uni.
versally admit the murder of a man
to be crime yet they tolerate nation.
al slaughter Although they see $1O.
00O,00e.000 OF tax money going to
waste in $500 shells and $1,000 tor.
pedoes, they make no effort In their
,, blind unreasoning hatred, to put out
a hand to stop the war. The argu'
! ments proposed by the anti-war agi-
tatorS are mere vagaries."
1.-The real solution of the problem
lies not in these arguments of the
anti-war zealot, but in the formation
of some active, practical pro-peace or
ganization, whose purpose and
methods will be directed by interna
tional law and arbitration" said the
speaker.
The first real step as it appears tc
Mr.. Holt, toward the pacification OF
| the world, is the Hague conference
and the Court of Arbitration, both ol
which are, he showed, results Of work
done by Americans, from Franklin and
John Jay to Roosevelt Taft. Wilson
and Bryan. The Hague conference
which the speaker aptly termed the
Magma Charta Of International Law
has accomplished much In getting g
foothold and being recognized as N
international court.
"The three-feld function of the
Hague conference are as follows: First
a system Of arbitration, secondly. q
committee of inquiry and thirdly
offices of mediation. Secretary BryRr
has been trying for some time to put
into force through the Hague con
ference, An International law like thu
arbitration laws of Canada and the
United States, which has been sue
cessful."