Arizona republican., 1915-12-29
IF NORLD PEACE LIES IN
 |NTERNAT IONAL TRIBUNALS
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 WASHINGTON. bee. 2S.=In an ad- dress here tonight Elhu Root, form CT secretary of state and senator from New York declared that the hope If world peace lies in the real restraint of nations by powerful internation tribunals. operating under a definite code of laws. AIr Roots address Was made before a joint sectional meeting from the American Scientific Con -ress, and the American Society of In- ternatiouaI Law, of which Mr. Root is president. The sectional meeting had as it's subject for consideration in ternational law"
 The christian church has been ure- ing peace and good will among men Tor @ centuries, and still there is war" said MT Root Concerts of Eu- rope and alliances and ententes and slillful balance of power all lead ul- timately to war. Cancellation. good will, love of peace, human sympathy all are ineffective without institution through which they can act. Only the possibility of establishing real rc- straint by law seems to remain to give effect to the will of the vast majori- ty of mankind.
 When this war is ended the civil ized world will have to determine whether that which we call iuterna- tional law is to be continued as mere code of etiquette or is to be q real body of laws. imposing obligations much more definite and Inevitable than there has been heretofore. It must be one thing or the other.
 Vague and uncertain as the future must be, there is some reason to think that after the terrible experience through which civilization is passing there will be a tendency to strength en rather than aboudon the law of na- tions. Whatever the result may be. the world will have received a dreadful lesson of the evils of war. The SaCFi- flee of millions of lives, millions home less and in poverty. industry and com merce destroyed. overwhelming na- tional debts-all will naturally produce a strong desire to do something that will prevent the same thing happcnin@ again.
 While the war has exhibited tho in- adequacy of international law so far as il has yet developed to curb these governmental policies which aim to extend power at all costs. il has shown even more clearly that little reliance can be placed upon unrestricted az gression in the pursuit of power and wealth.
 How can the restraints of law he made more effective upon natiOns2 IL is not difficult to suggest some things which will tend in that direction. Vio- lations of law must be followed bv punishment. That punishment must be caused by powers superior to the lawbreaker. Many states have grown so great that there is no power cap abl of imposing punishment upon them except the power of collective ciViliZa- ton outside of the offending state. Any exercise of that power must be based upon public opinion-WithOut such an opinion behind il no punishment Of any kind can be imposed for tine viola ton of international laws.
 Imperfect and conflicting as is the information upon which the conjec- ture is based, 1 think there is ground for the hope that from the horrors of violated law q stronger law will come II was during the appalling crimes of the thirty years war that Grotius wrote his de jure belli ac pacis and the science of international law took form and authority. The moral standards of the thirty years war have returned again to Europe with the same dread ful and intolerable consequences We may hope that there will be again d great new departure to escape de- struction by subjectinE the nations to the rule of law.
 During all the desperate struggles and emergencies of the great war. the conflicting nations from the begin ming have been competing for the fay- orable judgment of the rest of the world with a solicitudc which shows what mighty power even now that opinion is Nor can we doubt that this will be different world when peace comes.
 some of us believe that the hope of the worlds progress lies in the spread and perfection of democratic self government II may be that out of the rack and weter of the great conflict may arise a general conscious ness that it is the people who are to be considered, their rights and lib critics to govern and be governed for themselves rather than rulers ambi- lions and policies of aseraudizemcnt. If that be so, our hopes will be real ized, for autocracy can protect itself by arbitrary power, but the people can protect themselves only by the rule of law"