Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1915-05-13
With Opening Of the World
Court Congress, Move
ment Formally Launched
Which Advocates Claim
is Advance Against War
MANY COUNTRIES
ARE REPRESENTED
Ex-President Taft, Henry
Clews and Judge Alton
B. Parker Are Among the
Prominent Speakers in
Behalf of Movement
ASSOCIATED PRESS D1spArcHl

CLEN ELAND, May 12-With the
| opening of the World Court Congress
movement was formally launched
which its advocates claim is the
81 eatest advance vet taken toMar.!
lasting peace among the world pow
els Prominent men Of all couc :: ies
We're present including Ex- Presilen;
aft Judge Alton q. Parker au,'
Henry Clews.
The congress plans an internation-
al court of justice founded upon an
agreement to which all the great
powers are signatory. These would
submit all disputes to the court. One
that refused to do SO would be sub
jected TO the combined pressure of
the others.
Mr.. Taft, though not scheduled to
speak :his afternoon, yielded to the
demands of the audience and said:
"A movement like this loses force
in making claims of what it will ac-
complish But we are trying to be
practical. not rainbow chasers. not
offering a millennium.
Alluding to the present delicate sit
uation in the United states as a re-
suit of the war he said the time
for launching an International court
of justice was prCpitioUs.
Judge Parker made an attack on
the senate which he said had nuIli-
fled previous attempts at treaty max
ing which would have insured the
United States against war with Great
Britain and France. He declared the
opinion of the American people must
be decidedly nodded and that when
the time comes for an international
agreement the United States is Ger
tain to be signatory. the senate not
withstanding. and said Can anyone
doubt but that when the awful con-
flict in Europe is ended that the
warning nations. viewing the dead
and devastated countries. will well
come plan that promises to end
such disasters
Judge Parker urged the people of
the United States to make known at
once their will as to the proposition
of this government joining a league
of the worlds great nations. immedi-
ately after the present war. looking
to the avoidance of future armed
conflicts He said President Wilson,
who would be charged with any Of
ficial action to this end, ought to be
clearly advised OF the sentiment of
the American people on this point.
The New York jnrist. who has Of
ten spoken before on the proposition
of an International cour:. declared
tonight that the time was almost rips
at last for realization of his ideal
on working basis.
His project was not only for n
court to which nations should be
bound to submit justiciable disputes,
but also a council of conciliation, To
which full statements of non -justici
able disputes would have to be sub
mitted and he urged the joint use
ri force against any nation which re-
fused to submit its case in this man
ner before going to war.
"A threatened war condemned in
advance by the public opinion of all
other countries" he said, will never
be undertaken.
This subject has received exhaus-
tive consideration both at home and
q broad. The consensus of opinion
seems to be that in order to make
the league fully effective each ma
ton should be bound to submit non
justiciabe disputes arising between
the signatories and not settled by