The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-12-24

two kindred people. Consider for mo
ment the course which has been taken
From 1870 up to the present time or
how many occasions have differences, i'm
portant and sometimes acute, been com
posed by resort to the peaceful arbitri'
lment Of an international tribunal Al
Geneva in 1870, at Halifax in 1877, at
Paris in 1898, again at Paris in 1899, at
London in 1908 and at The Hague in
ll9lO. on each occasion Judgment was Civ
en- by great international court to
whom each country had submitted for
consideration and determination the
claims which it put forward and the ma
tional interests therein involved. In
some cases the decision was in your ia
yor. in other cases it was for us, and in
certain instances there was partial sue
cess for each. But on every occasion
each country by the example which it
gave the world and by the influence of
that example gained for itself more
conspicuous victory in the light of his
tory, as it must yet be written, than If
resort were had to the arbitriment of
the sword and the most signal success
had attended its warlike operations.
| 81 beg you to consider what might
have been spared to humanity during the
past fourteen and in many months to
come if such examples had been followed;
and ! ask what stronger or more earnest
effort could Sir Edward Grey I've made
for that purpose.
"May ] recall to you the provisions OF
treaty made in 1910, by which an inter-
national joint commission was estab-
lished for the determination of all dis
putes between Canada and the United
States in respect of the use of the bound
airy waters? The tenth article contem
plated reference to the commission, by
consent of the two nations, of any differ
ences arising between; and it is thus OF
the most comprehensive character The
treaty is to continue for five years from
its inception and thereafter until either
party gives a years notice of denuncia-
ton ] most sincerely trust that the
spirit which has preserved the convention
of 1914 will make permanent the treaty
OF 1910 BY observation Of the proceed
ings OF that commission and my knowl-
edge of what it has accomplished lead
me TO believe that IL has been OF in
estimable value to the good relations be-
tween the two countries, and that mat
tiers which might have occupied many
months of tedious and unsatisfactory
diplomatic correspondence have been
dealt with promptly. efficiently and with |
satisfaction to your citizens as well as
to our own, The commission has under |
taken and carried on its work in a thor |
oughly judicial spirit. worthy of the high
purposes for which il was created. It's
work has not attracted the notice or
been attended with the appreciation ,
which would have eDsued IL the same re.
suits had been accomplished by the usual /
diplomatic methods. For that reason |
feel il not only a privilege, but a duty
to express my own belief in the great
advantage which has resulted therefrom
to both countries.
"One who has seen the manhood Of a
young nation spring 10 arms at the call
lf duty and who has been inspired BY its
wonderful outburst OF patriotism and It's
'pirit Of selfsacriiicei one who had had
he privilege Of addressing the flower Of
bis country's youth within sound and
-Rnge Of the enemy's guns as well As ia
he hospitals and conyaleseent homes be-
fond the seas. and has stood BY the
raves Of those who fell IN France and
n Belgium; one who has looked forth
ipon the valley 81 the foot Of the hills
hat sweep around Ypres and has real
zed that more than one hundred thOus-
md men had there found their graves
within twelve manths-surh person
must surely realize the tragedy ef this