Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-22
UNITED STATES MUST GIVE UP
 ITS INSULARITY
Policy Should Not Prevent Alliance to Avert War,
 Says Peace Meet Speaker.

Mohonk Lake, N Y., May 21.-The United States should net let it's tra-
 dtional policy Of avoiding entangling alliances stand in the way of enter ing league of nations to prevt mt var, Justice William A Weir of the Superior Court, Province Of Quebec, told the delegates to the conference on international arbitration here to- day. He said:
 "A notable characteristic of the existing war is the importance at tacned by all the combatant nations to the good opinion of tine people of these United Statcs and is another evidence of the great influe nee which of Amsrica has exrecised for over a century on the peoples of Europe. 'The American Republic has tray elled far since it received Washing tons last message, warning it to avoid European alliances; and the conditions in Europe have also great ly changed since then.
 'fNew occasions makes nSW duties." The United Sltates signed the Hague conventions, notwithstanding Wash lngton's message; and it is for the American people to say whether they are ready to propose, or accept mem bership in, a league of progressive nations, whose aim shall be the pre- vention of war and the advancement of the welfare Of the human race. ..The time has come to curb the power of thegreat and mighty, the rich and powerful rulers Of the earth and to seek to hear the voice of God the Father, in the murmurings of the vast multitude of his children, our brOthers.'
 Avoid War PrOvOc2tion.
 Ex-Governor Simeon B. Baldwin of Connecticut spoke on "Avoiding Oc- casiOns for War" Among these he placed the courteous language cus- tomarily employed by diplomatists. '1When the Ambassador of Germany recently sent ,t to our State Depart l msnt protest against American sales of materials of war to Powers strong that it might perhaps, have been taken as charging a w1llul
 breach of the obligations of. neutrali- 1 ty," he said, "'the note in reply of our Secretary is in this quiet tone:
 q regret to say the language which your Excellency employs in your
 memorandum is susceptible of being
 construed as ampugning the good
 faith of the United Statss in the per
 formance of it's duties as a neutral
 and takes it for granted that no such l lmDllCatlCnS was lntenQCu.'
 | He closed by saying that a strong
 motive for avoiding occasion for war
 would be furnished, if the scheme
 suggested as a possibility in the lit
 tie book recently written by Profes-
 sor Royce were ever put in practice.
 Prudent individuals, he says, are ac- cusomed tc insure themselves
 against loss by the happening of cer-
 tain future events. Why should not
 nations do the same thing? There
 are combinations of capital in this age, and even individuals, holding funds far greater than G,he total
 amount of the property of some
 sovereign states. Why not let some
 such combination set up the business
 of insuring nations against pecunlary loss by any future disaster? In one
 res spect, this would promote war. It would tend to make a nation that Twas well insured careless in reckon ing it's risks. On the other hand, il
 would bring in a strong Influence to- ,ward peace-name ly the capitalist or
 combination of capitalists granting