Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1915-12-16
Associated PreSS)

| S1 lA1\LLC lolS, O. S.,
 Dec. 15.-Pointing to the
 great war as proof that both
 militarists and pacifistS have
 failed completely as protect
 ors of peace, Oscar s. Straus,
 former ambassador to Tur-
 key, declared in an address
 last night before the South ern Commercial Congress
 that there must be an inter
 national reconstruction on
 an entirely different basis.
 This world war is a dis
 tinct proof that neither paci-
 fism without might nor might
 unless dominated by right can
 be effectual in securing a per
 manent peace" said MT. Straus. "A war such as this could never have engulfed
 the nations had the interna-
 tional relationship and foun- dations been rightfully con- structed."
 Three distinct methods of world organization have been developed, tried and found wanting, declared MT. StrauS.
 First was the dominance of nations by great world pow CTS such as was Greece under Alexander. After the Napo- lecnic war he said the second method of keeping the peace was developed, the system of the balance of power and of the concert of Europe under which several nations united together in offensive and de- fensive alliances. The third arrangement was the forma- ton of group alliances, such as the Triple Alliance on the one side, and the Triple En- tente on the other.
 "This dual arrangement, dividing Europe into two vast and powerful camps," continued MT. Straus, "it was hoped would have the effect which is epitomized in the expression that one sword would keep the other in the scabbard But this war proves that 1t has had the contrary effect. It has developed militarism as never before and has piled up those crushing arma- 1 ments that are today clashing against | one another in the most frightful and bloodiest war in all history"
 Mir. Straus asserted that the three methods already tried were built on | false foundations. They were built, he said, as strongholds for war and not | as strongholds for peace. The mainte- nance of peace could be achieved only | by the development of a stronger power devoted to that cause.
 Any future plan to be lasting," said MT. Straus, must take into considera- tion the conflict between the two big schools, the one holding that might makes right, and the other which de sires to place the entire international system upon the basis of strictly moral and in so doing recon struct international relationship, not as heretofore exclusively on the basis of war, but dominantly on the basis of peace"
 Dominance of a single power and division of power having failed, MT. Straus said there must be unity of power, the uniting of the nations in their own interest and the placing of their united might as guardians of the rights of each nation on the same principle as we constitute the power of the forty-eight states as the guar dians of the rights of each state.
 Many plans have been devised" said MT. Straus, but none in my judg- ment, has laid a better foundation for peace than has been adopted by the League to Enforce Peace.' That plan, briefly stated, con- sists of three provisions. First, all justiciable questions shall be subject to an international court; second, all questions that are not subject to judi cial determination shall be submitted to a Council of Consolidation for hear ing, consideration and recommenda-