The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-01-24
INTERNATIONAL D ] \ [ | !
POLICE FORCE
IS ADVOCATED
New York Bar Association. to
Ask President to Urge
Such a Move. &, s.

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ss. ,tsy ssss-tsysp: rsfsa 4 ( u,
BUFFALO. y V, Jan. 2S--Res-
olutions urging President Wilson to
consider ana submit to thesnext In.
ternaticnaf Congress the psoposition
|of slimitati of armament Is !. 10th on
land and sea, and tho establishment
Of an international police force.
were submitted to. the New York
State Bar Assoeistisn today BY the
conipitteo mathematician Arbitra-
ton. pisa armament and International
folice. 4 ~. y. sri - \ n X.
After revtow of The Hague COZ
vsntions the committees report
reads, S
It thus appears. that, so Tar as
mutual agreements embodied in
ltreatiessare concerned, the principal
nations of the world have agreed to
settle their differences by peaceful
means vel, during the year 1914, In
spite OF all these treaties, and others
ito which3we need not now particular
lysrefer, we find many Of these same
nations involved in the most bloody
and destructive war that has hap
pened since the beginning Of the
world. II Is not to be supposed that
these nations were not sincere in
their mutual declarations. On the
contrary, we are bound to assume
that they were, but that they wero
carried away by the heat Of passion
when Questions arose which might
have been submitted to an impartial
tribunal for its decision. This dan
ger was greatly increased by the fact
that IT. had become the pelicy of
some of the nations tomake every
lable-bodied citizen a soldier, and
drill and equip him in such fashion
that he could be called into the field,
or, as the phrase Is, modified, at
Ia moments notice. Hence, we have
war in which literally millions OF
men are engaged on each side. In
which all the resources Of science
and all the ingenuity of mechanism
lare. employed for mutual destruc-
! ton.
For the enforcement Of agree
ments and of statutes. which bear
the same relation to civil law, that
treaties do to international law, each
nation has provided an international
police, which may, in case Of need,
be supported by the national army.
Since the nations have been able to
agreed upon the formation Of. an in
ternational court of arbitration.
should they4not. he willing to follow
the analogy Of this institution exist
ing in each and provide an inter-
national police2 In. such case, tho
independent army OF each nation
shoulds be strictly limited. AS d
result each nation would be without
the, power to oegin swas on a q great ssss t
scale. An Internal ional police could
check any turbulence aud invasion
of one nation by another, Just as the
police of particular nation, Sec
onded. II need be, by the army OF
that nation. puts down mob or
suppresses an Instruction.
In the year 1917 a treaty war
made between the United States and
Great Britain limiting the naval
force to be maintained upon the
American lakes by Great Britain and
the government OF the United States
to one vessel each on Lake Ontario
and Lake Champlain and two vessels
on each Of the upper lakes: It was
further. agreed that all other armed
vessels. on these lakes shall be forth
with dismantled and that no other
vessels of war shall be there built
or armed This treaty has remained
in force and been observed ever
since. and with one or two striffing
notifications occasloned by special
circumstances which were approved
by both parties, It is probably due
to this treaty more than any single
cause that there has been no war
between this country and Great
Britain for over one hundred years. "