New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-30
AIMS OF PEACE
LEAGUE GIVEN
All II Seeks Is a Hearing
Before Resort TO Arms,
Says Mr.. Marburg.
ARMIES WOULD FADE
GRADUALLY, HE ADDS
Lake Placid Club Hears "Peacc
Is the Best Policy" from
Members of League.

Lake Placid, N. Y, Aug. 2e-The
League to Enforce Peace expects t.
accomplish It's ends slowly, it was ex-
planned to-day before the Lake Placid
Club. The speakers were TheodoIs
Marburg, ex-Minister TO Belgium and
founder Of the organization; George
| Grafton Wilson, professor Of intcrna-
| tional law at Harvard, and John A.
! Stewart, chairman of the American
/ Peace Centenary Committee.
Mr. Marburg discussed the question
Of the attitude of the United States
should Japan purchase Magdalena Bay
| from Mexico or Germany the island
| Of St. Thomas from Denmark.
| As it would involve an issue of politi-
/ cal policy il would go, he declared, to
! the council of Cancellation. Suppose"
| he said, "the council Of Conciliation
! should decline to recognize the Mon
! roe Doctrine on the ground that it is
not a part of international law and is
| not based on reason and justice. The
/ United States would be no worse off
than under present conditions. 1t
would be free to go to war over the
| question without threat of the league
taking action against it.
"The obligation of the league" he
continued, extends only TO the matter
of a hearing before taking up arms,
and the league is to employ its united
military and economic forces against
/ a member only in case II refuses to
/ have a hearing"
The leagues demand that justiciable
questions be referred to a judicial trf-
| bunal provided, he said, for exceptions.
| Included in questions of this character,
! he declared, would be the Monroe Doc
trine
1.-The Magdalena Bay and St. Thomas
| questions" he went on, failing with
! in the Monroe Doctrine, would be re-
/ served from the jurisdiction of the
league and would be dealt with by this
/ country"
Upon the subject of preparedness
Mr. Marburg said:
"When league of nations shall see
to il that states no longer make war
except for good cause a sense of Sc
curty will settle down on the world.
/ So abatement Of ornaments will come
I gradually through disuse. Unfortunate
/ ly, under existing conditions We do
need military preparation. and il is
the height of folly to neglect it,"
Professor Wilson declared that when
war policy involves consequences
which the League of Peace opposes, q
peace policy would generally be pre-
ferred by a sane leader. When peace
is the best policy he added, its sup
port will be more assured.
at has been assumed" he said, that
treaties solemnly entered into would
! h. k.,4 &c 70 he 20 81
/ This reason is simple There has been
no effective sanction behind the treaty.
! The league would afford such a sane
ton"
John A. Stewart declared that the
league will fail in its mission "if il go
on the assumption that it will be able
to bring all nations into membership"
or, having brought them into it, that
that act alone will prevent war.
"The best that it can hope for" he
said, "is to bring a preponderance Of
the worlds financial, physical and
moral force into one compact, mobile,
obedient organization, bound together
by ties of selfish interest, as well as by
friendship, and, above all, by an all
pervading moral sense and belief in the
justice of the cause which they are
undertaking to maintain.
! rlendshlp WIN all NATIONS ana en-
tangling alliance with none, is used
mainly to-day by hyphenated American
politicians in warning America from
an entangling alliance with nations
which they hate, while they plot to en-
tangle US in the politics of the nations
to which they hold their true al
legiance"
According to Mr.. Stewart, the first
step to be taken in the organization Of
the league ais to Americanize America"