Evening star., 1916-12-10
JUR|ST LAUDS WAR
PRIDE Of CANADA
Dominion Has Found Her Soul,
Declares Justice Riddell.
Pays U. S. Tribute.
DISCUSS WORLD TRIBUNAL

DISCUSS WORLD TRIBUNAL
war and that Canada has found her
SOUL" though they are peace loving
people, William Renwick Riddell, Justice
of the supreme court of Ontario. told the
members of the American Society for
Judicial Settlement of International Dis
putes at a banquet at the Shoreham Hotel
last night
| Justice Riddelrs subject was "The
Present Outlook" Notwithstanding the
tremendous war now waging. he predict
ed that the time would come when the
peoples of the world would demand a
system for peaceful settlement of inter-
national disputes.
Supreme Court as Model.
! The banquet came at the close of two
| day conference Of the society, at which
the subject of discussion was the Supreme
Court of the United States as a model
| for an international court of justice. The
speakers last night in addition to Justice
Riddel, were Representative James l..
Slayden of Texas, Or. James Brown Scott
and Hampton l.. Carson. Henry b. F.
Macfarland was toastmaster
Justice Riddell delivered a stirring ad-
Dress rejecting the attitude Of loyal Ca
nadians in the present great struggle
He characterized them as a peaceful,
nom military people. loving peace AS the
apple Of the eye. yet in this case not
ashamed to be at war.
"Above All, Spurn Sympathy"
I'VE ask no sympathy" he said, "ex-
cept such as comes from calm and dis
passionate consideration of the facts
themselves. If our conduct be such as
to commend itself to the judgment in
structed in the facts we welcome SYM
pathy; if not. we do not desire it. Above
all, We spurn sympathy which Is but an
other name for pity. We have no desire
that this republic shall be aught but
neutral but We do not desire that this
neighbor at peace shall pity us because
we are at war. We are proud that we
are at war, and that Canada has found
her soul.
When the ends of this war are at
tanned, but not sooner, peace will come
again. Canada will welcome it with a full
heart, but never again will she allow her
soul to be corroded with the rust of ma
terial success, or infected by the poison
OF money.
Despair Unwarranted."
Many there are who despair of civili-
zatfon, seeing no reasonable prospect
that wars will ever cease. l cannot
think their despair warranted. What
does 1t mean when the chancellor of the
German empire. no doubt with the full
approval Of his imperial master. says If
after the end of this war the world VIII
only become fully conscious of the hor-
rifyine destruction of life and property,
then, through the whole of humanity,
there will ring out a cry for peaceful ar
rangements which, as Tar as is within
human power. will avoid the return Of
such a nonstrous catastrophe? And
what mean the words of Lord Grey or
Lord Bryce?. You may say that these
tutterahces are wr,lng from them by the
agony Of bleeding country, and the
bitter disappointment of defeat actual
or prospective. Be 1t so. If you will. Is
1t not splendid omen that such words
are said at all?
"Its Glory Imperishable."
EVEN IL there is not to be world
peace there may at least be peace so
far as your great nation is concerned"
he concluded "The United States does
Is gained and is imperishable; it can
be diminished only by the United States
itself You and we have lived side by
side at peace; as very brethren we have
lived for century without war, and
we are determined that that century
shall become another. and another. For
sooner shall the earth be shaken out
Of her place than that peace which
is based on Righteousness shall be bro
ken"
Representative Slayden. for twenty
years a member of the House. spoke of
the growing Importance of the Supreme
Court as a pattern for a world court to
settle international disputes.
Declares Soldier Has Failed.
Modern civilization insists that we
substitute a Judge for the sword" said
Mr. Slayden. "All history shows that
| the soldier has failed to maintain
| peace. 1t Is time to try some other
| plan. and none makes such an appeal
| to the intellectual world as court to
| which the allegiance and obedience of
| the world shall be pledged.
| -"As long as an enthroned megalo-
! maniac. or ambitious politician, who
| covets HE neighbor's commerce and
| territory, has the power to declare war
| and move armies and navies at will
| the masses are not SttIe 1 ne power 10
| make war without incurring the dis
| pleasure and possible hostility of the
| world at large must be taken from
| them.
| The worldwide tendency to de-
| mocracy Is impressive. Those of us
| who believe in it, and all true Ameri-
| cans do. must be alert to its interest
| II it's progress is not to be impeded.
| 1t is easily arrested by war and the
| mental paralysis that accompan'eS va
| The only exceptions TO this rule that l
| can think of now are the wars oI tue
= people to compel recognition of their
| right to share in the government, and
they have been few.
| Democracy and Law.
| III we are to have democracy the
[ rule Of the people. we must have that
peace which is the reign of law, and
| SO, in the effort to find a solution of
these problems. mems minds turn at