Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-27

best and ideal system, and therefore, assuming Germany to be strongest, world leadership by Germany was the best and ideal arrangement Of inter ma ational affairs
 According to our ideas. the interna- iional theory was a false one, for there seems to be no good reason why the limitation of individual privileges for the sake of the general good, which is essential to government in any one country, should not apply to the rela- tions of nations with each other. All good government, all social order is based upon the restraint of the indi- vidual Unless each be restrained within reasonable limits of action, no one can be sure of the retention of any rights or privileges All lack of har- mony between citizens and between nations arises out of selhshness. If each Individual and each nation were wholly unseIfish, there would be neither civil disturbances nor wars. As all are more or less selfish all should be restrained by law. Within a nation this is possible. A law is en- acted for the restraint of the individual and if the individual disobeys it he is punished If he refuses to submit to the punishment he is controlled by force Ordinarily the individual sub mits to the law: without control by force. This is because he knows that the force exists. Where there is no force to compel obedience to the law, it will soon become ineffective. Law
 without a sanction amounts to noth- ing This is why every attempt to in stitute system to prevent wars has been a failure. There is no policemanto arrest the offending nations, and no court with jurisdiction to try them for their crimes against each other. or to determine the claims of one against another
 League of Nations.
 An attempt was made to provide an international tribunal at The Hague to try certain classes of cases, but it was an imperfect attempt, and was of no use in preventing or deferring the late world war. The league of nations is supported as an effort to prevent future wars. but it does not establish a judicial tribunal. but rather a non judicial body controlled by the allies in the late war. who are to arrange the affairs of the world according to their own views. The men who con- tro1 this league will be just as human, which means just as selfish. as other men, and their actions will be inf1u- enced by the interests of the various states they represent. There is no prospect of such justice from the league of nations, body representing particular interests, as might be ex- pected from a court of disinterested judges.
 If disinterested and wise dcisions would be expected. where will be the power to enforce them?
 Is it conceivable that the United 1 States will assume the duty which l would be laid upon it by the adoption of Article x. to become the sheriff of this strange tribunal and enforce It's | decrees at any time and in any part of the world. at the expense of this l country in lives and in money? And | If the United States will assume no l such obligation, either because 1t is a | dangerous and unwise obligation or | because it conflicts with the constf- l tutfonal rights of congress to deter 1 mine when the country shall engage in | war, 1t is not to be expected that the other allies vii! assume the obliga ton alone. So the means of enforcing the decrees of the les sue will be lacking, and the decrees themselves will be des pissed
 Feeding action or the adoption of l the league. tbe inef7ciency of the con l ference, as it now exists. is being man 1 ifeSted in the matter of Plume
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