The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1919-07-22
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ONLY THR0UGH LAW
A Professor cf Law Al Harvard
umvsrsisy uives h,s views
on Ratification


ose u ne striking fasss an'ut ihs
International history ef The past ssv>
srnl huaared year IA shs elccshss
regularity With which a, me bssln.
ming Of each century eataelysmis
~ofa vars have broken out and
threatened The on.ari march o. CIV
iliEation. IN spite - the CONTRARY
aesires Of ihs great msss q the
worlds people Al the eeginnlnr ef
he seventeenth century Il vas ths
bloody Thirty ysau' War which de-
sasis.sd M'cps Ike a plague; at the
beginning 81 the eighteenth century
e ~as The long struggle between Louis
XIV and the Allied states Of Europe.
a, the beginning of the rlaetsenih
n was the far reaching Nspoieonic
Wars which swept hnropc Ike .
consuming nrr. At the conclusion OF
every ono of those wraekinE warv
the statesmen OF an exhausted
Europe. sincerely anxious 10 snar'
an,~o and secure the future peace
OF The world. concluded epoch'mskine
treaties. BY witch the mar Of Europe
~ss substantially remado. In the full
belief that the iortaula had M last
been found for a permanent and en-
during peace Yet each peace proved
as 'ransi'ory as the one which pro
occod 81; aud az The beginning OF
The twentieth century We have found
ourselves once arsln plunred. ruits
against the wishes of the great
majority OF mankind. into a on,a.
clysmic struggle. recalling all the
Avag~ry Of the Thirty Years War
.hres centuries before,
cause and eject ar ehanreicas
ard eternal: can any one who reads
history truly doubt but ,ha, ~ ws
conclude peace today. no different
IN substance or structure from the
Peace of Munetcr Of I6<S. the Treaty
Of Utrecht Of iTia, or the Treaty o.
vienna OF 1915. II win be only a
question OF timc TIL We are once
again engulfed in an even more ter
rihie world war than that through
which we have inst paesedT n the
Treaty ~ 1919 does no more than
20 resrranga boundaries and impose
indcmnitics. II II allows ,he coaiir
uation az the old International law
lcssnrss. and fails 70 organize iniar-
national society into an ordered
community Of states. there can he
no mistaking the fact that all the
agony cf tho past four years wll
have been largely In vain for ~
surely as night follows day. within
measurable period Of time We
shall have 10 face tho Same agony
Again.
International iavlessness may have
suited well enough al time when
states we're Ii tact self auescing and
insulated units But that iIme has
pAased Whether We like Il or no.
internationallsm has come In fact.
Since tie Industrial Revolution some
great nations have transformed
themselves from agricultural into
great industrial communities: The
very existence OF these nations de-
pands upon the uninterrupted inter-
national exchange OF their manu-
factarnd goods Tor raw products and
foodatuffs n England we're cut on
from International intercourse today
sbe would starve inside OF Q few
months. Morally and psychology
caliy. % less than economically. ma.
tons have oaased 10 be isolated
units. The national Prussian theory
Of the state. and tie prussian belief
that might is force OF more prac
ticai value than right. has borne Its
International fruitagc ln the wrcckage
OF homes all around the werld The
Bolshesism Of Russia IL the vital
concern OF America on the opposite
hemisphere, Dependency and inter-
play OF nation upon nation consti-
fntes an actual internatlonaiism thai
will. not be denied: and n WE will
have our law accord with the crlst
ing facts which have temporarily out.
dlstancsd II. we must develop In our
law A. real an international
Otherwise. our International Law
viii be and can BE- only futile theory
with no power to control sctuai con
duct; for no Law which IL out OF
accord with exisths Lets can prove
real factor In human Development
n therefore thsrc is To b. such .
thing In the future ~ interna,ional
law. there must be some legal organ
ization Of international society. In
some form or other there must bc .
League OF Nations.
pnradoxlral A 4, ma, .e.~ fx.n.