Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-06

tional alliance with all nations for the
settlement of disputes and the pro
lection of industry.
His speech in part follows:
When the little village of New
Amsterdam was built on Manhattan
island, its inhabitants needed no other
resources for their maintenance than
those the island afforded, while its
successor, the city of New York, must
go to the uttermOst parts OF the earth
for her supplies. The British islands
1000 years ago knew nothing of traf-
fic abroad but at the present time she
could not live without it. AT the time
Washington in his farewell address,
cautioned as against %entangling ALI
ances abroad, our commerce with for
eign countries was negligible, while
since then and up to the present time
our entagling foreign trade alliances
have almost impescetably grown to
such gigantic proportions that nothing
but ~disentangling alliances can serve
to relieve us from the situation.
Peace and Good Will
The keen and far-seeing steel mag
nate, Charles NJ. Schwab, speaking to
the same subject said:
lin the long run, no nation can
prosper unless the world prospers.
The supreme need of the world is
peace and good will among men. 1t
must be peace founded upon justice
and fairness. the. righting of past
wrong and the securing of the future.
as far as possible, against the evils of
the past
1T would serve no good purpose to
add proofs of our malady. We know it
too well and we also know that there
is but one remedy for it, which is the
orderly administration of justice
throughout the entire world.
The very foundation of the peace
and contentment of our own country
which might otherwise consist of AZ
warning and discordant nations. is the
magnificent system of our courts of
justice, to whose DEGREES We have
learned to submit with grace and good
will, not indeed because we are a homo
genous and submissive people-quite
the contrary-it is because there is
nothing so civilizing and subduing as
the intervention of sure and complete
Justice, administered in an orderly
way by a fair and honorable court
fortified and fostered by the brainiest
men in the world-the great American
bar.
International Court
There is now but one step further
for is TO go in order to settle for all
time, the otherwise turbulent and IN
governable nations in their wars and
rumOrs of wars-their threats and
menace and dread and fear of wars
which, in the last analysis. is the dis
turbing element of the worlds COM
merce. and that is the completion and
adoption of the international court of
justice. fathered at Europe's request.
by that great republican and leader of
the American bar, the Honorable Elihu
Root.
With an international parliament to
chrystaliZe and declare the common
of nations, making every possible
international controversy justiciable.
as it is among the 4S nations con-
shutting the United States of America.
and TO crete an international commerce
commission, to govern and control the
trade, as our interstate trade
is governed and controlled by our laws
and courts, the system would be COM
and efficient.
1T is folly to say that this cannot be
1t can and will be done and by
American people, but they are
slow-vexatiously slow, at reaching
conclusions. 1t was 13 long and trying
years after the declaration of our
countrys independence, during which
period our fore-fathers wandered in a
Of indecision and doubt, be-
tore they were brought to the light of
and finally created the United
of America, with all their thou
sands OF miles of unarmed and unforti-
tied intervening borders. The Amer
can people are now wandering in that
same wilderness. but, as so aptly said
our great war president: We must
1oid the light steady until they find
themselves
Paots Are Broken.
i have no patience whatever for
'our four-power pacts or you 40
power pacts, your gentlemanly agree
nents and understandings and your
dealistic dreams of associations Of ma
IONS. We have a very recent example
n the futility of such time-worn
rauds when Germany broke her sol
pact with Belgium and by a ruth
ess INVASION laid her in waste and ruin
WIN the bold assertion that her pact
vas but a scrap of paper.
confidence is the sine qua non of
''nr trade with other nations--confi-
Ience in the seller that he will receive
due, the price of his commodities
in the buyer that the sell
r viii wait a reasonable period, for
,auidation, and that the buyer will be
DE to meet his obligation at maturity.
ms confidence can only come by
endering wars impossible, just as they
re now impossible among the 4S ma
that constitute the United
of America.
America Failed.
AT the termination of bostilities in
US the world was so thoroughly war
.rn and war-weary hat it was ready
willing to adopt a system Of future
onduct and procedure that would Sc
ure the blessings Of peace to all peo-
lie and for all time, and the eager
yes of the world were turned to
.merica with a confident hope and ex-
that we would show them the
ath which ourAOre-fathers had trod
l coming out of the wilderness of tur-
loil and confusion, and a fair and hon
effort was made by us to hat end,
owever crude and imperfect it may
ave been in the beginning as all such