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Volume 9 August 11, 1911. Number 32 
The International Peace Movement. 
There is every reason why Presi- 
dent Taft should receive the next 
Nobel Peace award for the valuable 
service in the fight for international 
arbitration. President Roosevelt 
succeeded in bringing about the set- 
tlement of the Japanese and Russian 
War resulting in the ‘Treaty at 
Portsmouth in New Hampshire. He 
eaught the horse after it had been 
stolen. President Taft will have 
prevented future wars while Presi- 
dent Roosevelt succeeded, bravely 
and honorably, in bringing peace out 
of actual war. Such efforts are 
more dramatic than the quiet en- 
deavors of the last few months, but 
not more valiant, effective -and 
worthy of honor. President.Taft is 
preventing the horse from being 
stolen. If the United States -Con- 
gress will follow their leader, history 
will be made, and it is time that the 
civilized nations threw aside the 
barbarities of race ignorance ex- 
pressed in war as a means of settling 
disputes. It will take time, money, 
energy and men of high powers to 
minimize if not eventually to sup- 
press the great military ineubus. 
This can never be accomplished until 
every teacher, preacher, editor and 
business man consecrates his influ- 
ence and invests his time or money 
or influence in the cause of Peace. 
All ean co-operate with the Presi- 
dent in his appeal to the people in 
-» G. E. WILLMONTON .... 
-Atteraey and Counsellor at Law- 
his Mountain Lake Park Address. 
‘‘T invoke your aid to bring all the 
influence you can bring to secure 
the confirmation of the treaties now 
made, and of those which may be 
made hereafter of a similar tenor 
with other countries. This move- 
ment has attracted the attention not 
only of England and of Franee, but 
of all the countries of Europe and 
of the orient. It is not too much to 
hope that there are a number of 
others who will be willing now to 
sign the same kind of treaties as 
those already made, and that we 
may ultimately have a network of 
such agreements making long strides 
toward universal peace. 
‘‘Is it not better to anticipate 
trouble and ward it off by arrange- 
ments that involve but little burden, 
than to wait until war follows, until 
Kuropean nations undertake a forei- 
ble collection of their debts, and 
when we have come face to face with 
a European controversy and contin- 
uous wars in the Central American 
republics themselves ?”’ 
President Taft is gloriously right 
and his hint that there are other 
treaties which may be made seems 
to guarantee a strong and vigorous 
peace policy among the nations of 
the world, at least as far as the 
United States is concerned. 
The New Treaties. 
There are now four treaties before 
the people of the United States and 
any one of them would mark an era 
in international comity. The Anglo- 
American and the Franco-American 
treaties are general arbitration 
agreements, while the Honduras and 
Nicaragua treaties provide merely 
for an adjustment of finances and 
customs, At a glance it is seen that 
the former treaties are apparently 
of the most importance, but Presi- 
dent Taft with his broad experience 
and capacity for national legislation 
warns the public against an under- 
estimation of the importance of the 
apparently two lesser treaties. He 
says :— 
“There is no issue before the 
Senate so acute in respect to the 
cause of peace as the confirmation of 
these Central American treaties. 
While the greater importance of 
universal treaties of arbitration, in 
the long run, and as affecting the 
world at large, yet in respect of 
American interests, in respect of 
peace in this hemisphere, they are 
not equal in importance to the con- 
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firmation of these Central American 
treaties.’’ 
While interested in the greater is- 
sues, provisions are made against 
smaller and yet not less troublesome 
issues. The South American States 
are “‘touchy’’ and peace is a doubt- 
ful experiment with some of them. 
The Munroe Doctrine has been vir- 
tually accepted by the nations of the 
world and the construction of the 
Panama Canal makes it imperative 
that everything shall be done to pro- 
vide against any unpleasantnesses 
with the South American nations, or 
complications with European nations 
because of them. 
The Text of the Treaties. 
On August fifth, the Senate 
adopted an unprecedented but wise 
course in publishing the text of the 
four treaties before they had been 
passed with some minor differences, 
especially in the preamble, the An- 
glo-American and the Franco-Amer- 
ican treaties are similar. Some 
dispute has arisen concerning the 
recognition of the prerogatives of 
the senate in the event of an arbi- 
tration issue. Some of the Senators 
claim that the Senate surrenders a 
part of its great function in gov- 
ernment. 
The preamble announces the de- 
sires of the two nations to maintain 
the peace, ‘‘which has happily . ex- 
isted between the two nations since 
the Treaty of Ghent in 1814. So 
that now for the first time there are 
no important questions of differ- 
ences outstanding between them, 
and being resolved that no future 
difference shall be a cause of hostili- 
ties between them or interrupt these 
good relations and friendship.”’ 
The President of the United States ° 
of America, Hon. Philander C. 
Knox, secretary of state of the 
United States, and his Britannic 
majesty, Rt. Hon. James Bryee, OM, 
his ambassador extraordinary -and 
plenipotentiary at Washington, are 
named as the official representatives 
of the people and their seven articles 
follow each about the length of an 
ordinary paragraph and the whole 
text could be printed on three pages 
of the Breeze. 
Article one provides for reference 
to a permanent court of arbitration, 
all matters arising between the two 
nations not adjustable by the prin- 
ciples of law or equity. The agree- 
ment in each ease to become law 
only after an exchange of notes 
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