| Show ARMAMENT ON LAND LANO AND SEA SHOUlD BE LIMITED i New York Bar Asks President President President II dent to Urge Formation of W World arId Police BUFFALO N. N Y Jan 26 Resolutions urginG President Wilson to consider and submit to tho no next t Int International c congress the proposition of or limitation of or armament both on land and sea and the tho establishment establish ment mint of an international police force were submitted to the New N w York State tate te Bar association today h by tho the committee on international arbi arbitration disarmament and International police After After review of The fhe Hague conventions the committees committee's report reads read It IL thus appears that so far tar as mutual agreements embodied In treaties s are e concerned con con- tho tha principal nations of or the th world hare hava agreed ft recd to settle their differences by b peaceful means yet ot during tho year ear 1914 In n f spite of all the these theo o treaties and others to which we need not now particularly refer reter vo wo nn find man many of ot these same nations In Involved In In tho the most bloody loody and destructive e war var that has haa happened since tho the beginning begin begin- nina ning of 01 the world It IL Is not to bo be supPOsed supposed supposed sup sup- posed that these thelle nations were not sincere In n their mutual d declarations Nations Were Sincere On the contrary we WI are bound to Ie assume as as- Sums sume that th they y were but that they were carried a away ny by tho heat hut of passion p when questions aro arose e which might have e been submItted to an Impartial tribunal for its decision This dan dangeL e was gr greatly atly In Increased increased In- In creased by the tact fact that it had become the he poU policy of 01 some Om of or the n nations to m make moko co every able Doble bodied citizen clUzen a I soldier and drill and equip him In such euch fashion that he le could be called Into tho the field or as the phrase Is Is mobilize at a- a moments moment's notice Hence we have a n war r In which rally literally millions million of m men n are aro engaged ed on each side liMo in which all the resources of or science and all the ingenuity of Jam sm are employed for fol mutual destruction For the enforcement of or a. a agreements and of statutes which bear the ame relation to civil law that treaties do to International law each nation has provided pro p. vided an Internal police which may In ili Incase case of ot need be supported t b by tho the national arm army Since the nations have been able to agree upon tho the formation of or an on International International international Inter Inter- national court of ot arbitration should hould the they not be bo willing to follow rollo tho the analogy of 01 this e existing In each and provide an International pollee police In such case e. the tho independent army each of nation should bo Jo strictly limited As a result each nation nation na na- na- na tion would be without the power to begin war on a B. great B scale le An International police x could check an any turbulence and In Invasion In- In of 01 one nation b by another Just as ashe the he police of a 8 particular nation seconded If It neN need b be b by tho the army of ot that nation puts put down a mob or suppresses fI an Treaty of 1817 Cited In the year 1817 1811 a treaty truty was milS made Between tween tho the United States and Great Britain limiting the naval fc force o to be maintained upon the tho American lak lakes I b by Great Greal Britain and the government go of the United d States to on one vessel each on Lake I Ontario and Lake Champlain and nd two vessels on each e. of ot tho upper lakes It was further agreed That all other armed vessels In n these theoe lakes shall bo forthwith dismantled and that no other vessels of or war ar shall bo there built or armed This trea treaty ty has remained il In force and bt been cn observed ever e since fInce and with one ono or two trifling modifications occasioned b by special circumstances which were approved ed by byboth byboth both x th parties It Is III probably duo to this treaty more than any an single cause that there thero has been cn no noar war ar between en this country country coun coun- t try and Great Groat Britain for tor over ocr years |
