| Show IS Iii ARBITRATION TOO 1 Appeals are being made mado It sterns stems to resident Roosevelt to do something In behalf of ot the Doers Boers One suggestion Is i that our government In some mild way YAY protect against the tho manner In which the war U is conducted by lJ Lord Lard ner It U should be Le evident how hower however ever aver er that the methods ot of warfare are official criticism whatever privet vet ate att opinion may hold ns as D to that The of ot the allied nations during he the Chinese campaign shows thol that war warfare tare fare are Is barbarous and every recent nt war AI hal be had its It peculiar features before which civilization mutt inaPt blush When Then a it War Is Ii admitted to be justified the world must of or necessity vice cIoN Its It eyes 0 to a II many IMn horrors that are un i aha i But Dut there Is lion one thing neutral gov go with could do 40 In the conflict If It they chose to 0 W bI governed by bf the agreements agreement of he tle Hague convention They sound the government as all to ta the of submitting the unfortunate pate nate tI even nn at this late lilt date dal dalti to w arbitration The TM Hague convention nj this ai nl a one CIne of ee the duties dutli of the power Be see SCot J article t f tt of oi lira the Uj pw powers rt ft act II t In the tM et have tV th at offering good offices office or their mediation oven even during tho the course Jourse of ot Hostilities The exercise of or this right can never be considered by either of at tho the disputing parties as us nn an unfriendly lY act Under this agreement the thit Unit United United United ed Status States either alone ione or conjointly with other powers could very properly broach the tho subject of ot arbitration with without out giving offense and without finding Itself In any way in an nn embarrassed position It Is III truo true Great Britain line hafl from the lie first fint claimed suzerainty over the tho Transvaal and might properly point out that tho lie Hague convention never wits was 1 to cover disputes between sovereign states and dependencies but that objection does not hold good as IS to what was wan at tho the begin beginning sung ning of tho the conflict tho Orange Orongo Free Iree FreeState FreeState State Of course coune that principality has now by IW I proclamation boon been be on declared a 0 British colony but Lut as ns long as It has not Iwen generally recognized as such and ond andas as ns long ni as a It line has armies In the field and anda a government of or Its own as RM It is 13 that point could bo be waived In tho the In Interest terest of vi civilization and peace par particularly particularly a till flit It takes more moro than a pro proclamation to actually annex an Inde hille pendent state We believe an on effort at nt the tho establish establishment mont ment of ot peace on honorable terms would woul meet with tho the approval of ot n a 1 large part of ot tho ho British people too And ind an on easy way Wl of approaching that goal Boat would be through the tho discreet suggestions of or a 11 friendly neutral pow power er Cr Great Orent Britain cannot be lie expected to 10 take taho the th Initiative lint But she might be willing to change chane policy whenever that can bo be done without humiliation or loss lose of ot |
