Show Tin ruts Pueblo Chieftain The decision of or The Tho Vague arbitration arbitration tion tribunal that the th allied powers are uro entitled to preferential treatment In lit the thi payment of ot Indemnity by the govern government government ment mont of oC Venezuela is n not In accordance with American opinion Our statesmen have havo taken the tho position that thal nations that did not resort to force tor for tho the set Bet dement of their claims should not be lie placed at a n disadvantage an RII compared with those that th l make n a show of force The Hague tribunal on tho the other hand seems to have havo considered that It was called upon to consider matters as S they tho stood on the day the tho question was ns submitted to it for tor action at which time limo certain powers were demanding their dues by forca force of arms acme while oth other other other er powers were using only peaceful In influences San flail Francisco Chronicle Hut while tho the decision Is le unfortunate It could hardly have been otherwise ex except c except by the assumption of tho the tribunal of the authority to enact law An As a n matter ma of ot fact The Tha good goal old rule rulo that t they shall take who have havo the tho power and they nay may keep who can cnn has never noer been abrogated In lit International affairs ns as wo we 0 may any see every ever day In other con than this It was WM hoped per perhaps perhaps haps that this arbitral tribunal would boldly declare that to 0 bo ho the tho law which ought to bo w the tiro law lawIt lawIt It Jt declined to accept tho tiro responsibility and probably It Is IB upon the tho whole best beat for tor the cause coulle of ot arbitration Nations will be bo the more likely to arbitrate disputes dis disputes If assured that the arbitral court will not make precedents New Ne York Evening Sun Ono One of the tho grounds ground on which the tine Tribunal rendered Its decision was that Venezuela had hn 1 been at fault In refus refusing refusIng refusing ing arbitration when England anti per Ger Germany many proposed It prior to the blockade At first blush this seems to justify tho the decision In their favor but there might very cry well welt be n a or demand which n a 1 South American nation nallon might honor honorably ably to submit to arbitration when there would be n II descent of the navy of the tho creditor power on Oil her shores to obtain preference over oer other nations On some soma such Ruch occasion lon war might ensue with the prospect that the United States Staten would be bo Involved holod It Is la much to 10 be regretted that The Tho Hague Vague court did dill not put the blockading anti and non creditors on an nn equal footing fooling In tho the Venezuela case at nt tho the samo tine time allowing the tiro allies blockade ex St Paul Globe It Is reasonably apparent that neither tho the creditors who used force torce nor any other would ever have got anything from Venezuela unless force had been bean applied She Sho wo Ivas a 11 persistent and con contumacious debtor anti and the tho sheriff had hall to be called In to levy ley an nn execution Naturally enough he demanded his fees tees Tho The decision may servo perve as ns a needed warning to many of or the tho Inferior Interior South American powers that they cannot Haunt flaunt their Independence and their occasional dishonesty ty In fn the faces of ot others and hope that the United States will protect them from front the con consequences consequences consequences sequences Springfield Republican In Inn the present case coso It may Inny be noted that the line French 1 have II avo lost this equality of treatment by b following the tho peaceful policy which distinguished their arbi arM arbitration agreement with tho the Venezuelans ans nils The Tho bad effect of this cannot ha bo Ignored Colombia for example hay hav having hn lug InS lost the Isthmus owes a n largo large sum nurn to European creditors and has hns no vial visible 11 his ble means for tor them till all Tho Tire Vague Hague makes It advantageous to that foreign power which run ran first blockade tho the Colombian ports und maul do lie donand nand payment of at her Iter claims New Now York World I It Is in not unnatural that there thoro should be some dissatisfaction with tire the award of The HU lIo Tribunal In tho the Venezuela la In case caRe Yet It would bo be 1 0 Illogical to criticise arbitration because of ot tho tiro award In n a particular case cane It If tho lire pre Iro preference preference ference claims of the tho three powers are aro legal It U Is IA better that they tho should ho bo enforced by argument than Hum by whole wholesale wholesale sale murder |