Show I AlION AI LAW JA W NEEDED Considerable disappointment Is 10 ex CX expressed expressed pressed In iii this thin country countr and anti not with without out ground over oer the decision lon of ot Tho Hague tribunal In the time Venezuela mat matter matter matter ter which was IM referred to that court on the suggestion of ot tho thoI I United States Time The decision was waB In favor of or the tho coun countries tries trios that threatened to lo collect their ao nc accounts counts by force torce 80 So far as the tho mone mono monetary tary tery consideration goes goell tho the decision Is considered of ot little Importance but It ItIs itis Is III pointed out that It gives n it precedent In favor of ot war for tor the tho purpose o ot of col looting ball bad debts debt The rhe United States contended that lint alt all the creditors should l tie be e given hen nn In equal chance while time the court held that the powers which re resorted reo resorted sorted to force torce should have the prefer preference ence In tho time matter mutter That certainly Is II Isn IsIt n It 1 queer It Is as n It If In private litigation the court should give glo prefer preter enco to tn tho the creditor cl who could prove that ho he had threatened his hlA debtor with personal violence before asking the Iho court for tor n it 1 Judgment It docs does not prove heave Iro though that arbitration Is III wrong In principle or that The rue hague court Is IR a n useless s Institution Hut It proves the need of ot n a code of at international 01 I law mu according to which all alt ca ea can cau bo be adjudged Let Jet the tho nations come como together In lit n a 1 universal congress anti adopt such laws Ios ROll and rules as n need needed i cd elt and The rIte lingua hague court will nil flit Its mission But Rut In the tho absence of tit such laws the tue decisions decision will naturally bo ho 1 0 more immure or less ices unsatisfactory |