| Show HAGUE TRIBUNAL TO V DEAL WITH VENEZUELA the decision of the european pow ers to allow the hague tribunal to decide upon the justice of 0 their da cla ins against venezuela has caused great satis fact on in washington on this subject a correspondent of one of the leading newspapers of the country writing from the capital says the selection of the hague court to determine a dispute which had reached the stage of actual war is gratifying to an extraordinary degree to secretary hay and of course to the president himself when the emperor of russ a sug bug the idea of a permanent chirt of arbitration tue the whole hole world smiled and ever since then d have been in the hat hab t of referring to the hag e court as a piece of buncombe the russian emp emptier bior seemed to be lieve that the great armies of europe 1 y upon the honor of the nations which have agreed to its existence for this reason the old time diplomats have pred acted that nations would never refer to the hague court anything ex capt the most trivial disputes in the venezuelan case however a condition of actual war exists and yet the parties to this deplorable state of affairs have nearly come to an agree ment to urmit the matter in dispute to the permanent court of arbitration knoma as the hague tribunal in d sc this unexpected tri of the pun ciple of arbitration a d official of the govern gover n ment whose came name could not b be e pub because the negotiations are aro till far from concluded said to me the decision to refer the vene huelan d to the hague tribunal marks a grat epoch in human history in our op nion this recognition of the aa r W t L IN S 01 S rr R aze co could uld be disbanded jan I 1 an n gnat fonal tribunal coul est shuf ficie focient ent dign t CA av lt respected th r AtI large old fashioned dillom I 1 however the men who r trained in a university of diss mutation muia mul tion atlon could not be made to believe that the czar was in earn est the hagie court as finally I 1 shed contains representatives of the I 1 finest standing from all the great powers of the earth the d however lies in the fact that the court has absolutely no power to en force its cec s ons no nation would surrender its sovereignty I 1 the sl est degree and the hagie court can not act automatically it cannot im pose arbitration on any nat on and even after the arb voluntary volunta rv though it be is concluded either party may subset antly decline to ta accept the result the court depends entire principle pIn p ciple of arbitration by the great nations of the earth confers as great a benefit upon mankind as the invention of piloting this is a strong statement it is true but we believe it to be justified by the facts if this venezuela abbl Is successful it is probable that many if not all future disputes between nations out of which war in come will be referred before it asp is 0 late to th s great international court of last resort this means a sai sal ing of property 3 and of 71 fe so great as not I 1 to be calculated the decision to refer the vene dupla case breathes the breath of life into the hague tribunal it the na tons t ons concerned are unable to make this reference it means the death ol 01 the hague tribunal and the indefinite postponement of peaceable means of settling disputes between the nations of the earth |
