Show HOW THE WAR CAME TO AMERICA T alio lie following series of arti articles cies were received front from the alio committee on oil public Inform uton it a committee recently appointed by president wilson article N no 0 a 2 no othor other question of 0 international polity lias hag found the great moro more clivi divided ded I 1 lint tit lit in our insistence on all if this lie fund lit it principle we have linao been by tile sup bup pori of 0 many other countries ta times dilno s we havi had bati tile alio support of gloat no one of our secretaries ret aries arles of lins has more clealle to do filled our ideal t than all has IRS VISCO urey lioy recently british secretary of state stale for foreign Ioro lRi affairs nono of our statesmen has haa ever gono gone so BO far fai as lio ito in fil advocat ilig limitation of tile rights of belligerents on oil tho sea it was on oil ills his initiative thal thai tho international naval conference was summoned to london in fit 1909 and it was wait under tinder lily ills that tho eminent international lawyers and diplomats and admirals who ga gathered gathele there there drow drew up tip tile declaration of london while there weri in that declara tion sections that did not quite nicot meet our and that wo we should have liked to amond tile tho document was front bioni our point of view a tremendous step it in advance for although like any effort to concisely forr formulate bulat the broad principles of equity it did not wholly succeed in ili its purpose it wits was at least an ail honest attern attempt pi to arrive at an ail on oil a complete inter nat loial code of bea law based upon mutual consent and not to 1 b eal by any belli belligerent gerant lit in the heat of the conflict conn lct hut but the declaration of london was not ratified by the british parliament tor for tho the point of at view pi then in ili HIn england gland was a power ent wholly upon its navy tor for protection could not safely accept furthdo limitations upon tipon action at a unless there on 01 land powers and this latter con call cession Geri germany consistently refused to inalee the there therefore forI caine to naught and tho the london Icel declaration having been rejected by the strongest power its tg en ell dorst ans ly by nil all oilier countries involved our luo motives tives however remained unchanged and our government persisted lit in its purpose to secure a general ratification elthier or of tills this declai aaion or of some similar maritime codo code dhere liaa has been in ili pur diplomacy ono more outstanding aspiration 11 we ibave constantly sought to substitute juridical for military ot at disputes between nations tho the genesis of at title this idea dates fron from the discussions over tile federal organization of our 13 original states which were almost as aa jealous of 0 their sovereign sovereignties ties as aro are the nations of 0 europe today tile the lisl alist great etc aton ll 11 toward tile tho league of 0 honor which whick wo we hopu hope will bring peace to the world was taken when our 1 13 I 1 f litotes agreed to disarm and submit till nil their ills rutes aites to tho the idah til bunal of tile the now new federation and this ideis 0 of an ail interstate court which except at tile tho time of our civil war has given this nation internal liaa has profoundly influenced our oin policy of our efforts I 1 to 0 bring brang others to our way of thinking an historical resume was present presented rd by our delegates at tho the first hague conference A project was submit tc led d there for the formation of a world chart and a few years latter mr hoot our secretary of state in instructing our delegates to tile tho second conference at tile the hague laid especial emphases on oil this sit samo me international ional ideal wo we have taken a particular pride in being in fix tile tho vanguard of this for tile tho peaceable settlement by process 0 of law of all disputes between nations and those these efforts havo have not boon been without success for although the last few decades have seft this principle time tind and again put under it a ter rifle strain no nation line hab dared to go to war wai against the award aard of a court of arl tile tho stu lion liaondous douS possibilities that llo lie lit in arbitration tor for solving international problems promoting principles find and info ate guarding human lite gaii had lioen beon amply lent before tho the present war began dut but lit in tile tho discussions at largely iho ot of the goninan CSor nian empire and its satellites tho the efforts cit 0 our dolega find those of other governments to bring about it a gene general ral treaty of compulsory arbitration catl ou had failed and ou on flap 3 HOW THE WAR CAM E I 1 TO AaiLI lICA continued from pago page 1 this nation having been beau thwarted tu tit its attempt to secure a general agree mont began negotiations with all those nations which like ilka own preferred the methods ot law and peace with the purpose ot of effecting dual arbitration treaties and before the end ot of 1914 we had signed tar far reaching treaties with 30 nations 20 of which had been duly ra ratified tilled and proclaimed hut but lit in tills this work too we were makle made to feel the samil same opposition as ot tile the hague foi great Dri britain tain franco france russia and italy cori dally welcomed our overtures er tures the german and austro altin garlan umpires empire s were noticeably ab rent cent front from tile tho list of those who desired by specific agre agreements emente lit in advance to minimize tile the danger 01 war on tile tho eve ot of the present conflict our position toward other nations might havo have been dundei three heads aitho I 1 diio monroe doctrine wo we hail had pledged pledge ourselves to defend tho NUM nou world from european aggression and wo we had by word and deed ellade I 1 clear that wo we would not filter li 11 lilly any european dispute it II tho the freedolin freedo cm doni lil of tit lie hf ii overy every navil naval conference our influence had been given in III support ot of tile prill ciple that sea law to bo be just and wor t thy of get general teral respect must bo be base A roii pit the cOlls consent elit of the governed ill III As wu we fia had I 1 see sec ared peace at home by in ili forstate ter tor state disputes to a federal tri tribunal bunai we urged a similar settlement of in ill ter national controversies conte ove r our oil idea id oni was a permanent world court we had already signed arbitration treat les fes nol lot only with great powers might conceivably attack us but ev oil en more figuly with weaker lit in order to show our gd go ad od faith in ill tile the equality of all nat n at lona jons both great and small we ila hao adde plain to tile the lia nations tiong our purpose to forestall by every means lit in our power tile the recurrence currence ic of wars in the tit world |