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When a dispute arose the plaintiff would at once carry the case to this great Court of Appeals, which would investigate the said case on a purely legal basis. This would take the place of special arbitration, but should any question not susceptible of legal interpretation arise, a Commission of Arbitration could easily be formed from the panel of the international jury.
There might still remain a few great questions incapable of pacific solution until the moral consciousness of the nations becomes much more highly developed than it is today. Is there no solution but the standing army? The question is largely economic in character, and its discussion would occupy a much larger space than can be spared here.
The peace question is only one of the many tangled problems with which this generation has to deal. It may not be solved by the next generation or the next. Whatever is done, the world looks to America for leadership. “ Nothing impressed the delegates sent from the United States to the late Peace Congress at Paris more seriously,” says the secretary of the American Peace Society in his annual report, “ than the sentiments of various European countries that it is the duty of the Great Republic of the West not only to keep abreast with the world’s endeavor to abolish war, out to lead the nations in the better way of Universal Peace.”