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CLACKAMAS COUNTY NEWS, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1929
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THE WORLD COURT
(By a Patriot).
The liberty o f the American peo­
ple is again threatened by an effort
of the internationalists to involve us
in foreign entanglements by adhesion
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to the World Court.
To do this
would restrict our American indepen­
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dence o f action in any further crisis
and curtail that American sover­
eignty which hus been complete from
the day o f the founders until now. It
would do this without the least possi­
ble benefit to ourselves.
To get to the solid facts which un­
derlie this question we must brush
away the mass of propaganda which
H Y D R A U L IC BR AK E W O R K
has been spread for years in support
of the Idealistic delusions of a super­
state or world government. The sim­
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ple fact is that the World Court is a
judicial department established by
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the League of Nations with juristic
powers as an international court of
last resort, but also with the duty of
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acting as attorney-in-fact for the
League. Thus it is both legal coun­
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s e l and judge, and its decisions or
i opinions on all points of interna­
and will please you.
tional disputes are binding on the
League, on its members, and on any
other nation which accepts the Court.
Moreover, the League attempts to as­
sume, through the Court, juristic
powers over the entire world. It o f­
fers as its sole excuse for this inter­
national meddling, the Hoble purpose
to prevent war by judicial settlement
o f international quarrels.
All this would be very fine if it
were true, which it is not.
If and when we join the World
Court we commit ourselves to sup­
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port the policies o f the World Court,
which are the policies o f the League
of Nations. They uniformly have fol­
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lowed the desires of the European
over-lords o f the League, and we, as
a nation, have steadfastly rejected
them from the day when we refused
to join it. There is no doubt that the
League members are sincere in want­
ing us to join, for they naively admit
that they need our wealth and influ­
ence to coerce nations which might
defy the League. But we, as a na
tion, have no intention of supporting
any such policy o f coercion any­
where. The present policy of the
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League, and therefore o f the World
Court, is to maintain peace by sup­
porting the status quo. America ab­
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hors war, but even more we abhoi
the idea o f combining to prevent by
force any people from seeking free­
dom and justice by whatever means
may be necessary.
The World Court is not solely a
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judicial body.
Real courts decide
questions entirely on the basis o f au
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thoritative legislation and subsequent
judicial interpretation, applied to
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law” is misleading, for there is n<
such thing in the true sense o f the
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judication on the law and the facts.
Instead, the co-called “ international
law” is based upon the treaties
which may at any moment become
scraps o f paper, on tradition, custom
and unanimous consent. The Mon­
roe Doctrine, for example, is not a
Distance is no question with us. Our
recognized part of international law,
but depends for its strength entirely
equipment is at your service day or
on our American military and naval
night.
power. Thus the World Court will
be forced to make much o f its own
laws as it goes along, and since the
making o f law is not a judicial but a
legislative act, the World Court must
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inevitably become a legislative and
political, as well as a judicial, agency.
The effect of this will be far-reach­
ing. The Court will often decide in­
ternational questions on the basis of
political policies of the League of Na­
tions and its European over-lords. So,
what we are really being asked to do,
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cisions upon the nations of the
League. Thus, if we join, we shall
surely be placed, sooner or later, in
the position o f either reuouncing our
membership, or enforcing the Court’s
decisions through coercion.
The Court will, moreover, have a
strong moral influence upon the
world, and especially upon those who
do not understand its hidden political
involvements. If we join it we there­
by publicly acknowledge its right to
sit in judgment upon us as a nation;
we thereby also surrender our moral
right to complete freedom o f action.
This is something which this country
cannot and will not do. While we­
ar e anxious to keep our every action
within the bounds o f international
justice, we will never allow our vital
interests to lie at the mercy o f inter­
national politics.
This is especially true because this
international, political World Court
is controlled by a majority with in­
terests opposed to ours. Its members
represent nations most o f which wish
to destroy our immigration barriers,
many o f which are in debt to us for
vast sums, almost all o f which would
break down our tariff protection, not
one of which recognizes our Montoe
Doctrine as international law, and
several o f which are hostile to our
policies in China, the Orient and else­
where.
Moreover, a large part o f
the members of the Court are mem­
bers o f a political religious faith, who
would combine church and state, and
some are members o f colored races.
Often we would lind ourselves in a
minority and never, where our inter­
ests were concerned, could we safely
count upon a majority. If the Court
were confined in its acts and opinions
to the administration o f international
law this would not matter so much,
but, since it is in fact also a political
agency, those acts and opinions
would affect us so vitally that our ad­
herence to the Court might be fatal.
To assure the safety o f this coun­
try, we must not permit our vital in­
terests to be adjudged by an extra­
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neous agency which might become
hostile.
The Senate reservations
were framed with this sole tnd in
view, and the Court and its compo­
nent members refused to accept them
und do still refuse. The Hon. Elihu
Root recently went abroad to try to
induce the Court to accept our reser­
vations, restated in the formula that
it would not render any advisory
opinion touching any mutter which
we believed to affect our vital inter­
ests, without our previous consent.
The Court’s representatives refused
to accept this, and Mr. Root has re­
turned, with no concession except
that we may withdraw from the
Court without the usual advance no­
tice, if we object to the Court’s tak­
ing up any such matter.
This is no safeguard, and in no
way meets the Senate reservations.
This is completely proved by the sim­
ple fact that it is accepted by nations
which refuse to accept either the
Senate reservations or the original
Root formula because they DID safe­
guard us. We already have the right
to withdraw. So, instead o f protect­
ing us, the new formula merely
leaves us, when our interests are at­
tacked, the bitter alternative o f re­
pudiating our previous acknowledge­
ment of the moral authority o f the
Court. Yet we must join without
any guarantee that the Court will
not, at any moment, act solely in the
interests o f European politics.
Finally, to join the World Court is
simply, and beyond any question, to
involve ourselves in foreign entan­
glements. If it is dangerous for us
to bocome entangled with one nation
—-as George Washington warned us,
as the nation has till now maintained
as a policy, and as hus been abun­
dantly proven wise— it is surely no
less dangerous to become entangled
with all nations.
This is what adherence to the
World Court would mean. We seek
no more than justice from any na­
tion; we maintain peace with all the
world on the basis of justice. So the
World Court could not benelit us in
:iny degree. It might cost us dearly.
Twice the real patriots have saved
the country from such entangle­
ments. It was they who showed the
nation the dangers of the World
Court when it was first urged upon
us. and brought about the Senate res­
ervations. Only last winter it was
again these patriots which showed
the dangers of the Kellogg Peace
Treaty, and laid down the lines fo l­
lowed in the official interpretation o f
the treaty, which the Senate adopted
The danger is no less now than
then. We can win again as we have
in the past. America will not fall
into this trap if the truth is known
It is our duty, as real patriots, to
spread the truth.
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