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...reasons. In the present case, any intervention would be a peculiarly serious move, because it would be a challenge to the principle of arbitration. The policy of the United States has been to support international arbitration and she has been the foremost in having disputes adjusted in a peaceful method...
...whose just and legal rights the negative is arguing that the United States interfere. In 1896 we were in imminent danger of war with England when we merely insisted upon arbitration. Under our facts tonight the arbitration has taken place. The European government has chosen a legal and precedented method of satisfying its arbitrated claims. It would resent an unjustifiable interference on our part with its full naval force...
...tariff at the time of default does not prevent the creditor nation from levying a tariff. This tariff might be imposed by the creditor nation, or by a trustee. In China, an Englishman, Sir Robert Hart, acting as trustee, has for many years successfully administered a tariff. This method would be effective even if the debtor state had no money at the time of default. The fact that a country has no tariff today is no reason why a tariff should not be imposed tomorrow...
...than further the cause of arbitration; that it would involve injustice and oppression toward the South American republics; that in every case it means actual war. It has been further shown that the very money award may be collected without actual war; that no nation should take this expensive method of satisfying a debt unless the land were desired for an entering wedge and lastly that the practical difficulties and serious consequences would be so great as to threaten the very existence of the South American republics and inevitably to draw the United States into conflict with European governments...
...Charles Sanders Peirce '59, Formerly assistant in the U. S. Coast Survey and for some time lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, to be given in Sever 11 at 8 o'clock on successive Thursday evenings, beginning March 26. The subject will be "Pragmatism as a Principle and Method of Right Thinking." The lecturer will discuss the development of this philosophical system, its definition, its scope, and its application to the sciences, to philosophy, and to the conduct for life. The lectures will be open to the public...