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Clock and and Promptly Done - HOW THE WAR CAME TO AMERICA Second of ii Series of Seven Articles on Our second great tradition in international relations has been our persistent effort to secure a stable anil equitable of the nations upon such a maritime code as would assure to all the world a just freedom of the This was born of our vital For although it was possible for the Republic to keep aloof from the nineteenth century disputes that rent the Continent of we could not he indifferent to the way in which war was at In those early years of our national when we were still but a few communities ranged along the Atlantic we were a seafaring At the time when our frontiersmen had not reached the the fame of our dating clipper ships had spread to all the Seven So while we could watch the triumphant march the tragic countermarch of Napoleon's grand army with detached his Continental Blockade and the British Orders in Council at once affected the lives of our citizens intimately and So it was in the case of the We had no interest in the land quarrels and civil wars of the Barbary but we fought them for obstructing the freedom of the And in the decades ever although ihe imagination of our people has been engrossed in the immense labor of winning the our Department of State has never lost sight of the compelling interest that we have upon the anil has constantly striven to gain the assent of all nations to a maritime cods which should be framed and enforced by a joint Various watchwords have arisen in this long have urged the inviolability of private properly at we have asked for a liberal free list and a narrow definition of But our main insistence has not been on any such One salient idea has guided our The law of the sea must be founded not on might but on a common upon a code binding all whab can not be changed or set aside by the will of any one Our ideal has been not a weakening but of legal restraint by the will and agreement of We have asked nothing for ourselves that we do not ask for the whole The seas will never be in our American until all who sail thereon have had a voice in framing sea The just governance of the seas must rest on the consent of the No other questions of international policy has found the great powers more But in our insistence on this fundamental wc been strengthened by the support of many other At times we have had the support of Great No one of our Secretaries of State has more clearly defined our than has recently British Secretary of for Foreign has ever gone so far as he in advocating limitation of the rights of belligerents on the It was on his initiative that the international naval conference was summoned to London in 1909, and it was guidance that tire eminent international lawyers and diplomats and admirals who gathered drew up the Declaration of While there were in that Declaration sections that did not quite meet our approval and that wc have liked to the document was from onr viewpoint a step in For like any effort to concisely formulate the broad principles of it did not I wholly succeed its put it at least an honest attempt to arrive at an agreement on a complete code of sea based upon mutual consent and not to be altered by any belligerent in the heat of the But the Declaration of London was not ratified by the British for the point of view prevailing then in was that a power dependent almost wholly upon its navy for protection could not safely accept further limitations upon action at sea unless there were compensating limitations on land And this latter concession Germany consistently to The conference therefore came to And the London Declaration having been rejected by the strongest maritime its indorsement was postponed by the other countries Our remained and our Government persisted in its purpose to secure a general ratification either of this declaration or of some similar maritime housekeeper to care for home and 4 ages 3 to 9 Good Apply to Jos. Mich. ELECT At the school election held in this township last Monday Arthur and John Kuivinen were elected trustees of the Board of Education for the term of three years to succeed Alfred and Matt Halberg whose terms have There were four candidates in the The following is the vote received by John Kuivinen 261 Arthur 214 Alfred Kallander 189 H. A. Tressel 142 a misting of the new board held Tuesday afternoon the old officers were re-elected and are J. W. E. 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