Catholic Claims on the Arbitration Treaty
IN commenting on the Arbitration Treaty between this country, at this writing not ratified by the Senate, the Catholic Mirror takes to the Catholic Church the credit in the following: “We may fairly claim that the Catholic Church was among the very first to suggest this mode of coming to an understanding. On Easter Sunday of last year the three distinguished cardinals, Gibbons, Vaughan and Logue, united in” an appeal for “permanent tribunal of arbitration.” The appeal is given, and the Mirror remarks: “The letter of the cardinals was published everywhere and widely commented upon. There was, so far as we know, not a voice in dissent; and now that appeal has borne fruit.” This treaty is not quite what the cardinals appealed for, but it is a step toward such a court, with the pope at the head.