Note and Comment

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 9, 1902

ACCORDING to Baron d’Estournelles de Constant, the official who presided at The Hague Peace Conference, the only thing that has saved that vaunted conclave from being a “dead failure” is the act of President Roosevelt in submitting to the arbitration of The Hague tribunal the dispute between the United States and Mexico regarding the disposition to be made of a sum of money known as the “Pious fund.” This one trifling dispute is all that the civilized “Christian” nations who participated in the peace conference have been willing to submit to the arbitration of the court which they set up, though since that day there has been no lack of international controversies.