NATIONAL ARBITRATION.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 63, 5 November 1887, Page 2

NATIONAL ARBITRATION.

CLEVELAND’S SENTIMENTS. New Yobk, November 2. President Cleveland, in replying to the addresses presented to him by the British Arbitration Committee recently appointed from the House of Commons, said that America would gladly hail the advent of peaceful methods of settling national disputes. London, November 8. President Cleveland’s reply to the British Arbitration Committee has been very favorably commented on in England, and Mr John Bright has expressed his high appreciation of the peaceful and noble sentiment of the American President. Sir Lyon Playfair has presented a memorial to the Government from the British Peace Society, asking Lord Salisbury to receive a deputation in favor of settling national disputes by arbitration, instead of by war. The memorial points to the glorious example already set by Great Britain and the United States, the two greatest Anglo-Saxon nations of the world, and urges these countries to become the peace-makers of the world. The memorial further states that President Cleveland has expressed a desire to abolish the system of killing as a means of accomplishing national ambition, and that he would gladly assist in furthering a peaceful method of settling national disputes, consistant with honour.