A correspondent averts tfiat. wo <*• ayoid the real questiou at issue ” in respect of international arbitration,. It is sufficient to. read fiis letter, (which appears in another column) to. see that it fa he who. “ avoids the real question at issue. ” Granting all the improvement in human nature which, fie expects to accrue, there affil remains the problem : What are yen to, do if any nation refuses to. abide fiy the result of an arbitration ? Our correspondent’s illustration, of the obedience no\y paid to, law tells dead against him,, for thafi obedience is, paid by a vast proportion of mankind because they know tfiat in. the last resource tfioir rulers can, employ military force against tfiem... So. it is with, aud so,, we fear* it ever wifi he.. ' ‘
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 889, 15 March 1889, Page 29
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128Untitled New Zealand Mail, Issue 889, 15 March 1889, Page 29
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