It stands upon 1ho idea that the victorious nations have jus
tice to administer, thnt the tribunal will be drawn from the ef
fective authority of the civil izpd inhabitants of the planet.
The late emperor is indicted for a supreme offense against
international morality and the sanctity of treaties. "The lives
of millions of victims," says his accusers, demand for his trial.
It is unlikely that the powers, founded in the authority of a
new age, will permit the ancient tradition of the valiant Dutch
nation to interfere with the process they have inaugurated.
It is to be expected that the powers will make a more per
emptory demand, for they have asserted their indisposition to
receive arguments. Failure to comply may. and doubtless will
be, followed with such means as may be necessary to enforce
the demand. These methods need not be violent. The economics
boycott, or the complete blockade of the Holland coast may be
sufficient.
More probably, after a respectable resistance in the name
- of its honorable tradition, Holland will recede, either turning
William II over 'to the powers by his' voluntary consent, and
by the indirection of sending him back to his own land, where
the government is bound by treaty to yield him for trial, or by
some other euphemism which will give the result.
Short of his suicide or assassination it seems the most
probable of two alternative possibilities, that the former em
peror will be brought before the international tribunal and put
- ,upon his trial. i
WHAT WAR DID TO LABOR.
