Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1917 — World Record in Treaties. [ARTICLE]

World Record in Treaties.

Some painstaking person has compiled a list of treaties from 1360 B. C. to 1860 A. D. In those 34 centuries the world achieved 8,000 treaties, and we are told that each of them on the average lasted a little longer than two years. It is as trjie now as it was 1,500 years before the Christian era that treaties are only kept when there is an honest intention among all parties of keeping them.