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Show moraine" 38 39 prophesied it and \\'Ot‘l\'(‘tl for it. can hardly realize how much it means for us and for httman history. it is surely not too much to say. it is a very modest thing to say that that gatheringr there at The Hague was the most pregnant and significant gathering in human history. (Applause) the first l‘at'liament of Man, because the liirst Hague Conference in 18W was not that; it was a gather- ing of the representatives of but half the nations of the eartlt. It was a notable preliminary. a notable prophecy and preparation for the Parliament of Man, but it was in Inn/r. when the representativts of all nations gathered in ofticial convention that tlte Parliament of Man appeared. More significant. 1 say, more signintant by far it was than the gathering in Philadelphia in 1787 out of which came the constitution of the 'L‘nited States. J came from l'hiladelphia. which suggested to me these inspiring thoughts. to ('hicaeo: and the mining to tf 1" teaqo R112? gestetl another great thought. l rejoiced at l'hiladelphia that the Constitution of the lfniterl States, by the grace or (find, by a wonderful and happy fatality. was franttd and given to the world in a city which bore the auspicious and pregnant name of the City oi 'irotherly Loveil‘hiladelphia. the City of Brotherly Lore-arid. as l came from Philadelphia l loot-mt] back over the city and saw at the top of the great tower of its City Hall the figure of the founder of the city, the profoundcst and innst Lincoln, whose centennial we have this year been celebrating. it was at Chicago that Lincoln was nominated for the presidency of the United States,-~and presently so triumphantly elected. What did that mean? It meant that the anti«slavcry movement away back there, which had been a moral movement, a John the Baptist cryingr in the wilderness for titty years; had been Garrison with his newspaper, \Vendell l'hillips on the platform, and Harriet Beecher Stowe writingr "L'ucle Tom's Cabin." and Sum- ner in the Senate, and John lit-own on the scafft'ild. \V'hen Lincoln was nominated and elected it meant that th‘ anti-slavery move- ment had gone beyond being a "movement" and had passed into politics, and with the election of Abraham Lincoln that movement as a political movement found its pledge of success. My friends. the movement which we represent here this week, the movement for the peace and the organization of the world. has in the last ten years passed through just the stage through which the anti-slavery movement passed in the decade between 1850 and 1860. The peace movement has been for almost: a century a great tnoral movement. It has been a John the Baptist crying in the wilderness: it has been a movement whose gospel has been preached with moral fervor. .>\nd precisely as in the case of anti-slavery. because the evil which it confronts is so great. it was impossible that it should remain simply a moral movement, and it has passed into politics. The strongest instrumentality of the peace movement today is no longer the group of peace societies; it is the great inter])arliamentary Union of the statesmen of the world. 'l‘wenty-tive hundred of the leading: philosophic of all the founders of American commtinwealths, \\'illA iani l‘t-nn. who was not only the founder of that holy experiment of l'ennsyivania. but the first man in human history to elaborate a disinterested and comprehensive plan for the organization of the world. I observed that that statue of \\'illiam l‘enn was not facing \xe-iiiard towards the center of the country, as it so tittirnl titte‘ltt be, as if to watch the great growthwrhich had L‘t‘li‘ titan tht- rilll‘tll beginning which he knew. but that its face was turi‘i‘d away across the ocean to old England and littrtipe, as if it ntre declaring that the great Ix'epublie of the \Vest stood by the nations of the < )ld \\'orlil in their effort to unite together in the l'at'liament of Man and the federation of the world. Truly an inspiring symbol and expression this! ' l‘d'td‘.) that inspiringr suggestion 1 came to Chicago, and what was the stiti'ja'wtiolt. what was the ins )ir' rr to L'bieztevf . J brouuht? 0' ‘ ' * ' lt rtts asstici'tietl]"\T'ittlimtli:hired;It . t t ‘5 ( name com‘mg of statesmen of the world are leagued together for the promotion in their different parliaments and congresses of those measures which tend to supplant the war system of the world by the y'stem or" international law and jttstiee. 'l‘wenty-tive hundred of the hard-headed politicians of the world»-not the men who "swiner on rainlxtws," but twenty-five hundred of the hardheaded statesmen of the world: two hundred and forty members of our American congress, three httutlretl members of the British Parliament, as many members of the l-‘reuch Assembly, and alto- gether t\\'ent}'dive hundred of the leading statesmen of the world are in this movement, holding; their annual conventions and \vorkin;r in their different congresses for all those things which |
