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Show tttittittw 42 43 people do not believe in those farmers out there at Lexington getting out their guns and lighting the llt'itish invaders?" A tnan who says that sort of thing shows that he has not any realizing sense of \\ hat the peace movement is. There have been stages iii the evolution of this world when nothing else was possible for men who stood for liberty and justice but to get out their guns. The times of our ignorance and our savagery and ottr brutality (iod winked at. bttt he now couunands tneu everywhere to repent. at least to do better. and to utilize the rational machinery that advancing evolution has created. \\'e do not stand today where our fathers stood. and we may not invoke for ourselves as a protection the appeal to war which for them may have been valid and vital. Again l repeat that history is the record of the decline of war. that evolution is on our side. and the triumphs of our cause in recent years have been something almost incalculable. The leaders of this movement for internatirmal justice and the organization of the world. have not been able in these last years to dream half tlaringly enough or half fast enough to keep up with the facts. lf any one of us had been told ten years ago, on the eye of the meeting of the First Hague Conference. that we should see today established in this world an international tribunal of arbitration, that we should st" an international par- liament meeting as regularly as the Congress of the l'nited States at Washington. or the British l'arliament at \\'estminster. if we had been told that we tottld see the progress which we have sent. the most optimistic of us could not have believed it. My friends. a great cause is never in so hopeful a condition as when it stands between great triumphs and great tasl . The triumphs of tlte last ten years, the triumphs of the last generation, hate been something unprecedented in human history, bttt we face the future and it is for us today to face, the pt‘oliletns which are ours. the problem of the burdensome armaments of the world, and solve them as the men of the last ten years have faced and have sobed so tnauy of their problems. We stand between great triumphs and great tasks. and t know of nothing which should appeal so strong ' to the teachers of the young. to those who have in charge the schools of this country. as the inspiration of great achievements behind them and the opportunity and the obligations which are theirs to train the young into righteous supremacy in the next generation. a supremacy which shall give the world the things which we demand and which we prophesy. lf there is any body in the community which is called upon to exert itself and to work with all its tnight for this commanding cause for which we have come together here in Chicago this week, it is the body of the teachers of the country. If there is any body in the country that knows that the world's resources are misapplied. that they are going for the things that profit not when they are so sorely needed [or the things which have in them the salvation of the world. it is the teachers of the country. ,li‘resident liliot went down to Tuskegee two or three years ago to help celebrate its twentyitit'th anniversary. and he reminded that great educational gathering that for the price of a single battleship such as is being built today in our navy-yards. a Tus‘ kegee could be established in every southern state. and asked which they thought would do the most to make the country strong and safe. the building of the battleship, which in ten years will go to the junk heap. or the establishment of a 'l‘nskegee in every southern state. The president of llttrvard Univ sity might have drawn an illustration nearer home, nearer his own llart'ard. lle might have reminded that educational gathering in the South that if it added together the cost of all the hundred buildings and of the land of Harvard [‘nivet'sity tl do not now speak of ClltlttwttlL‘H[sitttttlt‘t‘sltttttl clearly what l say and what 1 do not s: 9) and added to that the cost of all the lztnd and buildings of Yale and of .\mherst and of Williams and of Dartmouth and of Bowdoin and llrown, all of the historical universities and colleges of New lCng id. the total cost Would have been less by two million dollars than the cost of one short-li ed battleship. lior you who are charH't-rl with the interest of education itt this country thztt is a startling thing to lalw to heart; especially when you reinetnlter that the lite ot' a battleship is really lL'~us today than ten years, and ask yoursehes what it would mean it you tipped all of those universities and colleges in New l'ingland%l take New lingland alone. bttt you itt t hteago can substitute such of your institutions [lt‘ltrt‘l' home as. you lllt‘lht" it you tipped all of [how institutions, their lands and buildings, iuto thr- sea every ten years, and sit about the slow and painful work of their reconstruction, |