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Show ' llllill‘l‘ l 44 45 that is what it means when you decree that the number of your battleships this war shall be one more than what you originally planned. My friends, I ask you to think of this thing. The time has come in this world-vinen begin to feel it as never beforev-when the way in which we spend our 1111;111ey has beeome a great moral consideration. There is a tremendous discontent in this world among men who are not privileged, amongT men who see‘that the resources of this world so rriightily needed for constructive purposes are going to waste. Germany is eloquent with the protest. France is eloquent with the protest and England and America are becomingr so. I should myself say that ii‘ I were to add an eleventh commandment to the ten, it should be this, "Thou shalt .13,va 111111. not waste th_\' substance" In a word. the sorely burdened and struggling people in this world are putting the solemn question everywhere to govern- ments: "Ilow are you spentlll]f" our money‘? Is it being; applied to the things that help or the thincs which \\ tong.‘ ' I s to you representatixes of the schoolls ot‘ Chicano, you students in the s<hools, \ou teachers of the schools. \011 \\ ho represent that kind of e\penditure of monev which makes for i 0 1 you to f‘L'i these things before the people. ll'buil ("I‘m " ‘5 for I rejoice that I have been asked to come here to this meeting before our Congress begins next week and add my voice to the endorsement of the splendid orcanization which has been started last year called the A 11can School leace LeaOue. I do not hesitate to S' ‘. teachers of Chicago. that luring the last year thereis; no sin'de piece of offganizinfr \rl rich has been (-flected for our peace work whichis so prefrnant or so splendid as the beginniner (1 the (rcranization of the teacher" of this country into a Q , , 7 . . . ,,,clro<1l I (acc, League) I said to a friend or mine 111 New York the other day1 who is perfectly able to give the inoncy,--an(l he has girth a great deal of monev for the peace cause- If you want to know where to gne 820 000 for \mrkne xtvear,gi\1e it to the American School I‘eaace L eaeue If there happens to be any man or woman in this h:dllwho‘is an.\::ious to know of some good w 11\ to spend $20. 000 fo1 our curse next \ear. Q'O home and write a check for $20.(100 it 1 the American School I'eace Leae'ue It will be spent well. I rejoice to learn that a public sl)irited\Bostort woman has just given it $5,000 And to you teachers of Chicago, here where the anti-slavery cause was so organized that within three years it achieved success, I want to say I hope that you will band yourselves together to constitute a branch of this league, that here where Abraham Lincoln was nominated to lead anti-slavery to success, you will start a movement which shall help as nothing else has yet helped the peace movement to success among the teachers of the country. I wish, finally, to remind you that this is the centennial year not only of Darwin and of Lincoln, but the centennial of the great singer of those verses which all these years have been the most inspiring formula of our cause, those verses which prophe- sied the time when "the war drum throbs no longer and the battle flags are furled in the parliament of man. the federation of the world" I cannot forget that Tennyson, who gave us those great lines, also in his noble sonnet on Mil ton, whose third centennial we ha\e just been celebrating, gave us another great word. He gave to Milton his noble st title when he spoke of him as "the organ voice of Frigland." ""11th was it that "the organ voice of Eng:land" had to say? He told us that "war can only endless war still breed ;and he also reminded us that peaceehasl 1er victories no less renowned than war. lhat was the message of the organ voice of England. "The organ voice of England" and the "war drum throbs" are phrases stating like no other the alternative which the world faces, great phrases given us by one man That, teachers of Chicago. is the issue. How quickly. how completely, shall the war drum's throb be drowned by the organ voice? It will be drowned the quicker. it will be drowned the surer if the, teachers of the American public schools do their duty, and if those who are now coming upon the slave are inspired by such thoughts of their duty to their c101 any and their world as shall 111::e11 this country of ours the L11ited9t1te~ which, in Independence Hall, \Vashington .1nd I ranklin and letler son helped into being a true and efficient prtpaial ion for 11 united world. (Applause) (The Young Peoples Chorus, under the direction of Mr. W'illiam ;\p1\ladoc, then sang "1'\ Song of Peace," written for the Second National li'eaee Congress by Miss Althea ;\. Ogden.) |