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Show M‘Wg‘m mum 282 283 acting together in response to the cry for mercy have arrested the slaughter of the Congo natives, proclaimed the liberty of the African slave and atoned for the monstrous crimes of their agent Leopold, a colossal statue of Christ will commemorate the return of lustice to its divine mission of peace. With the dawn of that glorious day the sword of injustice will be wrenched from the oppressor's hand. a tribunal of the nations will pronounce his condemnation; the Crueltics of the "unspeakable Turk" will cease forever; Gentile and Jew, prince and peasant will share alike in the priceless heritage of a civilized world. The Christ of the Andes stands as the etnblein of friendship and good-will. The Christ of the Congo will stand as the emblem of mercy and justice enthroned in the hearts of the nations It will stand as a sublime prophecy of a better age when internationalism shall respond to the dictates of a quickened conscience and assume its responsibility for the kind of peace that only justice can Secure. to the plains of Austerlitz, where armed Europe met in that uni‘ versal struggle when the joined chivalry of militant France, clad in shining steel, armed with those terrible death-de aling imple- PROFESSOR ViXCENT: _ The next speaker, :\lr. \Villiam Clancy, of Marquette Unt\'er:»ity, will speak on "International Arbitration." (Applause) ments, met the combined forces of Austria and Germany; where the bodies of the unfortunate victims lay in veritabl e heaps-a sumptuous banquet for the carrions on the morrow. Yea, I might picture to you the charge at Lodi, where the ravage and loss of life was so horrible that human flesh formed a span across the seething waters in the mountai ns of death; I might picture to you the work of destruction that is carried beyond the battlefields to the many millions of homes decimat ed and left desolate; I might ask you to consider the almost irrepara < ble losses every nation sustains as a direct result of war. I might bring before you statistics and prove that, not satisfied with hav- ing spilt a nation's best blood, the monster war penetrates into the very heart of both national and commercial life; that the cost of war is steadily progressing and assuming proportions which fifty years ago would have appeared well nigh incredible; that Napoleon's war drew from the coffers of France three hundred million dollars a year; that the Crimean War, although shorter in duration, with smaller enlistment of men, reached the sum of International Arbitration and Peace \VILLIAM CLANCY In treatingr the subject of International Arbitration, it is not my intention to rehearse the horrors and miseries of war, together with its accrtnipanyingz evils and deplorable effects, as a potent argument for the abolition of war and substitution instead of a pcaceable method of adjudicatitig dispute among nations. Rather it is my purpose to bring home to you the fact that our understanding of the undying and unalterable principles of righteous- ness is in direct opposition to the very idea of a settlement of international controversies by forcible means. True, I might depict to you the terrors and ravages of war; I might IitI\(‘ you to 'I‘herniopylm and there show you Xerxes, arrayed in ranks of death a million able-bodied soldiers; or again to the battleground of I'harsalia to witness Caesar giving over to slaughter the flower of Roman citizenship; I might point seven hundred and fifty million dollars a year; that the Civil \Var drained the United States Treasury of one billion live hundred million dollars a year. Still, ladies and gentlemen, all these horrible examples of carnage and ruthless forfeiture of life, these pictures of desolation, misery and destruction, these undeniable facts proving the reckless expenditure, the enormous cost incurred in the preparation and maintenance of war, never deterred nations from a continu- ance of arbitrament by the sword. Therefore I shall not deal in statistics. I maintain that the striking solution of this great problem of abolition of war rests in a nation's realization that in cases of international difficulties it is against the very essence of right to resort to war, unless all other means of settlement have been tried and have failed. What is our unbiased and unprejudiced understanding of the law of righteousness? What is right? What is the definition of right? Right is an inviolable moral power belonging to the indi« vidual, which therefore all other men are bound to respect. It |