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Show 333 .. "Maul-71!!!" greatest if not the greatest of the evils with which from the dawn of history the world has been :Illlicted. lint while the human family for more than two thousand years bewailed the horrors of that "plague of mankind." as (Vieurg'e \Vashington called it, it failed to offer :1 right remedy. That remedy has now been found. It is safe and sane and practical. It is not the dream of theorists, but the well defined plan of jurists and statesmen, an evolution of the civic order recognized the world over. The United Stntes now spends over three hundred million dollars a year for its army and navy. mi which two hundred and titty millions could easily be saved under our plan to be devoted to the improvement of rivers and harbors and highways, and to the encouragement of art, science and education. Think of what a paradise the country could be made with an expenditure of two hundred and fifty millions annually, or what burdens could be lifted from the shoulders of the people! \\'e are told that the enormous sacrifice for militarism is necessary to preserve the peace. \Ve answer there is a better and more economical way, and one more in harmony with the culture of the twentieth cen- tury, and that way is for nations to simply agree to keep the peace and arbitrate whatever differences may arise. In the last hundred years two hundred and sixty international controversies have been adjusted by arbitration, and in not a single instance did the losing party try to evade the verdict by force or other- wise. Hence our plan has been amply tested. It is supported by enlightened public opinion, which is stronger than either armies or navies, and it has the blessing of the noblest and best of mankind. The world is slowly but surely rallying around the banners of peace. It gravitates in an ascending line to the higher plane of one common brotherhood, whence the shedding of human blood for the sake of trade or any other purpose is regarded as a relic of barbarism and where the three watchwords of a new world organization will be humanity, justice and peace. In this onward march the United States should lead. It will be the fulfillment of our country's sublime mission. It will lend a new significance to the flag and will cause all mankind to bless it as the emblem of their salvation as well as ours. NINTH SESSION UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES Tuesday Evening, May 4, at 8 o'clock MUSIC HALL, FINE ARTS BUILDING PRESIDENT JOHN S. NOLLEN, of Lake Forest; College, Presiding. DR. NOLLEN: We have the pleasure of having with us this evening for this session of the Peace Congress two men who, without foreknowl- edge on their part, or without foreknowledge on the part of the conunittee, happened to be Yale classmates, so that we have a reunion behind the scenery this evening. The first speaker of the evening, Mr. Hamilton Holt, managing editor of the Independmt, whom we all know as an expert in the peace movement, will speak to us on "The Federation of the World." The Federation of the World HAMILTON HOLT Mr. Holt began his lecture by showing that while the philosophers, the poets and the prophets from the beginning of INStory t0 the present time have held with Thomas Jeerrson that "war is the greatest scourge of mankind," yet the masses of the people still seem to be enamored with the spiritof war. and con- sequently in any appeal to the emotions or sentiments those who sing "Peace, Perfect Peace," and those who sing "The Army and Navy Forever" have about equal influence. Mr: Holt turned therefore from the so-called sentimental aspects of the peace question to consider the more practical and promising solution of the problem which he declared was noth- ing less than "the substitution of law for war, through the federa: tion of the world and the development of international law. At present there is no such thing as a body of international law, 333 |