The war state is to its neighbor as the robber is to the unprepared banker. The war state says: “You have had years to prepare for war and you have not prepared. You have put your strength to the uses and arts of peace, you have developed the mind and the spirit of your people and since you have neglected its iron body you must render tribute unto me.” So a robber might say to a bank president: “You have had time to build your vault of steel and install your burglar alarms yet you have not prepared and I have come with my revolver and lantern to deprive you of your well earned gain. I shall deprive you even of the earnings of the poor that have been entrusted to you, for might makes right and force is the power that rules the world.” The pugilist might as well say to the college president: “You have had years to develop your muscles, and to perfect yourself in the art of fisticuff and self-defense and you have neglected it, therefore I shall assume your position and if you like it not I shall give you a knockout blow and drag you from your college office.” A world of harmony, a world that shall in truth know the music of the spheres will not be known until it becomes a world of forgiveness, of international coöperation and sacrifice. As difficult as it was and long as it took, the modest forgiveness that has marked the relations of the North and South and the wholeness that has blessed that forgiveness and coöperation is an unquestionable witness to the virtue and necessity of applying to peoples and states the same virtues and the same ethics that we apply one to another. We have got to limit not only the war state but the war man. We have got to realize that not only as individuals but as states, we are all members one of another. Nationalism is in its best sense, a virtue just as individualism is in its best sense a virtue. The individual should give to the world the best that is in him and so should the state, but no more can a state give it by making war than can a man by being an enemy of his fellows. Much of the nationalism that we hear about is worse than useless because it engenders hatred and nourishes pride. Who to-day thinks that Hayne’s ideal was higher than Webster’s? What is there in being a South Carolinian, or of the State of Massachusetts, so important as being a citizen of the United States or what is there about being a citizen of the United States so glorious as being a brother of all mankind? PEACE THROUGH ECONOMIC PRESSURE HOW COMMERCE CAN BE AN EFFECTIVE FORCE BEHIND THE WORLD COURT—ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE WORLD COURT CONGRESS IN CLEVELAND ON MAY 14TH BY HERBERT S. HOUSTON DELEGATE TO THE CONGRESS FROM THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES