There were other numerous addresses by men of nation-wide importance.
There were utterances that will go down through the aeons of a new
history-making civilization.
Men who had come to the Congress with the air of dreamers went away
surcharged with the inspired atmosphere of accomplishment. As Bainbridge
Colby had said it was no new thought, no new ideal, this scheme of the
World Congress for a World Court. It had come down through the centuries.
But in the other ages, ay, even in the latter years there had been no
such dire necessity for this purposed International Tribunal. To-day
was a different day with a different need. Jew and Gentile, capitalist
and laborer touched shoulders and joined hands in the common weal and
the great cause at this World Congress for the World Court. The Rabbi
pointed out in one breath that the arrow of the savage killed one man and
the gun of civilization destroyed a whole city and all within! In the
next the figures of a grave Senator pointed to the horror that in a few
months of civilized warfare 1,000,000 more souls have been hurled into
eternity than there is population in the Buckeye State. Small wonder that
the cardinal, incontrovertible facts and figures so widely disseminated
through the press of this country have staggered the comprehension and
understanding of humanity the world over. For the wassail cries of
the royal rioters in warfare of all other ages are but miniature in
comparison with those in this era of infamy.
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