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Show WHEN LODGE FAVORED IT ! (Henry 'Cabot Loci ere in a spocch at Vnion College ; Commencement on January S, 1013.) What can wo do in the large sense . toward securing and maintaining the I pea'-e of the world? This is a much more j d.fiieuU question, bnt turn it hak and! fortii as p may there is no esc-are from; t);e proposaiou that ti;e peace of tiie world ! can only be niairit:uned as the peace and : oraor of a single community are main- : tamed, as the peace of a single nation is maintained, by the force which united i nations are wiiliJig to put behind the I peace and ord.'r of the world. Nations ' must unite as men unite In order to ' preserve peace and order. Ti:e great na- j tions must be so united as to be able to : say to any sinule country, "you must not i go to- war"; and thev can onlv sav that; effectively wh.-n tlie countrv desiring war! knows tii at tlie force wlneh united na- j tions place behind peace is irresistible, j We have done something in advancing the settlement by arbitration of many ml- j nor questions which in former times i-d to wars and reprisals, alihn-jirh the : points of difference were c-sesntiaily in-' sicrutioant. nut as human nature is at : present constituted and the world is at present managed there are certain ques- j tions which no nation would submit vol- j untarily to the arbitration of anv trihu- j na, and the attempt to bring such ques- : tions within the jurisdiction of an arbi- ! tral tribunal not only fails in its pur- ! pose, but discredits arbitration and the i treaties by winch the impossible is at- i tempted. in differences between inuivid-t uals. the decision of the court is final ' oecauso in the last resort the entire force I of tne community is behind the court de- ' c:s;on. in differences between nations, i j wmcn co beyond the limited rar.ue o ' ; ar.-.utrab.e questions, rrace can on'-v be' I maintained by nutting behind it the or,"-e i jot united nations determined to i:phol I it! and to prevent war. No one is morel conscious than I of the enormous diif'-cuuies' diif'-cuuies' w!vh beset such a solution or I such a scheme, but I am certain that it ; is tn this direction a1 one that we can ; find hope for the. maintenance of the ; world's peace and tve avoidaaee of nred-j less wars. Kven if we could estabhsn : such a union of nations there miu-ht V-e j some T-ars whi'-h oou'.d not be avoide-l. t but there are certainly many -whi-h niigh.t ; be nrevented. ' It" might be easily said that this ido, w-l;ich'is not a new one, is iaipraoticalde. , but it is better tha"n tlie idea that war. can be stopn-.-d bv language, bv speech-making, speech-making, by vain agreements winch no one would carrv out .''".eti the stress came, i by denunciations cf war and laudations of peace, .a whk-h all m-n au'ree. f - r ; th.ese methods are rot only impracticable, ; but impossible and barren of ail jrfiope ; O!' real result. It may seem Utopian at . this moment to s-nr--est a union of civil- i;:ed nations in order to put a controlling force behind tie maiut'-nam-e of peace : and international order, but it is through, tne aspiration f.r p'-r f e "-tion. through the. se.ir'h: for Utopias, tiiat the real advances : have b -"- en r. i a ; e . At a 1 ! events, it is. along this path that we must travel if , we arc to strain in any measure to the i end we al! desire of peace upon earth. It is at least a ? r.-a t. a humane purpose , to which, in these days of death and suf- i fering. of misery and s no v among so large a portion of man kin i, we might ! well de J icate ourselves. Ve must !!-: in i the w c r 1; v.-: t ' i tne c ' e a r u n d e r s t a n d : n g ; that our eff-u-ts v.-ill faii if thev are taint- i e'i with the thought of personal or j political profit or w: h any hva of self- j int. rest or self-g'.orifh-ation. ,"e rr.ay not ; no v.- succeed., hut I believe that in the slow . process of the years others who come ! aft-ir us n.-:' ' f-;ih the goal. The effort J and the p.t : ' ': -- hich v.'e make w ill not I be in v-: v. '-.-n tl.e rnd in sight is, n'ible, wl.- t we are striving to help mankin 1 an i lift the heaviest of burdens from su f f .--i ;;g humanity. |