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Show The Opportunity I j Statisticians announce that during the war some 20,000,000 linen were killed, wounded or gassed, and over 1100,000,000,000 ;'vf money spent This is the cost to date, they say, without reckoning reck-oning the losses of noncombatants and in property destroyed. ! The price which the world pays for peace today Is appalling. . regardless of the fact that the world must go on paying and paying for this great tragedy, In which It has poured out blood and money :;as never before in all the career of mankind. , What has the world bought? l Peace; by the'race of Cod; an end of butchering the selected , best voiinf; men on earth. Dynasties have been wiped out or have disintegrated. The pomanoffs, the Hohenzollerns, the Hapsburgs are put down, with Jheir arrogance, privileges and oppression. Those monarchial idiots by divine right of Bulgaria and Greece have disappeared. "Thrones and their heirs have fallen. Alt over the earth peoples are rising to enjoy the blessings of self government. Mankind never before had so strong a grip on justice and liberty. New foundation stones have been mined, chiseled and laid for civilization. r But all these things, glorious and progressive ai they are, -are not enough for the price this world has paid for peace. Besides v enabling us to establish the fact that the right is might and shall ,'Drevail, the Almighty has given the world opportunity to Inaugurate : the common brotherhood of man. jV The right, as it affects all, must prevail. It must prevail In quarters of this world that have known it not. It must level greed and privilege and caste as it has leveled thrones and dynasties. In it are; justice, liberty and equality, and before mankind is the God-jpven God-jpven opportunity to make It the spirit that moves all men, rj- That Is the peat prize that has been paid for with the lives of the millions of the dead and the millions of money of the living. Here, for the work 6f men's brains and hands is man's opportunity oppor-tunity to make all men equal, equal In the affairs of peace as equal liri the bloody business of war. Let us write into the world history : herein men's deeds of hate, greed and injustice "tread upon one J. another's feet, so fast they follow," an epoch of brotherly love in ..which the first concern ia for those who have suffered mot. |