progress, coextensive with our recent mechanical progress, is to be reasonably anticipated. And, to assist in this most needful political development, to assist in making "world federation" a live issue, there has been formed the Association for which I trust to enlist your sympathies. The Association is entitled the International Arbitration and Peace Federation, and is presided over by that venerable philanthropist, the Earl of Shaftsbury. Among its adherents are forty gentlemen of the German Reichstag, fifty French senators and deputies, and sixty members of the English Parliament, many of America's brightest thinkers, and eminent men of all nations. The objects of the Federation are: 1 st, to call forth and direct an enlightened public opinion towards the abolition of war 2nd, to unite the friends of peace, everywhere, in the advocacy and support of measures of a practical character for the above object 3rd, to secure permanent relief from the crushing burden of national armaments 4th, to promote arbitral reference as a substitute for war 5th, to advocate the establishment of a code of international law, and an international tribunal for the pacific settlement of disputes between nations 6th, to secure the conclusion of international treaties for the preceding objects 7th, to adopt special measures, when causes of irritation rise, for bringing about a good understanding between the nations concerned The Federation is, of course, entirely extra-official. Militarism abhors it, militarism's one idea is "Wut did God make us a raytional creatures for But glory and gunpowder, thunder and blood." Militarism, I say, abhors our Association. Red tape would strangle it. The political machine would crush it, and cremate the corpse. But it thrives on opposition. Truth is great and must prevail, the utterances of our society carry merely such weight as belong to the deliberate convictions of a number of earnest, thoughtful men; but their sound is gone out to all lands, and their voice to the ends of the world. 10 , OCR Text: progress, coextensive with our recent mechanical progress, is to be reasonably anticipated. And, to assist in this most needful political development, to assist in making "world federation" a live issue, there has been formed the Association for which I trust to enlist your sympathies. The Association is entitled the International Arbitration and Peace Federation, and is presided over by that venerable philanthropist, the Earl of Shaftsbury. Among its adherents are forty gentlemen of the German Reichstag, fifty French senators and deputies, and sixty members of the English Parliament, many of America's brightest thinkers, and eminent men of all nations. The objects of the Federation are: 1 st, to call forth and direct an enlightened public opinion towards the abolition of war 2nd, to unite the friends of peace, everywhere, in the advocacy and support of measures of a practical character for the above object 3rd, to secure permanent relief from the crushing burden of national armaments 4th, to promote arbitral reference as a substitute for war 5th, to advocate the establishment of a code of international law, and an international tribunal for the pacific settlement of disputes between nations 6th, to secure the conclusion of international treaties for the preceding objects 7th, to adopt special measures, when causes of irritation rise, for bringing about a good understanding between the nations concerned The Federation is, of course, entirely extra-official. Militarism abhors it, militarism's one idea is "Wut did God make us a raytional creatures for But glory and gunpowder, thunder and blood." Militarism, I say, abhors our Association. Red tape would strangle it. The political machine would crush it, and cremate the corpse. But it thrives on opposition. Truth is great and must prevail, the utterances of our society carry merely such weight as belong to the deliberate convictions of a number of earnest, thoughtful men; but their sound is gone out to all lands, and their voice to the ends of the world. 10 , Heritage Society of Pacific Grove,Historical Collections,Names of People about town,A through B Name file,Berwick,BERWICK_015.pdf,BERWICK_015.pdf 1 Page 1, Tags: BERWICK_015.PDF, BERWICK_015.pdf 1 Page 1