Enforced peace; . all over the world. William H. Wadhams, , , Judge ofthe Court of General Sessions of New York, pre-sented the following paper: MOBILIZAnON OF OtIR FORCES We propose a Council of ConciUation and a Court ofGeneral Sessions of the Peace of the World. How arewe going to bring the nations into court? If a manviolates the law, he is brought into court by the the pohce are but a small number of men represent-ing the whole citizenship. So behind the poUce we musthave a pubhc opinion which supports the pohce. Thepohce are necessary to give instant and organized ex-p
Enforced peace; . all over the world. William H. Wadhams, , , Judge ofthe Court of General Sessions of New York, pre-sented the following paper: MOBILIZAnON OF OtIR FORCES We propose a Council of ConciUation and a Court ofGeneral Sessions of the Peace of the World. How arewe going to bring the nations into court? If a manviolates the law, he is brought into court by the the pohce are but a small number of men represent-ing the whole citizenship. So behind the poUce we musthave a pubhc opinion which supports the pohce. Thepohce are necessary to give instant and organized ex-pression to that pubhc opinion which sustains them. The real power which brings men into court is thepubhc opinion behind the pohce. That opinion is basedupon the ideals of our country. It is our conception ofright between man and man, our conception of themeaning of the right to enjoy life, hberty, and the pur-suit of happiness which sustains the pohce. We haveset up standards of individual conduct which hale men. Photo by Pack Bros W. H. WADHAMS, , Member Executive Committee, League to Enforce Peace ENFORCED PEACE 155 into court when those standards are defied. If nationsare to sustain a world court they must set up standardsof international conduct which wiU hale nations into theworld court. What are the means by which we may bring thisabout? We must first mobilize our forces in must mobilize the great forces that make and directpubUc opinion. We must go forward with our nationaland state organizations and thereby spur existing publicopinion and bring together those who aheady have thelight. We must organize the torch bearers. When Iwas helping to take up the collection this morning, oneman handed me this card, on which he had written:To help carry forward the work of the League I sub-scribe service. If there is to be a conquest of reasonand a sweeping away of ignorance and tyranny, wemust have the enlistment of service. But we must domore than organize o
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