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...araments or at least to limit them. It would be suicide to take such a step before the many baffling and perhaps insoluble problems which confront the Conference are satisfactorily settled. It is necessary to clear away misunderstandings, to change traditions centuries old, and to suppress the greed and lust of nations before any steps can be taken to effectively end war. The Open Door in China, the desire of militaristic and war-made Japan for expansion, and finally the innate craving for ascendency which exists in us individually and collectively; all of these must first be reckoned with...
...together in amity, in mutual respect, in common endeavor to make the world safer and happier for the generations of the future. "Wild tongues which have not Thee in awe" are the devil's advocates for the "lesser breeds without the law." In the British nations there is neither lust for conquest nor sense of dependence upon other peoples. But there is an immense concern for the world's peace and a deep consciousness of the power of the United States to restrain the dangerous ambitions of nations which still have the taste of blood. The Hearsts and their kind...
...regrettable part of the proceeding is that corruption is charged in connection with the bill. Fifty millions is no mean sum. Are even the dead to be pursued by the lust which has swept our politics...
...determined band of citizens might possibly feel that there was no alternative to taking upon itself the execution of justice, and proudly abiding the consequences. But does Mr. Rosenblatt really think so badly of Omaha's administration, or see in a herd of men that yelp themselves into blood-lust, and then scuttle like rabbits, her true patriots? We ask leave to doubt...
Young men, you young men of the South, do not attempt from a barren sectional pride to defend a crime so horrible. For such lust of death in a whole city, a whole country-side, there is no shadow of defence, not now, nor in eternity. It is for those men who in time hope to lead the South to arouse such horror in their hearts of this mob blindness that they will do away with it forever; that our whole people, without sectional exception, will honor that law and justice upon which our nation rests...