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 NATIONS OF THE WORLD 
 
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 To be organized to establish and 
 maintain the peace of the world. 
 
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 By Allen Ripley Foote 
 
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 TOPICAL REFERENCES 
 
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 The United Democratic Nations of the World 5 
 
 A Declaration of Principles. 7 
 
 The Spirit of a Democratic Declaration of War 12 
 
 United Democracy the Hope of the World ... 17 
 
 The Terms of an Enduring Peace. 19 
 
 Restoration is not Indemnification. 22 
 
 A Just and Durable Peace Guaranteed. 22 
 
 A Flag for the United Democratic Nations of 
 the World. 24 
 
 Universal Good Will. 24 
 
 Friends Resurrected from Enemies’ Graves 26 
 
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THE 
 
 UNITED DEMOCRATIC 
 NATIONS OF THE WORLD 
 
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 To be organized to establish and 
 maintain the peace of the world. 
 
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 By Allen Ripley Foote 
 
 The peace of the world must be founded upon 
 God’s Law of Peace and Justice as declared by the 
 Prince of Peace: 
 
 “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men 
 should do to you , do ye even so to them; for this is the 
 law and the prophets .” (Matthew, 7:12.) 
 
 Christ condemned the invaders of nations, and 
 the pillagers of their people, in the following judi¬ 
 cial opinion which affirms the Brotherhood of 
 Man and the Fatherhood of God: “ Inasmuch as ye 
 have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren , 
 ye have done it unto me." (Matthew, 25:40.) 
 
 The German Government had power to destroy 
 
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its treaty of peace with Belgium, treating it as of 
 no more value than a scrap of paper, but it has no 
 power to nullify the law of God, for disobeying 
 which it stands condemned before the bar of 
 human intelligence and in the presence of God. 
 
 The duty of nations to honor and obey the 
 moral law was declared by the Father of American 
 Democracy, Thomas Jefferson, when, in his in¬ 
 augural address, 1804, he said: 
 
 “We are firmly convinced , and we act on that con¬ 
 viction, that with nations , as with individuals , our 
 interests soundly calculated will ever be found in¬ 
 separable from our moral duties , and that the code 
 of honor and justice for individuals and for nations 
 must be identical .” 
 
 Those who believe in justice are willing to unite 
 in working and fighting to establish and maintain 
 justice. They know that a power which defies the 
 Laws of God and Man and violates the rights of a 
 single nation will violate the rights of all nations 
 unless it is compelled by superior force to recog¬ 
 nize and obey the moral law. They know that the 
 only enduring peace will be a peace born of right¬ 
 eousness, founded on the principles of justice and 
 guaranteed by the United Democratic Nations of 
 the world. 
 
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A DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES 1 
 
 When in the course of human events it becomes 
 necessary for Democratic Nations to unite, to 
 establish and maintain the peace of the world, 
 and they undertake to place limitations upon the 
 power of autocratic governments to invade and 
 pillage other nations and their people and to 
 deprive them of their inalienable right to the 
 freedom of the seas, and to all natural straits and 
 channels by which seas are connected, a decent 
 respect for the opinions of mankind requires that 
 they should declare the causes which impel them 
 to take such action. 
 
 The Democratic Nations of the world in uniting 
 to establish and maintain the peace of the world 
 hold these truths to be self-evident: 
 
 1. That all men and all nations are equal before 
 the law of God. 
 
 2. That they are endowed with certain inalien¬ 
 able rights among which are the right to life, lib¬ 
 erty and the orderly pursuit of happiness. 
 
 To secure these rights, for all men and for all 
 nations, a Union of the Democratic Nations of the 
 
 1 Note. —In writing this Declaration of Principles the 
 wording and style of the American Declaration of Inde¬ 
 pendence, issued to the world in 1776, have been followed. 
 
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world is hereby instituted , deriving its just powers 
 from the consent of the nations comprising this 
 Union, laying its foundations on such principles, 
 and organizing its powers in such form as to them 
 shall seem most likely to secure safety and happi¬ 
 ness for themselves and for their people, insure 
 their moral and economic development, and en¬ 
 able them to make true progress “in the direction 
 of growth of justice; justice between man and man; 
 justice between employer and employee; justice 
 within the law; justice displayed in the honesty 
 and ability of courts; justice of the state towards 
 its citizens; justice of nation to nation.” 2 
 
 Prudence, indeed, will indicate that the powers 
 of free Democratic Nations long established should 
 not be united for light and transient causes; and, 
 accordingly, all experience hath shown that man¬ 
 kind is more disposed to suffer, while evils are 
 sufferable, than to right themselves by forming 
 governments for mutual protection. But, when a 
 long train of abuses and usurpations, practiced by 
 autocratic governments pursuing invariably the 
 
 2 Note. —Theodore Marburg. World Court and League 
 of Peace. Publications of the American Society for Judicial 
 Settlement of International Disputes. No. 20, February, 
 1915. 
 
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same object by making war to establish and main¬ 
 tain their jurisdiction over other nations and their 
 people by force, evidences a design to hold the 
 people of the nations they invade under an abso¬ 
 lute despotism, it is the right, it is the duty of all 
 free Democratic Nations to unite to restrain the 
 power of autocratic governments shown to be 
 guilty of such abuses of their power, and to pro¬ 
 vide efficient and self-perpetuating safeguards 
 against future violations of the peace of the world. 
 
 Such has been the patient sufferance of free 
 Democratic Nations, and such is now the neces¬ 
 sity which constrains them to form a union by 
 means of which they can restrain the irresponsible 
 power of autocratic governments which has been 
 used in all ages to establish and maintain their 
 jurisdiction by the use of force; which has devel¬ 
 oped and perpetuated a spirit of national, racial 
 and religious hatred in opposition to the spirit of 
 the brotherhood of man; and which has invariably 
 deified the crime of murder and crucified the spirit 
 of love. 
 
 The history of all warring autocratic nations is a 
 history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all hav¬ 
 ing, in direct object, the establishment of an abso¬ 
 lute tyranny over other nations and their subjects. 
 
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We, therefore, being free Democratic Nations, 
 in the act of creating this Union to establish and 
 maintain the peace of the world, appealing to the 
 Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of 
 our intentions, do in the name and by the author¬ 
 ity of our sovereign governments solemnly publish 
 and declare: 
 
 First. That the rights of nations, and of their 
 people, to a free and orderly development of their 
 moral and economic well-being; to freedom to 
 pursue their own social and industrial improve¬ 
 ment within the boundaries of their own country, 
 in their own way; and to a free and unabridged 
 use of the high seas, and to all natural straits and 
 channels by which seas are connected, are in¬ 
 alienable. 
 
 Second. That the maintenance of an armed force 
 capable of invading another nation must be elimi¬ 
 nated from the powers and purposes of government 
 to make it certain that all nations shall be relieved 
 from the exhausting necessity of maintaining the 
 means of protecting themselves against invasions, 
 and that humanity may be relieved from the horrors 
 of destruction and pillage and never again be cruci¬ 
 fied by the slaughter of wars of invasion. 
 
 Third. That it is a fundamental requirement for 
 
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the establishment and maintenance of an effective 
 Union of Democratic Nations, that no member 
 nation shall declare a separate war or conclude a 
 separate peace. 
 
 Fourth. That this Union shall have power to 
 enforce its decrees and to secure collective re¬ 
 sponsibility for the maintenance and enforcement 
 of international laws which correctly express the 
 judgment of its collective international mind. 
 
 Fifth. That the might of all shall defend the 
 rights of each; that the power of the strong shall 
 be a defense for the weak. 
 
 Sixth. That the power to declare war and to 
 levy taxes therefor shall be the exclusive pre¬ 
 rogative of representative assemblies the mem¬ 
 bers of which are elected by the citizens of the 
 nation, exercising a free right of equal universal 
 suffrage, who are to be required to sacrifice their 
 lives and property in sustaining the cause of 
 armed conflict. 
 
 Seventh. As free and sovereign Democratic 
 Nations, we hereby reserve to the people of our 
 countries, acting through their duly elected and 
 authorized representatives, the unrestricted right to 
 exercise all powers not herein specifically delegated 
 to the United Democratic Nations of the World. 
 
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Believing that we correctly express the aspirations 
 of the soul of the people in all nations, we hereby 
 unite for the support of the foregoing declarations, 
 and cordially invite all nations whose democratic 
 form of government renders them eligible to mem¬ 
 bership in this Union, to join with us for the pur¬ 
 pose of establishing and maintaining the peace of 
 the world. 
 
 With a firm reliance upon the protection and 
 guidance of Divine Providence, we mutually 
 pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and 
 our sacred honor and declare that no nation herein 
 represented shall withhold an ounce of its strength 
 from the task of relieving the nations of the world 
 from the perpetual menace of invasion, by the 
 creation of a world police force that can and will 
 compel would-be invading nations to respect the 
 territorial rights of all nations great or small. 
 
 THE SPIRIT OF A DEMOCRATIC DECLARATION OF WAR 
 
 President Woodrow Wilson, in his address to 
 the Congress of the United States, delivered at 
 Washington, April 2, 1917, gave a true voice to the 
 spirit of democracy when he said: 
 
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 “With the profound sense of the solemn and 
 
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even tragical character of the step I am taking 
 and of the grave responsibilities which it involves, 
 but in unhesitating obedience to what I deem my 
 constitutional duty, I advise that the Congress 
 declare the recent course of the Imperial German 
 Government to be in fact nothing less than war 
 against the Government and people of the United 
 States; that it formally accept the status of bellig¬ 
 erent which has thus been thrust upon it; and that 
 it take immediate steps not only to put the coun¬ 
 try in a more thorough state of defense but also 
 to exert all its power and employ all its resources 
 to bring the Government of the German Empire 
 to terms and end the war. 
 
 “While we do these things, these deeply momen¬ 
 tous things, let us be very clear, and make very 
 clear to all the world what our motives and 
 objects are .... to vindicate the principles of 
 peace and justice in the life of the world as against 
 selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among 
 the really free and self-governed people of the 
 world such a concert of purpose and of action as 
 will henceforth insure the observance of those 
 principles. 
 
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11 .We are at the beginning of an age 
 
 in which it will be insisted that the same standards 
 of conduct and of responsibility for wrong done 
 shall be observed among nations and their govern¬ 
 ments that are observed among the individual 
 citizens of civilized states. 
 
 “A steadfast concert for peace can never be 
 maintained except by a partnership of democratic 
 nations. No autocratic government could be 
 trusted to keep faith within it or observe its 
 covenants. It must be a league of honor, a part¬ 
 nership of opinion. Intrigue would eat its vitals 
 away; the plottings of inner circles who could plan 
 what they would and render account to no one 
 would be a corruption seated at its very heart. 
 Only free people can hold their purpose and their 
 honor steady to a common end and prefer the 
 interests of mankind to any narrow interest of 
 their own. 
 
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 “We know that in such a Government (the 
 
 Imperial German Government).we can 
 
 never have a friend; and that in the presence of its 
 organized power, always lying in wait to accom¬ 
 plish we know not what purpose, there can be no 
 
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assured security for the democratic governments 
 of the world. We are now about to accept the 
 gage of battle with this natural foe of liberty, and 
 shall, if necessary, spend the whole force of the 
 nation to check and nullify its pretentions and 
 power. We are glad, now that we see the facts 
 with no veil of false pretense about them, to fight 
 thus for the ultimate peace of the world and for the 
 liberation of its peoples, the German peoples in¬ 
 cluded - for the rights of nations, great and small, 
 and the privilege of men everywhere to choose 
 their way of life and of obedience. 
 
 ‘The world must be made safe for democracy. 
 Its peace must be planted upon the tested founda¬ 
 tions of political liberty. We have no selfish ends 
 to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion, we 
 seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material com¬ 
 pensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. 
 We are but one of the champions of the rights of 
 mankind. We shall be satisfied when these rights 
 have been made as secure as the faith and the 
 freedom of nations can make them. 
 
 “Just because we fight without rancor and with¬ 
 out sefish object, seeking nothing for ourselves but 
 what we shall wish to share with all free peoples, 
 we shall, I feel confident, conduct our operations 
 
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as belligerents without passion and ourselves ob¬ 
 serve with proud punctilio the principles of right 
 and of fair play we profess to be fighting for. 
 
 “It will be easier for us to conduct ourselves as 
 belligerents in a high spirit of right and fairness 
 because we act without animus, not with enmity 
 toward a people or with the desire to bring any 
 injury or disadvantage upon them but only in 
 armed opposition to an irresponsible government 
 which has thrown aside all considerations of hu¬ 
 manity and of right and is running amuck. 
 
 “We are .... the sincere friends of the 
 German people, and shall desire nothing so much 
 as the early re-establishment of intimate relations 
 of mutual advantage between us, however hard it 
 may be for them for the time being to believe that 
 this is spoken from our hearts. We have borne 
 with their present Government through all these 
 bitter months because of this friendship, exercising 
 a patience and forbearance which would otherwise 
 have been impossible. 
 
 “It is a distressing and an oppressive duty, gen¬ 
 tlemen of the Congress, which I have performed in 
 
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thus addressing you. There are, it may be, many 
 months of fiery trial and sacrifice ahead of us. It 
 is a fearful thing to lead this great, peaceful people 
 into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all 
 wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. 
 
 “But the right is more precious than peace, and 
 we shall fight for the things which we have always 
 carried nearest our hearts—for democracy, for the 
 right of those who submit to authority to have a 
 voice in their own governments, for the rights and 
 liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion 
 of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall 
 bring peace and safety to all nations and make the 
 world itself at last free. 
 
 “To such a task we can dedicate our lives and 
 our fortunes, everything that we are and every¬ 
 thing that we have, with the pride of those who 
 know that the day has come when America is 
 privileged to spend her blood and her might for 
 the principles that gave her birth and happiness 
 and the peace which she has treasured. 
 
 “God helping her, she can do no other.” 
 
 UNITED DEMOCRACY THE HOPE OF THE WORLD 
 
 It is the hope of the world that all democratic 
 governments will at once qualify themselves to 
 
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become members of the United Democratic Na¬ 
 tions of the World by at once declaring war, in 
 the spirit of this democratic declaration, against 
 all autocratic governments now engaged in in¬ 
 vading other nations. 
 
 The first action of this democratic Union should 
 be the issuing of a proclamation declaring to the 
 people of all invading governments that the pur¬ 
 pose of all nations composing this Union is to 
 suppress the lawless acts of their governments in 
 invading and pillaging neighboring nations, and 
 in depriving other nations of their right to the free 
 and unmolested navigation of the high seas, and 
 to all natural straits and channels by which seas 
 are connected, and stating the terms upon which 
 negotiations for concluding a separate or a collec¬ 
 tive peace may be undertaken. 
 
 The people of invading nations must be made to 
 understand that no nation with which their gov¬ 
 ernment is at war has any purpose of invasion, 
 conquest or pillage regarding them, therefore, that 
 they are not engaged in a war of self-defense for 
 their “Fatherland” but under that plea have been 
 led into a war of invasion and pillage more cruel 
 and unjust than any war ever undertaken by any 
 people classed as intelligent and civilized. 
 
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THE TERMS OF AN ENDURING PEACE 
 
 The most effective way in which to cause the 
 people of the invading nations to realize the truth 
 regarding the war in which their governments are 
 engaged is to notify them by a proclamation issued 
 by the United Democratic Nations of the World, 
 declaring the terms which they will enforce as a 
 basis for an enduring peace, as follows: 
 
 First . That terms of peace will not be discussed 
 with any nation, or with any group of nations, so 
 long as a single one of its soldiers is an invader 
 upon the soil of any other nation. 
 
 Second. That the United Democratic Nations 
 of the World pledge themselves not to invade the 
 territory of any nation that recalls its soldiers 
 within the borders of its own territory and there 
 disarms and disbands its armies mobilized and 
 employed for the purpose of invading the territory 
 of any other nation. 
 
 Third. That no nation, being a member of the 
 United Democratic Nations of the World, whose 
 territory or rights upon land or the high seas has 
 been invaded will enforce the payment of an in¬ 
 demnity by the invading nation to reimburse it 
 for expenses incurred by reason of the necessity 
 thus forced upon it of driving such invader from 
 
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its soil or compelling such nation to observe its 
 rights on the high seas, providing such invader 
 shall withdraw its soldiers within the boundaries 
 of its own territory and cause its interference with 
 the rights of other nations upon the high seas to 
 cease within thirty days after the promulgation of 
 such proclamation. 
 
 Fourth. That the government of every nation 
 guilty of using its armed force for the purposes of 
 invasion and pillage will be required to restore all 
 property it has destroyed on land or the high seas, 
 and that this restoration shall be in kind as far as 
 practicable. To this end such nations will be re¬ 
 quired to dismantle all plants used for the manu¬ 
 facture of the implements and munitions of war 
 and re-equip them for the manufacture of agri¬ 
 cultural implements, machinery for producing 
 commodities of commerce, structural iron for re¬ 
 building bridges and buildings, and equipment for 
 railroads, and to re-equip and re-organize its ship¬ 
 yards for the building of ships with which it can 
 replace the ships it has destroyed, being the prop¬ 
 erty of other nations or of their citizens. 
 
 Fifth. To provide metal and other material 
 required for this work of restoration, each invad¬ 
 ing nation will be required to collect all machinery 
 
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used for manufacturing implements and munitions 
 of war, and all such implements and munitions, at 
 manufacturing plants equipped to put them into 
 a melting pot and to use the resultant metal and 
 other material hr the manufacture of implements 
 of peace to be delivered, without cost, to the 
 people of the invaded nations to replace similar 
 property destroyed or appropriated by soldiers 
 and others, acting under the orders of, or with 
 the connivance of the invading nation. 
 
 Sixth. On behalf of this work of restoration, to 
 compensate for the destruction wrought, each in¬ 
 vading nation will be required to build and deliver, 
 without cost, to the owner of every ship, or water 
 craft of any kind destroyed by it, ship for ship, of 
 equal capacity, equipment and speed. 
 
 Seventh. Every invading nation that has caused 
 the death or injury of an unarmed citizen of an¬ 
 other nation by its military or naval operations 
 will be required to pay an adequate indemnity to 
 the relatives of the murdered person, or to the 
 person injured, recognizing the fact that an eco¬ 
 nomic loss can be restored but human life is not 
 thereby placed on sale to be bought and paid for 
 by its destroyers. 
 
 Eighth. Every invading nation will be required 
 
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to pay the money value of all amounts it has col¬ 
 lected from persons, or from their municipal gov¬ 
 ernments by forced taxation, or otherwise, and of 
 all supplies requisitioned by its soldiers for their 
 own use or for the use of their government. 
 
 RESTORATION IS NOT INDEMNIFICATION 
 
 These suggestions are indicative of the require¬ 
 ments of justice. They are not complete nor ex¬ 
 haustive. They are written to show the people of 
 invading nation that restoration is not indemnifi¬ 
 cation for the costs of war imposed upon invaded 
 nations, and that the longer the invader persists 
 in his work of destruction the heavier will be his 
 task of restoration. A burglar is not punished by 
 being compelled to restore the goods he has stolen. 
 
 A JUST AND A DURABLE PEACE GUARANTEED 
 
 When hostilities cease the Council of War of the 
 United Democratic Nations will be transformed 
 into a Council of Peace. It will be the duty of this 
 council to formulate the terms of peace and to 
 require compliance therewith by each invading 
 nation. 
 
 These terms may be as follows: 
 
 First. After the boundaries of nations have been 
 
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corrected as required by the terms of peace no 
 change in a national boundary shall be made ex¬ 
 cepting as the result of peaceful negotiation ap¬ 
 proved by the Union of Democratic Nations. 
 
 Second. Any nation ordering an invasion of the 
 territory of another nation, or interfering in any 
 way with its rights on the high seas and all natural 
 straits and channels by which seas are connected, 
 shall at once be declared an outlaw among nations 
 and all intercourse with such nation on the part 
 of nations composing the Union of Democratic 
 Nations shall at once cease and shall not be re¬ 
 sumed until such nation shall have ceased its law¬ 
 less acts and given security for its future good 
 behavior. 
 
 Third. The manufacture by any nation of im¬ 
 plements and munitions of war for use on land, on 
 the high seas or in the air in excess of its require¬ 
 ments for efficient police duty within its own terri¬ 
 tory shall be deemed an act of war and shall be 
 punished by an immediate severance of all diplo¬ 
 matic and commercial relations with it by every 
 government represented in the Union of the 
 Democratic Nations of the World. 
 
 These provisions, properly stated and strictly en¬ 
 forced, will banish war from the face of the earth. 
 
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To the accomplishment of this purpose all the 
 forces of the universe that work together for good 
 stand pledged. 
 
 A FLAG FOR THE UNITED DEMOCRATIC NATIONS OF 
 THE WORLD 
 
 Created to establish and maintain the Peace of 
 the World, the flag of the United Democratic 
 Nations of the World will be a banner, in the 
 upper left corner of which there will be displayed 
 a radiating sun in a sky-blue field having inscribed 
 within its circle the declaration: Universal Good 
 Will. The body of this banner will be striped with 
 all the prismatic colors of the rainbow —"The Bow 
 of Promise 
 
 Can any civilized man, can any civilized nation 
 refuse to be a defender of this flag and to defend 
 it to his last drop of blood, to its last ounce of 
 power? Can any civilized man, can any civilized 
 nation fire upon this flag and make war upon its 
 defenders and remain civilized? 
 
 UNIVERSAL GOOD WILL 
 
 When peace is established, the need of promot¬ 
 ing good will among men and nations will appear. 
 In this work all who conscientiously desire to have 
 
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the Will of God done on earth as it is done in 
 heaven must themselves respond to the duty of 
 doing as they would be done by in every action, 
 thought and desire of their hearts. 
 
 Abraham Lincoln formulated the creed of peace 
 when, looking forward to the close of our Civil 
 War, he uttered these immortal words: 
 
 “With malice towards none , with charity for all , 
 let us strive to do the right as Cod has given it to us 
 to see the right , that a government of the people by 
 the people for the people shall not perish." 
 
 The gains of life are various. Some objects we 
 pursue disappear as we grasp them. We are but 
 children, chasing with excited delight beautiful 
 bubbles floating free in air. We touch them and 
 they vanish. Some objects are as enduring as the 
 eternal truth of God. We pursue them with the 
 stern courage of men upborne by the strength of 
 a moral conviction. Though, in the hour of trial 
 and triumph, a crown of thorns be pressed upon 
 our brow, the memory of a right act, courageously 
 done, will enrich the soul forever. 
 
 In the crucible of conflict men become molten. 
 Their blood mingles. Their souls blend. Their 
 lives are fused into the life of their Nation. 
 
 On battlefields where sons of democratic nations 
 
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unite to establish and maintain the Peace of the 
 World and shed their blood, a spirit of world com¬ 
 radeship will be born that shall live through all 
 the ages and will be a masterful guarantor of the 
 peace of the world. 
 
 FRIENDS RESURRECTED FROM ENEMIES’ GRAVES 
 
 In taking security for the future against the 
 horrible inhumanity and destruction of another 
 war; in entering upon the work of restoration of 
 physical things; in raising the Flag of Democracy 
 over the battlefields of Europe and the high seas, 
 the United Democratic Nations of the World have 
 opportunity to cause all combatants to learn the 
 lesson that should have been taught by every con¬ 
 flict that has been waged between man and man. 
 
 This is the lesson: 
 
 No cause is ever completely won until a friend is 
 resurrected from the grave of an enemy; no cause is 
 ever completely lost when from the grave of an enemy 
 a friend is resurrected. 
 
 A prophecy that the American people would 
 learn this lesson was uttered when, in 1865, 
 Ulysses S. Grant clasped the hand of Robert E. 
 Lee and said: Let us have peace. 
 
 The fact that the American people have learned 
 
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this lesson was certified—“When William Mc¬ 
 Kinley, a Union soldier (and afterward President 
 of the United States), wearing a decorative Con¬ 
 federate flag, marched in triumph through the 
 streets of Atlanta (Georgia) ringing with the 
 cheers of the people.” It was attested—“When 
 William Howard Taft named a Confederate soldier 
 for Chief Justice of the United States ‘by and with 
 the advice and consent of the Senate’ of the United 
 States, and the universal approval of the people 
 of the Northern States.” 3 
 
 The fact that the American people have learned 
 this lesson was visualized when, in 1895—thirty 
 years after Grant and Lee grasped each others 
 hands—the Grand Army of the Republic, com¬ 
 posed entirely of men who had served in the ranks 
 of the Union Army, held its first national encamp¬ 
 ment upon Southern soil, at Louisville, Ky., upon 
 an invitation extended through a Confederate 
 soldier. 
 
 “Never (before) had there been such a fusion of 
 kindred sentiment; such an outpouring of brother¬ 
 hood; such eager, spontaneous outbursts of song. 
 . . . . The walls of the city, the hearts of the 
 
 3 Editorial: The Courier-!our rial, Louisville, Ky., April 
 18 , 1917 . 
 
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people were clad in red, white and blue. From 
 Maine to Texas the cry went up in praise and 
 thanks to God—The War of Sections is over.’ “ 3 
 
 The fact that the American people have learned 
 this lesson was proven when the stress of a foreign 
 war came. “It was thought and said, if there 
 should come a foreign war, the proof that the 
 War of Sections is over will even more vividly 
 and impressively show itself. And the foreign war 
 did come. It was at hand. Its earliest victim 
 chanced to be a Southern lad. With Wheeler, 
 Fitz Lee and Wilson—the self-same Wilson who 
 had captured Jefferson Davis—mated in Cuba, 
 with Miles and Castleman in Puerto Rico, what 
 more was wanted? 
 
 “. . . . The glory, the name and the fame of 
 the soldiers who wore the blue and the soldiers 
 who wore the gray has become interchangeable. 
 Forever now they constitute a great national 
 asset, dear to every American who loves his coun¬ 
 try and is true to its institutions, for the nation 
 is at length as it was intended by the fathers to be 
 and as it was thought to be until stress and trial 
 revealed the shortcoming and welded it together 
 as never before.” 3 
 
 The fact that the American people have learned 
 
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this lesson was glorified when, in June, 1917, upon 
 the invitation of the Grand Army of the Republic, 
 the Confederate Veterans’ Association held its 
 reunion in the National Capital. 
 
 “Even as the heroes of the Grand Army of the 
 Republic were welcomed to Louisville the heroes 
 of the Confederate Veterans’ Association were 
 welcomed in Washington. 
 
 . A sublimer sight than the Stars and 
 Bars intertwined with the Stars and Stripes in 
 everlasting fraternity never irradiated the sum¬ 
 mer air than was seen when those grizzled 
 veterans of the South in their faded uniforms 
 marched through Pennsylvania Avenue, whilst 
 Massachusetts and South Carolina—New Eng¬ 
 land and the Middle West—the States of the 
 Atlantic and the States of the Pacific, ‘in Congress 
 assembled,’ stood heart to heart, hand to hand, 
 shoulder to shoulder in spiritual embrace, the 
 world looking on exalted and rejoiced, the God of 
 the Universe through the hosts of the Lord and 
 Gideon proclaiming life to Democracy, death to 
 Autocracy, the throng in London and in Paris 
 and in Rome (in Petrograd, Pekin and Tokio) 
 equally with the throng in Washington joining 
 the hallelujah.’’ 3 
 
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What better evidence than this can be required 
 to prove that, when the sons of the United Demo¬ 
 cratic Nations of the World unite on the battle¬ 
 fields of Europe to establish and maintain the 
 Peace of the World, their blood will mingle, their 
 souls will blend, their lives will be fused into the 
 life of their Nations and a Spirit of World Com¬ 
 radeship will be born that shall live through all 
 the ages a masterful guarantor of the Peace of the 
 World? 
 
 Our eyes are beholding another resurrection of 
 friends from the graves of enemies, of world-wide, 
 prophetic significance. We now see friends arising 
 from the graves of foes who fought on the battle¬ 
 fields of the war for American Independence, from 
 1776 to 1784. We now behold the British Union 
 Jack, the French Tri-Color and the Stars and 
 Stripes unfurled alongside each other and floating 
 free in the breeze over the House of Parliament in 
 London, the Eiffel Tower in Paris and Indepen¬ 
 dence Hall in Philadelphia, while the President 
 and people of the United States entertain War 
 Commissions from the Entente Nations of Europe 
 to devise ways and means “to make the world 
 safe for Democracy.” 
 
 Aye, all who have “eyes to see and ears to hear” 
 
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can now see the might of right shining forth, can 
 now hear the rumbling of the stone of autocratic 
 power as it is hurled away from the sepulcher of 
 freedom to liberate mankind from the perpetual 
 menace of invasion by the armies of Autocratic 
 Governments. 
 
 While the Entente Nations of Europe are teach¬ 
 ing the American Republic how to make war it 
 will be the everlasting glory of American Democ¬ 
 racy to teach the Powers of Europe how to make 
 and maintain Peace. 
 
 By causing a resurrection of friends from the 
 graves of enemies, with which the battlefields of 
 Europe and the depths of the high seas are now 
 being strewn, the United Democratic Nations of 
 the World will accomplish the purpose of God now 
 to establish and maintain the Peace of the World. 
 
 To the accomplishment of such a purpose an 
 overruling Providence that has caused events to 
 lead humanity from savagery to civilization, from 
 slavery to freedom, from ignorance to wisdom 
 from autocracy to democracy, stands pledged. 
 
 The purpose of true statesmen and the purpose 
 of God is identical—the developing and safeguard¬ 
 ing of the common good, and the happiness of the 
 people. 
 
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Behold the coming of the day when the United 
 Democratic Nations of the World organized to 
 work or to fight together under the Flag of 
 Democracy, shall proclaim an Era of Universal 
 Good Will and guarantee the Peace of the World. 
 
 On that day the Ruler of the Universe “shall 
 judge among the nations , and shall rebuke many 
 people; and they shall beat their swords into plow¬ 
 shares ., and their spears into pruning hooks. Nations 
 shall not lift up sword against nation , neither shall 
 they learn war any more." (Isaiah, 2:4.) 
 
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