1910] Work for International Arbitration 



colleague consented, and the international boundary 

 was adopted without further ceremony. 



A meeting of an arbitration society was held this 

 December in Washington in the Pan-American Build- 

 ing. My advice having been asked as to securing 

 a representative speaker from England, I recom- 

 mended Hirst, who duly appeared, delivering an 

 admirable and scholarly address. At the same gath- 

 ering Root gave a remarkably clear and forceful 

 exposition of the legal problems connected with Root 

 international arbitration. Root is an unemotional 

 man, but possessed of an incisive intellect and 

 a rare power of concise and effective expression. 

 To him all problems are of the head, not the 

 heart. 



My topic on this occasion was the effect of war 

 on the breed, then already engaging my attention 

 to a large extent. About this time, at the suggestion Wasted 

 of a German friend, I sent a copy of "The Human f 

 Harvest" to the Emperor of Germany. In return 

 I received the acknowledgment which follows, inter- 

 esting because it perhaps shows the current official 

 attitude toward the rapidly growing Pangermanist 

 campaign. The note (in English) bore a date in 

 January, 1911. 



. . . Let me thank you very much for your most original 

 and interesting work, "The Human Harvest" which I am going 

 to submit to His Majesty the Emperor at the first opportunity. 

 Believe me, my dear Sir, we are a commercial and agricultural 

 nation and we want peace and are peaceful notwithstanding 

 the utterances of some irresponsible half-pay generals and ad- 

 mirals who want promotion for their relations and also for the 

 unpardonable levity of the press who writes against better 

 knowledge and only for sensation's sake! Alas! Our geographical 

 position commands a large army for our protection and our 



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