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sort or another are held, and each of these strengthens the bonds of 

 peace. In fact, through these congresses, -and through such 

 forms of international cooperation as the Postal Union, a most 

 significant form of world federation is already achieved. In 

 the work called "La Vie Internationale" at Brussels, Henri 

 La Fontaine, Alfred H. Fried, and Paul Otlet maintain a record 

 or clearing house of these international movements an 

 admirable piece of work; thus far chiefly a labor of love, but 

 which needs and deserves a permanent support. 



The final end of all these efforts is the development and per- 

 manence of the work at The Hague, the spread of the idea of 

 law and right, and the final elimination of "unreasoning anger 

 from the councils of the world." 



I hope that some, at least, of these suggestions may be help- 

 ful to you. 



Sincerely yours, 



David Starr Jordan 



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In the early spring of 1911 the recurrent problem 

 of the presidential succession again came to the front. 

 The insurgent reaction, to be later noticed, lent 

 hope to Democratic politicians, some of whom looked 

 champ beyond the popular idol, the amiable Champ Clark, 

 to a new stan dard-bearer. Woodrow Wilson, having 

 resigned the headship of Princeton University after 

 a rather stormy incumbency marked by his effort 

 to bridge differences between what one may call the 

 aristocratic and the democratic factions in that 

 once rigidly Presbyterian seat of learning, was mak- 

 ing a record as governor of New Jersey in suppress- 

 ing graft and promoting the interests of the people. 

 Being associated with Wilson on the Carnegie board 

 of trustees, I said to him once that I could conceive 

 of circumstances under which I might vote the 

 Democratic ticket at the next presidential election! 



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