CHAPTER FORTY-ONE 



After my return from the South, I spoke to a large jt 

 audience in the Harvard Union on "War and Man- ^^«™'^'^ 

 hood." In those days it was easy to hold the audience 

 with me, for, treated from the purely intellectual side, 

 the theory and practice of war are wholly indefensible, 

 and in time of peace the heart is with the brain. 

 Delay and publicity during international crises are 

 the best antidotes to the war spirit. If any League 

 of Nations can secure these, progressive international 

 disarmament will follow and the world may look for 

 relief from its greatest curse. 



While in Washington I was invited to dine pri- Burton 

 vately with Senator Theodore E. Burton of Ohio. 

 A wise and scholarly jurist with some of the traits 

 our fathers expected would characterize the upper 

 house of Congress, Burton is one of the few states- 

 manlike figures in that august assemblage. He was 

 then active in the campaign for international arbi- 

 tration. I remember one saying of his: "The differ- 

 ence between a 'progressive' and a 'standpatter' is 

 merely a matter of age; past sixty, one takes things as 

 they come." 



Not long after, I met for the first time William Borah 

 E. Borah, Senator from Idaho, a striking figure in 

 American politics. Besides being a constitutional 

 lawyer of high ability and a man of fine presence, 

 Borah is an eloquent and forcible speaker, so that 

 his words usually carry weight. As an effective 

 "tribune of the people," opposed to war, to waste, 



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