Under that provision is not this right converted into one that we are under the most solemn obligation to satisfy? … To lessen the public expenditure is a great legislative duty; to lessen it at the expense of justice, public faith, and constitutional right would be a crime.
Sumner asserts that reducing public expenditure at the cost of justice and constitutional rights is a crime.
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Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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