In much of this discussion reference has been made to the power to put
behind a World Court in order to make it effective. Now I wish to speak
briefly of economic pressure as the most truly international force
and as the most efficient possible force to put behind this proposed
World Court. That great leader and teacher of Ohio and the country, Dr.
Washington Gladden, said to me yesterday, “The world on the old basis is
bankrupt. It must be reorganized on a new basis.” Appreciation of that
fact, it seems to me, is the chief significance of this Congress. And
the world can be reorganized on a new basis if it will avail itself of
one of its greatest forces, the force of international commerce, which
can be applied as economic pressure to establish justice and to serve
civilization.