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which might have a reciprocal interest in
various countries, and then laying before their
governments such resolutions as in the opinion
of the Conference might best promote the
well-being of all the States.
Nevertheless the majority of the States later
bound themselves to the conclusions of the
congress. Indeed, a week before the assembly
broke up the respective members for Brazil,
Bolivia, Columbia, Equador, Guatemala, Hayti,
Honduras, Nicaragua and Salvador, were
empowered to sign at Washington the
arbitration-treaty adopted by the Pan-American
Conference; and the other governments have since
in the same way sanctioned it.[1]
When this document has been fully confirmed,
a quarter of the inhabited world will be
rendered inviolate, and 120 millions of men set
free from the chronic frenzy of war.
If minor breaches of the peace possibly may
not thereby be for ever prevented, yet certainly
the irresponsible system of violence will become
powerless against the force of civilization which
is spreading over the whole Western
hemisphere.
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