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Chesterton
Explains How
and Why Mr.
Ford Misunder
stood the War
- £he English Publicist Wants
% Know What Americans
Would Have Said If an Eng
- Bsh Owner of Hansom Cabs
- 'Tried to Stop Our Civil War.
- . By G. K. Chesterton
the Distinguished Publicist.
R. FORD, the celebrated American
M comedian, is now on tour with his com
pany; and the type of advertisement, as
well as the troupe itself, is much i nthe man
ner of Mr. Barnum. How, happily, the
humorist manages to keep his inventions re
mote from any too painful reality may be
judged from the following remark, which he
is reported as having made to an interviewer:
“I believe that the sinking of the Lusitania
was deliberately planned to get this country
into war. It was not planned by any one
nation. It was planned by the financiers of
war.”
I think that is quite sufficient as regards Mr,
Ford in relation to the probabilities of politics,
There seems no limit to such a line of thought,
and I am surprised that he has not carried it
further. I have often denounced the inter.
nationalism of finance myself; I believe that
banks are often really the fortresses of a
sllent invasion. But I have some difficulty in
believing that bankers swim under the sea to
cut holes in the bottoms of ships; I presume
Mr. Ford thinks that several millions of bank
clerks, disguised as German soldiers, crossed
the frontier and lald waste Belgfim, while the
peaceable German army remained at home.
It may be that by “financlers” Mr. Ford
means munition-manufacturers, for his style is
by no means clear; and | mysel! have often
pointed out that the German firm is Krupp
and Kalser, and not Kaiser and Krupp. But
the attempt to explain the colllsion of all
h-fin-bmouudmuuubythm
materials through which they work is a thing
fit for a lunatic asylum. 1 could not make
Mr. Ford commit a murder by giving him a re
volver as a Christmas present; even if, in the
warmth of my affection, I had made it_for him
myself. Nor could anybody make thousands
of ordinary men march and starve and die
Bappy, merely by providing them with pleces
of metal for the purpose. Nobody could make
them carry heavy rifies by making heavy rifles
for them to carry. The whole thing is windy
Bonsense born of wealth and security and a
Eaping and ghastly ignorance of all that makes
men behave like men.
Ford's Trip an '
Unsuccessful Circus,
That pride and ambdition and avarice often
fead to wars is true, and another matter: but
that has nothing to do with The mindless
materialism which would explain things by
their tools. Torture, for instance, is a horridle
thing: and real religious enthusiasts have
often tortured each other. But if any maa
were to tell me that they tortured sach other
because the manufacturers of instruments of
forture wanted to sell them, | should take the
Hberty of calling him & fool. Ido ot belleve
that the Reformation came because shon
keapers wished to do a brisk business fn racks,
Nor do | belleve that the epidemic of witeh.
Burning in the séventeenth century was due to
A conspiracy of timbermerchants, People
Wwanted to fight under such insult and wrong
A the uitimatums to Serbia and Belglum long
bafore there were any modern armaments or
modern armament firms. | have sometimes
aven fancied that people wished 1o travel be
fore the invention of the Pord car
There s one way in which Mr, Ford and his
totr will probably do good. It will clear the
plich of much more plausible and presestable
Individuals If they attempt 1o prevest the
thorough purgation of Christendom. There are
Other pacifists, many of them men who peces
Sarfly command respect, who may sttempt to
ereate the reconciliation without understand.
quarrel. Sech men will mean nothing
=.::-‘udlomih.h|hm.hllm
oo 50, stk o 4e e
of Mr. Ford's unsucesssful cirens
I have been told (1 40 not know whether
.flhm.:mt nn n:'cmam
t
Bot roma ™ o e saitare o
Mm; another man dressed up in undignified
Initation of him, and carrying on (1 need
Bardly say) In & manner litthe 1o bis eredit
These artistic wire pullers send their walking
Cartoon not after the hated politiclan to paredy
him, dut before ham, 1o take the words out of
his mouth. 8o that astonished statesman
finds his most sober remarks hailed with happy
tor
"7':. Dot suggest that we should apply this
method 1o the pacifists ourselves. or attempt
so forestall Mr. Morel or Mr. Phillpy Snowden
D‘.mh. some funpier person in fromt of
t For one thing, | 4o not see how there
ould be any Tunnier person than Mr. More!
o Mr. Phlilp Ssowden. And for another, such
wucumuflommlumm
alr which seems 10 serve that satios
' called Carvie Nation) as & sah
m” Bat of 1 s difMenlt for
510 do B sursslves, we oulht 1o be all the
ore grateful to Mr Ford If he will do o for
B 8 And | cannot imagine anyihing more likely
nmgmommhl-om
thas & man who Begine his persussion of
7& By telling we & story about (he sink
the Lusitania. by whieh the Prassian
defended what 1t 4 s do
; A respomsible pacifieis in Ametica, (he
By Rev. Reginald J. Campbell
the Most Noted English Preacher.
ERE is a coimncidence worth telling about.
I was just sitting down to write an
article with the title of “The Higher
Command” when a letter came in containing
the following story told on the authority of
one of our wounded Australian heroes.
He says the bravest man he ever saw was a
Wesleyan military chaplain. He was on one
of the barges which were landing men from
our troopships at the Dardanelles.
A man was shot down. The chaplain made
to dash to the rescue and bring the wounded
soldier back to safety, but a Catholic priest
standing near grabbed hold of him, saying,
“You mustn’t think of it. It is madness. You
are going to certain death.”
The Wesleyan shook off the restraining hand,
replying, “I have got my orders, and they come
from a higher command than yours, and I'm
going.” He went, and was struck by a bullet
while in the act of beginning his work of
mercy.
Instantly the priest sprang after him, but
the officer in charge of the landing party called
out, “Stay where you are. I forbid your going.
We are losing too many men.” The priest
calmly went on, only turning his head to say
as he passed, “Did you not hear what my Wes
leyan comrade said? 1, too, have got my or
ders—from the higher command.”
Within a few moments he lay dead beside his
brother of the cross.
Reckless Men Who
Became Religious in War.
This is a fine story, only one of many similar
stories that one is hearing on every hand and
most of which will never be printed. It is
amazing how splendid men can be, and women,
100, under the stress of a great demand such
as the present hour is making upon us all.
The Prime Minister told us recently that
before the war we did not know we possessed
80 much of this wonderful moral quality in the
oation and the empire. 1 confess | did not, and
most of those with whom | have talked about
it agree that they did not either. We all won
dered, everybody wondered, whether the Briton
of today, at home or overseas, had quite the
grit of his ancestors. It only needed a great
world crisis to show it, and here it Is as of
yore,
But the thing 1| am thinking most of at the
moment in connection with it is the strange,
compelling power possessed by this Inner im
perative, this Mfl;:‘r.m. .;ht makes |lcw
dinary everyday capable such mighty
deeds. Where does it come from and what is
i Nu.mrlhh..nhllfium.
and it takes the most curious forms.
A reckless, devilmay-care sallor Is taken
prisoner by dervishes and told that he may
save his life by forswearing Christianity and
“ becomning convert to Islam. He says he will
see them blowed first, and dies & martyr to the
falth he has never greatly honored by his life.
Now, why on earth should a man do that?
He -In.m well shelter himself under the
plea of ty and bide his time. But no, he
will have no truck with the alternative. Some.
thing Inside him will not let bhim, something
whose condemnation he Is much more afraid
of than he is of death.
Touching Story of
a Lancashire Soldier.
I have just been talking to a wounded pri
vate soldier iying 'n & tent hospital. He I»
only & boy, and a delicate boy at that. Here
he s, after seven months ia the trenches,
smashed up for life, If he ever succeeds In get
well, which | doubt, and the dusy, kindly
mfly doctors and nurses doudt, too.
He comes from Lascashire—Wigan, | think
h“——u‘:bo:.lml:.::ml:
not betray him, such a strong a
such an me-m. manly mode of address
ing his visitor. Something of his story and his
views of life has come out in our Intercourse.
He worked in an iron foundry, but has never
earned good wages. His health has been partly
to blame for li.h but circumstances have been
to blame also. He Is rather resentful about i,
and curses our unjust social system with all
“-fi" L‘uuuca“nmhumou
him. has knows little but strugele and
dull drudgery all his days. Bven starvation
bhas threatened him more than once.
He does not remember Nis father. His
mother was sarly loft & widow with & young
Mnfifi:qu‘mmflvm“u.
A 8 80 many iatrepid womes similarly
uvomuhn‘mh»n«nn(h“m
when war has taken its toll complete. He
seoms 1o have no thought now but for his
mother, whereby | can guess what kind of
mother she must have beon—"mutiher’ he
calls her, in his broad Lancashire dialect. or
!:: nearest approach | can make 1o It with
the pets
He wishes she wouldn't “wurry.” He will be
AW oreet” That he will, however, it goes
Poor :uhu' Bhe has another lad, be says,
Iying i & bloody grave somewhere on the fel
glan frontier, and there are no more la?o‘wm
1o look after her as good sone should-—only
daughters, one of them & permanent Invalid, 1o
weep with her and battle on alone
He would like 1o get better because of this
but has got "t parson”™ 10 write and cheer her
up and tell her it will be “aw reet” anyhow
And then be falls 1o talking with ettrsordinary
bitterness of the totally unnecessary hardahipe
of the lot of the tolling poor st home in Bos
and - foollah. luturious, W n
directed, scrambitng. sham Fagland
He is an intelligent youth, and knews what
matier which | would ask them to consider 1s
this. They must not be surprised if it takes
& long time and & terrible agony (o tear up
from the earth what we are irylng 1o tear up.
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Men Leave Homes, Happiness and Safety Willingly
to Face Death or Suffering on ‘the Battlefield
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he is talking about. He has read a good deal
and thought more, and takes a falrly active
part in local labor politics, or did before the
war. Religion he appears 10 have left mostly
to “mutther.”
Here again | am flled with wonder and re
spect. | ask mysell what England has ever
done for this young fellow that he should leave
his mother to suffer and m while he goes
to fight and die for lotborlfi’?' Or is it some.
thing eise of which motherlard is but the most
convenient symbol?
I don’t think he knows himself, although he
is under no illusions about the course he has
1 -un the question to him. “Well, ye
00e," he answers slowly, “it's a man's job.
A man canna slink and hide when there's
2 job o' this sort goin'."" Me could give
no further explanation,
Here were two commands, two ideals if you
like, mutually incompatible. One, very much
more than the other, was exceedingly danger
ous and disagreeable. But he knew which he
had to obey, and he knew withou: belng able
to give a very clear reason for his cholce,
The Blighting, Terrifying
Menace of Prussianism.
Dimly apprehended, perhaps, was the know!l
edge that in fighting England’s battle just now
he was fighting for a greater than England, for
all that is sweet, and dear, and wholesome in
human lot, for the future of the entire race.
for thinge better and more worthful shan good
wages and abundant leisure, or even the re
finements of life that these can provide —for
Jiberty, comradeship, democratic ideals, as op
posed to Prussianism and all its blighting. ter
rifying menace.
Was that it? 1 cannot tell; | think so. 1
1 feel also-—nay, | am sure—that bohind all this
Is & motive, an incentive, that never can
compistely rationalizsed, & nesdamust which
y b Whing 8 Gio for o 0 thimt oty oot
may 10 die one thiag to A
another tomorrow, bl it Is always the san »
thing in the end, the Frarnal Right
We never know what it Is, bt it js'alwars
calling 10 us, always calling, and, when we heosr
the summons, our dearest treasures drop oo
heeded from our hands, and we turn »i'h
averted mien from the contemplation of our
heart's desire to llft our gase 1o the shining
hoights whereon a glory beckons that i« not
:f earth slone. As Prancis Thompson phrases
1 dimly guess what Time In mists confounds .
Yot ever and anon & trumpet sounds
From the bid battlements of Kternity,
Those shaken mista & space unsettle. 'hen
Round the half glimpsed turrets slowly wash
But not ore him who summoneth
| have seen, enwound
croened. i L e
His name | know, and what his trumpet saith
In all of us there s this strangs, mystical
susceptibility, eall 1 what you will ‘his gree
0 lay all we have and are upon the aitar of the
S sis |W S wn L ——
slavery. But the areater part of what we
talked about negro slavery was Bonsense. It
mhll:t.mn frailty in the mind by which
men can be most emphatic about what
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Bmancipation would have seemad & vory
My matier to Dickens or Thackeray bt o
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and 1o Lee lINk it will enll & smile 1o
Ihe lipe of the most sarnest Americas pacifisr
it be reflocts on what welcome cinber Linenis
or Loe would have given 1o an Eaglich pre
mdh&-«u who shouid euddenly
wm-fl-numm
after the Matile of Chanccllorssiile
~.,,1 wesary for any Ame
Rev. Dr. Regnald J. Campbell.
‘neffable ideal that we fegl has the to de
mand our uttermost. lhndlmcthu
so fully demonstrates n‘ow
It Is the one great fact that us
‘fto-ml.h'o.MQn All history throug! you find
t b .
On the one hand you have man, selfish,
greedy, earth-bound, cunning, false and sordid
in his alms. On the other, at repeated inter
vals, in great and solemn hours, comes this
sustere appenl for all we have to give, and we
promptly give it, joyously, willingly, without
Ihmudnnfl.u‘dofln.w“
faction from that seif-giving than ull-o’la
kinds of gain put together. It is deep,
rious, elusive, this strews of the spirit, but we
all know it unmistakably as all generations
have known it
Soldiers Are Dying
for All Humanity,
Perbaps there is nothing so strong In human
nature as this impulse to fling ourselves away
st the bidding of we know not what, the Some
thing ever blossed that incarnates steels, now
In this cause or objective, and now in that.
Assuredly there is nothing so exalting within
the totality of human Show me
m-u-nrlbouu.mudlflll
show you man of pation damned and jost.
The lower command, the command of expe
diency and common sense, the command o
conventionality and established order, or the
dictate of seitdove insists. “He tranquil’! re
main secure' jeopardize nothing' disurd so
body! hold on with care to what you possess,
take no risks!™
The higher command thrusts sll prudentisl
ism aside and cries, “Olve me all. | will have
nothing lese ™
t!hmumloluuunmtmbnh.
Bt we do listen and always will. And does
the specifc requirement through which the eall
comes evenh matter in Mself? Hardly at all, |
shovld think. mmm.ho"m
Leonidas and his Spartans perish 1o a
man at Thermopylae—for what? ' For
King Constantine and the nation he rules
today? No. It would have mattered littie
'umdm.uuwmm
ihey saved had wiped off the map.
eoy e o B
moment, for the Greete from which we
have inherited our ideals of the beawtifyl
and gracious in life.
Put if they were not dying for more (han
Greees thelr hllm-M“vt
They were dying for the soul of and to
extent they must Mnma.d&
dying for & world unborn and & greater
unseen. Upon their own triemph of soul they
rote 1o the threshold of that which is beyond
P . .; mb«-t:: beyond the beast and
the clod oy nehioy mare than ¢ under
stood or ut-d for. People have O:"*o
ow for Whatl, 1o our pereeptions, was ot
worth & Wmomenst s discomfon, bt w 9 are
wrong and they were right
Al apcient city s besioged, and the oracle
®ighes for some Image of the mind of the
decent Furopean whe, deciting peace a 8 much
A% any American. is yet ot this moment abso
fately adamant for war
No American was more pacifiel. as Bone wae
more Paritan, than James Hussell Lowell. MHe
Fhs mueh 100 pacifist, a 8 be was mech teo
Puritan, lor my owas mm‘m and his
et ing voiee wee easily for me
e great wind of Walk Whitman. In his
carlier postes be presched a lleral pescesr
ARF g lee i s most preciss and even prig
gimh form. Mo said that al! war one murder,
ahd that Be Bno aeed 1o any further
ißan kit Testament for the "X
gt U illsation ould got foreard o 8
goes forth that the only way to save 1t 1 for
the king's virgin daughter, or some one else of
equal rank and worth, the best and fairest that
the community can produce, to be offered in
burnt sacrifice upon the walls. The girl con
sents and goes to her doom amid the awe
stricken prayers and blessings of the multitude
of onlookers.
What gods were they that required this deed
before they would ipterfere between these folk
and their enemies without? None. The offer
ing placated no blood-drinking deity; but it
achieved its purpose all the same. The eleva
tion of soul required in the one who willingly
died for the rest was communicated more or
less to them all, and forever. Who cares now
whether the city fell or not?
When Edmond Campion, after being bruised
and broken on the rack, was compelled to sit
for three hours arguing intricate theological
propositions with his Puritan judges before be
ing dragged througn the streets on a hurdle to
be hanged at Tyburn, the martyr thought he
was witnessing for the truth of God, the truth
to which all Christendom would speedily re
turn. Was he? He died llke a hero. No man
could have died better., But would it have
been well for the world that the cause rep
resented by the Inquisition and the Spanish
Armada should have prevalled over that of
Frobisher and Drake? I trow not. Yet Cam
plon died for England as surely as they died,
for that spiritual England which has been
slowly bullt through the centuries, on the
othorfldoof’ouhuunhmbo.nm
glorious self-devotion of her sons.
All Laws Overruled by
the “Higher Command.”
There are clever men who tell us that the
higher command is only a mode of what Is com
monly called consclence, and that conscience is
only the survival in the individual of the in
stinet for soclal self-preservation. It has been
found in generations past that some forms of
action tend to social benefit. The former have
social penalties attached to them and the
latter social approval, so that in time every
body comes to feel that the one kind of act
is blameworthy and the other pralseworthy-—
hence consclence,
But that* will not do. Tt does not explain
sufficiently. It does not explain -‘).y.tho social
ploneeg, s 0 often has to take a | in direct
deflance of the accepted standards of his
time. “Here stand I; | can none other” has
been the testimony of many a reformer besides
Luther. Expressed or implied, 1t is the test)
mony of them all
The higher command | am writing about
can scarcely be classed as consclence. It has
affinities with ft, but goes beyond it Con
science warns or inhibits, marks this wrong
and the other right, Is concerned with “thou
shalt™ cor “thou shalt not” Hut whea the
higher command comes in like & fSood it sawal
lows up, transmutes, sweeps away all merely
moral maxims in its torrential course
Right s comparatively seldom a clear issue,
There is nearly always & confiict of duties ap
parent. But once let the higher command be
heard, heard with that trumpet note In it which
all the world knows so well, arid these scruples
and balancings are forgotten. An sxuitant joy
in losing everything, forsaking everything,
crucifying everything dear to the natural man
takes their place.
We no longer ask, Is this right or Is this
wrong® We overleap all such alternatives.
We are plunged, merged, lost in the tran
scondental clalm. We forget all else, or o
Nmnnumhblhmfl
end. It we had a thousand lives they should
all go the same way, and home, kindred, hearty’
beloved, all, should follow with N
Witness Serbia today. ol men, slek men,
women, girls, Nitle children dying with arme
In their hands. This is Serbia's hour of agony
and glory. Her people are not merely belng
dofeated. They are being exterminated
They need not be, and at first sight one
wonders why they should consent to be. Al
they have got to dp s to throw down thelr
arms and submit to the invader. They might
bave to suffer & little more, endure an
lenominious subjeetion, but st least this tide of
Slaughter would be stayed,
And they will not. The world with parted
Hps and straining eyes beholds that they will
801. Yet these vory poople not so long age
wore mean, iknorant, chaffering, hieving, petly
traders and pig breeders. Any who bave had
(o deal with them know they were no models
of all the virtues. They could trifle with con
sclonce, or sllence It altogether with the best
(or worst) of w.
All the Meanness
Torn Out of Men.
8o 1t ever s, The higher command tears (he
meanness out of us Hike & tormado sweeping
Ihrough & smelly township and hurling all e
foulness away In & moment on the wings of the
Blast. It transforms our whole belng -unless
we deliberately close our sars and bury our
selves out of reach of it pealing summons
You do not recomnies hese glanis of the
storm® They are the very men who yestor
Gay shared your petty sing and pettier pleas
Nres, these men who are today behaving like
Semigods. They have been touched by the
Sagic of the higher commana, ond all thelr
Mile viess have dropped from them Nke
withered lsaves when the burst of Springtime
mee mun broken (halr fetlers and
cimeped wilh the Immeriale
B e ——————— . s — = -
A powdercart. But e 44 sot talk Mo that
when he stond I 8 the furnace of reality In which
we sland todar And whon dher poople bogan
o lalk ke Ihat 1o MW, when the Pords of
hatl day wanied & premalure peade helwess
Notth and Sowth, be sall something miher
Aiferent, whieh | think, | an reughly e
oo 00l
“Come, Nu-: Bl B 8 BAYrRer bewed
O-?' ol -:‘ penpie prood
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WHE apen Ihat 10l of triameh tasted . , .
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They bisend thelr "hh Vgs 1
And Wring faiv for Wrave
egee men,
A sation seved. & rece deliversd ©
Problems We
Must Face
After the War
Is Over
Former Governor Foss of
Massachusetts Points Out the
Importance of Prompt Meas
ures of Preparedness to Meet
the-Complications Which Will
Confront the United States.
Py Eugene N. Foss. 3
Former Governor of Massachusetts.
BELIEVE that the American people :
I be too prepared to defend their rights, thele
country and their institutions. If there is
anything on earth more worth defending, ta
can’'t imagine what it is. 9
From whatever point of view our country s
considered, the justification of a resolute poliey
of preparedness, for war in case of necessity
and for effective defense at all times, asserts
itself unanswerably. ‘
But the question is not merely one of war
or of national defense. Our pdlicy in those
matters must necessarily be subordinated fi']
and involved in our attitude toward u:ag*
l‘nomt and fundamental problem of ¥
estiny.
At the termination of the present v-.':i
situation In this respect will be most s
Events over which European nations now 1*
no control have made the United States ;
the first time in Its hmo:y a creditor 4
We are now not only free from the 4
crushing debt to Europe, but are actua g
financial centre of the world. The loss 5
position would cost much more than the »
vance by which It was gained and would :
the nations of Europe without destruction, 4
.::'pon also, more than any other ‘
ng.
Not only will they attempt to make the
United States the dumping ground of thelr
products; they will raise tarif hurl::‘:
enough, if possible, to exclude all our
Our right, furthermore, to free intercourse and
direct relations with smaller nations is sure
1o be involved, not only in the arrangements
of the warring powers for peace but in thels
economic necessities and purposes after the
war.
We shall no longer have free entrance to the
great open British market or easy entrance to
any market. Nor shall we be able to r-&:
heretofore, on the naval supremacy of
Britain, soon to be our economic rival
moreover, we continue to allow that
bulwark of financial strength, the in
coin called “freight money,” to be ‘
from us by another pation's merchant
we shall feel the subjection, financial,
maritime, mercantile and otherwise, that ™
sults from such a process, more acutely than'
ever before
The policy of commercial will
not now afford complete rellef. That i
not now to be regarded so much a 8 an advan.
tage 10 us as an absolute necessity. We must
not only fight to maintain our great home mar
ket, but we must compel markets everywhere
by such means as we possess. And we must
be In & position to protect those markets at all
times. China has had our protection hereto
fore. We were able to give it and —-=,‘
the “open door” policy merely because 2
preparedness was of the kind needed for the
situation. Central American and South Amer.
lcan countries have the right to our protection,
and are likely to need It On our Southern
border is the richest fleld for European L
ploitation now open to the world. If we do not
uphold the Monroe Doetrine everywhere we
shall forfeit the respect of other nations, ‘
with that lacking, their solicitude pot only _
our territorial ntegrity but for our ;
existence itself will disappear. 4
We Need a .
Large Mobile Army for Defanse.
Now, |am ot an extremist, and |do SOt
Belleve elther in & mad career of naval come
struction or in n‘dll%:nlloe‘: A
large “‘:: army United States
Aemocrarcy must remain and conduct
As & republic should. National
Is & popular policy; it is In & sense
national Insurance. and as such concerss
alike. The advocates of peace st any pries
lose sight of that fact. They apparently Sie
willing 1o agree 1o llL’flt‘. o long M 1
wdumuu-mfi pald in advance, [
leve that our desire should be. s 0 far
possible, to pay it all in advance. It u-—x
ness is ineurance !‘wmmmw‘
boo high. The thing insured is :
I vory much doubt that any amount whieh
this country will expend upon military and
naval preparedness will ever be more th-a
small fraction of all the mere money value %
the retarn. The Influente of & resoiste
walldirestad policy, moreover, upon ogr
clency. morality and patriotism will «
oUr MAilonal (Peasgte ina trice ¥
Hccmam in Ametiea s, and 7
muet quite Al%srent from the article
same name in Europe. With us the object
differen’ and the measure of the
losa 1t appears that sations bent m
thon can never be sufticlontly prepared .g
the United States shall never be the i
or enter upon & war of conquest or retaliation |
I* assured, there is 10 warrant for seeh § j
licy elther in the Constitution of the U 3
Bates o & e spirit and temper of N 9
Ammerican peopie
We eannot, on the ofher hand. b |
that no nation ehall ssstll s or enter -
war of conguest. Our policy must bl 5 .
sure not only (hat no nation shall sither Bam
even partial swccess In such & war of b O
couraged to make an sttompt. In other A
we must make the United Siates respected.
Two slements must coentet in any plan of
preparedness- nationalisn and
Only by being in reality & sation can we B
secure. The days of minor strategy and
vidual patriotiem are past
Notional American pairiotiom must be apuls
::tl in Ihs country M':: - . .o
Permanent inatliution And coneretsly (Ml
muet reanlt in four thinge: Piret, o great >
b 8 army compased of o Pegwiar army wiows
;:i.‘.‘-:-m ard tra med n‘m .t <3
tra {
flonally. second an sdequate navy :
b & grentl mervanille marine, f_‘_“ .
hird, » 'y, e
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