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Chesterton
Explains How
and Why Mr.
Ford Misunder
stood the War
The English Publicist Wants
to Know What Americans
~ Would Have Said If an Eng
lish Owner of Hansom Cabs
Tried to Stop Our Civil War.
By G. K. Chesterton
the Distinguished Publicist,
R. FORD, the celebrated American
M comedian, {8 now on tour with his com
pany; and the type of advertisement, as
well as the troupe itself, is much i nthe man
mer of Mr. Barnum. How, happily, the
humorist manages to Leep 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
fato war. It was not planned by any one
nation. It was planned by the financiers of
war.”
I think that 1s quite sufficlent 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; 1 belleve 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
eut 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 laid waste Belgium, while the
peaceable German army remained at home.
It may be that by “financiers” Mr. FMerd
means munition-manufacturers, for his style is
by no means clear; and I myself have often
pointed out that the German firm is Krupp
and Kaiser, and not Kaiser and Krupp. But
the attempt to explain the collision of all
human ambitions and interests by the mere
materials through which they work is a thing
8t 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, 1 bad made it for him
myself. Nor could anybody make thousands
of ordinary men march and starve and dle
Mappy, merely by providing them with pleces
of metal for the purpose. Nobody could make
them carry heavy rifies by making heavy riflas
for them to carry. The whole thing is windy
bonsense born of wealth and security and »
saping and ghastly ignorance of all that makes
men bebave ke men,
Ford's Trip an
Unsuccessful Circus.
That pride and ambition and avarice often
fead to wars is true, and another matter: but
that bas nothing to do with the mindless
materialism which would explain things by
their tools. Torture, for instance, is & horrible
‘Mog; and real religions enthuslasts bhave
often tortured each other. But If any man
Were to tell me that they tortured each other
because the manufacturers of instrumesnts of
torture wanted to seil them, I should take the
Hiberty of calling him a fool. 1| do not belleve
that the Reformation came becauss shoo.
eopers wished to do a brisk business in racks,
Neor do I believe that the epidemie of witch.
Broing ia the seventeenth century was dus o
8 econspiracy of timber-merchants. People
wanted to fight under such insult and wrong
49 the ultimatums to Serbia and Delgium long
before there were any modern armawenis or
modern armament firme., | bave sometimes
oven fancled that people wished (o travel be
fore the Invention of the Pord car.
There is one way in which Mr, Vord and Sis
ur will probably do good. It will clear the
piteh of much more plassible and presentadle
individuals it they sttempt to prevest the
therough purgation of Christendom. There ate
olher pacifista, many of them men who peces.
aarfly command respoct, who may stiempt to
ePoate the reconciliation witheut understand.
quarre! h men will mean pothing
a‘:d and ‘o’!:l'illl but harm. but they
""'6'33 : ‘::o l‘f‘:‘ " “"’m 'fi,
of Mr, Vord's ...me‘."' cireys
1 bave been toid (1 do mot know whether
mmmnmuunnuAm
the opponents of some polltician
send vound a sort of Nving carleaturs of
; Snother man dressed up in undignified
of him, and carrying on (1 need
%-.n in & manner little to Ws eredi
artistic wire pullers send thelr walking
Bot after the haled politician to parody
Fflhfinlfl.muncuwmd
mouth. So that astonished slatessan
" Sads his most sober remarks balled with happy
‘ni-tmmsnmuumuu
Wethod to the pacifiets sureelves or attempt
0 forestall Mr. Morel or Mr. Paillp Ssowden
z sending some fonnier person in frost of
Yor one thing, | do sot see how theve
be any funnier person than Mr. Morel
”l. Phillp Snowden. And for another, such
:n the grand styie Pequite the « haw pmgne
alr which seems o serve that nation
i bolieally ealled Carrle Natlon) ae & sad
zohemm@ Bat if 1 s diMenit tor
1o do B ourselies, we ouad 10 be all the
mere grateful 1o Mr. Pord of Se will do 2 for
N 8 AR | cannot imagine anyiking mewe fikels
19 tu's a prematare ißie 8 permanep!
ke Ihan & man fit‘.;u .W
» =of fl:’ ?&. e Prossias
o it St
For the i America, (e
The Irresistible Call of the “Higher Command”
By Rev. Reginald J. Campbell
the Most Noted English Preacher.
ERE is a comncidence 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 certaln 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. 1 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 beslde 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,
too,*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 .gna«l
#0 much of this wonderful moral qua fn the
nation and the empire. | 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
Brit of his ancestors. It only needed a great
world erisis to show it, apd here it i» as of
yore, ¢
But the thing |am thinking most of at the
moment in connection with it is the strange,
compelling power possessed by this itnner im
perative, this :kh-f command, that makes or
dinary everyday folk capable of such mighty
" Pry- - B this hu:“ eo::-:
t? It is a queer thing,
and it takes the mom curious forms.
A reckless, devilmaycare sallor Is taken
prisoner by dervishes and told that he may
save his lfe by forswearing Christianity and
becoming convert 10 Islam. He says he will
sen them blowed first, and dies a -utyw the
faith he has never greatly honored by life.
Now, why earth should a man do that?
He might mfl' well shelter himsalf under the
plea of necessity and bide his time, But no, he
will have no t;m‘k:‘l.!l |h‘:‘m“n:n:.“.ulm
thing inside him not
whose condemnation he is much more afrald
of than he is of death,
Touching Story of .
a Lancashire Soldier.
1 bave just been talking to & wounded pré
vate soldier Iying fn & tent hospital. He
only & boy, and a delicate boy st that. Here
be is, alter seven months in the trenches,
smashed up for life, if he ever succeeds in got.
ting well, which 1 doubt, and the busy, kindly
military doctors and nurses doubt, too,
He somes from Lancashire-—-Wigan, | thiak
he said-—-and be looks it even If his speech did
not betray him, such & strong face be has and
such an independent, manly mode of address
fug bis visitor. Something of his story and his
views of life has come out In our lntercourse.
He worked in an iron foundry, but bas never
earned good wages. His health hag been partly
to blame for that. but circumstances have hoen
to blame also. He is rather resentful about i,
and curses our upjust social system with of)
his might. Undoubtedly #t bas bees hard on
hiss. He has kpown little but struggle and
dull dradgery all his days. Even starvation
has threatened him more than once,
He does not remember his father. Jis
-«mr-‘-nfl'hflnmmhuw
family 1o bring up, and wondrously she
A %o wmany istrepld women esimilarly J
have had to do and will have to do =till more
when war had taken is toll complete, Me
sccmns o have no thought now but for hie
mother, whereby | can : what kind of
mother she must have —"mutther” he
calls bher, in his broad Lancashire dialect, of
the nearest approsch | can make 1o it with
the pen.
He wishes she wouldn't "wurry.” He will be
“aw reet™ That he will, however, it goss.
Poor mother! Sbe has another lad, be says,
Iying in & Moody grave somewhere on the Bel
gan frontier, and thete are 8o more left now
to look after her o 8 good sons should-—only
danghiors. one of them a permanent invalld, 10
weep with her and battle on alone,
He would Nke 1o got betier bocause of this
bui has ot U parson”™ 16 write and cheer her
up and tell her it will be “aw reet” sayhow.
And thes .:' h.lr ‘o ca‘:lu. with ‘lfl-‘uy
biterness of tha to'ally unsecossary hardships
of the lot of the tolling poor al home in Eas
land - foolieh, luturious, "
Girecteod, serambling, sham
Fe is an intelligent youth, and knows what
matier which | would ask them 1o consider o
this, They must sot be surprised if it takes
& long time and & terrible asony 1o tear wp
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Rev. Dr. Campbell Explains the Mystery of Why
Men Leave Homes, Happiness and Safety Willingly
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be is talking about. He bas read a deal
“d":mhlm.-lhmzu lcl:;:
part local N‘ue'.of
war. Religion he appears to have left mostly
to “mutther.”
Here again | am flled with ®onder and re.
spoct. 1 ssk myself what England has ever
done for this young fellow that he should leave
his mother to suffer and mourn whils he goes
to fight and die for motherland? Or is it some
thing else of which motheriand is but the most
convenient symbol? '
I don’t think he knows himself, although he
s under no illusions about the course he bas
1 the question to him, *“Well, ye
mm-mm,.m.m-.m
A man canna slink and hide when there's
A job o' this sort goin'” He could give
no further explanation,
Here wore two commands, two ideals if you
lke, mutually incompatible. One, very much
more than the otn. was eXceedingly danger.
ous and 4 But he knew which bhe
bad to obey, and he knew without being able
1o give & very clear resson for his cholcs.
The Blighting, Terrifying
Menace of Prussianism.
Dimly spprehended, perbaps, was the know)
odge that in fighting England's Battle just now
e was Sghting for a greater than England, for
all that is sweet, and dear, and wholesome fa
human lot, for the future of the entire race,
for things better apd more worthful than good
wages and abundant leisure, or even the re
finements of life that thess can provide-for
liberty, comradeship, democratic ideals, as op
posed to Prussianism and all its blighting, ter
rifying menace.
Was that #? 1 cannot tell; 1 think so. Bt
1 foel also—tay, | am sure— that behind all this
hnu!v-.uwin.m"ma:"::
hcrndhun&t:::fimhfl. .‘.:
may be willing 10 onae thisg today
snother tomorrow, but it b always the satne
thing in the end, the Kiernal Right
“cl:.ml.r"::n-.mnhm"
sing, and. when we hear
e Shamema a? dearet s e
boeded from our bands, and we turm wi'h
averted misa from the costemplation of our
Belhs YHOmS o fiory Dasbers Bo' B
- sot
c‘lm“ nmhfmm
1 @imly guess what Time 18 mists confounds;
Yot ever and anon a trumpet sounds
Frow the hid battlements of Miemity;
Those shaken mists & space unsettie, Ihen
O TP eSy *oh
Pat pot ere him who cummonsth
| have seen, enwound
Mis mame | know, and what his trampet saith.
hddumn“%w«m
sameptibility. what you , this uree
bhdnhn-lmqu.nuu‘qm
slavery. Bat the greater part of what w 8
talked aboul negro slavery was Bonsense. It
mm&maznmyh;h;&m‘:cm
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s farthest off
Emancisation would have seemed & very
Sasy matier 1o Dickens or Thackersy: but 0
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Rev. Dr. Regnald J. Campbell.
ineffable fdeal that wo fes! has the 1o de
mand our uttermost. lhuwdnm.thu
nhflv“uaw-mtmm.
It 15 the one great fact that . us
::-mm Anmmmm‘
On the one hand you"have man, selfish,
:.uy,mma.mmmmu
his atms. On the other, st repeated inter.
vals, in grest and solemn hours, comes this
RET TR & Sy, e o e
prom .
thought of reward, and derive a greater satis.
faction from that self-giving than from all other
kinds of gain put together. It is deep, myste.
.nrlo.-.olw'v“. uumdthfl;flm.hw
know unmistakably as generations
bave known it
Soldiers Are Dying
for All Humanity,
Porbaps there is nothing so strong 1o human
JONture as this impulse Lo Bing ourselves away
st the bidding of we know pot what, the Some
thing ever blessed that incarnates Lself, now
n this cause or objective, and now in that
Ascuredly there is nothing so exalting within
the totality of human experience. Show me
the man or the nation without i#t, and | will
shoaw you man or nation damned and jost
The lower command, the command of exps
dlency and common sense, the command of
conventionality and established order, or the
dletate of selfdove insists, “Be tranquil’ re
maln secure! Jecpardize pothing! disturdh no.
body! hold on with care to what you possess,
take 5o risks!™
The higher command thrusts all prodestisl.
st salde and cries, “Give me all. | will have
sothing lese ™
1t is madnoss to lsten If we want 1o bo safe,
but we do listen and always will. Asd does
the specific requirement through which the call
CMnes even matier in ieelf? Hardly »t all, |
should think. What matiers, Is our response.
Laonidas and his Spartans perish 1o a
man st Thermopylas-—for what! Far
King Constantine and the mation he rules
today? Ne. It would have mattered littie
Mmdmmnmm
thay saved had wiped o the map.
mmmm&'mdm
mement, for the Gresse from which we
have inherited our ideals of the besutiful
msunnluuh.
But If they ware not dying for more (han
Greees their death was & tragedy unrelioved.
They were dying for the soul of men, and 1o an
extent they must have been consclous of i,
‘”uml’mwn u'::u‘udmfiu
wreeet n
rose o the threshold of that which s beyond
H“ ufltn‘; mn:l uzt-‘
the e
....'...mn, Mbhnam
sow for what, 10 our percsptions, was pot
worth & moment's discomfory but we are
wrong and they were right.
An ancient ity is besieged, and the ersele
wishes for some image of the mind of the
@reent Vatopean wha, desiring peare a 8 moch
&% any Amerions. is yel ot this moment abeo
lutely adamant for war
No American was more parifiet as Bene wae
mm-..cmu—:‘u”mum'u;
was mech 100 pacibe, wanr mwh
mhurmmmm.’.mm
lectutisg yolre wae Arewned "e in
Be grest wind &Tl Wi B
wmr:mw;m.:‘mm
any priee, et ot iae even prig:
Eieh form. Ve said et all war was mender,
and that mnmumw
h“ fiu. i
goes forth that the only way to save 1t 1s for
the king's virgin daughter, or some one else of
equal rank and worth, thte best and fairest that
the community can produce, to be offered in
burnt sacrifice upon the walls. The girl con
sents and goes t 6 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 interfere between these folk
and their enemies without? None. The offer
ing placated no blood-drinking deity; bdut 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 Camplon, after being brulsed
~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 like 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 prevailed over that of
Frobisher and Drake? [ trow not. Yet Cam
plon died for England as surely as they died,
for that spiritual England which has been
slowly bullt up through the centurfes, on t! s
other side of death as on this may be, by the
glorious self-devotion of her sons.
All Laws Overruled by
the “Higher Command.”
There are clever men who tell us that the
higher command s only a mode of what s com
monly called consclence, and that conscience is
only the survival in the individual of the in
stinct for soclal self-preservation. It has been
found in generations past that some forms of
action tend to soclal benefit. The former have
soclal penalties attached to them and the
latter social spproval, 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. It does not explain
sufficiently. It does not explain why the social
ploneer 30 often has to take a line In direct
deflance of the scoepted standards of his
time. “Here stand 1; 1 can none other” has
been the testimony of many a reformer bhesides
Lather. Expressed or {mplied, 1t is the test
mony of them all
The higher command | am writing about
can scarcely be classed as congelence. It has
affinities with 1, but goes bdeyond i Come
seience warns or inhibits, marks this wrong
and the other right, is concerned with “thou
shalt” or “thou shalt net” Put when the
higher command comes In like a flood it swal.
lows up, transmutes, sweeps away sil merely
moral maxims in {ts torrential courss
Right 1s comparatively seldom a clear lssue,
There is nearly always a conflict of duties ap
parent. But once lot the hicher command be
heard, heard with that trumpet note in it which
all the world knows so well, and thess scruples
ond balancings are forgoften. An exultant joy
in losing everything, forsaking everything,
crucilying everything dear to the natural man
takes their place.
We no longer ask, is this right or s this
wrong? We overleap all suel alternatives
W merged, lost in the tran
claim. We forget all else, or only
remember it to consecrats it 1o the one high
end. If we bad a thousand lives they should
all go the same way, and bome, kindred, hoarty’
beloved, sll. should follow with #
Witness Serbia today, old men, sick men,
women, giris, littla children dying with arms
in their hands. This is Serbia's hour of agony
and glory. Her people are not mersly be'ng
defeated. They are being exterminated
They need not be, and st frst sighl one
wonders why they should consent to be. Al
they bave got 1o do is o throw dows thelr
Arms and submit to the invader. They might
bave to suffer a little more, endure an
fenominious sabjection, but at least this tide of
slagghter would be stayed
And they will sot. The world with parted
lips and straining eyes bebolds that they will
pot, Vulmmyvcfl-mnmm
Wers mean, ignorant. ehallering. thieving, petty
traders and pigbreeders. Any who have had
to deal with them know they were so models
of all the virtues. They could trifle with con
science, or silence It altogether with the best
(or worst) of us
All the Meanness
Torn Out of Men.
80 it aver 18, The higher command tears the
meannoss out of us like & tornado swéeping
through & smelly township and hurlisg ol e
foulness away In & moment on the wings of the
blast. 1t transforms our whole belng-—unless
we deliberately close our ears and bury eur
onlves out of reach of its pealing summons
You do not recoanise these glants of the
starm® They are the very men who yosten
day shared your petly sing and petiier pleas
wres, these en who are today bebaving like
demigods. They have been touched Yy the
ug. of the higher commana, and all hely
Mithe viees bave dropped from them like
withered leaves when the buret of Sprisgtime
ernimes mhn broken thelr fetters and
iaeped wilh the immoriale
& powderenrt. Put he 84 not talk Wee Bt
mumu:rflw:wmn“n
we siand Cegan
i 0 1 Hhot 10 v e e eot
=
A A
Giferent, whieh | hink, | can roughly 1o
Tmh.“nuomm
For homor and dear ones wasted,
Bt proud 4 mest & people prond
With ey that tell of tramph tasted |, , o
anmmlhm
auiversd e o
And bring fair wages for brave me
"5 Satien Goved & sase Givenatr”
Problems We
Must Face
After the War
Is Over
Former Governor Foss of
Massachusetts Points Out the
Importance of Prompt Meas- 2
ures of Preparedness to Meet
: it g
the Complications Which Will
Confront the United States.
Py Eugene N. Foss.
Former Governor of Massachusetts. S
BELIEVE that the American people ¢
I be too prepared to detend thelr rights, t! > :j
country and their institutions. If there o
anything on earth more worth defending, I
can’t imagine what it is. y :
From whatever point of view our country b
consdered, the justification of a resolute poliey
of preparedness, for war in case of > 5
and for effective defense at all times, s
itself unanswerably, Za
But the question is not merely one of wa :
or of national defense. Our policy in those
matters must pecessarily be subordinat o
and involved in our attitude toward the ara.
mount and fundamental problem of national
destiny. 4
At the termination of the present war the
situation in this respect will be most .
Events over which European nations now N
no control have made the United States for
the first time in its history a creditor nat
We are now not only free from the for v
crushing debt to Europe, but are -ctug the
financial centre of the world. The loss of this
position would cost much more than the "ff&
vance by which it was gained and would It
the nations of Europe without destruction, %
Japan also, more than any other come ? ;
thing. . i
Not only will they attempt to make the
United States the dumping ground of thels
products; they will raise tariff barriers high
enough, If possible, to exclude all our products.
Our right, furthermore, to free intercourse :
direct relations with smaller nations is
to be Involved, not only ia the .
of the warring powers for peace but :
economic necessities and purposes after the
war
Wa shall 1o longer have free ettrance to the
great open British market or u:{.umm to
any market. Nor shall we be able to m
heretofore, on the naval supremacy of
Britain, soon to be our economic rival
moreover, we continue to allow that :
bulwark of Snancial strength, the in -
coin called “freight money.” to h:: >
from us by another nstion’s merchant marine,
=wa shall feel the subjection, financial, economie,
maritime, mercantile and otherwise, that res
sults from such & process, more acutely theg
ever before
The poliey of commereial will
not now afford complete rellef. That s
not o.mwmmfl-‘n-flnu-z.»
tage 10 us as an absolute pecessity. We
not only fight to maintain our great home mar
kot, but we mupt compel markets everywhers
by such means as we possess. mal
be In a position to protect those markets st &
times. China has had our protection herelos
fore. We were able to give it and maintaln
the “open door™ policy merely because our
preparedness was of the kind needed for the
situation. Central Amm:‘r: and South Amer.
fean coupntries have the t to our protection,
snd are Hksly 1o need it On our Southers
border s the richest field for European en
ploitation now open to the world. If we do not
uphold the Monroe Doctrine everywhere e
shall forfeit the respect of other nations, and,
with that lacking, their soliciinde not &?’*
our territorial integrity but for our )}
eiistence itsell will disappear. S
We Need a %
Large Mobile Army for Defense.
Now, | am not an extremist, and I do pol}
believe either in & mad mm:.nnl .-‘g
sirpetion or o saddl apon “‘ .
targe standing army %0 United States I 8 8
democrary and must remalp and mma ;
a 4 & republic should. National 5
= & popular policy, 1t s In & sense -1
national issurance, and a 8 such copcerss -
alike. The sdvocates of w at any priee
lose sight of that fact mm “%
willing to agree to any price so long &8 ?
part of the price peed be pald In advance, i
belleve that our desire should be. so far g‘
posaible, to pay It all in sdvance. uflJ ,
noss ls insurance the premium r‘lw -
be too high. The thing insured 1o
I vory much doudt that any amoust whish
this country will expend wpon dil-z-d
tnatal preparedness will ever be more -
small fraction of all the mete money value
the return. The inflecnce of & resolste
weldireted policy, moreover, upon our L
cleney. morality snd patriotissm will mantfold
our natlonal treasdre in & trioe
Preparedness In Ameriea 9. and i
mast be gults diflorent from the article -
same pame in Burope. With us the object
Aiferent ard the mensure of the reguirements
lowe 1t appears that nations bent g "
tiom can never be suffjciently M .
o @ nited Btatos shall never be the -
OF enter upon & war of conguest or ton
fs assured. there s 5o warmat for
policy eliher in the Constitution of the Unilol
Biales of In the spirit and temper
Ametican posple o
Wo cannst. on the other hand. b ;
that ro pation shall assall we or enter
War of conquest. Our policy must be 1o maly
sare not oniy that no nation shall elther -
even partial suceess in sueh l;fl of b e
routaged 1o make an attompt o het
we must make the United States respected,
Two slements mast coesiot in sny plan ‘%
preparednecs antionsliem and
Only by beisg In reality o sation can '—z !
secate. The days of miner strategy and
Vidaal pattiotiem are past .
National Ametiean paitinilem must he -
fahed tm thie eematry mz - e -l
std perw anent Inetiiation conctotoly thiS
must teesit iy w?s Firet o grent me
bile arty composed o & rOgWiar army e
and of & miltta sstabitehmont in overy 8
tiemally sererd am Bavy .
B 4 gresl metvanilie maripe, e
taimed and squipped fn latge part iy
hind, » mehilioed et spacity. otim
. oneeuraged end | s lae
) & great slectorate, W