The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-07-19

most position III lne clNlnzluS lnHuenCes
of modern life The most definite con
trast and striking popularity in her col
lective character; the one separating her
from the races of Europe, was the re-
pudiation of an historic and widespread
belief that huge armies resulted in pow
erful prestige making countries great
| 1t is true the United States won
her liberties and became autonomous
and self.governing through the intrepid
| ity of her heroic sons, who left the pillow
share and buckled on the armor Of war
anu successfully carried forward ii revo
linton, which drove the usurper into his
own lair When no further necessity,
how ,ver, called for military prOwcss,
Americas Cincinnatus lad down the
sword, retook the plow and the land again
smiled with waving corn and content
ed peasantry. From that time on the
people loved peace and at no period has
the sword been unsheathed except when
liberty or the union was threatened with
disruption
tits, perhaps paradoxical that people
drawn from the divergent races Of Eur
Ope. trained in the school of militarism
should gather upon the shores of n new
country and set at defiance principle
that seemed to be woven into the web
and wool Of tneir nature. But the TACT
| T.. that fine United States has M 10 re
Gently spurned militant doctrine ana
| trnaciously persued the ways OF peace,
Two reasWs powerfully operated 10
bring about this condition The hrst Is
geographic and the second knowledge.
In the inscrutable design OF Providence
this1and was revealed to the eyes OF the
old nations Of Europe at an opportune
time and when emigration turned to-
ward the West the people came not only
in the search Of IN opportunity for
Individual developments nut 10 DE trce
from the oppressive and harasslng en-.
yironncnts OF autocrauc ana monarch-
al Olgarchlcs. which exercised their
| =
arm
The United Statcsare 50 geographical
~ situated that large standing army
was unnecessary because she was free
from mrnacing enemies on her land Dor
lers and it was an unChalIcnged fact
chat the combined armadas Of the world
| IN, gttl ti4 htt.
tendency In addition the adoption of
the Declaration Of Independence guar
antccd internal peace and external con
cord for all time, ~ long aSits terms OPP
rated ~ vital force.
The second reason that of knowledge,
Just ~ strongly set the people against
they had lived and had been subject to
it, incNurablC demands They under
stood mlltarIsm and tyranny were cor
relative words and that liberty in its lOf-
test development was inconsistent with
the support of AN nvcrawing army
Those cmgrants who came from Europe
|
they knew their opportunities had beer
blightcd in their native homes because
they had been taxed to death to sustain
big military establishments they knew
that their ,trOnL youths were taken
from home md work to dawdlc away
years of vigorous energy to strut about
IN soldier attire to appcasc the vanity of
kings and they knew they left their
fathcrland to be free from SO great an
oppression
viii these people wh1 cam" tu this
country to be free from the abuses we
cite, submit to them here They have
it in their hands t. allow Mr. Mckinley
aud his followers TO suhtIy create an
Dvcrsladowing power which will curtail
| their liberties and marrow thrir own