Gilpin observer., 1904-10-20
MlLlTARisMI RAMPANT! DEFIANT
MlLITARlSM!

MlLlTARlSM!
That is what We are up against in
Colorado and in the Nation.
The bayonet the emblem. the plough
share the drudge-horse that pays the
enormous cost!
Colorado and the Philippines are the
'glittering illustrations of militarism in
a sovereign state and in a sovereign
nation.
Peabodyism here; Rooseveltism in
the Philippines.
The policy is identical. A million
war deficit in Colorado, which the
farmer and the business man must pay.
| Hundreds of millions of revenue needed
for the development of domestic indus
tries turned into the unnecessary prep
arations for Roosevelt war.
In one case it is responsible for Sher-
man Bell, the man who asserts that
what we need in Colorado are post
mortems," not 'habeas corpuses"-an-
archy and murder by order OF a gov
ernar, not law by order Of the court.
In the Nation it is responsible for a
constant war footing exceeding that OF
the cost of the recent trouble with
Spain; for the vast revenue expendi-
lures of our army and navy, not on our
arid lands, our internal waterways, our
vast domestic needs.
Theodore Roosevelt believes that the
best use to make of the vast revenues
paid by the toll of the people is to in
vest them as the German Emperor in
vests the revenues of his country.
Roosevelt believes in the Strenuous
life," for individuals and for nations.
He told the New YORK State Assembly
of Mothers:
1.-THE boy who will not fight is not
worth his salt. He will be of no use in
life and is a coward"
He told the cadets at West Point:
1.-THE good soldier should not only be
willing to fight, but he should be anx-
tous to fight"
In another speech he said:
now have, and it needs to be trained on
far larger scale than it has been
trained on for the last quarter of a
century,"
He has the courage of his convictions.
His administration thus far has cost
$211, 900, 900 more than McKinley's. Nc
Kinley carried the country through the
war with Spain, while Roosevelt has
been conducting affairs in time OF
peace
In 1897 the navy cost s35 100000. In
1898 (war with Spain. $59,O00,000. In
1899 (war with Filipinos), $64 900.
In 1900 Qast year of Mckinley, $60,-
600 1000; while this year the navy item
has jumped to the unprecedented
height of s9S.0O0,000.
The cost of the army has increased
in the last eight years from $4,000, 900
to more than $70,000,000, and the fig
ures are still mounting up.
We have spent literally hundreds OF
millions of dollars in fighting the Fill
pinos and administering their affairs
$500. .000.0 is believed to be the most
reliable estimate.
The explanation of all this is that we
have President whose methods and
ideals are those of military Europe.
AuuTcW -. WullS, upoh iCtuihih6 AAOAA
his post as ambassador to Berlin, said:
emperor William is as much like
Theodore Roosevelt as it is possible for
a German to be, and Theodore Roose-
welt is as much like Emperor William
as 1t is possible for an American to be. :"
Ex-Governor Black of New York, in
nominating Roosevelt at the Chicago
convention, said:
"The fate of nations is still decided
by their wars. You may talk of orderly
tribunals and learned referees, but out
in the smoke and thunder will always
be the tramp of horses and the silent.
rigid and upturned face. If the pres
sure is great, the material to resist 1t
must be granite and IRON"
Here are pictures of the President
his methods, hopes and purposes
drawn in Republican black and white.
Are you for the empire or the re-
public Dou you prefer the silent, rigid
and upturned face" to the laughter of
happy children and the joyous industry
of the army of peace?
War Expenses Compared:
Democratic Navy Expenses.
1893 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. $50 136 .0S4
1894 .................... 31701 .294
1895 ................... 2S.797 ,796
Roosevelt's Navy Expenses.
1901 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $50 506 97S
1902 Observation-Disclosures. 67.SO3, ,12S
1903 .................... S261S. .O34
Democratic War Department Expenses.