Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-30
READINESS FOR WAR.

M. Emile olivier, writing In the Re
yue de Deux Mondes. of the cruel ex-
perIence of France during the last
years of rule of Napoleon ILL.,. rightly
called the little. though at one time
he dominated the politics OF Europe,
shows the delusiveness of the old sio-
gan that to be well prepared for war
is to insure peace. The leading men
of France boasted of the readiness or
the country for war, Theirs. only
few months before the war with Ger
many, said In the Chamber of Depu-
ties: BE perfectly sure that what
preserves peace Is the reputation oil
the French army. If, then, you wish
to remain at peace, believe me. and l
know thoroughly the state of Europe,
continue to make yourselves strong.
/ am for peace, but in order to con-
serve 1t we must remain of an impos-
ing might"
We know now that the reputation of
the French army did not insure peace
We know now that that reputation did
not count against the invading hosts
OF Germany Frenchmen. and all the
world learned. at Metz, Sedan, and
other places, that the boasted readi-
ness of the army for war was delu-
sion and a snare.
Peace friends suggest method for
the preservation of peace entirely diff
ferent from the burdensome mainten-
ance of armies and navies. They sug-
gest national appropriations for the
maintenance of peace by diplomatic
means Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead, in an
article published in the Springfield Re
publican points out some of these
methods She speaks for peace friends
all over the world:
First, a peace budget like that re-
commended by the statesmen OF the
interparliamentary union at their con-
voution at Westminster In July, 1906.
This would involve the expenditure Of
small fraction OF the money for n
war budget, perhaps 81 for every 81
900 spent for army and navy. This
would give us over S207 Geo to spend
this year In promoting an entente cor
dale with any nation with whom We
feared TO have strained relations, III
at the time OF The silly outburst in San
Francisco, ostonsibly over "a score of
Well behaved Japanese men found IN
the schools, We had invited 30 OF the
leading men Of Japan TO Visit us and
sent 80 OF our editors and statesmen TO
Japan, we should have had an intCr-
change OF couitesies, banquets, adj
dresses, interviews, etc. and have
largely allayed the venom and hysteria
and perhaps the vote last year for our
hrst Dreadnoupht The disbursal Of
l,a1 IA Ixy Ia Ia 4.
commission appointed by the president
It's influence would be VASTLY out of
proportion to the slight expenditure IN
creating that good Will and comb
dence on which national security de-
ponds, Secondly, naturalization Of
weak and exposed regions VIII do moro
than armies and naNies to prevent at
tack Let us ask all the nations TO
neutraIlze the Philippines as a few ma
tions have long secured naturalization
already 10 switzerland and Belgium,
and other nations within year TO Nor
way aud Honduras; let Germany, RuL.
sla. England and Persia neutralize the
region In Asia from Constantinople
along the line OF projected railway
70 the Persian gnlf, and the storm
cloud supposed TO be gathering In the
| Pacific would disappear and the per-
| petual war cloud In the east would be
GIN TO vanish. The possibilities Of
| these measures. so briefly outlined,
should be discussed a thousand times
| ns much by civilians as the technical
questions Of turrets, armor belts. ETC..
with which tho papers have delugod
US, IA II the safety OF tho Republic
from invasion depended solely OIL
| them"
These suggestions are practical, The
tendency Of the world, Notwithstanding
appearances TO the contrary, are to-