Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-10-17
PATRIOTISM i, T'IIiIiiII ANU. Sss''
PEACE DISCUSSED
Opening Meeting of the
Fortnightly Club
MADISON EDITOR SPEAKS
Great Waste of Money in
Maintaining the Army
and Navy.
MADISON EDITOR SPEAKS

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"Patriotism and Peace" by Richard
Lloyd Jones of Madison was presented
at the opening meeting of the Fort
nightly Literary club Friday night at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. FL. e. Cole.
Mr.. Jones is a son of Rev. Jenkin
Lloyd Jones of Chicago and is at pre-
sent editor of the Madison Journal.
For some years be was editorial writer
for Golfers magazine and other pub
lications in the east. He is an able
writer and fluent speaker. His address
received most careful attention by the
members of the club and few friends
of the club members. The waste
of great wealth in maintaining
an army and navy in anticipation of
war was forcibly brought out and
shown to be absurd. He said in part:
Throughout the civilized world for
the last fifteen years, there has been a
steady increase in the cost of living, a
steady fall in the purchasing power of
gold, not compensated by cores
ponding increaSe in wage or salary.
That this is not due to local
conditions or local legislation, is evil
dent for it affects all nations about
equally. 1t is felt In the same way in
provincial Austria, and in provincial
VNhiIa thnrn 1nOunHtiOn-
ably in each country many separate
and differing contributing causes, it
is none the less certain that by far the
most important of these arises from
the world wide increase in taxation
due to the immense increase in the
cost of war and in war preparation.
The world expenditure for arma-
ment alone is over $4,000, 100000
yearly. The number of men engaged
runs far into the millions. 1t is such
figures as these that are making war,
year by year, less interesting to the
conservative and the constructive
money changers, that is turning the
sanely cautious counting room against
the expansion of war.
Thirty years ago every congress-
man was called upon to select the
cadets for West Point and Annapolis
out of long line of applicants. In
the last five years for the first time
in it's history there have not been
enough young men in the United
States desiring West Point educa-
tion to even fill the cadet roll.
Where are the patriotic young men
of thirty years ago going for an educa-
t1on today? They are going to the COM
monwealth colleges; they are paying
for their books, for their clothes, their
board, anc their tuition. Many of
them are laboring and struggling to
equip themselves with this educa-
tion;-The education that equips them
to become constructive rather than
destructive soldiers, the patriots of
peace, the engineers and the farmers
who are converting our vast western
wastes into prosperous self governing
common wealths; giving homess hap
piness instead of grief, and putting the
plety which they profess into helpful
practice. This is the kind of citizen
that builds for an imperishable, ma
tiOnal glory.
Since 1897 we have expended ap-
proximately $2OO,OOO,OOO for rural free
delivery and 0O,OO0,0O0 for public
buildings and grounds, while our total
expenditures during the same period
on account of the navy and army have
run about $4,000, 100000.
If these sums had been expended
upon roads, bridges, harbers, rivers,
rural routes and postal Improvements,
they would have furnished the United
States with greatly increased facilities
for increased production and trans
portation. Expended as they have
been, there is little to show.
During the past thirty years the
navy alone has cost one billion, six
hundred million dollars. Half of that
sum applied to road construction
would have built 100000 miles of
roads at $4, 900 mile.
Another expert has made compari-
ons with battleship building and in