The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-01
TURNING THE SWORD
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aginary foes OF unduiy frightened
army and navy officials. doomed to
hive peaceful days and spend their
lives dreaming of active Me which
they are destined never to expert
ence
Not one additional captain. not
one officer in our army or navy who
was ever engaged In war. ever fired
hostile shot. If we expect the petty
skirmishes involved in our taking
Texas from Mexico and expelling
Spain from our continent. No nation
has attacked us for a century and to-
day no nation can attack US success
fully.
'If a man wished to select the SAT,
est life possible, the one freest from
all danger Of violent death. let him
enter our army or navy There is not
workman attending machinery or
erecting buildings, or railway train
employe or q policeman-the soldier
Of civilization whose duty is never to
attack, but always to protect-not one
but runs far greater risk Of sudden
death or injury than the soldier OF
marine Of our country does today,
There is little danger of any OF
these ever seeing war, thank God
They will only have to parade. The
chivalry, the heroism of war is gone
To shoot from a warship at unseen
foes ten miles distant, or shooting
from under cover at foe, mile dis,
/ tant. is not conducive to the growth
CT the heroic"
Turning his attention for the mo
ment to the cost Of maintaining our
army and navy, Carnegie said:
I'VE find that in round numbers
always tending to increase, our mill
4 tary and naval expenditures com
bined exceeds three hundred millions
of dollars every year-just about 81,
/ 100000 every working day-a ruinous
insurance price to pay for supposed
security from invasion, from which
we have been free for hundred years
and which today is impracticable.
THE latest and most startling Ell
fort to increase our navai and mill
tary forces is Colonel Cocktails esti
mate OF no less than than $4,000 sol
diers as necessary to guard the Pan
ANA canal strongly fortified against
4 naval assault as it is.
1T Is held that one of our prime
needs today is residences for our am
bassadors abroad, the supply OF mil
lions willing to serve being limited
i Why not decide to vote no more
dreadnoughts till the five now under
construction are completed. A single
one omitted and we have S15,000,00t
sufficient to pay for sixty embassies
costing $250,Oo0 EACH
AS to the prevention OF war In gen
eral, Carnegie said:
Three or four leading nations com
bined, constituting as they would al
Overwhelming force, unbroken peac
would almost certainly be assured
for to break 1t would be folly. Thi
plan seems the easiest and specifies
mode Of attaining internationa
peace"
Carnegie touched on the heroism
OF war and said that the creates
heroes are those developed by peace
! He said we remain barbaric so lon
as we tolerate professional man-kil
: ing and that the future ages will re
8 gard war as a hideous crime of e.
r tinct barbarians even as we 50 regar
, the burning of witches and the sacl
: ing of cities.
J. This diabolical practice of mai
t killing man." said Carnegie in hi
S conclusion, lis truly as has been said
: The foulest field ever vomited frol
r the mouth of hell Friends of peac,
h be of good cheer; this savage Grim
r of man killing man is soon to becom
5 crime of the past. In this, our hol
+ crusade, there can be no such word a
fail"
/ Delegates to the congress began
j. arrive at the Odeon, which will /
t headquarters for the visitors, befol
y the doors were opened to register an
p present their credentials.
i
l. The first group to arrive was
party of four members of the societ
o of Friends from Iowa The leader
n the group of Quakers was A. S. Dale
n of Shenandoah, Iowa, who holds 2
G appointment from Governor Clarke
d Iowa as representative of TIL;
h state. Fellow members of the societ
:. of Friends who accompanied hi
and who represent the Quakers
IT their respective localities were: D.
e Jones of Pleasant Plains; A. J. Ha
II son Of Legrande; and Alvin HoskiI
l. of Richland Hoskins is chairman
It the peace committee of the low
Quakers.
Walter B, Stevens, secretary Of IL
executive committee in charge of ii
, entertainment of delegates, declare
Thursday that the attendance of Il
congress probably would eclipse tn
e of any previous occasion. 1t is e
pected that the capacity of the Ode,
will be taxed to seat all those vi
will attend the general sessions
J the organization