Bisbee daily review., 1914-11-05
Thursday Morning, November 5, 1914.
THE FALLAcY OF STANDING ARMIES


 Suppose the United States should yield to the de mands the ingoes and create fighting machine stantly prepared war-an army and navy ready to cope with any power in the world What would be the result?
 The question is not merely academic. Within two the country again for it's "un preparedness" for selfdefense against hypothetical enemy.
 Few Americans will doubt that. if choose, we could develop and maintain an army navy equal superior to any in the world Our wealth is inexhaust ible Our population though great that of the British and Russian empires is homogeneous and more readily available. Our citizens, though impatient of control best soldiers in the world because they have unrivalled alertness intelligence selfconh- dence and energy.
 By compulsory military training we could make available a standing army and toaliug perhaps 1oOOoOoO We could build battleships cruisers torpo- do boats and submarines, together with drgible bailions and scouting and fighting aeropanes, until felt ourselves secure by air and water, well land.
 It would enormously in money and effort, but it could be done-wc could make this country Ger many and an Finland rolled into one ready defy tho world
 But LhCGe ls Just the uouDle A lallpu a-tleu lDt battle is too ready to "dery the world" therein is the fatal error of miarism military proarauon, always undertaken -ostensibly least-for the sake of seltdefenso ends in aggression.
 The business of a soldier s to fight Is it unuat ursI that a should want employment in his profes sion? Every abietodied German for nearly two gener otions has been trained for war Germanys young men have absorbed therefore the spirit of The nation has armed camp where the campers have talked and dreamed mitarism. The German nation has been graduated from the university of the barracks, where inevitably has the philosophy of force, the ideals of conquest Thus developed the fatal miarist state of mind that responsible for Europes prerent predicament
 Such state of mind starting in the camps, soon becomes national Civilians come to look things from the military standpoint, uniform, 10 swagger talk big when there question of in ernaonal rivalry for the false glores Of con nct and welcome pretezt for hoauliues.
 The German Of a century ago would not recognize the Germany of today ideal scholarship ntera tre and art that the Leasing, Goethe and Schiller and were crowning glory of five hun dred years Of civilization where they now? We nave seen scientists said college professors phoso rhers famec for their intellectual and theiI undertaking quest truth fllnging judgment to the winds and flaming mp like any in defense of mil itar.sn ps thing good and righteous in itself Germany they shout is wholly right and the rest of the work vf6iy
 And given the military training, what natter would not longe the weakness with it's strength ri,en Gcnnanys land and thorough course of propay ation who can say that the United States would not a ihis moment be embrolled in great war?
 In our wild west days pioneers carried is'ol ior self letose each other because the geaI ons were ready to their hands When they all soppe carrying guns" even fist fights ceased. That is h way with nations
 "But conquest is a good thing" some may argu' as Bernhardi and Tretschke have argued in Germany Even if we grant that great conquests are no longe possible
 Nobody can conquer Che world Alexander d The world ls too big and strong The Romans succeede better with militarsm than any other nation ever di They maintained world.poace for hundred years wit standing army But there can be second Roma Empire There are too many great nations now.
 Napoleon tried to dominate Europe, and quarrelir nations united to curb him Now Germany is trying But 1t cant be done Nobody could conquer Europe l.