The Washington times., 1915-12-29
Declares When Police Are Use
less, People May Talk About
Wars Abolition.
ASSAILs CRITICS OF FORCE
Those Who Believe All Force Is
! Immoral "in Position Of
WickedneSS."

"At present in this world and for the
immediate future it IS certain that the
only way successfully 60 oppose the
might which is the servant of wrong 10
by means Of the might which is the
servant of right"
Thus Colonel Roosevelt summed up
his reasons for advocating preparedness
in a paper read for him before the
American Sociological Society by Ed
ward A. Ross at the Raleigh today
Infinitely the most important fact to
remember in connection with war end
militarism in relation to moral and 80
cial values,''' he said, referring to the
subject on which he had been asked to
speak, lis that IL an INSCRIPTIONS,
warlike, and militaristic nation is not
held in check by the Warlike ability OF
a neighboring non. militarisuc and we'll
behaved nation, then the latter will be
moral and social values, because 1t
went be allowed to deal with any
thing"
War Itself Not Immoral.
Roosevelt referred to Belgian, Chin
ese, and Persian civilization, and de-
clared that in those countries before
their civilization was overrun, thore
were men who took toward the re-
that is taken in our own country by
gentlemen of the stamp of MeSsrs.
David Starr Jordan and Henry Ford.
When we have discovered method
by which right living may be spread
so universally in Chicago and New
York that Tie two cities can with
safety ahO.!sh their police forces" he
sutd. thea und not until then it will
BE- worth while to tetk about the
abolition ui war Until that time the
~ q 4 all l.
dcmIc Value
Tho really essential things for men
to remember. therefore, IN connection
with war are, first, that neither war MOI
peace is immoral in itself, and, secondly
that in order TO preserve the social val
ues it Is absolutely essential to pre-
vent the dominance in our country OF
the one form of Inilitarism which is
surely and completely fatal. that is, the
military domination OF an allen enemy
If the man who objects 70 war OBJ.
jects to the use of force in civil life te
protect his home and rights, his posi-.
tion is logical, although both absurd
and wicked. III the college presidents
politicians, automobile ma .ufacturers
and the like. who during the past yeaI
or two have preached paSifcism in it!
willing to think out the subject and arc
both sincere and fairly intelligent, thej
must necessarily ebandon IA police forc'
or a posses comitatus just as much as
regard thu activities of the sheriff anC
constable as essentially militaristic
and, therefore, to he abolished.
"FOllv and Wickedness."
There are PROFESSIONALLY real ma
tional dangers connected even with q
successful war for righteousness bu
equally without question there are rea
national dangers connected even will
times of righteous peace.
There, are, of course, persons Wht
believe that all force is immoral, tha
1t is wrong to resist wrongdoing by
force. 1 have never taken much in
terest in the individuals who profeS,
this sort OF twisted morality; and
do not know the extent to which they
practically apply it; but IF course, Il
they are right in theory, then 1t I,
wrong for a man to endeavor by fore,
to save his wife or his sister or daugh
ter from rape or other abuses, or saw
his children from abduction or torture
1t is a waste of time to discuss will
any man a position of such folly. wick
edness and .poltroonery. But unless {
man is willing to take this position. HI
cannot honestly condemn the use o.
force or $Iolence or war"