Bisbee daily review., 1915-07-22

England and France entered into these treaties with us and we begged Germany to enter into one and al- though Germany refused, yet if we were right in entering into them with England and France. we deprived our ! selves of moral justification in refus- ing to fulfil their spirit as regards Germany. Personally, l believe that 1t was absolutely necessary when the concrete case arose, to repudiate the principles to which We had thus com mitted ourselves. But it was a shame tul thing to have put ourselves in , such position that it had to be re- pudiated and it was inexcusable of us to decline Co follow the principle in the case of the Lusitania without at the same time making frank confess. Ion of our error and misconduct by notifying all the powers with whom We had already made the treaties that they were withdrawn, because in prac. tice We had found it impossible and improper to follow out the principle Co which they committed us.
 Tn the same way, let the individuals who advocate disarmament say clearly just what they mean. If this nation IS Go disarm, that is. if it is to take the old-China attitude about prepared. ness for war, then it must be prepared to adopt the Chinese attitude of belp- ! less submission to any conditions that foreign powers choose to impose. Let 1t be understood that under such con ditions if disorder continues in Mevi. Co We shall not object to some Euro peaen or Asiatic power taking posses. sion of Mexico or any part of it and then doing what it chooses there. I,et 1t be understood that if in such case. some power wishes to take possession or the Panama Canal we shall not. because we are not able to- raise any effective protest These are the things that disarmament means, for disarma- ment would represent merely the Chinaication of this country.
 'l advocate preparedness against War as the best type of peace insur- ance. Preparedness for war may not be only the best but the only correc- tive for the spirit of militarism. Switzerland is the most democratic of republics, and the least militaristic. and yet relatively to its size, it is the one best prepared against war.
 Preparedness is not the affair of day. If we begin at once, a year or two must elapse before we shall have accomplished even beginning. We should do what Switzerland and Ar sentina, for example, have already done. They now have universal mili- tary service in Argentina. The Ar genuine army is a great deal more fit to uphold the Monroe Dostrine south of the Equator than our army, and in spite of its high average of individual efficiency and because of its lamenta- ole smallness, is it to uphold the Mon roe Doctrine north of the Equator
 Drawing to the conclusion of his ad- | dress, Colonel Roosevelt urged in. l creasingly high standards of efficiency in the army and navy. inc navy" !" he said should never be used. as it was so long used in Mexican waters. Tor police work of a kind that as. sures it's deterioration as a fighting machine. It should be kept up to the | highest pitch of fighting efficiency It should be kept superior to any possi- ble foe which might attack us within | the limits above set forth
 Our regular army should be greatly increased in size and render much more efficiency by yearly manoeuv- ring in mass, as well as practice in other directions Conditions in Mexi- co are such that unless the Mexicans themselves come to their senses and unless we are content to see foreign powers undertake the regulation of Mexico, we may ultimately have to in- tervene. Such intervention would rep- resent not real war but a work of pa- cihcation and police. For such a work volunteer soldiers are not well fitted It should be done exclusively by the regular army; and for this purpose there should be a mobile army of over a hundred and thirty thousand men. so that the whole regular army should be about two hundred thousand strong.
 Tn addition ! firmly believe that | there should be universal military ser
 vice for our young men on the Swiss model In Switzerland the boys are trained for their last few years in the public schools and after they graduate from the public schools they serve in the army for four or six months and and then for eight or ten days every year for the next ten years This training and service, so far from ham pering the Swiss or Switzerland in- dustrialll, has added enormously to tho fndrqt7 7,io1 effi,ie,,,,, to+t, s,e tt,,. i,