The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-01-24
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|Elv. Morgan Sinister Says Dis.
armament of All Nations IS
an Ililpossibility
(Erom w. Morgan Shusters notable
PARTICLE on Peace and Disarmament
an the February Century Magazine,
Irepfcdaced BY specisl permission 81
\ the publis dier
/ !. No one can know when this war
Will end, vet. every one ia the whole
1 world Is yrarning i'm his heart for the
day OF peace to aFrives so we ark
! ourselves or what nature viii that
peace be? And how shall Is be per
| rlanently3 aecifted2 And this self.
questicnang leads to many fond de-
fusions
Misleading Hope. &,
Because for the, normal yearning
for an end to dangerous conditions,
and while the whole world is still
4 stunned by the spectacle of ave hun
4 dred million people at war, IA few
\ spperscpt imists find breath to- say
that there will never be another great
WAR, and that the one silver lining to
1 the clouds is the probability Of dis
I armament. partial or complete after
the nations Of Europe and Asia shall
4 have fought themselves to safety,
victory, or defeat, as the case may be
But this hope is so misleading, it's
Indulgence so vain. and vet so nat
ural, that 1t seems proper, even at
this tndecisiyc stage OF the conflict,
TO point out spme OF the reasons why
4 anything approaching general dds.
armament cannot take place.
| The term disarmament. Is ant to
be used vaguely to represent any
thing from the mere cessation 81
naval construction and army increase
programs to- that purely ideaiistic
condition when banners would be
ftirlcd, standing armies be dispersed
ito their homes. and war vessels be
/ torTned into commercial craft; or
remain, dismantled, as interesting rel
les Of a 6enighted past.
The latter state Is nianifestly SO
impossible to expect. at least within
many decades, that 1t may be prounpt-
I " dismissed from consad erection. TO
mention only few OF the n,saterfal
objections: There are millions a
men who are Substantially unified
by education, experience. or te1nDera-
metn far any other profession than
that Of arms, on land or at sea. So
ciety, industry and Commence have
! long since adjusted Themselves VA
/ their existence as q major po1ice
4 force. and to attempt to thrust fi,cm
Suddenly into peaceftil pursuits would
create no little disturbances. Profess
lsional fighters couid not be expected
Ito take quietly to smere itiieness. even
on pay, nDrswoulh thew he content ia
! bes recorded 9 as mere nensionad-off
apbendages Of baser social state.
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4 serious advocates Of the. plan. must
ihc meant Z state more nearly an
proacfing the one first rnentioned:
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4 least to the leading nations al IN
\ world Put il tiiis be what is III
tempted, the plan is already doomed
| 10 failure. for the simple reason tl,af
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