The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-06-06

gun factories, our ammunition works. to
turn out war materials for the enemy.
This Is an age of mechanics, an age
wherein man-made mechanism more and
more replaces hand work. Everywhere
in our industries Of peace We have sean
labor-saving machinery replace the labor
of human hands
True of Peace and War.
Today all the men in tire world could
not do by hand all of the, worlds plow-
ing and sowing and reaping and carrying
Of the worlds food to market and all
the women in the world could not today
do the worlds sewing without the sew
Ing machine. and all the men in the
world and all the women in the world
combined could today do a tenth of the
worlds writing without the typewriter
and typesettiDg and printing machinery.
iadling out of the Panama Canal the vast
landslides can do the pick and shovel and
wheelbarrow work of a thousand men.
The people Of the United States of
America have been able to develop their
enormous resources and keep abreast of
the worlds industrial progress mainly by
the invention of labor-saving machinery
under the protection of our patent law.
In our competition with other nations
thinks Of referring to the prowess of our
unskilled citizen soldiers of industry I'M
supported by ma chinery. but all reliance
IL placed upon our multiform labor-say-
ing machinery, and our skilled labor be-
hind that machinery.
With these pregnant facts before US, II
Is strange that it should not be very
plain to every one that what is true OF
labor-saving machinery in peace Is like
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deed that here should be intelligent men
and women among US unable to see and
to understand that labor-saving ma
chinery and labor skilled in its use are
as applicable and as indispensable to
successful warfare as to peace industry
Furthermore, labor-saving machinery In
war Is hfe-saving machinery.
Ffeht By Machinery Now.
These persons do not seem to appre.
ciate that war IL an industry. As a mat
ter Of stern fact, was. Is and always has
been the biggest and the most vital in
dustry Of mankind. and in no other in
dustfy is labor-saving machinery 20 Inn
portant and SO vital. and in no other
industry does so much depend upon the
skill of the labor operating the ma
chinery.
We are the slaves of belief, and we
love our chaips. Although our faith may
be false, we hate the hand that tries to
free us. The people of this country have
. great false faith in the fighting quail
ties Of their citizen soldiery. improvised
IN time Of war. They point proudly to
the war of the revolution and the war
of the rebellion to prove how our vol
unteer soldiers can fight. They overlook
the fact that fighting then was mostly
done by hand; that now 1t IL mostly done
by machinery. and that 1t Is just as fool
ish and absurd to think Of taking I'M
trained men of the farm to operate the
guns and machinery Of war as II would
be to try to operate the factories with
them where the guns and machinery are
made.
It takes a. long today to convert a
farmer into q skilled soldier as It does
to convert him into skilled mechanic.
A citizen soldiery without years Of
training In the discipline and weapons
and mechanism of modern warfare 10
only mob, as easily scattered BY few
real soldiers as chaff by whirlwind.
We. like . lamb rampant, believing
itself to be hon. have been bcstridins
the world With big arrogance. and have
naunted the Monroe doctrine before the
eyes Of an the nations. blissfully una
ware a. the fact that we have compare
lively no moro lighting potentially to
prutect our Monroe doctrine, should
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