The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-12-03
U. y. Army Won a Make One Good
D"J Z Milling.

i""o'' eJa.xfA., inventor of many inn
p'en-cnts VI war. addressing the Kan
sns Ci'N Commercial Club at its an
hual Unnor dere Thursday night, as
'ycg5d that the only way America
l0uld be saved from war would be 10
nave navy big aud powerful enough
20 stand successfully against any 9TH
r navy in the world and IAN army
ig enough to save the country from
lie horrors of defeat and humiliation,
even should our navy be destroyed.
"Our little, poorly equipped army
gould not be able to offer resistance
enough TO make ripple in the line
u iho enemy's advance" Mr.. Maxim
said. "Our army would make just
about one good days killing.
Suppose the enemy should land
Il noston or New York, or at any of
ne ports between. Nothing under
heaven we could do would prevent
hc invaders from capturing the en-
tire country between the Alleghenies
nd the sea within two weeks" Max
ms suppositionh invasion was by
rst-class European power at the
onclusion of the present conflict.
ANY one of the great warning ma
ions, If victorious" he said, would
ave available several million war
led veterans for a trial at arms with
5, and should that foreign nation be
'ther England or Germany, it would
ave navy far superior to our own,
nd, consequently, could not be op-
1sed by our navy. Hence that ma
on would be able to land upon our
hores its legions of trained fighters,
Iuipped with all the paraphernalia
nd enginery of war as fast as they
)uld be brought overseas"
A quarter Of a million of men,
lagim said, could be landed within
month and re-enforcements of that
umber brought over every thirty
1ys thereafter, IL needed. After
oy had captured that area. the in
.ntor continued, for America there
1ould be but one way out.
eve should have to ransom our
elves with gold. and the enemy
yould throw his sword into the
Gales. as did Brennus, to make good
weight. Our captors would take pos
session of our homes and of our wom-
m. for to every household would be
detailed a certain number Of officers
or privates to be fed and entertained.
You would no longer be masters of
your own households. but the officers
in charge would be masters of cere-
monies.
while all the other nations of the
world are armed to the teeth, and
are still arming and fighting for the
mastery of the world, 1t is the ex-
IRENE of imbecility for us not to arm
also. We are forced to decide wheth-
er we will kill our enemies in self
lcfense or allow our enemies to kill
us.
"If this sountry should be invaded
and we should send our young men
to the front without adequate pre-
paration, It would be merely to sac
riiice them in a shambles Of slaugh-
ter. We do not want to do this thing.
It is your duty-it is the duty of all
If us-to use our brains, our mouths.
our pens and our money to the full
to defeat the propaganda of perni-
cious pacifism.
I'VE are the richest country in the
world, and we can very we'll afford
national insurance; and we must in
sure in time of peace. Look at
England, France, Russia. Think OF
the vast burden the taxpayers of
those countries will have to bear in
future, and how much greater that
burden will be than il would have
been had those countries been as well
prepared as was Germany.
1.-THE chief lesson of the present
war is that we should prepare against
war. From every sense of obliga-
ton; from every sense of economies;
from every sense of duty and reli-
gion. we should get ready-and lose
no time about it,"