Weekly journal-miner., 1916-09-06

duty. Universal suffrage cannot b,
 justified unless it connotes the per
 formance by every voter of full dut,
 to the State both in peace and in war
 The man who refuses to fit himself tc | fight in righteous war for his countr,
 is not fit to vote in that country. Wt
 should follow the examples of tn,
 free democracies of Switzerland anC
 Australia. There should be in thi:
 country system of universal obliga
 tory military training in time of peace
 and in time of war universal service
 i'll whatever capacity the. man or wom,
 an shall be judged most fit to serve
 the commonwealth.
 Kept Us Out of War"
 At this moment Mir. Wilson, and
 Mir. Wilson's fuglemen, advance as his greatest claim that he has kept us out of war" This claim can be seri- ously made only by individuals who endorse President Wilson's belief that deeds are nothing, and words every thing. War means a clash between the armed forces of two countries. Nowadays (thanks quite as much to the professional pacifsts as to the militarists) it means, furthermore, the Iar4--..~., .f of and the property of civilians, as well as the property of the government Under President Mckinley we had a war with Spain. Under President Wilson we arc assured that we have had peace" with Mexico. These arc the words. Now for the deeds. Dur ing the war with Spain fewer Ameri- cans were killed by the Spaniards than have been killed by Mexicans during the present peace with Mexico Let me repeat this. A greater number of Americans have been killed by Mexi- cans during these years, when we arc officially informed that we have been at peace with them, than were killed by the Spaniards during our entire war with Spain. Moreover, when the war with Spain was through, it was through But peace still continues to rage as furiously as ever in Mexico. Nor is this all. The instant effect of the outcome of the war with Spain was to put stop to the dreadful tutchery and starvation in Cuba and the Philippines, and the entry of both Cuba and the Philippines on a career of Is years of peace and prosperity such as they have never known before in all their checkered history. But turing these three years of Mir Will sons peace" the Mexicans them selves have been butchered by their own bandits steadily and without in termission: and Mexican women and children have died by thousands probably by scores of thousands-of starvation, and of the diseases incl dent to starvation. In other words, Mir. McKinley's war cost less blood shed than MT. Wilson's peace; and it reflected high honor on the American people; whereas Mir Wilson's peace has been one of shame and dishonor for the American people, and one of ruin and bloodshed for the Mexicans ihemselves.
 Mir. Wilson says we have had peace with Mexico He says he did not wage war with Mexico. If he takes any comfort out of this denial, let us not insist upon the proper terminology, and admit that he merely wagcd peace with Mexico. We'll, as one incident of his waging peace, we took Vera Cruz. Some $ ncn wearing the American uniform were killed and wounded, and three or four times that of Mcxicans. In MT. Me Kinlcy's war, we took Manila; and Dewcy's fleet lost fewer men in the operation that resulted in the fall oi Manila than were lost in the taking of Vera Cruz. Under these condi- lions, of what earthly consequence is it to assert that the taking of Vera Cruz was an act of peace, and the taking of Manila an act of war? Only by misuse of tcrElinology, only by the use of an incorrect nomenclature, can we distinguish one military opera ton from the other.
 The real difference was that Mir. Wilson became frightened and aban- doned Vera Cruz, whereas Mir. Nc Kinley did not abandon Manila. Mir. Wilson's operations were war just as much as Mir Mckiniey's. But Mir Wilson was beaten in his war. IL was war which was entered into and abandoned ignobly; it was a war which failed: war which Al - I