Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-03

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 It can always be secured at Lee & all blame. It is the natural outcome of a military authority in dictatorial heads. But
 Wars a game, which, were their sub
 jects wise,
 Kings would not play at"
 It has been said, too. that if kings had to take up arms and do their own fighting there would be less desire for strife and fewer wars. This might be put another way, that if the members of congress, English parliament, reich stag of Germany, and so on, of every nation, were obliged, in case of con- fict between two or more countries. to settle the dispute, "peaceably if they could, forcibly if they must" would anyone be surprised if, under such circumstances, the world should suddenly reach that stage where peace would be more honorable than war? And if battleships and munitions had
 70 be donated to the government as a share in the campaign of war or ter be lacking?
 Preparedness, insofar as it may be considered as a basis for peace, has
 fallen far short of accomplishing its
 purpose. It stimulates and feeds a
 military spirit. A military spirit fires an ambition for conquest. Conquest
 means war. It Is as inevitable as the
 rising of the sun. History proves it.
 The old world is an example of it. Franklin wrote There never was
 good war or a bad peace" It has
 been argued that we have not yet ar
 rived at that period of intellectual de- velopment tending to make interna- | tional peace possible Now every pO- | litician knows the truth in that. You can know 1t and not be . politician, but you cannot be politician and not know it. That is, dependable Qoli- tician. It is very explanatory. Be | sides it shows why we must prepare | for strife, and might be reckoned a forecast that there will continue to be | wars and rumorS of wars" for some | time to come. WlSle nations main- i tain big armies and naVies, drilling and schooling mankind to fight, and | making it impressive that militarism | is the all essential factor that must | be, to secure and hold each country's
 rights. universal peace cannot be had | You cannot preach and practice war | fare and expect to rear a world of 1 peaCemakers. You cannot add to the sum total of intellectual development | by educating each generation in the l bloody carnage of savagery. If Wal | Is a state of mind then instruction l SllOulO pc ulOnS lines LillI "Ou4u SOlltI | and refine, and in time man would be- ! gin to so realize he was human tha ! the scOurge of war would be shunnet | as a plague. It is said the prcsen | war may be a lesson that will give 1 birth to ways and means whereby l disputes may be settled without re. | sort to arms. But, at the close of tho | struggle, it is seen that we are build | ing the greatest navy ever" 1t i!
 not likely those powers are going t' remain as they then arc and watch Il! grow in navy strength. They will be- gin to reconstruct and the plan woulC
 be to excel. Their people will no have recovered when they will hav' | been called upon for greater prepar l edness." All this will be formativt of character favOring world-wid l militarism. Experts on war efficien
 cy will be as thick as alienists in
 Thaw case and, perhaps. about al
 unvaried in opinion. Other war
 would probably follow for the skill O
 military achievement must be put t
 actual test and battleships are no
 built for playthinSs, while the posses
 sion of a corner lot on some canniba l island could well serve as a cause. Tn
 lesson will not have been needed.
 However, true diplomacy is the ar
 of keeping cool; of mediation, of get ting at facts. If historians be correC | then some wars have been of peculia
 origin. In Iockouts. in strikes and i
 civic trouble we rightly favor arbi
 tration. And it does not seem an i'm
 possible ideal state that We shOul
 have international arbitration as wei We are liberty and peace-loving peo pie and, while, after the manner ( l our bringing up, we render unto hiI l due need of praise who achieves notable victory in war for his coun try's sake, we owe in far greate mea sure honor to him who can pile
 I.s.- 1ertN Inc eTz uv, . avert a catastrophe. For
 3 Peace hath her victories
 No less renowned than war" 9 Does it not require as much coul age to resist the pressure of the lobby ' ist or the gain of party advantage 2 f to capture a city? Napoleon, wit 3 military skill, and bravery almost 1 - rashness of it's kind, swept over a 9 most the entire eastern world. Talen . | genius power. these he had-charaC Y duct of his time. Include in the cours
 at schools military training and m
 ] only the best part of our young men , | lives will be taken up with the tacti, of war but they will daily live ar
 breathe an atmosphere dwarfing il :. mind in its true conception of Deac . >ntellect is breadth of comprehensio g and this implies gentlenesS and lov t | The man whose scope of thougl t | takes in the created world, and con t prehends mans place in nature, car = not be cruel to his fellows. War ! | cruel It has its conception, not 9 the greed of a nation, but in the pow @ CT that creates politicians, who, e turn, dictate policies of governmen r That which would involve a natic ] in war for it's own ends is as muC n | anarchy as that which would seek a inhame a revolution. Patriotism e not of the one, nor is their safety = the other.
 Man always accepts as right an! [ thing that is in existence when he 8 born. Because of this, no douSS, SCR of our forefathers were inclined to c monarchy in establishing a goverl $ ment, though finally determining upC n a republic. It would be but natur y some of them could be quoted as f T voring militarism as the means e preserving peace, institutions of { a kinds being patterned largely aft