The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-07-06

NHSlIAihS iOdu VI HdllOH supreme
contempt for their false teaching?
We have been launched upon a
stormy sea, and no man can foretell
the future, because, under the lead
of this anti-preparedness propagan-
! da, we did not create, in the shape
of a regular army, a police force to
keep the nations house from being
invaded by burglars and murderers.
AS well might New York City under
take to say that we have reached
point where policemen are no
longer needed and Danish all of its
police force and leave its people TO
be killed and its treasures to be loot
ed, as for this nation to say it can
afford not to maintain an army COM
mensurate with its dangers and with
the boundless wealth which invites
any national burglar or murderer.
1t is an unspeakable outrage that
men of the National militia, moved
by spirit of the broadcast patriotism,
called from every business and pro-
fession, are compelled to leave their,
homes and risk their lives in de-
Tense of their country without ade-
quate training, without adequate
equipment, without adequate medical
skill, without adequate transporta-
ton or commissary management,
merely because we have lived in a
FOOLS paradise and listened to the
siren voice of men who have refused
to open their eyes and see the truth.
In millions of homes throughout
this country today there is sadness
and weeping, and there will be more,
because the nation, misied by these
wilfully blind leaders, had no army
as a police force to protect the coun-
try from invasion and it's people |
along the border line from being
murdered. The policeman is trained |
and equipped and, by years of work,
fitted to cope with the dangers that |
he musthe must meet as a guardian |
of a city's safety To call upon I'M
trained men without experience Of |
any kind to do all the work of the
police force of city would be stu
pid from every point of view, but it
is not one-half so stupid nor wicked
as it has been for the nation to per-
nit itself to continue in such con-
dition that it must call the very flow
er of its civilization, unequipped, I'M
trained, subject to all the difficulties
which will confront them in the far
South, to do the work that a regular
army ought to be doing.
This nation will some day have the
chance to express it's views upon
the men in whatever walk of life,
however high or low, who have re-
fused for two years to properly in
terpret the Mexican situation, or to
see the other dangers that we have
faced and still do face. These men
ought forever to be banished from
all decent society and be outcasts
from the presence of every honest
man and woman.
War Preparations Continue.
The preparations of the United
States for war will go steadily for
ward. There will be no Interrupt
ion of the rush of national guards
men to the border and Gen. Funston
will continue disposing of the forces
lnder his command as though he ex c
'ected an immediate attack. e
The fact that Carranza has com
lied with one of the demands is ac- t
epted by the more optimistic offic- I
ais here as an indication that he is b
irving to prevent break. Even n
hough he again should attempt to 10
brow all blame for the Carrizal y
ght upon the American officers and $
insist upon his right to forcibly OPP b
ose any except northward move "
lents of American troops, it is r.
bought possible that he will state C
is position in such a way as to make h
lrther discussion necessary. I
Mediation Talk Revived. III
During any negotiations, however, Z"
he United States will insist upon b
reedom of movement OF the troops "
4 Mexico and any attempt to inter- G
ere with them will be met by such a
orce as is necessary. This will APP S,
ly to any period of delay occasion b
d by attempts to arrange mediation il
arbitration. The possibility of r,
offers of mediation Il
! the crisis again was discussed. ii
Agnacio Calderon, minister from c.
olivia, will call upon Secretary e
ansing tomorrow to discuss the
ubject. He will endeavor to ascer
ain whether a tender of good Offices
Tould be entertained at this time. Y
he minister said after his first con-
erence with Secretary Lansing on
Ionday that he understood the Uni
I'd States to be unwilling even to
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lille the captured American troor