New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-28
PREPAREDNESS
A Library of Warnings and
Practical Programs

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THE FREE MAN AND TIE SOLDIER ,.. E Say
on he Reconciliation Of Liberty and Dlsqp.,DiIr
ne, Vrtnb Patton Perry. Professor Of fhlloS0pl'
in Harvard University. 4-iAo' ~
CHARLIE Scribuers Sons
TRAINED CITIZEN soLDIERY A solnti S ~ ~
General Unions Problem. By MalQr john ~
Psrs@r L. S. 4. Gold Medaist Military se W'l
Institution. i2mo. Ip: ~ ~ ,,- 1880
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ARMS AND TIE BOY Military lr e Gisnii.
lat Introduction by he Hon. Neg sSo M ~
viii 81 Tie Bobbs- Merrill CoHpA''
FoRE-AR,fFD. How to Build CidLen Any Any
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WHY PREPAREDNESS The Dissertation OF ~ M
American Army OfEcer In burYpe. 80 ~ a. a. ui,
Captain Henri j Reilly, late instructor IL r. ~.
tor United states Military Academy m nt
ducton hy Major General Leonard Mooa. il vs.
trated Ip. XIX. 40l Chicago DaushAlD q W
Amid the multitude of voices raised
about military preparedness, pro anu
contra, one like Professor ferrys Is
to be especially welcomed. Here Is no
professional soldier seeking to export
and to exalt his own profession. lele
is no lingo politician aiming at eN-
mansion of our military establishment
in order to secure patronage ana lal
contracts for his constituents. Acre
is a professor of philosophy IN great
university whose writings hlthertO
have been devoted 70 mental ana moran
distractions, immeasurably removed
from arsenals and camps. Surely, the
most sublmsted and pugnacious OF
pacifsts must listen TO him with re-
spect. Yet here he is presenting argu-
ment after argument in favor OF uni
versal military service. He does so
not on the alarmist basis OF menacing
war. hut on the loftler level OF an
imnerative if unwelcome necessity Tor
the secure culture of the human mine
and soul-not because instant safety
demands il. but because the best de-
ytlcpment of the human race requires
the protection which it alone can
afford. And he does so with q clarity
of thought and a cogency OF logic
which must delight his fellow met
aphysicians, and at the same tmg,
with a simplicity of expression and
a racv and epigrammatic humor when
grin the interest of the layman.
IL ought not to be necessary, OF
course to inculcate the elementary and
obvious truth that liberty and dlsclp-
line are inseparable. The difference
between benefcent liberty and malea,,
cent license is that the one IS ana
the other is not disciplined. 1t IS IN
order. then. that We may be free men
in the most secure and triumpnan'
sense of the term, that we should lie
a nation of soldiers. By abstract areu-
ment and By concrete example PRO
lessor Perry presses home the ineVita-
blo conviction. The history of warrior
races * a history Of liberty and oil
progress; the history Of non-mllltan
peoples is history of subsection ana
Of stagnatlon. r,.,
must strike the blow" Equally, who
would remain free, themselves must
puard their freedom. And in re-
nublic the obligation OF such guar
diansbip rests upon every citizen. Uni
versal service is therefore completely
congruous with American ideals ana
principles. We are not to LOOK upon
war or upon the soldier as lnality
Military preparedness IS TO De re-
garded always as a necessity; m IN
welcome, even detested, necessity
but none the less a necessity, OF VII ca
there is no immediate prospect OF oii
being rid; and, happily, also one wh'cr
need not prevent, but which may rathel
actually facilitate, the progress OF th'
race toward chat one, far-otf, divine
event toward which the whole creation
moves"
Colonel Parker concerns himsel
little with the psychology Of war an'
peace. The metaphysics of the sltua
ton are ignored lie begins wher'
the philosopher leaves of. II j
granted. it is established, that we mus
have preparedness, and that we. mus
get il and maintain it through "a Ct
izenry trained to arms" Very well
then. how are we 10 get the Citizen!
trained TO arms? It is perfectly Ger