New-York tribune., 1916-01-28

their duties are too multifarious and
distracting to make il possible within
n sufficiently short space OF time Tor
them to master the change that is com
ing.
II hear great many things pre-
dicted about the end Of the war, but
don't know anything about what is go
ing 10 happen when the war is over,
and neither do you. There are two dia-
metrically opposed views asato immi-
grafton. Some men tell us that at least
a million men are going to leave the
country. and others tell us that many
millions are going to rush into IT,
Neither party knows what they are talk
ing about. And | am one of those pru-
dent individuals which would really
like TO know the facts before he forms
an opinion; not out Of wisdom, but out
of prudence.
Il have lived long enough to know
that il do not, the facts will get away
with me. have come TO have whole
some respect for the facts. ! have had
to yield TO them sometimes before l
saw them coming, and that has led me
TO keep weather eye open in order
that | may see them coming.
There Is so much to understand that
we have not the data 10 comprehend
that | for one would not dare, so far rs
nv advice Is concerned, to leave the
government without the adequate
means of inquiry.
Not Sure Of Tomorrow.
"But that is another parenthesis.
What an trying TO impress upon you
now is that the circumstances OF the
world to-day are not what they were
Yesterday, or that were in any of our
yesterdays, and that it Is not certain
what they will be tomorrow.
81 cannot tell you what the interna-
tional relations of this country Will be
tomorrow; and | use the word 1T
orally. And | would not dare keep
silent and let the country suppose that
tomorrow was certain TO be as bright
as to-day. America will never be the
aggressor; America will always seek
to the last point at which her honor
is involved to avoid the things when
disturb the peace Of the world. But
America does not control the circum-
stances of the world, and we must be
sure that we are faithful servants OF
those things which we love, and are
ready 10 defend them against every
contingency that may affect or impair
them.
"Rut, as I was saying a moment ago.
we must seek the means which are con-
sistent with the principles OF our lives.
Il goes without saying, though appar-
emily il is necessary TO say u to some
excited persons, that one thing TINS
country never will endure is system
that can be called militarism. But
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in preparing a great machine whose
only use is for war and giving II no
use TO which to apply itself.
"Men who are in charge of edged
tools and bidden prepare them for
exact and scientific use grow very i'm
patient if they are not permitted 70
use them, and | do not believe that
the creation Of such an instrument is
an insurance of peace. | believe that
it involves the danger of all the tempta-
tions that skilful persons have to use
the things that they know how TO use.
"But we don't have to do that. Amer
lea is always going TO use her army IN
two ways. She is going TO use 1t for
the purposes of peace, and she IS gong
TO use it as a nucleus for expansion into
those things which she does believe in.
namely, the preparation OF her citizens
TO take care of themselves.
Vocational Training Favored.
"There are two sides TO the question
Of preparation. There is not merely
the military side; there is the industrial
side. And the ideal which | have in
mind is this: We ought TO have in
this country great system OF indus
trial and vocational education, under
Federal guidance, and with Federal aid,
in which very large percentage of
the youth of this country will be given
training in the skilful use and appli-
cation of the principles of science in
man9uvre and business. And 1t will be
perfectly feasible ana highly desirable
to add to that and combine with it such
a training in the mechanism and use
and care of arms, in the sanitation Of
camp, in the simpler forms of manpuvre
and organization, as will make these
same men industriaNy efficient and in
dividually serviceable tor national de-
fence.
"The point about such system vii!
be that its emphasis will lie on the in
dustrial and civil side of life, and that,
like all the rest of America, the use
of force will only be in the background
and as the last resort. So that men
will think first of their families ana
their daily work, of their service in me
economic fields of the country, and only
last of all of their serviceability TO inc
nation as soldiers and men at ar ns.
That is the ideal of America. But, you
cannot create such a system over night.
You cannot create such system rapid
~. Ii has got TO be built up, and |
hope it will be built up by slow and ef
fectiye stages. And, there is something
TO be done in the mean time. We mus,
see TO il that a sufficient body of citi-
zens is given the kind of training which
will make them efficient for call into
the field in case of necessity.
Asks for Citizen Reserve.
at is discreditable to this country,
for this is a country full Of intelligent
men, that we should have exhibited to
the world the example we have some
times exhibited to il of stupidity and
brutal waste of force. Think of ask
ing men who can be easily drawn TO
come into the field, crude, ignorant.
inexperienced, and merely furnish the
stuff for camp fever and the bullets of
the enemy.
THE sanitary experience of our
army in the Spanish war was merely
an indictment Of Americas indifer-
ence TO the manifest lessons of eX
perience in the matter of ordinary
preparation. We have got the men 70
waste, but God forbid that we should
waste them! Men who go as efficient
instruments of national honor into tn :
field afford very handsome spectacle
indeed, but men who 20 in, crude and
ignorant bows ONLY indict those in all