The Monte Vista journal., 1916-01-29
BY EDWARD HEATING.
Congressman from the Third Colo.
RADIO District).

Washington, D. C.-The American
Congress must TAKE THE PROFIT
OUT OF WAR! Any plan to reor
ganize our army or our navy must in
clude provision for government man
ufacture of munitions of war.
Under existing conditions certain
individuals and corporations have a
direct selfish interest in promoting
war and rumors of war. Prepared
ness" in their lexicons is synonym
for "dividends" and actual war-the
slaying of hundreds of thousands of
human beings and the manning of
millions more-means to them
wealth beyond the dreams of Avar
ice.
AS Christians we pray Lead us
not into temptation" and as a Christ
ian nation we must not deliberately
place any portion of our citizenship
in a position where their material in
terests will not square with the
peace and we'll being of their fellow
mortals.
CUMMINS' GREAT SPEECH
Senator Cummins of Iowa, a Re-
publican, stated the case in the
course of a great speech which he
delivered in the Senate on January
10. He said:
"Mr President, if it is good policy
to permit the private manufacture of
arms and munitions of war, why is
it not good policy to allow men to re-
cruit armies and to sell them to the
government which is to employ
armies? 1t has not been long since
that was the practice of many gov
ernments. 1t has been but little
more than hundred years since it
was regarded as entirely consistent
with the highest morality and the
most exalted ethics for government
to farm out the enlistment and the
training of it's armies. The civilized
sense of mankind overturned SO bru
tai and so dangerous policy, and it
will not be long until that same
sense which takes into account the
will drive out this source of profit
from the great court which finally
determines whether we shall be at
peace or whether we shall be at
war"
TOO MUCH FOR MORTAL MAN
Discussing the temptation to
which the existing system of private
manufacture Of war munitions sub
jects the men who are engaged in
that business, Senator Cummins
said:
"The present situation illustrates
my thought in a startling way. We
are considering the problem of pre-
paredness. 1t is grave, serious
problem and demands the dispas-
sionate and patriotic judgment of
the people of the nation. We ought
to determine the subject in the most
spirit. In this critical moment what
Is the attitude of the makers of arms
and munitions. Without exception,
so far as 1 know, they are insisting
upon the most comprehensive pro-
gram which it is possible to con-
celve, and they are employing,
through all the channels and all the
ihstrumentalities whick mould pub
lie thought, all the forces at their
command for a completeness of pre-
paration that would turn this coun-
try into military camp, and prac-
ucally destroy all ambition, save the
ambition to overcome by force of
arms, the entire world. This is
perfectly natural course for them to
pursue, and l would be astonished If
Ihey were to pursue any other. Their
business is to supply material for
war, and it is not in mortal man to
escape the temptations of gain in the
enterprises in which they are en-
gagged"
SOME SAMPLE PROFITS
Senator Cummins submitted some
startling figures to show the war
prohts' gathered in by few men,
not only in this country, but in bell
igerent Europe.
Since August /, 1914,-the day
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