The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-07-27
FORMER GERMAN IS
AN ANTI-MIUTAR
Fred NewhOuSe Once Officer of
Kaiser FdvOrS Peace
SAYS WAR GROWS OUT OF
HATRED OF OUR NEIGHBORS.
Declares Successful Invasion of Am
erica by Foreign Foe Is An Utter
ImpOssibility.

81 am opposed to militarism, and
regret that this country at the present
time seems inclined to follow the foot
steps of European countries in estab-
fishing a large standing army and a
big navy" said Fred Newhouse, of
New York, a former officer in the
German army, who is here looking
over the country. "You are building a
wall around your house, in imitation
of the nations of the old world, and [
think that you are wrong in doing So"
What l mean is this: In old times
the people of Europe were divided
against one another and every man
built a wall around his house because
he was afraid of his neighbor, who in
turn was suspicious of him. You can
go over Europe now and see these old
walls around private houses there.
They are the result of distrust of one
another. Now that spirit is manifest
ed among the nations. One nation
fears and hates another and that be-
gets hatred and so in the course of
time leads to war. Here the people
came to new country. They needed
one another and depended on one an
other, and so they built no walls
against one another and no great arm
You are departing from these ideals.
You have no walls around your houses
against one another yet, but do not be
deceived. The spirit of militarism
which people suspicious of other peo-
pie abroad, makes them suspicious of
one another at home, and the keeping
up of walls against the outside will
cause the growth of suspicion at home
Il blame all the nations for the war
abroad. Suspicion continued to grow
until war was inevitable. To a great
extent blame the press of all coun-
tries. The press of one country abus-
ed the people of the other and charged
them with wicked designs, and finally
the people who read the papers, began
to believe all that was charged. Sup
pose that someone was to tell another
person that you were very bad man,
and someone else told you that he was
a bad man and had designs on you and
tales were carried back and forth and
things were misrepresented, it would
not be long until you and he would be
fighting.
For instance, if the papers in this
country should begin abusing Spain
today and the Spanish papers should
answer in the same way, war would
eventually come out of the situation.
Now, people say that this country is
likely to have war with Japan. That
would be possible if the papers on
both sides should continue to abuse
each other. But why should Japan
want to war with this country? She
has more land in Asia than she can
possibly develop. She can get cheap
labor there and she cannot get it here
and could not get it if she should
actually conquer the country. But
neither she nor any other country
could conquer America. No European
country would try because no wise
country would try what would prob
ably prove impossible 1t would be
possible, perhaps, to capture New
York or San Francisco, but no coun-
try could send men enough here to
make an invasion far inland, and in
short time men enough could be
congregated in the great centers in
the inland country to overwhelm any
force that might be landed.
What do l think the country ought
to do? Well, now that is a big ques-