Arizona republican., 1916-02-10
MT. Davis Embarqo Resolution

We have just received a copy of House Resolu- tion No 12o introduced in the house of representa- tNes on January 31 by Hon. J. II. (Cycone) Davis ol TeNas that We authorize the speaker of this mouse 10 appoint committee of five, three of whom small be the chairman of the ways and means con- hittee the chairman of the committee military affairs. and the chairman of the committee on naval affairs, to confer with the president and his cabine1 to consider, in the face of these possibilities and serious conditions, the question of laying an embargo on the eXportation of arms and munitions as the first step in preparedness and national defense"
 The possibilities" and serious conditions" to which reference IS made in the resolution are set forth in series of "whereases" whose relation to the resolution itself we have not yet been able to discern, notwithstanding the intensive search
 The first whereas refers to a speech in the housa by Hon. J. R. Mann, "advocating huge army and navy urging that tax our people billions of dol lars to maintain army of 30OOOO men and navy equal to the Best in the world and told lis in serious accent and quavering octaves that England was the country would have to fight sa,,ng we must prepare and prepare now" The next whereas refers to the endorsement of this "inros stoned and intense speech" by the leading news papers of the country regardless of political lines
 The succeeding whereas finds that England is the only nation that ever did make war on us and invade our country" and the following whereas uiereupoh assumes that she is the only power that couId make war on us with any hope of success haVlhS Canada in the north, furnishing an excellent base Of supplies and strong of support and haVlhs Japan her yellow ally, who could attack us on the Pacific coast, and having Perpont Morgan. one ol our American tories now serving in every aspect as resident envoy and minister penipoten- tiar!, with the officers of the steel trust and the powder trust as ministers of munitions"
 Then ensues the following:
 whereas the same crowd of leading republicans and leading and the special interests and war uatflckers that urging this massive military program are, many of them magning casteatine ana traducing our president because he does not invade Mexico, so England could have that country as an ally to engage us on the south while she Stormed us on the Atlantic Japan on the Pacific and Canada the north and
 Whereas, it is criminal negligence, extreme folly and wantonly wicked on our part allow these Ahgio-Amercans these mercenary tories these war traffickers to make billions of money in nrenarinp England to fight us and then demand that we pile
 billion dollars into their tlls to prepare us to fight England: Therefore, be it, etc
 We yet fail to see what the embargo has to do with all this. There is nobody just now demanding an invasion of Mexco and in the recent past such demands as were more frequent and insistent were made by residents of Mir. Davis own state And while with most Americans with most people of the world, we believe, that there is something repugnant if not immoral in traffic in death -dealing materials that is practice that has always been recognized by nations. To stop it would not at any rate curta Englands power make war on us in the future and it would certainly not tend to remove any war-like designs against us that England may now entertain We suspect that the resolution is rather one against preparedness than favor of an embargo.