The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1916-03-02
PREPAREDNESS
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average journal to listen to the average conversation to
realize that this the We say more rightly because
it abvous that upon the acceptance or rejection of the
idea immediate future of the country NAV enend and
because this being it is necessary that clear concert
should gained of what the ordinary man means bv and
the country prepared to accept preparedness AS is al
ways the the controversy has given to statements
of the opinions the application of the most
ultra arguments In the eyes of people preparedness
is synonym for mtarism, in the eyes others it is mere
precauon for defense In the opinion of many it anahea
to every properly balanced mind in the opinion of others it
is national responsibility which it would be tratorous to
neglect YET it is surely obvious that these various opinions
all be true just is obvious that millions of thought
full people cannot either be boodhrsty mtars
or half-hearted poltroons
Now there certain facts which may be accepted we
think by both Sides and acceptance of which will do much
clarity the dispute 1t must be admitted in the place.
that evil will always arm ITSELF and that it will be prepared
take definite and immediate advantage of any sign weak
the part of those whom regards egmaey
prey the doctrine of to be accepted
utely there is nothing do in except to await
the result trusting In the power Of good to build de-
fense Now if the of good absolutely scientifically
understood by the people who do this they would have
cal and mpregnabe argument defense of their opinions
Such stand being scientific one, would however, be capable
of demonstration in ways minor to the resisting of some
great political conspiracy these earlier and
simple demonstrations therefore, of the power good have
been made it is clear that the non-resser relying
theory protection he incapable DEMONSTRATING and
ready deliver himself and his country be submerged
by the flow of evil rather than to resist it physically IT,
the other hand the theory of conditional
If is not the resisted of evil will be maddened and
nfurated by this inefficient resistance into the preparation
of deeds OF violence and revenge.
Now does the history of the world prove that mankind has
reached the point when it's scientific knowledge of good
capable of protecting it against the flow of evil? AS matter
of fact the history of the world that the theory of
big battaons has been toleraby safe for nations to
accept guiding rule apart from ultimate results What
is that if country embarks upon course OF per
sistent wrongdong, it will go eventually to the wall This
the fate of the great empires of the Modes and
PerSlanS. OF the
fate of and of Greece the fate of the Ottoman and the
fate of Spain At the time during the process OF evou
ton which the vitality of those nations being Slapped
by their belief in evil the nations which stood in their
learned whether belief that right and justice gov
ened sufficient to protect them.
What of the freedom of the Hebrew tribes when
the Babyonians descended Galee and Judea9
What became of the independence of the Gau and the Bton
when the Roman legons rampng the Aups and
the Roman gaeys anchored off the white cliffs OF Britain
What the fate of those minor Asian of which
Cyrus made his washpot whom Aexe cast his shoeF
What happened to the islanders of Melos when the remes
of Athens steered into their harbor?
Was the fate of the burgher of Antwerp happier
the night of the Spanish fury than that OF the Aztec or the
Inca in the day of the triumph of Cortez or PlzarroY
Everybody knows what happened In Consannope on the
morning when the troops of the Ka mounted into the breach
The history of the modern world the history of the ancient
world and of the medieval world.
Marshall Duras better than Alva nor did order
reign in Warsaw century ago. by different means than
had reigned centuries before in the city of Constantine
All of which thing and thing only and that
the necessity of the acceptance OF the old motto OF the Vol
unteer Force, Defense not Defiance
IF the nineteen centuries of Christianity which have passed
Chrsendom had really destroyed the OF and
aggression in the human consciousness there would be NO
need for preparedness of Sort and occasion to argue
the question.
If the teaching of the Sermon the Mount had been really
metaphyscay understood and demonstrated Chrsendon
would stand today great healing force and not as shea
of antagonsc nations which have used the human knowl
edge of what called science to perfect engines OF deruc
ton and which have consecrated the battle flags which are
the emblems of national strife Everybody knows only toe
well that this is the
Everybody knows that the passions are raging IN the