The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-07-29
WHY LABOR IS
OPPOSED TO GUARD
they would not have had.
Easy to RelaDSe.
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Easy to Relapse.
II am warned by regrettable and
unhappy instances which have trans
pired in our own country udrtng the
occurred of late in. England-two
great English speaking nations de-
voted to principles which the saints
of liberty have sacrificed and died to
establish am warned, I say, how
easy it is to relapse and hasten on the
back track to the old, brutal, cow
ardly. cruel days of arbitrary power.
do not want to take any further
steps in that direction: do not want
by the spirit of militarism, on the one
hand, and conscious of its political
power on the other, combining both
for every emergency to it's own inter-
est fastened upon the taxpayers of
this country. I want to know before
take the first steps where the last
steps are going to lead. {.
sin of all nations. It seems to be in
the blood, and though for years it
may not reveal itself, upon some un-
toward occasion it breaks out, as it
has in Dublin, in all it's hideous, re-
pulsive and hellish deformity. I do
not want to feed this spirit. + do not
want under the gtlise OF preparedness
to foster the feeling Of contempt for
civil government and civil courts
which has been manifested so much
Of late $3.50. 80
New Militarism Here.
ut is easy to have q republic in
name and have d despotism In fact,
and when men are tried in times Of
peace and while the civil courts are
open by military. authority, we have,
In fact: "a despOtjsm under whatever
| name 1t may pass among men.
The ufd form Of mflitarfsm, the
| man on horseback, the crossing of the
Rubicon, the coup d'etat-these are
ancient and out Of style and wholly
behind the times. There Is a. more
modern, more subtle, a less risky,
and less suspected method by which
modern militarism under the guise of
law and order, as in West Virginia,
| srpplants the courts and tears down
the guarantees of personal liberty. It
subordinates the civil to the military
authority as happened in the New
York convention, when the influence
Of the state militia defeated the pro-
posed provision to the constitution
| PROVIDING. a jury. trial for civilia ans
when th4acourta were open = ;.
the gallery here through, it's persistent
and well-organized lobby what approti
priationsa shall be made In its interest
and on its behalf. 1t sepds its gen
erals and neutenants here. to the cap
1tal, whose business it is to notify the
constituents Of each senator and con-
gresham that their representatives
assume some views of their own which
are to be shortly! and adequately
changed. 49,.
Only One Kind.
There can be only one kind of
militarism i'm. our republic, and that is
the mtlttarisn which arises by reason
OF the 3combination Of the military
power And the political power. Men
who are organized a. . military force
but exercise their influence under
their organization as q political
force constitute the greater menace
to our institutions. I have less fea,
OF standing army because the PEG.
pie are braced through inherited pref.
udices and beliefs; they are on theil
guard against it; but when you take
an organization organized for militar,
purposes and at the same time active
through political channels and fol
political purposes. 1t becomes an or
gan1zation subject to the direction
and control Of the political genera
who may best mobilize the forces Il
Is NOT the military general who vii
organise: these military forces, but
tho political general. ~ ~.