Arizona republican., 1916-04-05
The Funny Paeifists
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The Funny Pacifists
 We have before mentioned the mud like clearness of arguments the pacifists the funerea humoi in which they indulge the efforts in favor of pre- paredness, and their cub-like sarcasm. Nothing more pitifu has occurred contemporaneous liter ature than the writings of the pacifiss. We have just received another installment the Anti Defense Society outlining campaign that has been launched against preparedness. The pacfcists nave constructed q huge dinosaur fifteen feet in length proporticnately built The figure been covered witf'-9luge scales plates. But here pacfsts disregardful of the facts of the Jurassic period as they are those today. They have covered their stegosaur with pates while the real stesosaur had only two rows of hony plates along his back Under their figure they have n- scribed He Wore Armor Plate But He is Now Ex- tinct" The creature has been mounted flat and is be transported from city city in con- trovertible proof of the futility of preparedness
 Some pertinent questions might be asked the pa- cifsts. For instance if the stegosaur had been protected by would he not have become extinct much earlier? How long would this slow-movin have existed in world inhabited by sabre tooth tigers fierce woody elephants and huge bears and wolves? Nature which seldom makes mistakes, armored the stegosaur just she has armored the arrnadio and otn called horned toad. With this the beasts and reptiles protected would be short lived.
 There another animal that lived presumably about the time of the stegosaur and he was not morcd for nature did not intend him for fighting resistance He the earliest pacifist of which we have any record. He about the size of rab- bit and he kept in motion most of the time, for the world full of animals that thirstng his blood. His constant exercise gave him strength and length of limb and body. His descendant is yet among and we call him horse.
 He is extinct while it IS the stegosaur has passed away But We of America must take into that the horse in those early days had bet ter chance than we have now. His enemies had not such wide range our prospective enemies would have They chased the horse a mile so and then gave him up He had hiding places where his larger enemies could not enter. He found concealment in the dense foliage which nature provided for him in- stead Of Nature facilitated his escape in a myriad of ways.
 We not aided by nature If had opportunity to away from enemies de- scendans would probably become of fleet footed towards, like the horse But there is place whitller and no place where hide. We stand and fight This is why wise men are urging preparedness-to put off extinction long possible.
 There sabre-toothed tigers woody ele-
 
 reduced in size and we have control over them but have more dangerous enemies than the beasts the aurassic any other period of the produced. They are highly organized bodies of fighting men armed with terribly destructive weapons Human nature has not greatly changed since the time of the segosaur and the We more civilized in relations with another in time of peace. But it be said that the relations between groups of in different countries have not been changed at all at least for the better. They break out into just suddenly and with little provocation We think that the tendency will be toward greater rapacty. Steam electricity, the cable and increasing populations bringing nations into closer proximity There will be constantly increasing chaffng and in consequence increased and more de- structve wars.
 Men of all nations working along sensible lines toward universal and permanent peace We that it will be attained but the sanguine will not claim that there yet signs of it's attainment. So, meantime we should be prepared for war and against