The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-02-22

day will be celebrated throughout the United States, and it is dollars to doughnuts that it's celebration will be made tho medium for 4 strong preparedness campaign.
 1t is fact that Washington has been quoted more than any of the revolutionary fathers as the great authority for strong military estab- lishment, and the fact is quite ably ignored that it was against that as much as against other thing that Washington warned in his last ad- dress.
 q. .... Hence likewise they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments ment are inauspicious to liberty and which are regarded as particu- larly hostile to republican liber- ty".
 Yet it is under the names of these great ones that the historical noces- sity of preparedness is now urged in insidious phrases by those who fear to name the real meaning of pre- paredness and also it's real neces- sity.
 It is not on account of it's logical necessite as q counterpart of an i'm perialistic capitalism; not. because the swollen fortunes of plutocracy will attract the rival am- bitions of the plutCcracy of other nations. not because of the fact that the United States is no longer a self contained republican democracy, but a power with desti- nies shaped in the interests ot world trade, world finance, world industry.
 A distinguished eastern divine urging preparedness in a sermon. said that Europe regards America as a nation of money grabbing mad men, and refuses to take it's peace talk seriously. He aaid in the ab- Sence of any force behind the United States peace activities, armed force, men, munitions and ships of war. the nations after the war woIl1 treat the United tSates as a weak ling.
 1t made one sick, he said to think that little Holland and little Switzer- land had voices regarded as more potent than that cf this e0d.try.
 Why a man gives vent to such il- logical views should be regarded as distinguished it is impossible to say, for there is neither rhyme nor req sou in his rant.
 Former Ambassador Choate said that the United States was the most hated nation in the world today. and this declaration is seized upon by the munitionists and the prepara- tiCnists where they are not one or the same thing, as they almost al- ways are directly or indirectly, t0 show that being hated this country should prepare for war.
 So far we notice that no move has been made that Gs preliminary to war preparedness along the entire Canadian front there should be erected a series of forts strongly garrisoned; that on the great Lakes there should be powerful ships of war and that all treaty agreements to the contrary notwithstanding, this should be done.
 And why is this? If Presiden, Wilson says that Sthe United States navy should be the largest in the World. he doubtless has in vie" preparedness against England and the British empire of which Canada is no mean part. To follow the logic of his navy demands therefore, it would be as reasonable to urge that the boundary line between Britisn- American territory and the Uli.ed States should bristle with big guns and resound to the tramp of arnec millions to defend against invasion
 But that is not urged for the very simple reason that 1t would reduce the preparedness campaign to a logical absurdity; it would show the people of the United Statsg that this hysterical ranting about grea. ar mics and greater nayies is, f9arS
 'i fifths politics and one fifth terror
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