Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-02-21
MiLlTARieM AND THE SCHOOLS.
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by request of Mr.. ]. S. Christensen

AND the SCHOOl8.
We publish the following clipping
by request of Mr.. J. S. Christensen
Of Lake Andrew:
(From the Patriot Phalanx.)
Under the drive of a we'll financed
and aggressive military combine at
the capital city, at Washington, it is
being planned for legislation to reach |
out for the children of the United
States. They are to be claimed for
the army and navy under the cloak Of
preparedness" The mothers boys,
from the ages OF twenty to twenty
three, are to be trained for war on the
plea OF "healthful exercise"
1.-The thing you would put into tho
life of a nation you must put into Its
schools" From the public schools
has been taken the Bible, with its
teachings of love and truth and hon
esty, and it's. tenderness toward the
weak. its bidding to do Justice, TO
love mercy, and walk humbly with
thy Cod" There will now be an at
tempt to put into the schools ideas OF
war with its pride and pomp. it's hate
and ruthlessness Instead of the b.
BILE there is to be introduced militar-
ism, summer training camps, the hard
ening OF hearts. brute force, the old
law of an eye for an eye, tooth for
q tooth; all this by race which
claims to have walked some nineteen
hundred years in the footsteps of Him
whom we profess with our lips to love
and obey.
All this for preparedness" For
preparedness" there has been laid a
burden of taxation upon us for the
payment for guns and dreadnaughts
and forts and gold-braid officers; for
submarines and airplanes and powder
and shrapnel and engines of destruc-
ton innumerable; burden which will
Cypress US and our children and our
children's children. For these wicked
things the children must be stinted in
their food, their clothing, their educa-
ton; all their advantages and oppor-
! tunities.
The militarists have gained vastly
greater power in our government, in
the past three years, than a patient,
unresisting people dream; they are
now preparing to rivet 1t on and cinch
it down with the aid of a money con.
trolled press, moving pictures and
legislation.
While the nations of Europe. in a
complete gehenna of slaughter. mis-
cry and CHASTITY death, are reaping the
fruit of militarism, this nation must
arouse itself and throw off the black
destruction which is being stealthily
thrust upon it.
"Your gold and your silver are rust
ed, and their rust shall be for testi
mony against you. and shall eat your
flesh as fire." What is the rust Of
silver and gold but the waste of it fol
war and destruction, for drunkenness
sin and folly?
We do not need compulsory mill
tary training for children; we neet
food and clothing. We do not neet
to teach them how to kill: we neet
to teach them how to preserve lifs
and make the most Of it. We do no
need to teach them the law of whole
sale murder and robbery; we need tt
teach them the law of love and mercy
J; The law of love and mercy "blessetl
} him that gives and him that takes.
3 The law of might curseth him tina
2 gives and him that takes.
3 Germany is an illustration Of tn
latter law. They took the earnings o
J. the people for war purposes. The
+ took their youths from useful EN-
. ployment and taught them to max
! war. They talked Of "world power
I and drank to ''the day" "The day
is here, and. Germany is a besiege
nation; the grave yard of millions;
!. house Of mourning: Our hearts 60 on
/, to her in pity. and to all the other ne
"A lions dragged into the bloody ghastl
destruction wrought on Europe toda
9 by mittarism backed by money.
; Resist beginnings" warned tn
;. great thinker, Thomas Carlisle. An
q resist beginnings" is the trumpe
q call which should sweep the Unite
8 States today. or this nation, too, wi
J. 60 down in a weller of blood, unde
( the iron heel of militarism: the rus
+ Of its gold and its silver which sha
l. eat of it's flesh as fire."-Patriot Pha
n anx