TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1917-02-13
Not War But Preparedness.
An Outcome To Be Hoped For.

ing the risk OF serving on such ships.
Our government has already euf-
JAILED the issuance Of passports to
American seamen. willing to serve on
ships OF the belligerents. There will
shortly be very few American men
and still less American bottoms found
neal the b~lockaded zone. And that
will remove the LANCER Of our going
to war.
But the Government is preparing
for war. And for a war as If it feared
attacks by the German forces on our
shores, with landing ,orps even.
Congress has been asked for 500 mill
lions OF dollars tor preparation, and
probably will vote il. The national
guard every where in the u. s. will
90 into training, stocks of equipment
and ammunition will be accumulated
And we will try d real great mobil.
ization Of our forces, such as wa
never had, but which every country
in Europe tries Ilore on less every
year. III all looks very real. And We
never would have gotten it without
this German crisis and the whole
bugaboo, worked Up during the last
30 months. We needed preparedness
and we get it. But we need it, In
order that never again England and
Japan may be able 10 command us,
10 bulldoze us, to forbid us TO create
a merchant marine If VIC want one
and to buy one i we care to, from
whomsoeycr we choose To buy. So
that never a country whichever she
might be, will dare TO forbid any
state of the Union to pass the laws
that state sees fit to enact, and thai
no state ever again ma have to eotow
to such displeasure, SO, that neve
again a great American newspapes
like the Chicago tribune shall be
able to say, we need a foreign
country as a protector OF America
and can only find him in Englaud't
and finally so, that England after this
war may not be tempted, figuring on
American unpreparedness, to WIPE
out her debts incurred here IN a wal
against us, with experienced troops re.
leased from her present war. She has
the convenient base in Canada. And
besides wiping out the debt incurred
here il might be still more tempting
to extort a great indemnity, to repay
10 her own people, what she bors
ruwed from them.
England has tried to bring rs IN
this war, to fight her battles. Japan
has done her part as Englands ally
to coerce us to do it. We have sui.
fered real indignities from them and
~n .ar,sfts ~ ~ nfgpf4x rF Aka Gar
and the nation. We have trained
forces in Mexico and on the frontier,
We are training more now.
There are some that say; We have
nothing against Germany, except thai
if she wins, we will have to have
universal service. And we don't want
that.
But truly, we will never need il
because Of Germany, but in order to
have England md her friends observe
manners in the future towards Us, q
nation Of hundred 7illions, which has
been treated like a British depend.
ency. 1t seems to Us, the hope that
this may be the outcome Of the pres
enf situation, is better, higher and
truer Americanisn, than the hysterlc
cry for war with G~rriany, coming
from those who themselves will not
fight, but who as Americans coin
money from others Likelihood and
misery, and from those other British
hirelings, imported by Great Britain,
who manufacture, falsify and discredis
the American press and the American
peoples opinion.