Arizona republican., 1917-09-23
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 ROME, Sept 22.=The reply of the entente allies to the peace note of Pope Benedict now is being awaited by the Vatican, after which the pope will again address q note to all the bel ligerents. The pontiff will point out that the questions on which all agree really represent the foundation of a new order of things in the world and a new era of peace for humanity. The secondary problems, he will say, can be adjusted easily and better through good will and friendly discussion than by force of arms.
 It is understood the next papal note virtually will embody the views ex pressed by Cardinal Gasparri the papal secretary of state, to the Asso- ciated Press today in commenting upon the situation, after the publica- tion of the reply of the central empires to the pope's note:
 President Wilson's proposal to re- duce armaments and impose interna- tional arbitration by force through a society of nations is a dream" said Cardinal Gasparri. An international army to enforce the verdicts of the court of arbitration? In which coun try would it be located without being influenced by local politics and pre- judices? The moon is the only place possible.
 "All the other inconveniences and objections could be avoided by sup pressing conscription with the pro- vision that it could not be re-estab- lished without a law approved by the people, which in normal conditions would be improbable, indeed, morally impossible. To this some would ob- ject that a certain government would declare war and then present bill to parliament for the adoption of con scription and the formation of large standing army. which parliament would undoubtedly pass from patriotic motives. All this would be possible, but it would be difficult, as such government first would have to violate a treaty signed in conjunction with all civilized nations. Then it would not always be possible to induce parlia- ment to vote large military appropria tions
 Even Bismarck found this to be true several times, but especially when the party of the center succeeded in January, 1887. in defeating on increase in the German army of 1000 men yearly, which so angered the Iron Chancellor that he dissolved the reichstag
 Under conditions we propose. the nation attempting t. violate a treaty with the civilized world would be inn mediately threatened by a general ecc- homie, commercial and financial boy colt. Only mad government would run such risk.
 The suppression of conscription would lead automatically and without any disturbances of public order to dis armament, namely, to the end of mili- tarism. bringing beneficial conse- quences for international peace and also the restoration of economic and financial conditions in the countries exhausted by the present war.
 ''The holy see always has opposed conscription. We always refused to introduce it in our own army, when the pope was temporal sovereign England and the United States are the most splendid examples of how great powers can exist without standing armies. but even these two countries despite their colossal resources once war was declared required a long time before being able to form large army Continued on Page Two)