Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-21
LOYAL TEACHERS
NEEDED, SAYS 7. r.

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Army and navy, and among civil
ians by judges. The men and wom-
en- who train the citizenship of the
next generation are engaged in a
task as important as that of the
soldier on whose trained valor the
safety of the present generation de-
pends or as that of the judge to
whom we especially look for the
safeguarding of the highest stand
ard of civic integrity.
Peculiar honor is due judge, SOL
der and teacher who do we'll their
Vitally important work; and in each
OF the three professions those who
DO well form the great majority.
But as corollary to this we should
show a special insistence upon this
good behavior, in each case, and we
| should visit upon those of each pro-
tession who go wrong a severer con-
demnation than upon ordinary citi-
Zens.
applies Standard OF Patriotism
Soldier, judge and school teacher
should be held to the same standard
of patriotism and of fealty to the ma
ton and the flag; and patriotism
means devotion to this nation and
| this flag, and to the orderly liberty
our Government expresses.
That species of internationalism
which insists upon loving other coun-
tries as much as our own stands on
| a level with that species of coniugal
affection which finds expression in
loving another woman as we'll as
ones own wife; each is a crime: the
! first is treason and the second is
bigamy; and in the present stage of
world development one crime is no
more defensible than the other.
| Treason in the concrete is not off
set by mushy sentimentality about
humanity in the abstract. The
| teacher should no more be permitted
to preach treason than the Army
| officer. If either complains that this
infringes his liberty of speech he can
at once regain that liberty by leaving
the public service.
"Even outside the service in time
of war there are certain limitations
which must be put upon speech-in
fact as l need hardly say to a body
of scholars and students and schol-
arly people, while civilization means
a steady increase of that liberty
which implies immunity from wrong,
it also of necessity means a steady
diminution in that kind of liberty
which implies the doing of wrong
to ones neighbor or the doing of
wrong to the body polite as a
whole.
1--WE do not require Army and
Navy officers and school teachers to
swear allegiance to international
mankind; their allegiance is to this
nation; they must, of course, show a
| pannrntIG 1ncirn n
show mercy to all men and women:
but their loyalty must be to this flag
in peace and war.
Foolish or disloyal creatures tell
us not to agitate at this time the
question of permanent preparedness,
because even the pacifists are now
backing the war, and we ought to
think of nothing but winning it,
insist, and have always insisted,
that our first object should be at all
costs to win the war and that it
would be infamous to accept any
peace except the peace of over
whelming victory. But to introduce
universal military training for our
young men under 21 now will be q
most efficient step for winning the
war; and if we wait until peace
comes all the professional pacifists,
being gentry of inconceivably short
memories, will at once raise their
old-time shrill clamor against pre-
paredness.
Remember that for two and a
half years after the world war broke
out we as a nation acted on the the
| ory of these pacifistS that IL we kept
unprepared and submitted with hum
BILE cheerfulness to insult and mur-
der we would be able to keep out of
war. Well, we tried the experiment.
We kept unprepared.
Paciflst Policy Failed
I'VE not merely turned the other
cheek, but meekly presented our en-
tire person to German brutality.
And we did not keep out of war.
We merely made ourselves helpless
ly unable to amount to anything for
a year after we We're dragged into
the war. Our pacifists kept this
country unable to fight and yet put it
where it had to fight and did fight.
"The real crime of pacifists is not
that they don't fight, but that they
keep themselves and the nation ut
terly unfit to fight effectively. In the
end pacifists generally fight; but, as
they never began to prepare until
the end has come, they never fight
effectively. OF 100 pacifsts who
clamor against war ninety can in the
emu Dt hlChtu INTO NdI. f0uI II Is
too late to prepare effectively when
this has happened. Pacifsts don't
avert war They merely avert pre-
paredness for war---or rather pre-
4 paredness against war, for while
preparedness does not make peace
certain, it is the one method of
making it probable.
I'VE as a nation have been guilty
of ignominious folly because we fol-
lowed the advice of the American
pacifists and did not prepare for this
war; these American pacifists there
by proved themselves the efficient
tools of the German militarists; and
now, having got US unpreparcd into
this war they seek to prevent us
from preparing our strength so as
to minimize the chance of another
war and to ensure us against disaster
If another war should unhappily
come"