Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-05-05

ourselves unarmed without organ
lied armies and without an adequate
navy would be exposed to hostile at
tack to destroy our ship yards, our
navy yards. our principal arsenals
and levy ransom and tribute upon
nearly half the Wealth OF the nation
without serious resistance on our
part We can permanently depend
upon the fleet OF our allies to save
US from invasion.
II we do not wish to become mil
itary nation with great standing ar
mics. we must maintain the biggest
navy in the world to stand between
our peaceful shores and the worlds
greatest armies. At the present stage
OF history. our fleet In the Atlantic
must be maintained superior to the
German navy: our fleet In the Pa
cif,c superior to the Japanese navy
and our two fleets combined superior
to the British navy. Then we could
live in peace and security and our
rights would be respected abroad.
In control OF the seas. We would
insure without protest from Abroad
the effectiveness of the Monroe Doc
trine in the Atlantic and the open
door policy in the Pacific. ultimately
insuring the extension over all OF the
high seas OF the principal OF equal
opportunity to all nations in the
competition for the commerce and
wealth of the world. In such COM
petition the great armaments would
become a handicap. Then the mill
tary nations would probably join
American leadership in developing
an international government for the
collective protection of the nations.
The Hague conference could then
evolve itself into an international
narliament. The Hague court into an
international tribunal and league
mr. council into an international ex-
ecutiye. When at last this interna-
tional government finally proved
able to protect the individual ma
tions and to settle their difhculties
bv regular recourse to justice, then
these individual nations would vol
UNFAIRLY lay aside their unprofitapie
and unnecessary ornaments just as
individuals under the development
NJ civil government on the frontier
finally laid aside their weapons.
Thus Americas permanent controi
of the seas is not only our own best
means of protection in case OF war;
our real guarantee against war;
whether direct or indirect, when oth-
ers are at war, but 1t is the flrm
means for the protection OF the
rights of the weak, the rights OF hu-
manity and is the real road leading
to Justice between nations and ulti-
mately to peace upon earth and the
brotherhood Of man.
Any living organism to survive
must remain in harmony with the
laws of nature, the most fundamen-
tal of which Is the law OF develop
ment or evolution. Science has re-
Gently discovered that alcohol Is the
specific for degeneracy and causes
any living thing to go backward
bringing down the course OF nature
the shortening OF the life and the
blighting Of the offspring.
A young man starting at the age
of 20 and living total abstainer at
tains the average age of 65; as
temperate drinker he dies at 81; as
heavy drinker he dies at the age
Of 35. Twice as many men die be-
tween the ages OF 25 and 30 as
would die II there were no liquor
The nation needs these young men.
Three times as many men die be-
tween 35 and As as would die II
there were no liquor. The nation
needs these men in their prime.
II both parents are total abstain
ers, nine out OF ten OF their children
are normal. n they are both alco-
holic, only one out Of six is normal.
A nation debanched by alcohol must
perish. Every civilized government
now realizes that real preparedness
demands first OF all that nation be
sober.
A dry America in permanent con-
troll Of the sea is the real foundation
for our preparedness and for our
greatest contribution to the cause OF
! peace in the world.