Republican farmer., 1919-06-06
CAN GERMANY MAKE WAR AGAIN?

| common Germany will never be able to 1 make again does not rest rounded considera lion of all the evidence but enthusiasm for certain present conditions transitory. Germany given army of than 100000 Conscripon is abolshed armamen reduced munitions plants de- slroyed the navy cut small proporons great indemnity will be charged.
 These precautions ought sufficient for the present They ought to kcrp iiernany out of war for twenty At the end of another twenty years there be such improvement in human outlook preclude When the human mind is sufficiently educated to think there will te
 Every rooted in the past extends its trunks through the and has branches and leaves whicl, hidden in the future.
 In the matter of power Germany has millions Since the will 10 fight is largely matter of belief is possible to bld upon the idea that Germany is permitted 3efence, a powerful movement for much military power
 The indemnity may prove a strength; certain to do people becomes strong by work and self enia The Germans put to their utmost bv conditions inn posed upon hem will be under the necessity of thinking eny their task They must feed themselves and the great o the France went through similar after the FrancoPu and emerged stronger and richer
 In the stuay of history easy the sudden of peoples un inc instant obscure unmpor ant Tn the annals of the mes Ancient and powerful states otter and fall the height their seeming prosperity states appear, become dominant and in their turn fail
 There is much to suppose that the old from too much prosperity and especially by the of s-sem which prosperity from the of the people.
 certainly new powers arrive because their people strong and thrifty habiuaed to self-denial virtues of those engage in useful occupa on from which each derives enough and
 In the history of na appears the miracle of Mahomedan conquest when the industrious and ru gal The decadence of the Mahomedan dynases appa- rently consecuence of wealth gained by little effort.
 The Roman Empire made of citizens careful. frugal patriotic Tine wealth that from Roman conquests pois o'.ed the nation, until it died.
 So of sparis power when the easily gold of Aztecs and the pcruvial.s did it's 1ethal
 History that tribute has the injurious to the conIuerjne than to the conquered
 From the historical view justified in upposng national power including military power does not upon particular state of armament particular hers of he gnude of the navy, upon oeniaty to produce such things This potenaly would quality of Inc industry of the people, their frugaity of their inventive power and
 It becomes necessary then, to deeper The to It that in Central Europe they do not build system stronger than that which construct This maxim does not that remedy dntegra:a the systems the conquered. only from the construction by the Allies of system trinscallY as strong any other.
 Broadly speaking. state which desires to be military not for few years only but to that all it's in industry of coonaon exists between industry and industry within the I-nds of industry
 If cannon outranges another, ship is faster consequences those which occur when greater force meets lesser The s1ccumb industrial between the stronger and the weaker will be multiplied The industrial and social system provide they
 It becomes the therefore to take stock finding the best method of organization. The method ganzation will be that most productivity and the aest distribution ideal o De sought IS naOn which there work for a in which he work done with species II, which the of work distributed where in necd though there may many are beyond fear of
 THE TIME WILL COME