South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-02-03
AGAINST MILITARIsM.
EDITOR NEWS-TIMES:

EDITOR NEWS-TIMES:
Dear Sir
There are but few who will gain
say the genius of GinZot for gather
ing facts and forming just conclu-
sions therefroHi. In his History of
Civilization in Europe" page 265. ne
says: Free institutions are a guar
antee, not only for the prudance Of
governments but also for their sta
bility. Energetic characters disap-
pear along with independent situa-
tons and free and high spirit arises
from a security Of rights. page
266. And again on page 269 he
says, Il wish to call your attention
10 the gravest fact IL is
the danger, the evil. the insurmount-
able vice of absolute power. where
soever it may exist. whatsoever
name it may bear, and for whatso-
ever object il may be exercised"
The foundation and support OF alb
solute power is THE MILITARY.
Without it there would have been
no &c asar, no Napoleon. no "inqui-
sition," no "Prussianism." The dam
ger here in this country is not so
much from a Caesar, a Louis XIV,
or any one man. but from a combi-
nation of a few men called the
money power" Conditions brought
about by enabling a few to buy up
the inventions that take the place of
individual labor in manufacture and
distribution. put it in the power of
the few to own the jobs of a vast
ajority and thereby give the power
to enslave the vast majority to those
few who possess most of the wealth
and the machinery of life, such as
railroads. manufactures and coal
mines and by purchase of the very
government itself Why the alleged
outlay OF $4,000 for the senator
ship by representatives of Michigan
in securing that office that pays a
salary of only 10000? If the
money power put such a price on a
senatorship in order to secure a ma
jority Of the legislative branch of
the government 10 balk a radical,
patriotic president in his measures
of reform, what will such a party
do with a standing army Of 500, 900
men?
The word goes forth that we
must set aside day to cele-
brate the memory of our First
Citizen" Why? BE cause he
was a tool Of the rich He was Graf
~ and he had physical courage and
over and above all he didn't care a
continental for democracy. The
profiteers framed him up for the
presidency on his return from Afri-
ca and no man that ever lived has
| had so much press agency and so
much AUDITORY fireworks fired TO
make him popular as Roosevelt
/ Born and educated in the palaces OF
! New York, he never admitted but
/ two honorab BILE classes of men. the
millionaire and the cowboy. and his
great hobby was military training
Grant that there is still the danger
OF war from competition, from an
over-zealous competition in CONNER
cial affairs between nations. also in
/ that scheme of the league OF nations
! Some sort of preparedness is needed
to police the situation, and 10 garri-
son fortified posts such as the
/ coast cities, PdDdfnd anu the Hllip'
pines, but aside from this necessity
a great idle standing army of 500,
! 900 men is tommy rot and is surely
a rotton menace TO our liberties The
profiteers want il and the manufac
| turers want it, military men Of
course. wont it. 1t is perfectly obvi
Gus why they all want il. Directly
furnishing supplies to so big force
means money in some ones pocket
It means a body of human killers a
the beck and call of labor employs
10 intimidate the just demands o
those who want better wages anC
shorter hours TO meet a true anC
patriotic citizens right to elevate hi
condition in matters of education
recreation and rest. There are thos
who say that the physical develop
ment of the human kind outweigh
the danger of education toward mill
arism. This is nonsense. Ylay
grounds. gyms. civil athletic training
will come in better ways than teach
ing the young to some day set up il
this country that for which our sol
diers died to wipe out in Germany
c. +. HAMMOND.