The sun., 1919-10-19

that recently laid It's hand upon the
throat of Corea. is now working out the
true Japanese instinct.
Tortures by Japan.
TT has been certified to by the au-
thorities of the Presbyterian Church,
and by the authorities of the Federal
Churches OF Christ that over In Shan
tung at this time they are burning
Christion churches, and they are arrest
ing natives because they are Christians.
They are stripping Christian Corean
girls naked, and flashing them with
bemhpo rods until the flesh drops from
their. bones. They are pressing steel
rings upon the arms of native Christian
Coreans until the blood is forced back
into the heart, and death as horrible
as the Cruciflxion ensues. And this Is
to ne our new partner in the regenera-
ton of the world, our new leader In
the march of Christ.
- Nov, I started n moment ago to talk
to you about this question OF disarma-
ment. Something led me aside \rrom It
for the moment. Let me return to IL
with the preface that l laid down, that
he who says we will have universal
peace yet prepares for universal war
gives the falsehood to his own utterance.
AS have said, Great Britain Is prepar-
ing enormously to increase her fleet.
Sir Admiral Jellfcoe, a few days ago,
recommended to Australia that Austria
liza build an independent feet and 80
all the British colonies are to be asked
to build a great auxiliary fleet. But
at he same time Great Britain has in
creased her standing army from 100000
before the war to 100000 men and
whereas before the war she refused to
adopt a conscript or draft system, and
did not accept 1t until the very last days
of the war, she has adopted the draft
for a time of peace as the permanent
policy of Great britain.
France is making similar prepara-
tons. and Italy is straining every nerve
TO increase her ornaments. Too long 1
would dwell on these II 1 were to I'M
dertake to go into details; but let us
come to our own beloved land. The
largest standing army we ever had in
a time of peace was $4,000 men and
that was speedily reduced Generally,
in later years, with some shadow of
trouble in Mexico always as an irritat-
ing cause. we had about 10000 reg
ulars
And now. what is the situation? The
Administration comes forward and de-
clares that we must have n standing
army in the time of peace of 500. 900
men and Gen. March and Secretary
Baker have both sworn or testified be-
fore the Military Committee that we
must have 100000 men to redeem our
obligations under the League of Ma
lions. And he has said that Is not
sufficient unless all the other nations
furnish their full quotas: he intimated
that IL any of them fall down we will
have to have a larger number of men.
"Ah. but that is not all by any manner
of means. 1t is proposed that we shall
have. in addition to this, universal mill
tary training. That every boy, upon
arriving at the age of 10, shall become
subject to military duty for a period of
three months, and this bill is proposed
as an adjunct to the League Of Nations.
! have no objection to a reasonable
amount of military training. but / want
ii in order to defend America and not TO
fight all over this world. [Applause.l
Mandate Only Occupation.
I'VE are told, and the Administration
leaders have introduced in the Senate
resolutions, that we shall accept what
they call a mandate over Turkey, and II
is estimated that that will require an
army of 100000 troops kept broad at
the expense of the American taxpayer
and there will be war there, for the Turk
will resist. Then the draft will auto
matcally go into force.
My countrymen. want to say a
word about that. You car call these
things by fine names, you can call them
mandates If you like. but what they are
is a military occupation what they are is
the crushing of a people under the iron
chariots of war. What they are is sim
I DlV a rendition of what Rome Oerna-
trated for centuries, when she held in
her mailed hands half the world and
controlled them by her legions.
| Let us have some sense and not be
deceived by terms. Are you ready to
have your sons go there for service
Are you ready that this shall be donI
Right now they are recruiting. and /