El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-24
SCOUTS
DANGER Of WAR
Statesmen Declare There Is
No Necessity for vii
sons Nations League.


the principal arguments IN the SEN
ate against the ratification Of the
league OF nations, which has not been
that the nations OF the world wiz be
that the nations Of the gorld viii be
unable 10 fight again among them
selves for the next 100 years why
then. senators ask. viii there be ne
esssity for league OF nations7
These senators say. IN reviewing
history for comparisons. Il seems
likely that there VII be peace IN
Europe for the next century. league
or no league.
II viii be the peace Of exhaustion,
the peace OF shuddering fear OF any
thing that lets loose upon the world
again the horrors OF the four years,
from 1914 TO 1878.
All the European countries en-
gagged in the war have been so ter
ribly Impoverished by II that they
thought OF adding 20 their burdens OF
taxation.
A general accepted statement IS
that Germany Will not be able 10 pay
her enormous var indemnity IN less
than So years, and it may take 50
years.
France Is IN no better shape. while
italy Is on the verge OF bankruptcy
Great Britain. with her immense com
merce. may possibly recoup earlier
than any OF the others. but her peo-
pie viii feel the burden Of the war
keeniy for at least 25 years
New states Burdened.
The new nations which have been (
created. Poland. Czecho-Sloval<ia and /
Jugo-Slavia, while they are not bur I
deued by enormous debt Ike the !
Other countries. have what Is equival- i
ent 70 them in the necessity Of vast T
expenditures TO build up their polite
al machinery. Armies. navies. public E
buildings and other expensive neces- 4
sites for a state. win have 20 come ]
into being and the burden OF the cost 3
OF this viii fall heavily upon peoples
who have nothing 70 start with They
VIII be IN no mood for war.
United States Richest.
The United states IS the only na-
ton that can be In any shape for
war. and we, certainly, are not going
TO make war. While we have e debt
OF probably $4,000. 100000 when
everything is sealed down. this IS less
than one tenth OF our national
wealth. and the weight OF the burden
upon Us VIII rapidly decrease from
year TO year, as soon as truzalily
takes the place OF the debauch OF
spending in which the country has
whirled for the last few years. It ie
true that We are going 10 eroan loud
" and continuously FOR i've OF SIX
years. probably q decade, but. in the
meanwhile, there viii be prudent and
conservative laws made TO repair the
excuses OF our spendthrift orgie- and
the onerous taxation viii melt away
as rapidly as did the burden Of the
r-s,-s1 We nh. w..
The civil war debt was compare
lively heavier than the present debt
IN 1866 or, rather at the end OF the
fiscal year 1855, the national debt was
about $4,000. 100000 and was carried
By about 10000 600 people In the
Ioyal states. AZ that time the dollar
cost more 10 get than 10 does today
and our $1,000 900, 900 OF Indebtedness
was a heavier burden on the 1o.ooe.-i
zoe taxpayers than 5so0e. oQo. goo
VII be on the 1oo.Qoo.ooo people q
the country. Furthermore. the nation
a wealth is increasing every day by
leaps and bounds. and IN five years
S25. 600 0oo,0 0o viii be very much
smaller In proportion 70 the wealth
u that time than the s3.0oo.9Qo.oQ OF
100000, the sum az which our nation
y wealth was then estimated.
IN spite OF what was then regarded
IS a colossus OF debt, and the intoler-
lble burden OF <l6u,lQQuQ0 interest II
4 year IN gold. as early as 1879, or
sight years after the surrender a.
we began to feel meas
Irably free from debt and IN 1873. OF
q years after the close OF the war.
re resumed specie payment and
brought our deprecated currency up
O a parity with gold What we did
hen astonished the world by our
witt recovery. and IN all probability
re win still more astouish the world
> TIE recovery which We VIII make
n the next ten years.
But while we are thus swelling our
RATIONAL riches. the European coun-
rics cannot have any such cheerful
respect before them, but VIII be
ompelied 10 labor along under
rushed mountains OF debt for many
ing years 10 come. This win newt
bly, cripple and hamper them IN
heir competition with Us They VIII
g in a position when the thing most
epugnant TO their thoughts VIII be
ny more war and any repetition OF
be waste and plumber OF Eosilues
In fact, say these senators. no Eu-
opeln nation wiz be IN shape 20
age warfare on a great scale within
% years.