New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-03-12
HELP GET THE TRUTH TO THE.
PEOPLE.

II l.
The American Union Against Mill
tarism, with national headquarters in
the Westory building, Washington, D. G.,
has issued the following appeal:
Congress has adjourned, conscious
Of the rising tide Of opposition in the
United States to compulsory military
training. But when the new Congress
meets, it will be headed by men who
seem determined, regardless OF the
popular will, to fasten permanent con-
scription upon the country if it is human
ly possible. julius Kahn, who will be
the new chairman of the House Com
mittee on Military Affairs, has just
sailed for France, as he says, to get the
ideas of Foch, Haig and Pershing on
the sort of compulsory military training
system we ought to have. He might
have employed the interval between
this Congress and the next in an effort
to ascertain the views Of the American
people, but apparently he prefers the
ideas of professional soldiers. When
he comes back, he will move heaven
and earth, first, to commit the Republican
party definitely to CONSUMPTION, and then
to force a bill through Congress en-
bodying what he has learned.
"Now is the time for the American
people to make themselves heard en-
phatically. All talk about our adopting
a Swiss system is misleading Tor all the
military training bills thus far introduced
in Congress have been based, not on
the Swiss system, but on the Prusslan
system. If we concede to the mllltarlsts
the principle of peace time compulsory
military training for SIX months
they will continue to agitate until they
reach the goal set by the General staff,
TWO YEARS COMPULSORY TRAIN
ING AND SERVICE for every able
bodied American youth. Nobody IN
Europe will be deceived by our talk
of adopting the Swiss system; II we
adopt ony form of compulsory training,
it. will be regarded as the prompt moblll-
cation of our entire man-poWer Tor
that next war which General Leonard
Wood so cheerfully predicted before the
Kansas legislature. What we do, care
less of our huge strength and sure OF our
nious intentions. Others will feel forced
to do in self-dafense 1t will be regarded
as proof that we do not take seriously
the professions of international good
will with which we entered the war, 1t
will fasten the whole world again IN the
grip of militarism.
1.-THE Sixty-sixth Congress will mark
a crisis. Either we shall adopt an I'M
perialistic course or one that will give
us the moral leadership and the TREND
ship Of the world. Now is the time for
us to assert ourselves. An immense
caste of professional military officers
and huge, tacit league OF newspapers
are pressing day in and day out for a
PERMANENT CONSUMPTION system dis
guised as universal military training,
If you are against it, join us in the fight.
Send US contribution. We need
funds to educate the people to the real
facts, Our opponents are heavily sub
sidized by the $25,000,000 Carnegie
Corporation of New York City. Unless
the friends of democracy join in the
fight, we shall be defeated by the COM
bination now forming against us. Send
contributions to Mrs; Agnes Brown
Leach, Treas, Westory building, Wash
ington, D. c."
Among the names attached to the
appeal are O. g. Willard, chairman
Amos r. E. Pinchot, vice chairman;
Mrs. Henry G. Leach, treasurer; Owen
R. Lovejoy, Herbert S. Big low, Kew
John Haynes Holmes, James Il. Maurer
Edmund C. Evans, Mary McMurtrle
Norman Thomas, L. Hollingsworth WOOD
MISS IONA Gale, Alexander Trachten-
berg, Crystal Eastman and Charles I
Hall:nan. .-..