Republican farmer., 1919-03-07
WHY WE MUST END WAR

4 by the war, either in battle, or by massacre, or by sarvatOn by nfuenza consequence Of other borne diseases.
 The fighting in the beginning of the was conducted in comparatively fashioned way. the weapons to be in being but the of them had been little developed.
 'There were submarines flying machines mines traction engines guns other things. There tanks and depth bombs War not in the beginning duced very largely against noncombatant populations The idea of sending merchantmen the botom with all board later development Not at first cities showered with high explosives Poison gas late improvement As the toward its end the chief weapons had become the submarine the flying machines poison tanks and the constantly improving rain of high explosives.
 None of these things had been brought to anything like the point ol Perleeuoh Whch must nave been arrived al III year or two The United States would have hurled into the conestwhn another year. flying machines than there
 were in the whole of Europe when the armisce signed these flying machines would carrying four five times great the combined carrying power of all aeropIanes existence ii, 1918.
 The first time the Germans used gas, they failed to enough hand and they did not fully appreciate the deadly work their gas was doing This was fortunate Much military opinion exists to the effect that with and more skill in it's the conflict would have been settled the spot in favor of Germany.
 On signed of gas was in it's infancy but being developed and tions being made for the larger efficient of The United States, especially preparing large quantities of reputed to be deadly than anything
 the field gases probably fly and difficult to guard against than that used It the history of every weapon that is improved is n likely that during the period elapsed
 first Of the signing of the armisice that the poss btes of this weapon, fully realized The edges of the art but reached.
 Tanks into the almost at the end They were getting larger and faster Many kinds process of developments adapted to kinds of This of the service becoming constantly vaste the maintaining it gigantic beyond computation Unless men can have some security against war; guarantee against increasing armament pledges making for disarmament the provision personnel may be more expensive than the former cost of maintaining
 Flying comparatively simple mechanisms in the beginning had been improved and refined endre of treasure and yet this branch of service in it's infancy
 There planes observation photography map drawing There combat pane and those which used for bombing There would planes service The ships the air becoming bigger they carrying more men, more high explosives and more bombs
 The ordinary implements specialized into coster and deader The shoulder rifle replaced with machine guns and individual automatic guns.
 Artillery had been built upon scale Napoleon never dreamed of Smaller constructed by the and of housands and Big Berhas essential to efficient combat
 No longer struggle between armies. It was struggle between nations: struggle very side &e conflict who might be involved Because had become economically and ndustriay unity, neutral could exist who did not in aid combaan the injury the other Another year conflict and all entered to the last African and the ultimate white on the American continent.
 became, between peoples in the of the millions that bore but in the of the labor the millions who did bear service behind the trenches ica, 5000 miles distant from the actual fighting.
 More and brought by process of direct kill ing to The slnkngs on the sea- the bombing the land but tiny evidences of what the next must be, if it is permitted to happen
 In the next it will be possible to exinguh whole eft e in the night while the citizens sleep craft each carry ing tons of poison will fly five feet above the city sweeping down from heights Eac will release it's of eha fruid which heavier than will settle upon the abodes of the inhabitants leaving the tale only few.
 The cost of preparation for will rest upon the peoples appalling burden against which the working will rebel with terrible energy.
 It is not sufficient to keep army and navy will cost than the service under water ships than the service ships flees moving the surface will be expensive than ships used to be-
 There must be told off for thous lands the best trained of the geographers the choicest minds for the earnn