Imperial Valley press., 1920-01-06

than were ever ordered at any one time
~ any nation; they are to be super
lreadnaughts, armed with 16-inch and,
I believe even 1S-inch guns. They are.
of course, for the purpose only of
shooting bouquets of flowers at the
world. daughter and applause)
Z. s. To Arm Also
More than that Two hundred and
| fifty thousand men are demanded for
the navy. A personnel of a quarter of
a million men in time of profound
peace. Then comes the army, then
comes Mr.. Baker, demanding five hund-
red and seventysiX thousand permanent
soldiers in this country professional
soldiers, and going before the senate
committee he and General March both
testified that they must have that many
men in order to redeem our obligations
under the League of Nations that is
to give us eternal peace without bat
ting an eye. daughter and applause).
Moreover, on top of that they demand
the military appropriations such as the
world has never heard of before and
on top of that universal military service
in this country so that every boy be-
tween the ages of 8 and 20 years shall
serve at least three months in the army
and Mr.. Baker said that was long
enough. because the experience of this
war had shown you could make a sol
dier in that time, and they proposed to
supplement that with the involuntary
draft.
New Military Bill
When you take up military bill,
you find it written in the military bill
that whenever war is declared against
any country, that the draft shall be-
come Immediately operative and the
president can call out every man in
this country between the ages of Is and
AS years. This is the preparation that
we made for the time when you are to
be beating your spears into plough
shares-Or, your swords into plough
shares, and your spears into pruning
hooks. This is the proclamation that
is made to us. in fact, showing the dawn
Of the millennium. Why, sir, 1 would
like to see the thing turned around. I
could have some faith in this thing. If
Great Britain had said, yes, we are
ready to send our vessels into port and
take off all cannon, we are ready to dis
band our armies, you and all the other
nations of the world can stand here un-
armed and we will trust to God and to
this great league"-When l find a man
signing an agreement with his enemy,
or with his friend, by which he says
we are to live at peace together and
I then | catch him down at the hardware
store buying more revolverS than he
ever had in his life before, l know he
signed that agreement in bad faith.
i daughter and aDplauSe)
Argument just Begun
! | have just one word to say to you
! in conclusion, and l have not scratched
the surface of this argument. l have
not touched it. | could talk here and
read here and demonstrate here by the
hour. l simply have this to say to you.
what of the faith of the world? What
has been Americas part in it? When
the flag was unfurled by the revolu-
| tionary fathers there was not free
! people in this whole wOrld-a really free
people. We lighted the beacon fires
upon the hills of human hope Every
! slave in the whole world who lifted his
bloodshot eyes and got a glimpse of the
glory of that flame felt it was lighting
itself within his heart So, monarchs
began to tremble in their capital and
tyrants let their swords fall from palsi-
ed hands until in all this world, be-
cause of the example of America, there
are only a few despots upon their
thrones, and with these despots we pro-
pose now to make our bargain and help
them to control the world. l decline
| to do it, sir. l decline to be party to
that sort of agreement. Let America
pursue her high course. Let us strength
Ion, in 1pt
strengthen ourselves in our industry;
let US strengthen ourselves in our intel
ligence; let us build the temple of liber-
ty secure and strong and mighty so
that wherever the oppressed of the
earth may gaze upon it, they will know
that there is an example of free gov
ernment and so shall become the bene
, factors of the world, benefactors in the
| future as we have been in the past, and
! if ever the time comes when the rights
of men are assailed so that we see a
general collapse of the world, let the
men of that day look at the question as
they then see it. so that ia the provi-
dence of God, if they believ the inter-
ests of humanity and the interests of
the United States of America demand
! it, why should be turn aside.
Futufe OF y. >.
Let us look at the picture. A little
body of 13 colonies, 100000 people in
all. battling and struggling in the Wild
erness, without a cannon and without
ship when they began that fight Now
behold they have conquered this contin-
ent They are the greatest people in
all the world they have given hope to
humanity. They are today the fore
! runners of a splendid future for all the
race, but if we put this country under
the control of these influences against
which our fathers fought, if you give
to kings the right to interfere in the
affairs o. .A.H Great nation, if you turn
our iot0-T;c t'N~ol destiny over to the
hands OF these our enemies, these the
enemies of the human race, you will
have destroyed all that was gained,
you will have brought our country back
to the point where Washington found
it, entangled in the coils of the kings
of the world
League Cannot BE