Milford chronicle., 1921-02-04
HOW TO DISARM
(From Harvey's Weeklvl

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There must be disarmament The need is so obvious
as to automatic It would be impossible for the nations
of the world for this nation to regain normal
conditions Of official and popular prosperity and al
the time to continue the military expend-
tures the last few years. If that not if
could regain the prosperity to which entitled while
still bearing this burden would impossible to justify
such a course It is a fundamental principle of popular
government that there shall be raised by taxation only
such revenue as is required meet the necessary
penses Government and it is equally fundamental
that expenditures of the Government shall be only such
necessary to supply the needs of the people, whose
the Government is The people have need of
boated ornaments Therefore these must be reduced
Let the greatly armed Powers begin the process of
disarmament First of ALL of course, must be that crmi
nal Power which of all most heavily armed ITSELF which
compelled the others in sedefense against it, and
which employed armament wantonly and Indignantly
against the peace of the world and the integrity of civil
ization We should not ask expect the Allies to dis
arm until Germany has at least fully disarmed
she herself agreed that should be- the Treaty of
Versailles When that is done the Allies safely and
will doubtless gladly reduce their ornaments to the small
lest practicable fraction of their present strength
America may well lead the way, in a double sense:
By inviting nations of the world to consider the
ton and to cooperate in disarmament and by herself TAX
ing the initiative and setting the example, General Tasker
Bliss who speaks with exceptional authority upon the
subject recently expressed the opinion that the
United States were to invite nations fair discus
sion of the question reduction of amaments the fav
response would be prompt and inevitable 1t is in
conceivable that any nation would decline such inv
ation would regard it otherwise than sympathetcaly
the certain because of the vast difference be-
such discussion and the agreement which might
result from it, and arbitrary dctaon by five selfchosen
nations to the other forty. of the most
versely maadroit provisions Of the Covenant of the
League that all suggestion prescription and enforcement
of reduction and limitation Of ornaments should be
ercsed not by the Assembly representing all nations but
by the Council permanently dominated by self-appoint
ed Big Five That meant that the five most heavily armed
countries of the world should dictate to all the what
they should maintain It not in such fashion that
world is to be freed from the burden Of crushing
aments =
It ought not to be necessary again to repeat the
plantations and arguments profusely during the
last few years. to the effect that there and vi
tai correlation between reduction of the standing army
and military training of the people This nation would
be better prepared for against aggres
sionwhch is the only kind Of foreign that need
to be prepared for-with army of only a hundred
thousand but with millions Of it's young train
ed to become efficient officers and soldiers at short notice
in emergency, than it would be with standing army
Of million and its citizenry entirely unframed.