The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1921-05-05
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what should congress- what should
America do about poison gas war
faref This II the question which
must he a~nswered--one OF the many
epochal questions before the admin
i~stration and before the American
people. Before you. and you. and
you. who read this.
What DO you wan congress TO do
abou. poison gas warfare?
That l. the question for you. what
do you want done?
You want poison gas warfare
stopped. or course YOU do. You
want all warfare stopped. DO. II
least. But 81 course neither poison
gas warfare nor warfare generally
can be stopped by what o and !
think.
Nor can u By what congress thinks
or does. Nor President Harding, nor
Secretary HUGHES. No. ~ warfare u
10 b. stopped. Il must be by forces
stronger than the combined Thoughts
| America. Wal must be stopped by
tho opinions and back Of those tie
actions o. h great nations OF the
world.
Hut, az you ray. we can atop poi
son gas war-or as II l. more cor
rcctiy called. chemical warfare. We
n stop that. which 10 n of the
tWo great Developments In war. This
other Il aviation. Surely, you VIII
all say, now That We see what chemi-
cnl-poiaon gas-warfarc is. we can
stop that. can't wc2
And that Is what W. had better
think about for a little while. II
Wa can stop Il. let US do 80. II we
can't then We must decide congress
and the president and the cabinet
must declde -uhat ~ must do IN "A
World In which poison gas warfare
IL going on whenever ans people In
tellieent enough 20 use u. l. at WAT.
The history. OF tn. world shows
that Whenever any new destructive
agency h discovered IN warfare ~
never II abandoned. no matter what
the objections 90 IL. Tho old fogics
the knights IN armor-ha1 their
nupremacy destroyed ~ guupowdcr
and guns. and they were men who
welded ~inf1nence ~ those DAYS.
Shakespeare shows this feeling In
one ~ his plays In which q fashion,
able fellow m on the battlefield
aud says TO Iiotspur that he thinks
Il a shame tina villalnous saltpetre
should be digfed out 81 the bowels
81 the harmless earth which many
4 good atrouE fellow had DESTROYED;
and that u Il had not been for these
vile guns. himself had been a
soldier"
hut guns Kept on being used when
steam navigation was invented. our
own navy objected to u and snld
you could not make sailors without
sails. aud Tor 20 years or more after
thf aeaa were covered with mrrchnnt
/ steamers on which these old sailing
warahips were supposed 10 prey, the
/ only steam warship we had was laid
up IN port. condemned by the mos
backism % the naval men To rust
and rot out bccnusc they hated
steam
Make no mistake. the army Off
GERS would. N possible Ike 20 have
1 chemical warfare stopped u forces
them to learn thelr trade all over
agnin. II makes their old education.
which g. their stock iu trade, less
valuable In many important respects
than the knowledge OF the professor
OF chemistry. II rcyolutionizcs both
tactics and strategy. Vast Point aud
Annapolis would like 20 have MILL
taIy 70 on ms 81 old as did the navy
men when steam came, and the ar
mored knights when Eunpowdcr was
invented.
But Eunpowdcr went on being
used; steam ~ruppiantsd sidls;. and
poison gas viii continue being used.
Will you trust any enemy We are Ne
" 20 have not 90 use u II We are
| forced To go to Wnrf Germany had
promised not 20 use it: but she used
Il. why BECAUSE the temptation Ca
use II was too great Tor any nation a.
Il IA mNfIrm Hike