The Washington herald., 1921-03-28
D. C. Meeting Center of
National Demonstra-
tion by Women.
BORAH SEES MAD
RACE OF NATIONS
Disarmament or Bank
ruptcy Ahead, Senator
Tells Big Audience.

armament. and to halt appropria-
tions for the American army and
navy pending the outcome of the
discussions, were adopted with only
one. dissenting vote at a meeting
held under the direction of the
women's World Disarmament Com
mittee in the National Theater yes
terday.
Addresses were made by Senator
william E. Borah. of Idaho; Rep
resentative James A. Frear. of Wis
consin: Mrs Ida Clyde Clarke. of
New York. Edward o'Grady, Of the
American Federation of Labor. and
others. The theater was packed
with an audience mostly women.
Other Meetings Held.
The meeting was the center Of
q nationwide Easter demonstration
for a disarmament conference.
Simultaneous meetings and confer
ences were held in fifteen States,
and kilograms poured into the
Washington meeting from promi-
nent men and women from all parts
of the country.
Senator Borah termed the authors
OF the defense programs of the
allied and associated nations "sedu-
lous patrons of Bolshevism" and
-painstaking and Industrious gar
deners OF unrest and misery"
Representative Frear charged
that powerful influences whose in
fsrests and industries depend upon
ubsr.l naval appropriations are be-
1tnd an movements for a larger
1axy.. -
wsaaa Ffays Mes.
Men. Mrs Clarke affirmed. had
made . mess Of world affairs, and
women now demanded admission to
councils and insisted upon arbitra-
tion n the proper and Just method
OF settling international disputes"
A deputation Of forty-eight wom-
en- representins each State will ask
for an audience with President
Harding to present the resolutions
adopted yesterday.
Senator Borah. Of Idaho. leader IF
the tight for disarmament in the
last Congress. pictured an interna-
tional agreement ending naval COM
petition. reducing taxes, restoring
faith in government and augment
ing friendly relations abroad.
rious as any time during the war
he declared Taxes are breeding
dIscontent at home and naval COM
petition Is breeding uneasiness
abroad Taxes are weakening the
ties which bind the people to their
Eovernments and naval competition
is ioosening the ties which hold ma
lions TO amityt'
Bankruptcy or Disarmament.
He saw no hope for the needed
Disarmament in The Versailles peace
treaty or the league of nations
covenant He branded the treaty
and pact as agencies of militarism.
Turning to the figures which he
claims shows the country headed
either for disarmament or bank
ruptcy the Senator spoke as fol-
lows:
In the year 1920. five great ma
tions. the United States. Great Brit
ain. Japan, France and Italy, ex-
pended for military and naval pur-
poses. s16.442,251,101. This sum is
a little over $4,000. 900. 900 more than
all these nations together expended
for military purposes in fourteen
yeArs-from 1900 to 1874.
The question in which the people
are interested. is how are you going
to relieve this distressing situation.
II you propose TO cut these war ex-
penses. there is no practical or se-
cure way TO do so, except through
an agreement with the other nations
who are now with us in a full swing
in q great naval race. Great Britain
has again taken up the program of
building. as every informed and re-
necting man must have known she
would
Mad Race Continues.
Those who seemed to think that
England would not build because
she could not build. must by this
time be in a state of regaining men,
tai responsibility. Japan Is every
day adding to her program. And we
are to still have the greatest navy
in the world. So the race Is on. the
mad race which, from 1900 to 1914.
brought England and Germany.
heretofore close friends. into war.
"JInless We can secure an agree
ment by which to end this naval
competition. v is utterly useless to
talk about retrenchment in expendi-
lures We are today spending. or
proposing TO. in our naval bill. twice
a. much as England and Germany
combined spent in 1913. II the race
IL to coatinue. can see no relief
for the overburdened people OF this
country.
Edward f. McGrady. Of the
American Federation OF Labor, de-
c1ared the s,0oo.ooo workers of
America Joined enthusiastically In
the demand for an International
conference on disarmament.
Eaerness Debt Cited.
Representative Frear dwelt upon
the enormous debt of s74.ooo. 900, GOO
due to the war and the heavy bur-
den OF tsxstion under which the
people are STRUGGLING