The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-06-16
ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE coUN-
TRY SAY WITH HIM THAT
WAR must NOT BE AGAIN"
DISARMING SOMETHING ELSE
Insistent Propaganda to Persuade
America to Lay Down all Weapons,
Whatever other Nations Do, Doesn't
Persuade Most Congressman.
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.

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NOT he again"
! An through fine country this eypres-
/ sion of fha President has hean recop-
nizpd as sfnnla but mosr striking
phrase. exuressing os il does fine de.
sire of ali the peopIa of tho countrv
The snaach nm ,,,a ,,i.r ~ tIoho,.,,
N. L. of which ar must nor no agoin"
was tba Lo,nota t,s coIl.d no,tio,,
larv sborp attonti,, in Wosbingtn,
to the propaganda for disarmament.
congress today is, or recently has
been confronted with several legisla-
i've propositions which bear directly
on disarmament and Of course there
Is also before the law makers the resO-
IuI'oh winch asks that conference
Oh disarmament he held between rep
IeSehtatlNes OF Great Britain, Japan
ana the United States.
III congress ana In the country to-
uay an Ola hsht to a certain extent Is
DeIhs Naseu once more. All over the
united States there were pleas for
disarmament long before the United
states entered the great war, and in
lact long before any other nation had
entered It, Ihere were attempts con
slau'y 10 lhuuce congress TO cut
doWh the armed forces Oh the country
ana win these attempts there were
olhers 10 prevent military exercises III
the SCHOOLS OF the country, ana more
strongly TO prevent the establishment
OF training camps Tor the youth.
Would Dsarm and Be Trustfu.
To-Day congress is being urged with
fine same tpsistence as before the
war to take measures which will dis
arm this country while other coun-
tries still carry arms The present
administration il oppOsed TO ANYTHING
Of This kind and congress- knows il.
but there is a strong minority in each
legislative bopse which seemingly be-
Iieves thar the United States can
tbrov, ayvav avnrv ,yeanon that il has
and remain perlectIv placid in the
feeling thar even though nil the other
nations Of the world are armed. and
some of them still ambitious. no harm
can come to the United States.
rho Ifna-rn i'm CONGRESS- ON matters
rartoining ta what NAV no called in
81 general way prpparedness. is lust
about the saline kind of ii lineup that
was in evidence in the years 1914,
10, 'lG and in the early part OF H.
1t is only the truth to say that there
was not one hard student of the trend
of affairs in the past who was not
convinced in these years that the
United States eventually must enter
the great war
1t can be said that the majority OF
the members of both houses OF con
gress in the years named believed that
before long the United States would
be compelled to get into the conflict.
1t was known in Washington that
many Of the representatives Of the
people in either house held back from
support of anything which looked ike
preparation Tor trouble not because
they believed there was TO De no
trouble, but because their CONSTITUENTS
or a majority Of Them would not ad-
NIT for one minute, no matter "hat
their senses told them, that war was 70
come.
What WiIful Blindness Cost.
If is a terrible thing today to hear
some Of the things which we're said
concerning ,be cost to the United
stotes If tbe Indifference to the loom
inc cIond of rroubIe in the three years
prior TO April 1917. 1t is said freely
in military ana naval circles that the
disincIinoriop to face the truth Of
what was to come cost the United
states fine lives of very many thous-
onds of men who otherwise today
wonld be- alive and well and added
fuuv 0rty per cent to the lists of the
sIcl, and iripred who are pleading to
forretruI neople for that remem-
bronce which seemingly should be due
"a mon who sacrifice themselves for
others
All of Chi. is ~ the mast 1t has