The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-11-10

may be measured by the extent o.
national ornaments, in the picture
we see there are lines Of shadow, sug.
costing that the day is not yet, anc
there are also bright lines Of hope
and encouragement.
We see first of all that national in
terest has been And still ID, the form
of national activity. A nation agrees
to that which it's leaders believe will
| increase its power and welfare, but
hesitates or refuses if the proposal
has not this promise. Accounts of the
meetings OF the peace council of the
nations at Versailles reveal the
! the operation of this national policy.
The leaders of several nations were 4
that council meeting with the very
express purpose of getting all that
they could for their respective coun-
tries out of the deliberations of that
body. See the history of diplomacy,
intrigue, secret diplomacy, trickery of
of this cort and that the rule and for
national gain. The survival of the
fittest may be one of the laws of ma
tional relationships, and law know
ing no moral obligations; but in q
world where one nation must perforce
have close and constant relationship
with other nations, common sense die
tates that national interest has wider
concerns than the purely selfish inter
ests that have been so dominant. The
results of the meeting at Washington
will depend upon how much national
| self interest dominates. Are all of the
nations willing to throw all of the
cards upon the table in the interests
Of the world good
Militarism has been a dominant
philosophy nationally for a large pare
of the past century. For the last so
years it has held certain nations of
the world in the grip of virtual bond
age and slavery. Some nations are
involved in this great tangled web of
difficulty and hardship, not willingly,
but because of the coercion of others.
When ore nation becomes imbued with
the mania of militarism, its neighbors
are forced to arms in self defense,
and the circle is complete Did you
notice the comment in the Statesman
few days ago, taken from the files
of SO years ago: "The unhappy peo-
pie of Europe are being driven for
ward by their monarchiaI task mas
tiers to tremendous military prepara-
tions in order, it is said, to be ready
for emergency. Germany is aspiring to
naval power, and is fitting up num-
Der of first class ships of war Russia
is said to be mobilizing all her DO
pulation capable of bearing arms.
may be that these events portent
nothing in particular, but this con-
tinual fostering of the military spirit
breeds wars. When will the dawn of
peace arrive? When will the toiiing
millions get surcease from the good
that drives them into the shambIes of
war to crafty the ambitious caprices
of the lordly few?'' There is por-
trayed for you q part of the great
cham of circumstances that reapcd
harvest of blood one hundred fold,
nay thousand fold on the carnage
grounds of Europe a few years ago.
Let militarism continue to dominate
today and repetition of those 4w-
full years will follow, even more ter
fiblc. Let navies be increased, let
warfare of the air be perfected let
military science become more exact,
and the price the world today is pay
ing willsbe but the beginning # Re
burden that shall crush future GEN
erations. Let militarism prevail in
the councils Of the nations, and war !
preparation be not checked, and we
ere again living in Z peace that is
but extended AFmistice, an armed
peace, waiting only for the right sit
uation to develop TO engu6 the world |
war. The forces Of militarism arc |
not dead, not idle; and while they are |
not so vital in the United States as |
nkhAp kA~s- .-sf1 |
Be marked 1t Warrington. The only :
check to continued militarism is 4 I
determined, persistent, organized, in
telligent world public opinion that
will demand in every nation and in
every tongue tie cessation Of the pro-
pA9andA and practise Of unitarian.
When that Tina comes, We shall be
near the tourney's end on the way to
world peece.
We - also IN tAe world setting
what Ne nay can growing world
solidarity hist i making for world
unity. The world y no longer com
posed 81 distant part1 or Of strange
lands beyond tie $40 concerning
which ~ Asaf only v1Eue rumors Or
lpeeulntions. The world q become
Dnly vast nei9hhoehOed, where life
Is lived mare n eomnca, where the
most distant land II relatively no fur
her sway than were dlstah4 parts Of
pur own eouhtxy few yaaIs ago.
In 1912 = change vas made IN ma
tionAl cnmmunicatioA~in th;o eountxy
70 that It was pcosible for : letter orI
passenger to 70 from Portland. He. to
D. C. in 81 days instead
If 40. By hundred yeays later, the
rip around tho world had been made
n 40 days and since then the time
las been reduced 70 IS days, and pos
,ihlv less by now. In 1910 it required
Is days to cross the Atlantic, and to-
lay we are looking forward to the
lime soon to be when the trip viii be
made in 3 days Then there were 116
steamships, row q, 900. A hundred
Years ago the man interested in the
dea OF the railroad was visionary and
.razy, today there is network Of
-ailroads over the various nations like
he threads of some giant spider web.