Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-11-25
WAR Is HE'LL"
SAID SHERMAN.
AND HE KNEW
Try FRANK nUFFY)
Secretary. United Brotherhood q
Carpanters and JainerS,

NOPE IN TIE tNkhft. we ALSO KNOW
that it leaves in its wake, sorrow,
despair, hatred. discomfort, dissatis-
faction, suspicion, and desire fer re-
venge at the first opportunity.
The recent world VAR was costly
proposition in every respect, no mat
ter which way NE look at il.
The loss of life from 1914 TO 1918
is given as follows: Killed in battle
i9,65s,00o; deaths by disease, famine.
etc, S0.47o.o00; total loss Of man
power, 50.l2S,o00.
The loss in property is estimated at
over Si69 1000 900 900 and the cost in
money at over SiS6.000, 100000.
Comparing the national debts We
find the following: National debt of
the United States in 1918, $i,02S,-
100000; in 1920, $2l,97i 100000. Ma
tidnal debt Of Great Britain in 1918,
SS,4s5, 900, 900; in 1920, SS9,Sl4 .00o.-
900. National debt Of France in 1918,
S6,s46, 900; in 1920, si6,o25, ,000.-
900.
The Army and Navy appropriations
show the following: United States,
1912, S224,l7T 900; 1920, sl,i22. .762,-
600. Great Britain, 1912. 1851 ,0a4,-
900; 1920, Sl,12i, ,31S,000. japan,
1912, $9S,6T6,0o0; 1920, Si,2S2,s57,-
900.
The enormous cost of the war to
the United States in 1919 and 1920.
is estimated at "a per cent of the
entire income of the United States
government, leaving only per cent
for other purposes.
Is it any wonder then that the re-
cent great war aroused the peoples
of all nations to the fact that war
must cease, that il must be thing
of the past, that it must never be re-
sorted 10 again in the settlement of
disputes between nations?
The American Federation of Labor,
the mouthpiece of the organized
workers of our country, believes that
just dealing and unselfish
service the peoples of all nations can
achieve true welfare and greatness.
1t believes In warless world. 1t
believes in sweeping reduction of
IL took decided stand
on these questions at the Seattle
convention in 1913 when it urged
the labor movements Of other coun-
tries TO prevail upon their respective
governments TO use every means at
their command 10 bring about inter
national disarmament as pfeventas
tive of future wars.
AT its annual convention in 1914
it pledged itself "to support any
plan which has for its purpose the
bringing about of the disarmament
of all nations TO the furthest extent
law and order throughout the world"
-. q
ed that:
''The trade union movement is un-
and emphatically opposed
to militarism or large standing
army. Militarism is a system fos-
tered and developed by tyrants in
the hope of supporting their arbitrary
II is utilized by those
whose selfish ambitions for power
and worldly glory lead them to in
wade and subdue other peoples and
to destroy their liberties, to
acquire their wealth and to fasten |
the yoke of bondage upon tneln The |
trade union movement is convinced |
by the experience of mankind that |
militarism brutalizes those influ- |
enced by the spirit of the institution. |
The finer elements of humanity are |
Under miitarism de-
ceptiye patriotism is established in
the peoples minds, where men believe |
that there is nobility of spirit and
heroism in dying for the glory of a
dynasty or the maintenance of insti-
tutions which are inimieal TO human
and democracy. Militarism
S the application of arbitrary and ir
forces as opposed to reas-
on and Justice. Resistance TO injus-
lice and tyranny is that virile quail
ty which has given purpose and eff
feet to ennobling causes IN all coun-
.ries and at all times. The free in
stitutions four country and the lib
critics won by its founders would ]
nave been impossible had they been
TO take arms and If neces-
sary die in the defense of their lib
critics. Only as people willing 10
maintain their rights and defense
heir liberties are guaranteed free
Conditions foreign to the institu-
ions of our country have prevented
he entire abolition of organized
bodies of men trained to carry arms.
A voluntary citizen soldiery supplies
what would otherwise take its place,
1 large standing army. To the lat
.er we are unalterably opposed as
ending to establish the evils of mill
arism. Large standing armies
threaten the existence of civil liberty.
The history of every nation demon
;trates that as standing armies are
the rule of democracy Is
essened or extinguished."
And at its last convention in June,
1921, at Denver, Colo, it urged the
United States government to take the
initiative or TO cooperate with any
,ther nation or nations for the pur-
pose of a general agreement for dis
ornament both of the army and nayaA
affairs of the world, and called upon
he workers in particular and the
people in general to aid in every way
within their power to put this recon-
nendation into effect.
If disarmament by the nations of
he world becomes a reality, then
some good at least will result from
he late war.
Sign Good Roads Bill.
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