Palisadian., 1925-01-30
Only One Way to Assure
Americas s Peace and SufetU

ana retreat and yleld, cannot ana Will not
guarantee the peace that we all crave; be-
cause they must convince any sober man who
knows intercourse among nations that unless
we seek peace by some other means than tim
idity and concession, the heavens will some
day burst into flame and the calamity which
we most fear will be upon us.
Where then is the guarantee of the peace
we crave?
In treaties? Europe had treaties-did they
help her? In Mr.. Hughess assurance of
pleasant relations? If so, why the Ambas-
sadors threats of unpleasant consequences?
In statements of cordial friendship and ami
able intercourse? Gerard gave such state
ments in Herln and before the words
cold, the friendship and intercourse were cut
off completely.
Where then is the guarantee? In the out
lawry of WARP For 1877 years in the United
States, where still sovereign we have
been outawing murder and arson and burg
larry. Have they ceased2 Will they cease?
Can the machinery of the law be made so
effective that outlawed crime will be no
more, either in this country any other?
No sane man imagines it. Why then go on
filling our mouths with such meaningless
words filling our mouths and drugging our
minds?
"Universa peace ''The nations a
unit ''The United States of the world
''Too civilized for war;" "Proletarians
would prevent it. - "Financiers would for
bid it, "Interdependence Inter
weaving of interest y "All men neighbors'
These words and phrases were handed out as
good coin in 1913 and were proved counter
felt in 1914 They are trailed again through
the halls of Congress and across the newspa-
per pages. Unfortunately they all mean
nothing, come to nothing. They to-day
what they were in 1913--mouth filling
phrases, nothing less, nothing more. The ma
ton that stakes on them its future safety and
welfare is stalking them upon mirage,
rainbow, beautiful dream.
Where then is the glara2tse2 Where is
America s buiwark-the bulwark that must
assure her safety and protect her welfare if
her safety and welfare are to be protected
and perpetuated? In America s navy, in
America s adequate navy.
Without that adequate navy, America s
ready wealth and colossal resources are but
invitations to attack her Only by an I'M
pregnable line of defense at can Amer
lea IS wealth and America s sovereignty over
it be maintained in peace and advance with
out conflict The men who would weaken the
nation s first line defense expose it to defeat
by naval enemy, risk its ruin and the desc
lation of American homes with it, are assum-
ing the greatest responsibility that any Amer
lean rulers have assumed in sixty years.
The gentlemen in Washington have been
warned They have been warned more
frankly, more brutally, than any others have
been warned in modern times. The warning
has been written before their eyes, shouted
in their ears None of us wished to see it or
hear it. But it has been forced upon us.
All the world knows this. In Europe it
is reckoned with as certainty of the fu-
ture. The only way to falsify the reckoning
and defeat the certainty is by doing what we
have not done, what we hesitate to do, what
some gentlemen in Washington even shrink
from doing, and that is so to fortify ourselves
at sea, in accordance with our treaty rights,
that, safe from attack and assured in our
welfare, we may say to all peoples, well in
tentioned or evil intentioned:
"We Americans ought to fear God, but
nothing else in all the world. -
Courtesy, Amer