Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-09-05 | Page 10 | The Happy Medium

THE HAPPY MEDIUM ivi MORALIZING over the tho impossibility L ity of reconciling the and the tho jingoes has been one of the favorite favorito diversions di of the tho summer that is closing Wise Vise men have o recognized recognized that these these- radicals at the opposite opposite op op- op- op extremes C of tho the question of national preparedness could find no common ground of D agreement because thc they argue from differing liffering premises Wiser men aro are beginning to understand understand understand under under- stand reconcilement is not necessary since most Americans are neither jingoes oes nor pac Between the theories of those who f favor wor nonresistance and would permit their beloved belo country countr to become another another an an- other China and of those those who would spend five fi hundred millions on the navy and maintain a standing army of one million men there is a happy medium to which most adhere Tho The majority wishes neither peace at price helplessness nor militarism Since preparedness for national defense deI de tie- comprehends neither it contains no menace that need disturb the I radical nn at cither either extreme of tile the ques- ques j AU There will be no trembling before hobgoblins nor shuddering shuddering- at nt ghosts when Congress attacks the questions of improving the means of national defense The Tho rho people are not in a n panic They are not demanding a better military establishment merely because they are afraid of anybody Fear is not one ono of the constituent elements of the American make up Public opinion pI io i insists its n preparedness ss bec because seit it has bas seen the Ule assassination of Belgium and has profited thereby Nobody entertains an any illusions that international friendships might interfere interfere interfere inter inter- fere with international designs upon the United Unite l' l States if the time timo for attack attack attack at at- tack seemed seethed propitious