Show ISo I THAT DREADFUL MILITARISM So much has been said about the dangers I dan-gers of militarism because this country coun-try has 07300 soldiers In the field to carry out the obligations Imposed on the Nation by the ratification of the treaty of peace with Spain that the I New York Tribune has taken pains to run over the records and it finds that f with a standing army of 07500 men to a populalion of 75000000 the proportion of soldiers to civilians would be about 1 to lin It finds that at the beginning l or jeirersons nrst administration tnc I I proportion was 1 to 1J10 Bight years I later under Madison with no war Intervening In-tervening it was 1 to loll In 1S20 under Monroe In a time of profound peace the proportion was 1 to 110S The Tribune thinks thai If the treasury trea-sury In the leaner days of Jefferson and Madison could support one soldier to a thousand or twelve inhabitants the taxpayers of this generation should easily and willingly bear an equal burden bur-den and if the I liberties of the citizen tranquilly survived the menace of militarism tarism then they certainly ought to be robust enough to survive it now And then noting Mr Bryans picture of the present military establishment not only as a menace to civil liberty but as a millstone rung round the neck of Industry a constant and increasing burden on the back of the noncombatant noncom-batant meaning longer hours harder work and greater sacrifices for those who toll the Tribune asks Mr Bryan what he has to offer In his own projected pro-jected Philippine programme He is going to set up a republican form of government In the Philippines going to guarantee It independence and Inviolability bility under an extension of the Monroe doctrine and that certainly would require re-quire ns free and constant an exercise of military force as would the alternative alterna-tive administrative policy of maintaining maintain-ing order and encouraging autonomy under a direct American supervision and control The conclusion of the Tribune Is that his militarism Is simply sim-ply empty and disingenuous claptrap clap-trap which is about the size or the situation |