| Show Ibo I Jlllllmjr Lr ziliiim lien Mr William O Ilubbnrd of 1 Ohio U B A writes aa follows lu the wr American Friend In curtain quarters thorn Is I a tendency ten-dency to militarism that amounts almoit to a military craze lu tbls country In nearly a hundred colleges ol tuo Ualtud Hlates tha you ni meu are being drilled In mllltitry tacllce end the military meu uio crowding tholr way Into high schools and academies acade-mies Betides these there scarcely a large town or oily but baa Its military organizations Aol there are some of limo Curlstlsu cburclus that are uilng the customs of the old bloody riailou of l urope and are Introducing boys brigades Into the Huuday schools These boy brigades are said lo be for tkn I Uf poaoelge Illog Ibo boy inter oiled In Sunday obool worm Hut a recent report of etatlstli bw that only about twelve peed cent 01 them attend any lImb oleea done very distinguished lersins t have nrltleu articles fur American magazines urging l bat all Anierlcau lope bo tsugbt military taollc nod the Grand army ol the lte ubllo have passed a resolution In lavor ol mil bury drill in Ibe scbooK The Mew York legislature paiscd a bill requiring every boy In Ibo mule school twelve years olj or more lo tko military urlll I am glad lo Bay time governor a vttoed Iw the bill so that 11 did not become IwWbat What does all this signify Are oe to become n military nation like Franco or Germany where every young man Is I tulject to drift und has I serve In the army a ourlaln leuglh of linn France ban been dralllinr 100000 young men wart year Lo wu want Ibt condition or tbingi France has about four millions belonging to her army In Germany where the expeone of the military burden Is sllll greater with some four and a half miion belongIng to br army oow ono imao old every 100cc 01 carrie a ollr on bl book rtiluk of lime American farmer having to cary a Boldier upon his back whenever when-ever be goes about his farm and the 10 common fob curer wboue burdens are already so heavy tbat hol Is complainIng complain-Ing yet put a soldier ou his back Dow Do-w want every labourer every farmer every lixpoyer lo add to his already heavy burdens additional burdeu of supporting a soldier furnish him with lood clothing ammunition nod pay so that be may be ready to destroy Ille and property about some boundary line or sume question l of honour real or = 1 3 t imaginary If we da not want tube condition ol otlalrs In Ibo United Stole let us bead oil tbls tllorl to turn us Back Into barbarism A low Items may be mentioned to tivonao blot of the cost of Ibis craze Why did the commissioners Clark couuly Ohio vole f35000 ol tax on to the people of limo oounty to build au armory Because of tho military craze Why do tbe taxpayers 01 Iiawreuce Mans bave to pay for a 93000 armor7 Answer Military ecune Why Is I Fall Jttvor Mmcc mat now koodenlilli Its lolole wln building a 150000 armory and that at a time when ome of Us mllli are Idle and want la I staring Us laborers I in the fern Wo bwr aullI ho mil lary ore causes I None 01 Ihomo places have coy more real need of these armories Ibau a cat bas need of two Ill I 1 limply Ibid military Insanity robbing Ibe toIlers to that extent tent leutlbe people of Ibis country bave teen comparatively little burdened wlb lane Slot non Iby wIlling mat tbelrabould be Inoraod to five tlmoi tbo preool amounhi And yt that la I what tins militarism would brine us to What Is I tbo proof of tbli assertion A u distinguished Englishman recently said In a adureis that of every twenty shillings of the tax for the general government In Bo laud sixteen end a half shillings go for bib military three and a bal shillings less ban onefilth of the whole being eulllcleut Ion I civil chair Simon the military of Kn land mke the tsxes more than live times what they would otherwise be 1 we Imitate England lu militarism militar-ism Wo may multiply cur toe by live A lew ceuts ou the ncre usually pay the taxes on farming laud lu ibis country But lu some perk of Eu roe larrnlng laud ia taxed as high as live dollars au acre to support the mllltiry budget Header wnat will you do about I Will yuu io anne thing to bolp create n public emil toad against mllllalliui |
