Show JS IS COm COMI a Great experience In Africa hat baa gt des to a on oil the advisability of introducing con oon In that country and 00 as AI t usk tI al ai quite quit widely differing contusions a are drawn crawn from the same MIDI BrItain her email arm army has hal been abl able to send a distance of at 1 mil 0 over Ito toO mn men un on short notice and without weakening the borne Zeme d mess It is II whether any other country with its Ita armies e pound uld have done don that Count an Austrian who has now return returned III from Africa when T re he was 81 connected with C force loree says saI no pares could have MItt Feat so 80 many troops such IL a distance from home It If this II I tree It 11 that tat the v volunteer Int is IA In no way 11 1 to the system tem But thou who favor tb the latter urge I It oil other ground roll 11 I They seam to hi have discovered that the military train traill lug 1111 Is a great t factor tor In the and moral development ot of a nation aid aad that It I is a boon on that account Conscription It t I contended Is fl the true source ot of Germanys national t h This reasoning forgets that t u of vastly outweigh the derived front It It the tact that neither Germany nor Prance nor Russia tat ha tarn able to 0 A at tb the head hlad ot of tile the column olumn ot of nations that gulled bs br the star vt Ir und and human Ith the op I they have bavi had In the tb put pant Jt If WI we look around In the world to today day dav we 1 find English b English In Ut ce English wealth And this Is II IIi i I natural Militarism same habitation II a liberty Arid when w wIt It takes full tull the develop went ot of a nation I is retarded It acts act like the monster manit on n the back ot of SIn the tiler r that left him neither night nor day Only wh where there le II full liberty can tine the power pow ot of a nation b be developed d and utilize utilised to the best belt advantage It Is not denied ot of course that roil tar tary training is II physically bens eat eatto to a nation but the advantage Ot f It Itcan itcan can be had In the schools and gym gymnasium perhaps more than In tine barracks of a conscript army where whre moral depravity often goes hand In hand with the physical training p pW W T Stead we belle believe peaks the me sentiment on compulsory militarism when hi he III ieya We a are not going IDI to submit to con In order to maintain pre predominance dominance or of chit empire No patient MUon ever yet has haa submitted W to so b bie an Incubus for tor any consideration Ie less vItal than that ot of self Uon tion France and Ruesta submit to the blood tax not to the predominance ot of their empire over distant but to protect themselves tram the imminent danger ot of being overrun lIy by their Skin for tor skin yea rd all that thata a man hath bath will he Ill give for tor his life and nations too may Inar feet teel justified In to conscription to save themselves from extinction But Dut con conscription for lor mere mA lust lUlL ot of empire Never Nver There le I an 1 idea 1111 that wars ara and mill mili military tal tary ex exploits are among ulIon tb the treat great taco ac tore tors of ot of the world and latel this fallacy hat has heen paraded before the view of at the public But Dut smile Zola In II a recent contribution to the North American shatters this argument to pl IL There is Ia no evidence he be says on the tho map 0 of that civilizing element lement Alexander Caesar Charlemagne and Napoleon bettered the world only by t they gate It ot of the good and beautiful Their em 11 rei have crumbled away The empire relapsed Into luto nothing nothingness n ness at the appearance or of the barbAr barbArous ous hordes and then followed the d dark rk night ot of the Middle Agee Thin Then with the nce nom Boman n civilization again awoke but It was u the arts art liter atule anti legislation that revived It What remains ot of nAtions h 13 not Its but its Ita literary and Militarism hu has brought some Buro Buron can n to the verge rge of ruin The condition cannot be everlasting But Dut the return to 10 rational conditions condition must be led Jed by the nations that have not tel tal tallen tellen len victims to the prevalent spirit It would be a great calamity should hould either or the United Slates adopt the m sary by a policy ot of blood and Iron For alter after that there would be nothing to stay Itay a general delude ot of militarism |