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Show 1 THE CHAMBERLAIN BILL. "Senator Chamberlain ha3 introduced a bill in Congress providing pro-viding for permanent military policy in the United States. Should this become a law it will mean that after the war is over we will maintain in this country a standing army of several million men just as Germany did for many years prior to the great war in Europe. . Roosevelt, in speaking of it, says, "Senator Chamberlain in order to minimize the chance of future war and to insure us against disaster, if in the future war should unhappily come, has introduced a bill for universal military training of our young men under the age of 21." Any one who favors such a measure at this time is a militar-. militar-. ist pure and simple, and is a traitor to the cause of liberty and an -"impediment to the successful prosecution of the war. A little i body under the misnomer of National Security League has been advocating such a measure for some time and perhaps it was this ' organization which prompted Senator Chamberlain to introduce ' ; the bill. Also it looks like somebody has persuaded Roosevelt to move out to the middle west with his editorial writing to get that ; section of the country in line for adopting a peace policy such as was practiced by Prussia for more than forty years prior to the present war. His writings at this time are as bad as that of extreme ex-treme socialists so far as disrupting the war plans of this country are concerned. The United States entered the war with one avowed purpose ' of crushing militarism, but according to Mr. Roosevelt when we crush Prussian militarism we ought to adopt the same policy ourselves, our-selves, so that in the future we would be ready to fight at the drop of a hat. By such a policy this country might reach the place where it would be a match against the balance of the world, and when it reached such a place we would have some one who would be ready to start something just as Germany did in 1914. Do we want this country welded into a Germanic war machine? If we . do that can be had by following the plans laid down by Roosevelt. There is now intense suffering in Germany. Her great military mili-tary preparations brought only trouble. Does this country want to imitate Germany? Does anyone imagine that we could carry on great military preparations after the war without exciting suspicion among the other nations? We are fighting to crush militarism and when we have completed the job we will have no need to adopt a system we fought to destroy. Those who are so blind as to advocate such a course ought to be muzzled during the continuation of the war. |