Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-08-28 | Page 4 | Millions Being Spent for War Purposes

MILLIONS BEING SPENT FOR FORWAR FORWAR WAR PURPOSES Tills This country Is au an aril and nd navy requIring a burden which promises to go on Increasing until untila a demand for a radIcal reduction Is In the United States disbursed for war purposes or of which was for the nT navy Ten years later there had been au an to which le Is not ilOt to the growth of oC the country but today war preparations call for nearly noarl annuallY Last year ear the UI United lcd States expended oil the tho army and on the na navy With Dreadnoughts being built each one costing or 01 marc and with a demand for COl a larger la ter standing m army mj what has the future in store for form uc m as a people Large Larse battleships and big armies give birth to new ambitious There Is n a desire to see seo these great machines I of oC steel and aua flesh In operation amid aud the least Dro provocation Is accepted as a I challenge which taken ep 1111 by the pea peo pIe becomes a hem front Crom which I there Is no escape But how much better Jetter It would be for Cor Corthe forthe the nation if the tho 3 into the selL sea or wafted away awny In smoke were devoted to arid reclamation swamp redemption or highway im The navy and army beyond the ac tun needs or of the country In in a defens Ire 0 way are nrc brain anti 1 brawn wasted Not mono mOlo so of course courso than time the en cu orgy that goes into extreme luxuries but wasted nevertheless There Is Ig a wonderful opportunity for sonic some one or of our to win the away from this policy of oC spending millions beyond all need for forwar forwar war purposes