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Show fete ARMAMENT WARvV Hian Who Demands Peace, WttM WBSffm ! Bven Though He May Have MKf' VSA IHHlBV to Scrap for It, Hurls World- mmr M mJHHBH If wide Message Against &Em M HHbBBhIIH ! Mars, the God of Battle, 1 m I K"Whon nations go to, war they Kl temporarily insane, they have Hovt their tempers, like men Bui I rould you fill both hands of a ruy man with dynamite and let Um do his will?" H That's the way Bernard Noel I Kangdon-Davh-s or England talks Bout war, and he doesn't tare to Hjrhom he says it He would c per-"Ifrrtly per-"Ifrrtly willing to tell it in the Get -T lean '. .!! i x i or 'lie Kruppa or he W. C. T. U. and the Y W. C. " J A- It v ...::,!.! ,, the Sllght- lltjpt to him. B. hi: f..,i of beajBke ciH-niln- iiiili of the BlHt which led tho soldiers of the SStSBF '"' 1 a Sar... tlaiKt ;imi t -o lung a-o that he w is nfcSjB hi ii. it; s-urrc:. , sti'sBf6'1'11'' '"lit tilt.'. rnih - u.it-asfcHdc u.it-asfcHdc oi L iBfcSjSovs f..r rsSnie ln'i.v s lived in the same house B him, and in those days Hatched to tin m a-alnst war. As rtyjB 'ns It busy ilk In c gjjrgunif nl. Hi-; n.ind was keen on j'ffjbe subject. ThO'e were '.!.' dreaming rl . i K":Htl 1 . I . !. - I ' , r Ml. . BjCipeam of in iiuw n tie tn i lttaBfOW9y meadows of old Burrey. He a. aead miie I., and thought much, and BffSptched carefully the growth of Titi AlllltanMii :u l urope. And finally tft,lSj)JM caii.e l.e ir.I JfcWorld of Englmd II" w rote for gfrjjpsgatincs, and ;or literary socle- itJPa 8ud li 1 writings '.'.ere read. gtjgJPut nr. yet he wns on)-.' a va:un gjpnoinlity ; he had not found hlro- jjjfeow c cr there is nn organization ,B England called the Garton ""Tbundatlon. the pilmar object of ,yA)ich Is to I tce- Ilv Ik ad !s Ralph Norman JAngci Lane, better Known at' Nor-an Nor-an Angel, the author of "Thr Jreat Illusion." the nio.-t -..-- 13 ;:ralgn merit of the stupidity of w ar ripat ever h.n he . n vrltt'n or qlJiiBoken. He h rd of L itigdon-D a- 'S .lit was n httlo ti ore to. in ; r . r C ew that oll"-ials of the Garton !C' yundatlon d--ded that the m- flUP jthy with the unU'eisal p rri9Vement way strong enough for tfijtm to begin an a.ti'e campaign. tc&Wey bent out a call for speakers, thtTW one of the first imitations to UIBjComo a peaee r- turer was c x-fbaftfidtd x-fbaftfidtd to the quiet tutor He dc-ietIllWirred dc-ietIllWirred Ht bclos drawn away from m f books at tho ago of 27, and jp-jSjlng cast with great men who had ittfH8 v,t-'1"llt of V ars of expenenco tjBhlno them, and to be forced to .jjjillttalk and oittnrcie, and out-yytlltule out-yytlltule these jnen, but the Garton jjjJUudat:ou was Insistent and ho B. fttm'n&t year, from end to end ot rp Bf land, went n score of heturers F!il(m' I-'inP'ion-Da1es proved the fl ftits of the English Generals and ""is md8 0f lh Admiralty to shreds; tfM wung the people w ith him. TlWp by one tho other lecturers ''"PPtd out of the ranks, until only tjjfcpdon-Davics and Angel were 9Jm. But BanEtdon-Dtviey now has itf secratcd hl lifo to the peace tBjk. and will never turn ba. k, he WlPares. f"' S HOOSR TT.TTN asiilAY or '-Pi ; KING. ' ''r'len he talks one mny bee how oBj(ne5t he Is of hl subject. He ,jj ms to prow inehcM In height; hl J p flash, and hi" gestures are Im-1 Im-1 loned As he maks each point (f leans far forward, until tho CJ itcher think-- he may lot his ba'-(fcre' ba'-(fcre' an,l thrusting lain face out at s audlem e he hnnrs out his sa- jk' Pl orgijni. :.t. !.!.- ;. i: D., with r Xptooseveltian expression Then 1j5Udlenee ehrer:-. 'VjThc whole tight niralnst war," itrrS 1 ank'don-IaMe;-i, "is ra fight 6Kt the stupidit:. of tho leader jP.uht nnd the Ignorance of tho t'illi0 P0P'e ' what war ?Jy )nae:niv to them. And after clt, gVi w horn do, - it mom more'' e i a i' Itrim of sold lara. the do not Ihlnk In terms of fathers, fath-ers, husbands, or sons, going out to be shot down or to die of d'sease. "Wo hae a double problem bo-fore bo-fore us. To get rid of war, and to get rid of armed peace. The first today is done, virtually among the great nations. They have realized real-ized the utter stupidity of war. But the second Is not quite so easy. "People do not seem to realiza that the keeping up of armament. the sustenance of armies ana navies, is draining the only wealth of the modern community, the wealth of production. Wherever there is unproductive expenditure or the destruction of wealth the well-being of every industrial nation na-tion Is checked. 'Armed peace Is unproductive expenditure; ex-penditure; war is the destruction ot wealth. These arc two salient points to grasp. ' In my country, England, four hundred million pounds, $2,000,-000,000, $2,000,-000,000, are spent every year on our armed force, And every year In England there are 10,000,000 who do not have enough to eat. England has 45,000.000 population, that's all. How does that figure? Arms versus food; that's material for thought. "Still they cry for more arma mcnt8. They want the earliest method of preserving peace. No one stops to reflect that this has ever been a failure, "The advocates of armed peace do not think In terms of two parlies, and that Is Just what war implies. Remember that, In war there must bo two parties. Very well. How can earh of two parties be stronger than the other to make the other afraid to attack her? "Armed peaco does not solve the waste of war. or the waste of armaments. arma-ments. Nations are like individuals, individ-uals, they have moments of temporary tem-porary insanity. Does it do any good to llll their hands with dynamite? dyn-amite? But remember, it is impossible im-possible for every nation to be the strongest. A L Ml" ST BEWARE OF OTHER NATIONS, "However, disarmament does not solve the question of war. for tho unarmed nation, however strong, would lie at the mercy of the military nation AYe have to beware be-ware of the other nations, for every one of us. If there must be a dinner, din-ner, prefers to bo the diner rather than the dinner. That Is why the whole peace movement has thus far had no effect "We, tho new Pacificists, believe in showing thp utter absurdity of war. tho terriblo loss of the conquered, con-quered, and what seems absurd, but Is true, nevertheless the still worse economic waste for the conqueror. con-queror. Wo want to tach them that in these days nothing la won by conqust. "Now human nature changes. In spite of the dogmatists who say it doesn't. Most of them have heard that phrase somewhere, and use it as a catch phrase without stopping to think about it. Now war was all right when every baron went marching with tuck of drum and blare of trumpet against his neighbor, neigh-bor, killed his neighbor s vassals and took his lands, thereby extending his own territory and becoming so much tho richer. Tho same was true when applied to nations. But We don't do that waj today. The wholesale slaughter of inhabitants of conquered countries has been stopped, by mutual consent, as It were, and we merely take the country, coun-try, and with It the expenses of running run-ning it. "Men are lod by phrases, no? b meanings. Wo havo all sorts of axioms in International policies for which men die without having the faintest conception of their meaning mean-ing These phrases aro obsolete; they belong to tho days of the Roman Ro-man and the great dynasties, when one thought of a nation in the terms of a royal house. But wo have no urmlnology to uxpress the Two Poses of L modern state of affairs the modern adjustment of International quei- tions. 'Now war represents two things, or rather there are. two things, one termed war and the other peace under un-der modern conditions, which should have their names changed one to the other. For instance. "The rule of Turkey, a rule of force, means war. Her territory is In a perpetual state of bloodshed, no man's life la safe, she governs through her soldiers, her armaments. arma-ments. 'Now when the Balkan States, who have been In this ft-ate of war for centuries, band together to stop this perpetual war, they call their action war. And yet Its aim l? peace. and therefore, properly termed. It's peace itself. "In simple words, government by force la war and yet is termed peace, and rebellion against such government is peaco and yet Is termed war. That is the modern slate of things, and that Is tho conception con-ception men of today have of war. FOREIGN BUGABOO IS FALF "Now, apparently the further men get from a country the more they know of what Its people are thinking towards their own country, coun-try, although they may know nothing noth-ing of what 13 going to happen at home. Not long ago Winston Churchill and Lord Roberts warned the English people that tho Germans Ger-mans were getting ready to invade England They couldn't for their lives tell what would be the outcome out-come of the next British election, or what the next Parliament would angdon-Davies. do, but they were sure of what the "; rmans Intended. They had no intention of looking for troublo with Germany themselves, but they were going to he ready when tho Germans started it. "Very good. But how about the Germans'.' 1 went over there and Inquired. There wasn't a German who knew what they were going to do with Alsace-Lorraine, or what the Reichstag would bring forth, but of one thing they were sure, and that was that those rascally English were going to attack them Not that they wanted any trouble, but let the English begin It and they should see. "The same condition prevails to a great extent In the United Staates. 0 cr here you are sure that Japan is going to take the Philippines and lay waste the. Pacific Coast. Thero-forc Thero-forc you want armies and nalcs to defend yourselves. Canada feels the same way. Not long ago Australia Aus-tralia passed a universal military service law, fearing that Japan was planning a raid on their shores. And China Is bending every energy to repel re-pel the feared Invasion of Japan, their traditional enemies- It Is apparent ap-parent that Japan has a hard Job on her shoulders to be planning such extensive conquests, when today to-day her population Is taxed to :,n per eent of thelr-total Income for the cost of the Russian war and the upkeep of their armament "There Is a universal cry, no where so strong as in England, that "we will spend our laat cent f-.,- defense." de-fense." Well, by the time that last cnt would Kc spent the last bit of food would have been calen, for the resources of the country would have been absolutely exhausted and the laat man would have died Spending the last cent for defense Is the surest sur-est w ay I know of killing yourself to keep alive. The advocates of war say that the only motive for attack is that by conquest something is gained. With the motive for attack gone the prob-ablllty prob-ablllty Is gone, and therefore the noed for defense is gone, according to the answer for their arguments. . . then, shall prove that conquest In vain. "The harvest of conquest today can not be reaped. The end of the war finds the conqueror worse off than before he started, worse than if he had never gone to war. "Nations build armaments to Increase In-crease employment, Is the claim. Now unproductive expenditure can not Increase employment Tor If all the men of the world were ensauod ' In building and keeping armaments where. ihn. ivould be the result of their work? On what would they live? "The cry for work is tt hypocrisy. Wo don't want work, any of us. What We want is the result of work, and from unproductive work there can be no rejult Armaments are i unproductive draw your own con-M con-M elusions. I "Then they say that armaments I are necessary to protect trade. Now I nations possess armaments and ln- ' dividual conduct trade. A contract is not going to a man from the na-thin na-thin which has the most dread-nomrbfa dread-nomrbfa bl to tho man. from wh it-I it-I ever nation he rmi", who can give I the bpst work for the leas! money, "Switzerland Is the most prosper ous nation, per capita. In the .'. orld, and yet she hasn't a warship and Scarcely n s "idler. Her tea is Lake Oneva Where Is the fleet that pro- tects the mercantile marine of Norway, Nor-way, the second largest of the vvorld '.' Where is the fleet to protect pro-tect the merchant marine of Hollano and Belgium.' And where Is the merchant marine for the United State fleet to protot? "They say that by conouest we ran t take the trade of another people. peo-ple. But trade Is won always by fair dealing, If Germany wants to remove her gre.atet trade rla' England, nnd iaccesdi In doing so, what i iso does she do but remove her biggest customer, and then she has no guarantee that England's trade will come to her. and not to the United States or France, or Holland, Hol-land, or Norway. She can't force another nation to trade with her. "nd after conquest, when they were paying tb- bitter war tax. the English people would be willing to work longer hours at shorter pay; they would be sparred ,to srcuier t ' work. Now 1C that is confiscated before it is spent, then the con-endeavor, con-endeavor, and their resources etlll II avould be there; Germany couldn't transplant them to the Fatherland. Consequently she could compete with Germany at lower prices than ever and she would rapidly be built IH up to a position far beyond that which she formerly held. "The militarists say that by con-quests con-quests we could take the wealth of the conquered nation. Let's see. Wealth Is either the capital or in-come in-come of a nation or of its people. Capital consist? of the soil and the people willing to work it. That we r.an't confiscate, for wo can't force a people to work against their wllL That Is shown every day by the la-bor la-bor troubles- "Income Is produced by the 1H workers speeding what they earn, the money which Is the result of their capiuu. the willingness to queror destroys it before he nets It. And how in the name of com- H men sense are you going to make a laborer work for the wages that be knows he Isn't going to get. iH "They tell us thut by Increasing jfl territory we Increase a natlon'e wealth Well, experience tells us different. When England went to war with the Boers the financial pipers were overjoyed at the thought that England would ac-quire ac-quire the nold and diamond mines of South Africa. We would all be richer. Well, I'm an Englishman, and I'm waiting yet for my share of the gold nnd a couple of Kohl-noors. Kohl-noors. Before the war the mine be- longed to the shareholders. After iH the ware It did also. H "This business ot owning colonies ilfl is all bosh. Tho United Stales taught us in tilt or thereabouts that the best way to own colonics is not to own them. England has a mighty small volco today Id the government of Australia and Can-ada. Can-ada. As a nation we may take over the land, but wo also take over tho -S population; Just so much more gov- H ernmental expenses to meet and the H expense Ot the war on top of lhL" M |