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Show COUNTERACTING BRYAN'S POLICY. Wm. J. Bryan, having published in "The Commoner" an appeal to subscribers sub-scribers to write to their senators and congressmen in opposition to a national policy of preparedness, the Butte Miner has started a counter move In which the people are urged to send the following letter to Washington: Wash-ington: "To our Senators and Representatives Representa-tives in Congress: Gentlemen Being Be-ing strongly opposed to tho adoption of Chinese Ideals for the government of this free country, and not being In sympathy with tho effort now bein made by a few misguided citizens for the Chlnafication of tho United States, and appreciating the lessons which the great European conflict has taught to all unprepared and defenseless defense-less countries through tho 6ad experience experi-ence of Belgium, I respectfully urge you to support those measures for national defense advocated by President Presi-dent Wilson and the administration, believing that they aro necessary for the protection and preservation of American Ideals and institutions, and yet do not go so far as to endanger embarking this country upon a career of militarism of a kind from which so large a part of the world is suffering at the present moment The present war has shown that treaties are 'mere scraps of paper,' and that the word of nations cannot be depended upon by those countries that aro not sufficiently suffici-ently prepared to enforce respect for such agreements. In view of these very apparent facts I believe It Is the first and most vital duty of congress con-gress to place tho United States In a position of being able to defend Itself against assault and Invasion as the surest means of preventing such attempts at-tempts on the part of envious and unscrupulous un-scrupulous foreign countries." The Standard favors preparedness and, like the Miner, sees the necessity neces-sity of this country arming to the extent ex-tent of being capable of resisting invasion in-vasion by any power on earth. |