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Show BORAH SCORES HUGE PROGRAM Of ARMMIALNT tnsiaves worm in laxes anu Makes Certain Another War, He Says r.v IVII LI M 1 BORAti WASHINGTON, J fee. 23.--Whe the treat., of Versailles was nlgned the German navy tyas no more: the German Ger-man arms- was reduced to a mere police po-lice force. Austria was helpless and j 'starving; Turkey ssas dismembered:! . ml tho fighting "forces of the Central , Powers were (t ::n end. Yet the allies pledged in the treaty of Versailles to disarmament, hegan the m ;ft stupendous program df super- : military preparednefi the World h-s jscon- i Debts are being saddled ori an over-taiiorl over-taiiorl and os erburlencd world, and the people, already ground t earth by taxes, 1 iscouratfed and restless, are having placed upon them the additional addition-al weight of untold millions. Why ? Kor the most civilised nations .to hunt out still more deadly instrumen-talitlCfl instrumen-talitlCfl of sleuth! To accentuate, if possible, the barbarism bar-barism of the last wapj To dedicate the human race to a more Inconclevable Inhumanity than characterised tho years from i.'ii to 1818 ! VNOTHKF CRIMK It is a crime almost equal to the crimes of the war Itself! It enslaves the ssorld In taxes and desks to make certain another svar. Who are the allies going to fight. German) or themselvi l'i ' hi-y i'ar 1 1'-rmaiiy .' She svill be upable, even f she desired, to disturb the peace of the world for 40 years or more. Do they fc:ir Austria, starving and reduced to a mere shado.u of her former for-mer Mil i 'o they tear Turkey, divided Up and distributed among the victors'.' Why thu) haste to put the ssorld in arms'.' 1 repeat. It is a crime' And -tiie allies must assume for future generations gener-ations the responsibility, if it results in another world war; or If it result., as It will. In constant distress and suffering suffer-ing among tho countless millions who; must pay these debts. I T I ) l Mil II BTAlKS i I think it is up to tho United States. In good faith and with ulmu endeas- I or, to lead the way to disarmament, or at least to a reusonabk curtailment Of these expenditures. We can begin with tho only nations who' are nosv arming, or able to arm, and fiom whom any possible danger may come. Let us sincerely seek quick, .direct action along practical lines. Disarmament cannot come except through the sheer fore of public, opinion. opin-ion. Let tho people In these different countries be heard. If they are not heard, they and their children and their children's children svill be bound In debt or engulfed In another war. Nations armed to the teeth, practicing practic-ing I heir secret diplomacy and Jealous suspicions and disturbed by rsasbu of their arm?, will find the occasion to use them. |