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The following article entitled, A
J’ious Pilgrimage, is from the Army
and Navy Journal, January 15, 1916.
“We observo that Senator Lane
and Congressman Shallenborger
have introduced in the two Houses
of Congress a bill providing for the
appointment of a Commission cf five
porcons to be known as “the
United States Commission for En
during Peace”, to aid ir. the bring
ing about cf enduring pbseo at the
earliest possib’e moment. With a
preamble declaring that many of our
citizens arc anxious that Congress
should take action in this matter,
the bill provides for the appointment
as commissioners of cx-prosldenv,
Taft, W. J. Bryan, Justice Charles
Hughes, Senator Stone and Con
gressman Flood, chairman of tin:
Foreign notations Commtitees
They are to serve without pay until
sixty days after the final treaty of
peace, but $35,000 is to be allowed
for their expenses. The directing
sections of the bill are as follows: —
“ "Sec. 3. . This commission shall
be accredited by the government of
the United States to the various bel
ligerent nations of Europe for the
purpose of informally aiding them
as r-n intermediary, or in any other
way possible, to bring about rn en
during peace at the earliest oppor
tunity. The commission created
by this shall be also accredited to
the neutral governments." ”
“ “Sec. 4. It shall bo the duty
of the Commission created undet
this act to seek the plr.no of the bel
ligerent and neutral nations, to con
sider the peace plans of others ana
to formulate plans of its own which
may seem possible of aiding in any
way in securing an enduring peace
at the earliest possible moment; and
to that end this commission shall
determine within fifteen days aftei
the passing of this act, if the mem
bers of the commission shall find il
possible to do so.” ”
“The purpose if this bill is excel
lent, though we are not sure th<
view the benighted foreigner might
take of this interference in matter
that chiefly concern him, and whir;
he may have the conceit to think hr
understands much better than w.
do.”
“But why limit
IIU» (Ujiumnoiwu * i
Why not hr.vo thorn devote thei:
energies to destroying, lit once an
for all, the causes that lead to war.
personal and international trade
rivalries; the disputes between in
dividuals that result in litigation
race and religious antipathies am
■class distinctionc. In short all o
the manifestations of human selfish
ness which in their large expressio:
mean war. Is it not just pesaibb
that these pious pilgrims from tin
now world when thoy come in con
tact with the somewhat sophisticat
«*d representatives of the old worl(
may bo roqueoted to return hom<
and set their own house In orde
before they undertake the selt
righteous mission of regulating tin
affairs of others? And will it no
be said unto them this proverb
Physician hoal thyself”?
Is tho record of the record of tin
United States so clean that we cai
afford to preach to others, and havi
we shown such a lofty spirit li
transforming the blood of the ol<
world into the wealth of the nev
world, that we can make sure of i
cordial welcome when we go abroai
creatures of righto usnesa."
So concludes the article from th
Army and Navy Journal.
That paper is written by soldier
for soldiers with the mental dls
cipline of the profession rlgorousl
emphasized in considering even pc
' iltlcal and social as well as militar
problems. Their training 1b mathe
matically accurate and unsentimem
ally material. Their probloms a
ways solved by the logic of facts an
figures. Given certain condition!
Their profession is devote
principally to solving th
resultant of ceraln dc
finite directions and they come to
the point with candor that the Ma
chiavellian diplomatists gifted with
the dexterities of doceiving speech
contemptuously term the bluntness
of the soldier.
But what could be more correct
than the cause of war as assigned
by this journal from which the ar
ticle is quoted? Trade rivalries—
class antagonism—racial and religi
ous antipathies?
In that the Army and Navy Jour
nal has mentioned every possible
direct cause of war and very clever
ly and pointedly and directly asks
which of these pacificists are going
to promote the abolition of these
war-producing conditions in modern
society.
Who blames the soldier profession
al or conscripted for insisting that
the army be increased? He knows
national solidarity, in trained num
bers. It is immaterial to him that
wars Should have some ethical justi
fication. All wars to the soldier
are just wars.
| But he sees a clear inconsistency
in those who have been profittin*
by a social and ethical condition
now prevails in crying peace, peace
| when there is no peace. And that
article suggests that to be sincere
in the pacificist movement, its pro
moters must not confine it to one
place or time but make it universal
and begin right at home whore they
can function most properly as well
as most effectively.
The military critic of the paci
ficists pierces the buncombe of sen
timent with which they surround
their acts, and insists that to pro
mote perfection among others, they
themselves must first be perfect.
It’s easy enough to murmur at and
criticize the mote in our neighbors
eye3 and to overlook the beam in
our own. But our neighbors are in
the same position precisely and over
| ook their beams to point out out
| motes. There has been no lofty
spirit in transforming the blood thai
I came to the United States from
i other lands to make this country's
massive wealth.
It' there has, where has it been
| in evidence? Not in Colorado, no'
in Lawrence, not in Patterson, no:
I in Youngstown, not in Michigan
| not in West Virginia.
1 in all that has been written con
cerning the building up of Americai
trade which of those writers hav<
j dwelt upon the necessity of doln{
! so because it increased the welfan
of the masses of the pocplo here'
Which of them have urged that the
■ tirst thought should be to have th<
masses comfortable and happy anc
well paid—well Instructed and sdu
cated, prosperous and with a fine
leisure to btill further improve theii
lives toward the highest ideals? No
a single one of them. But dozeni
of the leading men have declaret
that the workers must accept s
lower standard of living, have In
slsted that they must become mor<
and more thirfty and that a smalle:
scale of wages which would enabli
American industries to compete witl
: foreign trade after the war, mus
i become realized as the sine qua noi
: of national commercial success,
i And whose the benefit? Tin
i great masses of the people? Or Wal
r street? These are days when every
i one is talking preparedness. Th
l only Intelligible position is that o
the soldier. He knows that he wil
j be called upon with a paucity o
numbers to oppose possibly a grea
i army of invasion that may amoun
- to myriads. He doesnt like th
f prospect and agitates accordingly
- He wants more m n that in the mas
r of trained and efficient soldiers the
- will be safe themselves. Such a p<
- sition is logical as woll as being n
- stinctive—for the soldier.
i But what of the rest of the pec
i, pie? The great propertied interest
i and the employers want their mone
5 making plants protected and thed
- trade unrestricted, but they then
elves are not sufficient unit® them
lelves. Even if every busies man
vere trained for years in aJPlatta
>urg camp they would be Vower
ess and Incompetent to defend the
:ountry.
The defense of the United States
nust fall then upon the workers and i
iny plan of preparedness must con
ilder them. That’s obvious. It
aaa been obvious to the soldier lorn*,
»go. Between the professional sol
ller’s point of view and the business
man's point of vew there is*no real
sympathy. But little as there may
be. there is less between the pro
fessional soldier and the working
man. The professional soldier does ,
not consider the social facts sur-!
rounding the condition of the work-1
er. It Is immaterial to him whether ;
he is exploited to the uttermost limit
or not, providing he furnishes ma
terial for fighting.
But the worker surely has to be
shown that he has something worth
fighting for, and so far it is not In
evidence that he sees any such
thing. On the contrary, that man is
blind as a bat who has not noted
that the workers have found lots
to fight against right In the United
States. With what spirit is the
man who has stood hours in a bread
line, or tramped the country for
work, with no material interest in
any section of it, going to give his
life to maintain institutions that
have dealt so with him? It is true
that even in the greatest sufferers
from social injustice the national
spirit is mighty strong, but it be
comes finally benumbed in the
masses.
Repeatedly and not occasionally in
the papers of the workers one
notes sentiments which are de
nounced as disloyal, but what have
those people who so denounce such
sentiments done to promote loyalty
to the country and its institutions':
What publicist takes as much stock
of the ungodly mass of class deci
sions that have disgraced the courts
as he does of the vshoment class
consciousness of the radical agitat
ors? Not a one. And while every
one demands that the worker give
all that he has, his life, to the
safety of his country, the profiteers
are in their counting horses reckon
lng the profit and the loss of gov
ernment contracts and government
finances.
The men who como among the
workers and sweep them off theii
feet to support proparedness are
those who will say her* and nov
that social justice shall prevail firs;
and foremost at home, and that be
tore anything else that will be tin
foundation upon which the natioi
will build its preparedness to defent
itself.
But none of them talk of tha
Most of them boost preparednee
with a lot of Fourth of July shop
talk which has been repeated so
often that It has become meaning*
less. None of them consider the
problem of how the other half and
the bigger half lives. None of them
consider the results of any national
policy upon the largest portion of
the nation. None of them face with
candor and unafraid the problems J
that confront society and determine
that first of all these will be solved
so that never a man but will feel
and know that this Is a country
first of all for defending.
But right now, men have trouble
in persuading the masses that when
they are defending the country they
are defending not any abstract con
ception such as American ideals or
American democracy, but the con
crete facts of John D. Rockefeller
dom or Morgandom or Wall Street
financial and industrial overlords.
That's the fact that is faced. The
rapacity of these overlords of in
dustry and finance has eaten into
nothing more deeply than the pa
triotism of the people. Whence v,e
see develop leagues and associations
which repudiate the thought of pre
paredness, and think twice ere they (
shed their blood in defense of what
they believe to be the great capital
ist Interests.
The Army and Navy Journal,
purely unlntentlonaly, reads the pa-,
ciflcists a mighty important lesson. I
But not only the pacificists might
read learn and obtain wisdom from
the inwardly digestion of that sut
ject matter, but all these prepara
' tionists and pacificists alike.
It's surely a case of physician
heal thyself. It's surely a case where
treatment must begin a home. And
the sooner they were to begin the
better. But no one expects that,
it is impossible to conceive that the
selfish interests of the profiteers
would become altruistic over night.
Even the threat of a great national
danger would not do so. It has not
done it in any of the belligerent
countries and of a truth it certain
ly has not done it in the United
States during peace when danger
lurks unseen in every unfed body
and every hungry home.
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