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Nome. Alaska, February •J'J, VUG.
George Washington's birthday to
day will be celebrated throughout
the United States, r.nd it is dollars
to doughnuts that its celebration
will be made the medium for •»
strong preparedness campaign.
It is a fact that Washington has
been quoted more than any of the
revolutionary fathers as the great
authority for a strong mlHtary estab
lishment, and the fact is quite ably
ignored that it was against that as
much as against other thing that
Washington warned in his last ad
dress.
". Hence likewise they
will avoid the necessity of those
overgrown military establishments
which under any form of govern
ment are inauspicious to liberty
and which are Regarded as particu
larly hostile to republican liber
ty'.
Yet it is under the names of these
great ones that the historical neces
sity of preparedness is now urged in
insidious phrases by those who fear
to name the real meaning of pre
paredness and also its real neces
sity.
It is not on account of its logical
necessite as a counterpart of an Im
perialistic capitalism; not. because
the swollen fortunes of plutocracy
1 'will" attract the rival am
bitions of the plutocracy
of other nations, not because of the
fact that the United States is no
longer a self contained republican
democracy, but a power with desti
nies shaped in the interests of
world trade, world finance, world
industry.
A distinguished eastern divine
urging preparedness in a sermon,
said that Europe regards America as
a nation of money grabbing mad
men, and refuses to take its peace
talk seriously. He said in the ab
sence of any force behind Hie
United States peace activities, armed
force, men, munitions and ships of
war, the nations after the war would
treat the United tSates as a weak
ling.
It made one sick, he said to think
that little Holland and little Switzer
land had voices r< garihd a more
potent than-that i f ihi-. .' y.
Why a man gives vent to such il
logical views should be regarded as
distinguished it is impossible to say,
for there is neither rhyme nor re.i
sou in his rant.
Former Ambassador Choate said
that the United States was the most
hated nation in tile world today,
and this declaration is seized upon
by the munitionists and the prepara
tiunisls where they are not one or
the same thing, as they almost il
wa.vs are directly or indirectly, to
show that being hated this country
should prepare for war.
So far we notice that no move has
been made that ns a preliminary to
war preparedness along the entire
Canadian frout there should be
erected a series of forts strongly
garrisoned; that on the great Lakes
there should be powerful ships of
war and that all treaty agreements
to the contrary notwithstanding,
tliis should be done.
And why is this? If President
Wilson says that *the United States
navy should lie the largest in the
World, he doubtless lias in vie*.
preparedness against England and
the llritlsh empire of which Canada
is no mean part. To follow the logic
of his navy demands therefore, it
would be as reasonable to urge that
the boundary line between Hritlsu
American territory and the United
States should bristle with big guns
and'resound to the tramp of iirmec
millions to defend against invasion
Hut that is not urged for the very
simple reason that it would reduce
the preparedness campaign to a
logical absurdity; it would show the
people of the United States that this
hysterical ranting about great ar
mies and greater navies Is, fcj.,r:,
fifths politics and one fifth tenor
ism.
The idea of the “distinguished di
vine”. that the peace proposals of
the United Stat's would he received
with greater attention if the United
States were armed cap a pie is pre
posterous, and could only be formed
in the mind of one who has been
subjected to a terrorism wherein
might will instinctively appeal as
the right.
Not all of this preparedness ta”;
is rot by a darn sight. Not all of
it' is the elevated clap trap or a po
litician trying to take the wind out
of his opponent’s sails. That’s
cheap politics and dangerous but it
will have little ultimate weight.
The candid view is the view that
isays that commerce is latent war.
That the commercial rivalry under
capitalism gives rise to antagonistic
impulses in the ration. That under
capitalism within the shell or peace
is developed the fledgeling of open
violence called war. That In the
struggle for industrial, financial and
commercial supremacy forces are
brought into play which place the
nations and the interests of those
who rule the nations in direct and
conflicting opposition. That the
peaceful business man is the man
who develops war and that it Is as
a matter of hard fact merely the
final evolution of a conditio ofs
things began when the effort to ac
quire at someone’s expense started
commercial enterprise expanding
beyond the confines of the nation.
We believe firmly that given ca
pitalism, wars are a certainty and
that every sort of attitude to the
contrary is moonshine pure and
simple
Just as long as nationalism per
sists and the world is divided into
races and peoples and nations each
with positions to be upheld only
with constant struggle and constant
effort, a direct antagonism such as
war can be predicated with reason
able. certainty.
In this European war we miss the
entire lesson if we do not realize
that it is not racial antipathy, not.
1 personal ambition, not any elevated
principle that caused it, but the
great and continuous and ever active
rivalry of the nations themselves:
territorially, commercially, financi
ally and industrially.
I In the first place it was' the terri
i torial overlords who planned it and
j who caused it. it was promoted
[during peace by financial arrange
j ments with commercial alliances in
-control of the industrial organiza
tions of the nations. The political
aspect, given a position of factitious
I importance in the origin or the war,
was only a subordinate one, and at
that a reflex of the greater econo
mic forces which precipitated it.
it can be granted that there were
i matters can hardly be called eco
nomic which entered into the war,
but they are elements which befog
rather than explain the real cause.
Thus to the Teuton, the Teuton
kultur is a very real thing if unin
telligible to the enemy. To the
Slav, the Pan Slavism ideal Is not
such an irridoscont and threatening
dream as it is to the Teuton. To
the British and the French consti
tutional freedom Is an actuality
worth fighting and dying for But
none of these things are the basis
upon which a war condition is built.
They are merely architectural orna
ments which deceive the purpose of
the structure.
We see absolutely nothing in Am
erican. capitalism as represented by
Standard Oil, by the great financial
commercial, industrial organizations
say, which would incline us to think
that their methods are less ferocious
or less ruthless than the territorial,
commercial, industrial, flnanciai
magnates of Europe Not a
bit of it. They In their
relation to their employees are as
oppressive, ’ ae donririeerlifg, r da ofJ
fleidus as a«y *re irf -Europe arftt
whore they are not, they are a*
they are because of the tendency to
resist which American employees
have repeatedly manifested and
which they do manifest. Where
the great organizations manifest a
tendency to improve the conditions
of the workers they do so in this
country for the purpose of prevent
ing the workers themselves getting*
desperate. It is not because It is
inately a characteristic of American
employers. Quite the contrary. Am
erican employers in othor countries
have shown a fine tendency to better
the instruction of local magnates
when they had reduced the workers
to a condition of peonage.
Whatsoever betterment in condi
tions exist in the United States exist
because there prevails and has pre
vailed a system for which Lincoln
thanked God that it did exist, which
entitled men to strike whenever
they felt like it. It is wholly an il
lusory idea that the American mag
nate has any higher Ideals than his
European brethren, because ho is
more hypocritical and is not above
quoting the Declaration of Inde
pendence to the starving man in the
breadline unconscious of its insult
ing mockery to such an individual.
And because this is so, because the
American capitalism is own brother
to the capitalism of Europe, with
all the family traits accentuated in
his person we can infallibly argue
that he is likely to be involved in
the same kind of squabbles with
other capitalist nations eventually.
This being so. and the capitalists
know it and feel it in their bones,
the certainty that in the course cl
time the United States will be called
upon to effect the ends of capital
istic destiny and imperial
istic fate by means of arms, men
and ships, is the real solid founda
tion whoreon this argument for
preparedness rests.
If capitalism is to remain tho eco
nomic system in the United States
it is only a matter of time until
the United States is involved In war.
That’s flat, and not all the anti-pre
pat edness arguments of anyone,
whether pacificist, Fordite or social
ist will change that fact. It is true
as truth itself and in the face or
such a condition the nation has only
two alternatives: To change '.he
system or to arm from head to foot,
to pile on arms upon arms, to stack
armories with millions of rilies and
houses full of high explos’ves, to
construct forts along yie entire
frontier and coast, to force conscrip
tion upon the people, to compel the
entire activities of the country to ne
subordinate to national prepared
ness and to out-Germanize the Ger
mans in the militaristic madness
that capitalism forces as a mattetr
of national necessity.
That's the way to argue prepared
ness t nat is not answcrabie. .liven
capitalism and* you will eventually
have war. Out of this th$re is no
escape. It is os certain as that the
day follows right. It is positively
the pith of the entire preparedness
movement, but bscause it involves
the capitalist system in doubt and
^questioning, none of the prepara
tionists dare to uttor it.
The most hopeless of all things in
the present turbulent process of hi
story is the fact that American lead
ers openly foel satisfied that after
the war in Europe is concluded It
will lead to war agalnct the United
States. Why such an otherwise un
intelligible position should be taken
up with the powers subjecting them
selves in their fratricidal struggle to
national exhaustion is only to be
explained by the instinctive feeling
among the privileged classes that
they will incur the resentment of
other powers by their methods.
Again quoting from Washington,
what a change has come over the
situation, since his day "Observe
good faith and justice towards all
nations. Cultivate peace and har
mony with all. Religion and moral
ity enjoin this conduct; and can it
be that good policy does not equal
ly enjoin it? It will be worthy ot
a free and enlightened and at no
distant date a great nation, to give
mankind the magnanimous and too
novel example of a people always
guided by an exalted justice and
benevolence. In the execu
tion of such a plan nothing is
more essential than that permanent
inveterate antipathies against parti
cular nations and passionate at
tachment for others should be* ex
cluded and that in place of them
just and amicable feelings towards
all should be cultivated”. So, but
that was written a century or more
ago. In those days of foreign half
i billion loans and prosperity based
upon munitions, the Colonel would
doubtless bo justified in terming
those ideas somewhat mollycodd
leian.
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