The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 31, 1916, Page 11

‘The president of the Central Labor Council of Seattle, Hulet M. Wells, belleves that the present war has demon. @treted, the eame as other ‘ware have, that a nation can: not carry on an aggressive war @gainet another if its base of Operation is far removed. He concludes that our geo- jeal position is the con- argument net pre. Ex-Judge Donworth, Hule Paredness on any large scale, Former United States Judge George Donworth, on the other hand, strongly urges preparedness and, wering the charge that it would bring about an eagerness for war, declares be would rather trust to the restraint of the American people, fully prepared, than to the Willingness to arbitrate on the part of other nations, prepared, and, knowing that, the U. 8, 1s not Prepared. Thus you have the Great Amert- can Debate discussed on both aides. | The Star believes there ts no | Question of greater moment than | preparedness, and it demands deep, careful attention from the people | It te with this {dea tn mind that tt |seeks the pressions of opinion from the citizens of Seattl |. Following are some letters writ- jten by Seattle citizens who were | Pequested to give their views: SEATTLE MEN WRITE ON PREPAREDNESS. t M. Wells, and Others Discuss the Subject! | not have to depend upon the peace. ful inclinations of the foreigner to avoid trouble. Our own proparea- ness becomes the strongest argu }ment in his mind tn favor of con | elitation The underlying thought of those who favor unpreparedness ts that |® state of preparation would impel |the Amertoan people to go to war | when rightfully they should not do so. As the American people are lcertatnly no worse, or more war |like, than the people of other na- tions, this Iine of argument, {f cor. |rect, would demonstrate that the other nations which are prepared | will be taduced by thelr prepared ness to war upon us when serious | differences arise, | I would infinitely prefer to trust |to the good sense and even temper of the American people prepared | for war, than to have them unpre pared and have to trust the good | sense and even temper of the oth er nation, In a nutshell, the ques tion Is, shall we repose trust tn }our own good sense and self-re | straint, or depend on the other fe low for the exercise of th very | essential qualities Editor The Star: Your editorial, | hope you will continue your |“Preparedness, the Acid Test of |SDl¢ presentation of this subject Americaniam,” in the issue of The| "ti! congress enacts a system of Patterns Will Please Star of March 27, fs a presentation of facts and princip! |which cannot be forcibly the attention of the American people at this time. You are rendering splendid service to the cause of adequate national de fense in presenting these ideas with clearness and strength. Those who argue against par edness tell us that we should talk oO our differences with other na |tieas, and adjust them amicably A proper appreciation of what ts ;meant by “Preparedness” docs not for conciliation, The idea is dt- |Feetly the contrary. If the other nation Is prepared, and we are not, we trust entirely to the conciliat- ing spirit of the other nation. We are helpless. The other people do the deciding. If we are prepared as well as the other nation, we do FRECKLES March Woret Menth Fer This Trou ble—How to Remove Easily There's a reason why nearly ev- in March, but there is also a remedy for these ugly biemishes, and no one need stay freckled. Simply get an ounce of othine, double strength, from your drug gist and apply a little of it night and morning, and in a few days you should see that even the wor: Uncle Gam 0. 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Wells President Central Labor Council | | Editor The Star: your editorial summing up the case for “preparedness.” No stronger presentation of that side of the aub- Jeet could have been made. you have endeavored to be con- servative Is evidenced by your frank admission of two damaging first, that you “know that there In danger in preparedness,” second, your tacit admission, borne out by) previous editorials, that profit-| hungry Interests are behind the! “preparedness” campaign. I cannot bring myself to balleve| | that an or any test, of Ameri I do not think {t ts neces-| sary to prove “whether the United) | States fs a nation or a mass of ecat- | tered, wrangling and selfish locall- Provinelalism has no bear fing on this {sene. We have been ion for 100 years, and have eo far succeeded that state lines are artificial and con- fusing and “state rights” « relic of the past. ‘Territorial or racial considers tions do not enter to any extent into this controversy over tary policy. The cleavage ts the line of principle. On the one side are those who hate war, and hate {t enough to try to prevent it. On the other side there are various elemen some sincere, some ig- norant, some stn ‘There are, first, some who have | studied this problem and honestly believe we are in danger. In this category I must place those who contro! the policy of The Star, but I believe that the studious, honest and disinterested advocates of the! new militarism are relatively few. The professional militarists are, of course, on the same side. So are | all the manufacturing ghouls whose bank rolls will fatten from trading in the tools of death. Add to these a large number of frothy-minded indivi s whose sole idea of patriotism is to shout for the army and navy. Then there aro a still larger number of common citizens not accustomed to doting much In dependent thinking, who have been | weadly scared by all the clamor. That ti in about all except the politicians. It 1s almost inconceivable to me that for a paltry political job, men shoul@ be willing to throw prin ciple to the winds and appeal to the basest passions of humanity But how else can be explained the| unanimity with which opponents of |the administration attacked every pacific symptom which the prest. dent displayed? Mr. Wilson was against militarism, The finest thing he ever said was that “there fa such a thing deing too proud to fight.” It was laughed to scorn by his political enemies, who | launched a campaign of hysteria to sweep him out of office. Some men would have stood by their guns, Little as I admire Bryan, I believe he woulé have done it and gone down to defeat. The martyr role did not appeal to Mr Wilson. He started a back-fire campaign of bis own and saved himself. Such {s the history of this agita- tion. There ts now @ “popular de- mand” for a military program Please do not call It a spontaneous demand. Editors, of all men, know better than that. I congratulate you again upon! your frank statement that wars will not end until we end the social system that causes war. That is my bellef also. I would abolish the greater evil which comprehends the } Editor The Star: Those who op- T have read) STAR—FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1916. PAGE 11. cannot find an army officer any where at any time who will not urge military tnere It 19 pro fessional tnatinct. Moreover, we do not hesitate to discard such opinions when itvwults us, as for tn stance, In the case of a rear a® miral’s foolteh talk about the Brem- erton navy yard. It is impossible for any power to separate Itself from tts base by some thousands of miles and wage a winning fight against a nation such as ours. Without a ship, with out a fort, without even a big gun, }a handful of farmers, armed with rifles and rapid firers, taxed the| powers of the British empire to} subdue them, The empire was too far from {ts base, | Has this war proved anything that should change our ideas? With only decrepit Turkey t in the beginning, the allie |stve in the East failed to get a} |toe hold Too far from ite base! Why did the victorious German army, pursuing an army of Infertor Jorgantzation and scanty ammunt- tion, fat! to reach Riga and Petro-/ grad? The samo reason that broke the invading army of Napoleon. | What else has the great war) shown? It has shown that great) fortresses crumble while simple ditches prove tmpregnabdle, It has shown the wonderful defensive power of the cheap little submarine Bulla all the submarines you want. | | We don't mind that. Store a mil-| Hon rifles tn the arsenals, if you | want to provide against some imag inary contingency, but don’t force | military training upon our boys and warp thelr immature minds with) | talse tdeals. | Don't butid a big army and navy,| } for inevitably, with the resultant pride in !t, will come the desire | We have no en now, But when we they will get us en | get the gu emtes. | Lat us forget this foolish panic Let us forget the dreams of em-| pire, Ours is the prouder privilege to lead the world In higher fields | of human endeavor, substituting new tdeals for the traditions of the | black and bloody past | M. WELLS. nULE By Geo. A. Virtue President Virtue Heal Betate Co. I agree with Editor The Star your preparedness editorial {n Monday's issue in almost every particular. 1 regret that, for protection, wo seem forced to arm. But when the nations of the high- est civilization spring at each oth ers’ throats, and treat all agree ments as scraps of paper, and dis regard all treaty rights, it fs high time that we prepared for any emergency, for our turn may come next. Lat us not follow the lead of the fanatical ones and go beyond rea son—one can overtnsure, or overdo any good thing. I would not have A CHILD DOESN'T LAUGH AND PLAY IF CONSTIPATED If Peevish, Feverish and Sick,| Give “California Syrup of Figs.” Mother! Your child isn't nat- urally cross and peevish, See ! tongue is coated; this is a sure| sign its little stomach, liver and) bowels need a cleansing at once. When listless, pale, feverish, tut | of cold, breath bad, throat sore, doesn’t eat, sleep or act naturally, has stomacheche, diarrhoea, re- member, a gentle liver and bowel cleansing should al ‘s be the first treatment given Nothing equals “California Syrup of Figs” for children’s ills; give a | teaspoonful, and in a few hours all|!s, groping after 1d lthe foul waste, sour bile and fer-| War should come upon us, since we | menting food which ts clogged in) the bowels passes out of the ays-| tem, and you have a well and play-| ful child again. All children love! miess, delicious “fruit Iax-| 8 to effect “Inside” cleansing. Direc. tlons for babies, children of all/ the bottle | Keep {t handy fn your home. | little given today saves a sick child| tomorrow, but get the genuine. Ask your druggist for a 50-cent bottle of “California Syrup of Figs,” then} look and see that it is made by the “California Fig Syrup Company.” c leas, but since you think that ts impossible, I will meet your on| your own ground. | If 1 were a European pacificist, | probably so far as a practical pol-| {ey was concerned, | would have to! confine myself to efforts for revo-| lutionary social changes. [ prob-| ably would not advocate disarma-| ment in my own country while men-| But we live in America, and there | {# no menace except from within. | The geographical reason for a| pacific policy 1s not merely one of] the arguments, It {8 the all-suffl-| cient reason. It is an answer so conclusive that no serious attempt is made to meet it, and you, Mr.| Editor, in your comprehensive article, have not touched ft. All the armament in the world cannot protect as we are protected by those thousands of miles of ovean, Army officers’ opinions on this subject mean nothing. 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VIRTUE. By Geo. B.1 Lamping Former Adjutant General Editor The Star: Your virile ar. ticle on preparedness in Monday's issue of The Seattle Star should be to the unbiased as clear as the noon-day sun. Proper military with the world afire, is vital to our existence as a free natior n. Never tn the world’s history, | with the great powers at war, has a weak or unprepared nation es- caped being blotted out. Such would be the case with our nation, intelligent reat as it , if a great have aot found ourselves in respect to being able to defend ourselves. Real preparedness must mean getting ready for any emergency of our whole people and an adoption of a system as democratic as it is possible to make it with military efficiency. The increase of our | ages and grown-ups are plainly on/ regular army and the payment of our militia is not preparedness. In fact, both acts are directly in conflict with the spirit of our tn stitutions. Businessmen's camps and all such clap-trap is not proper preparedness, It 1s all very spectacular to rend prominent men attending nes# men attending such camps do individually, like- | wise do the men jn our militia, Their wholeheartedness and spirit of sacrifice are to be com- mended The militia has been, and always | will be, an absolute failure, becay the system is wrong, defective and | pernicious | Our regular army should be plac- ed at the number that is only nec- essary for an adequate national po-| Hoe, and then every man physically able should be required to serve a) term of enll ment in & national) giving at least one | organized for month or mor@ each year to field | To Fashion-Lovers We take pleasure In announcing the OPENING of a New BRANCH OFFICE and SHOW ROOM OF The ELITE PATTERN SERVICE, Inc. 1020 SECOND AVENUE SEATTLE Here will be shown for our read et designe in Crine- full line of Tiewue Patterns and current ienues of ELITE STYLES The Magasine of Sartorial Delights 25 CENTS PER COPY April inwue for sale at all newsdealers. oe practices, an@ certain evenings in armory Grill and target practice. Such a force directly under the national government, taught and drilled by military officers who are Proficient in their profession, should not be available in cases of strikes or local disturbances, and used only at the call of the national government in cases of emergency. Whether a man {s rich or poor, his services are available under the constitution, any time, by our gov- ernment, but the problem is to | make his services of va'"> In case of emergency. All war is the aggrandizement of the well-to-do at the expense of the poor, and under the volunteer sys- tem of raising armies, the prosper ous and easy living are the last to volunteer. In {ts final analysts the more prospe: and wealthy who have the greater ease and luxuries of life, should be the first to offer themselves in defense of the gov- ernment in case of need, as certain- ly they have more enjoyment of life and more to defend than the | i Tr) RUD p hod Manta | { t=) oT jai tony 1 ay Re vaya pa A very poor. However, any real must be @ system that extends thruout our wonderful country and the system should be such that would make rich and poor serve alike, shoulder to shoulder, with the honors and promotions going to the most capable. Such a system would be the es sence of true democracy and would meet the needs and spirit of our free institutions. Yours very truly, GEO. B. LAMPING.