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THE ONLY WAY TO AVOID

WAR:"

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

(RY WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.))

What is the object of the League of Nations and what does is propose to do The objecs is to avoid war as far as pos sible. It is to make peace as permanent as it can be made.

How does it do it? It does it by four great steps. The first is Article VIII, the armament article. It declares it to be in the interest of peace that there should be a reduction of all the arma ments in the world as far as possible. Sigations of

with national safety and the

of the League. It directs the council to prepare #1 pina for tbut reduction. and the council to take a

military commission to assist it The council then takes up the matter of receiving information which the nations covenant to give as to all existing arma- ments. Then the cou

makes the the council

reduces the armament and Exes the pla pleted,country

limit That plan, when com submitted to all the govern ments. Each government studies with a to its own limitations, and i limitations with respect to

to the limitations

Fie

of

it own

uther

governments. argues out the question, and negotiates, and fully a voluntary agreement is reached

REDUCTION OF ARMAMENTS.

agreement is

When that votion to each nation

reached with

proportionate to its needs, then the conn- tries covenant to keep within that limit for not more than ten years, there being a revision before the end of ten years. If during that time any contingenes re- quires the increasing the limit of any nation the council nas authority, to in- erense it. Emergencies. On the other

erting 4 check against disproportit, there is increase, for that council acts unanimously, and we can have a member on that council and no

limit can be increased without our consent.

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Now, what is the objection to this? It is said that this will paralyze our arm of defense, subject our homes and fire sides and free institutions to destruction and lay us naked to our enemies. That is eloquent, but there is not a a scintilla fact to sustain it, not a scintilla. It is w reduction of the armament so that armament will be defensive anth

not offen sive, so it shall contain no temptation to war.

H

of

While we may be said to lay ourselves naked

to our enemies, they lay

themselves naked to

In other words, the con-

vention is only as ordinary agreement as to style or latitude in dress-war dress.

That is all it is. This whole war in its character of human disaster has come frain the race for armament. It began away back with Bismarck in the develop ment of Prussia into the German Empire. when he said he would do it by blood and iro

The Rais had the dream of universal dominion. And to assist him in that he took

this wonderful military establish- ment and enlarged it, and that enlarge ment went on from year to year, conscrip tion of two years, of all the youth of the empire, with a reserve of these trained soldiers, after that service by from di or seven years in addition.

Strategic railways, great manufactur. ers of ammunition artillery, small artus, explosives everything was done that science could suggest or experience dictate with reference to making that military establishment the strongest in the world. The Germans stimulated action in their allies, Austria and Italy.

Conscription went on in both these countries. France and Russin were roused by fear, of invasion, and so they went on year after year and decade after decade, until in 1914 these armaments had reached an enormous figure, far beyond anything ever contemplated. is what bro

about the war, brought The evil effects were fourfold. It loaded the poor people of Europe with over whelming taxation. It took unt of the life of all the youth, two or three years of their producing capacity. It gave a truculence, a chip-on-the-shoulder dis position and temptation to war, a bully. tendency to the Kaiser, who felt the

ngth

of this

this military establishment i so that when he went into conference with other nations and came out winner, ho told his people that he won by standing forth is shining armour, by rattling his sword in its scabbard.

TIME TO STRIER.

And when 1914 came he had won in the race. Russia bad not completed her strategic railways. Frince had not com- picted her plan of artillery or conscrip tion. And he said. "Now, is the time to strike: Our enemies are in a roundition where we can strike them and win!' And when the Serbian dificulty came on

told Emperor Francis Joseph.

north on a vacation, apparently, and then you put in the altimatum and when I hear of it I will be surprised and back," and he did. But," No conferences with other And there, were none. And

will hurry

he suitd. nations.

war was one

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"All grew out Chormous armament.

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ment and the opportunity for destruction Machinery was stolen from Belgium inIs there a man or woman with onl

that this armament gave. to interfere with her industrial so dead to the welfare of mankind, of his order future, so that when these nations were conquered, not only would their armies people and the nations of the world, be conquered but their commercial WH

who does not long for some means of pre- supremaey would be injured and their venting a recurrence of that awful rece power of competition would be forever alternative unless we adopt some means for armament which in the inevitable destroyed.

of stopping it! The League of Nations in the remedy.

And then the nation of neonles

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