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Making Tomorrows World By WALTER WILLIAMS, LL.D. CO tflk Schetl tf Jamrmbm ath Umtuntt, aAfiawO NOT PEACE, BUT A SWORD ! Aden, Arabia. Steaming across the "Mediterranean sea, the latest view of j Europe was of the Italian peninsula land of the Island of Sicily, where Mes tna, earthquake-overwhelmed, yet lies Is ruins. Three Italian war vessels lay at anchor In the southernmost harbor. Coming to the coast of Africa at Port 'Said, Egypt, northern gateway to the Suei canal, the tremendous contribu tion to the prosperity of peace, which the Frenchman DeLesseps gave to the world, the first objects seen were a dozen battleships of a French Med iterranean fleet Thus runs the Euro jean continent to naval display and all the expenditure that It makes nec essary. Blocking the path of prog ress by water is the battleship, barring the highway to prosperity upon land the army stands and even the air Is heavy with the shadows of war bal loons driven to and fro above the earth. Europe Is an armed camp and the seas around are roadsteads for the navies of many nations. Europe's War Fever. "Shall we permit the Mediterranean sea to be' a French lake?" says an Italian cabinet minister, and he pre sents to the new chamber of deputies a bill for $20,000,000 for naval con struction, four superdreadnaughta of 28,000 tODS each. "We must not be eclipsed by Germany," declares the French minister of war, and promptly the senators and deputies, amid fer vent appeals to national patriotism, enact into law a measure providing for three years, instead of two years, of compulsory military service. In Berlin a Zeppelin airship, built avow edly for military use, explodes, killing many persons. The war lord gives a military funeral with high honors to the dead, sends another airship to float above the capital that all may see and orders others to be construct ed with all possible speed. The fever ish struggle between European nations for the largest and strongest army and navy 6hows itself in the articles low 45,000 in 1908. and are now 54.843 The British navy numbers 146,000, the uerman 73,176, the United States 67,' 907 and the French 63,596 men. Profits In Armament and Coat. The KrupD trials in Germany show to what lengths In bribery the great armament firm at Essen, through its directors and managers, went In order to obtain contracts from the German government Indictments were found against the Krupp officers and agents, largely in consequence of revelations In the relchstag, by Llebknecbt, a So cial Democrat. They were charged with bribing members of the military and naval establishment between 1903 and 1913 and the disclosures at the trial proved their guilt More than this, however, these disclosures gave publicity to the enormous profits de rived by the Krupp concern and showed where the fines from the tax payers' pockets went The result Is to strengthen the cause of the advo cates of disarmament Patriotism, which bluff old Doctor Johnson called the last refuge of scoundrels, is shown to be in naval expenditure arenmant the first resort of thieves. But war vessels must be nn rat ri and maintained as well as built and here the owner of coal mines and. more recently, since oil is used for fuel, the owner of oil nroDertles la. In various ways and for his own ner. sonal ends, a sealous advocate of mora and bigger ships. A dreadaaughi burns 40 tons of best coal everv hour. British landlords draw royalty of SO cents a ton for coal mined. Every British dreadnaught In use, therefore, means 200 a day to the owner of the coal royalty. The "Naval Holiday" PnoouL "Perhaps that Is why," said Kelr Rardle, the British labor leader, "some of the peers and their friends in the house of commons are so keen to in crease the navy!" Perhaps, also, it Is one reason why the nobly eloquent appeal for a year's naval holiday of m -i.' - ' A ft ... ! .1 'J 1 h -'-n v-v, -,v, A -v-,M, V .m.t a German Battleship In Harbor. In the press, in the debates in parlia ment, in the talk In the street, in the uniforms on the roadways, in the ships on the sea. And in order to give himself war-fever, which keeps him exhausted for other and better things, the European patient taxes .himself to an almost incredible amount. He pays his money for an irritant unto trouble the while social progress lags and men and women and children suffer for lack of opportunity to live. " Upon the navy is today's largest ex penditure. Navy leagues are formed, sometimes as In Germany with Impe rial patronage, in order to stimulate interest and create a public opinion .which will support larger appropria tions. The press is used, whenever, possible, to give publicity to argu ments for more ships and to stir na tional pride by statements, often un true, as to what other nations are doing or intend to do. Staggering Cost of Navies. The figures showing the extent to which the taxpayers of the nations of the world permit themselves to be fined for their navies are staggering. The naval expert of the London Dally Telegraph all great journals of Eu rope have naval experts, sometimes only in the pay of the Journal fur nished the figures showing the total naval expenditure for 1904-6 and the total voted for 1913-14 by the princi pal, nations of the world. They show these expenditures: 1904-5. 1913-14. Great Britain, $205,310,375 $235,108,180 United States. 100,901,550 147,494,335 Russia 69,749,530 121,247,270 Germany ..... 60,520,000 115,196.929 France.. ' 61,912,165 102,238,816 Italy v 25,000,000 . 60,789,230 Japan ........ 10,510,740 49,304,060 Austria- Hungary ..r 13,077,300 30,032,755 In the cases' of 'Great Britain, tha United States, . Russia, Germany, France and Japan, the totals this year are the highest recorded. . The figures for the personnel are also the highest on the list, with the exception of ihoiw of Russia, wUch, after Lsins LjCw 70.000 In 1S04 acJ IZtZ. cyt:-: I '.- Winston Churchill, Great Britain's first lord of the admiralty, an office corresponding to that of secretary of the navy held in President Wilson's cabinet by the distinguished American Journalist Josephus Daniels, fell, in many high European quarters, on deaf ears. Mr. Churchill's words are worth while quoting again and tgs'n. be cause, however apparently ineffective they are for the moment, they mark the beginning of a revolt among statesmen against the enormous ex penditures for navy and army that is growing to large proportions all over I Europe, however concealed or belittled Dy me so-caiiea pairiouc or jingo press. "The proposal I put forward in the name of the British government," said Mr. Churchill, "for a naval holiday Is quite simple. Next yeai- apart from the Canadian ships or their equivalent apart from anything that may be re quired by any development in the Mediterranean we shall lay down four great ships to Germany's two. Now we say to Germany: 'If you will put ofT beginning to build your two ships for 12 months, we will put off in absolute good faith the building of our four ships for exactly the same period.' " That would mean a com plete holiday for one year as far as big ships for Great Britain and Ger many were concerned. He recognized it would not be possible for either Germany or Great Britain to do this, unless other great powers agreed to do likewise. "If such arrangements were reached. It could only be by agreement contingent upon tie result of negotiations with other great pow ers. But supposing Great Britain and Germany took the lead, do you not think there would be a good prospect of success? At the end oft the year you would have all these great, coun tries that .would agree to such' pro posal just as great and Just as sound as if they built all ships as at pres ent designed. Scores of millions fc'ould be rescued for the progress of Viankind." .Mr. Churchill Bald he was quite lm t vtous' to the objections that would be raised by the great armament firms of England and other countries. "They must be the servants," he said, "and not the masters. Some people will try to Involve by suggestion the naval expenditure in a cloud of suspicion. Let them mock. I am convinced that a reduction of naval expenditure is necessary for the welfare of civilisa tion. It Is a question that does not only affect governments and diplomats but concerns parliaments and the peo ple. We must not be discouraged by a want of success. The time will come when the present expenditure and competition in naval armaments will be a thing of the past and when the great naval powers will look back upon It with feelings of regret" The significance of these words In the making of a different world tomorrow comes from the fact that they are the carefully-considered utterance of the head of the navy of the greatest sea power In the world. Finance Against Increased Armament. Other forces are being brought to bear, though as yet vainly, in favor of limitation of naval expenditure. Some a larger number than the ordi nary news-reports of the day Indicate a number, too, that Is growing In extent and Influence, would substitute a peace policy for arbitration by the sword and thus make unnecessary, ex cept for police duty, the army and the navy. Among the "pacifists," as the advocates of world peace are de scribed, It Is Interesting to Americans to note that the European press class Woodrow Wilson, the president of the United States, and Champ Clark, the speaker of the house of represen tatives. In Europe the financial Inter ests of the continent have been more effective than the eloquent advocates of peace In preventing war. It is an open secret that two years ago these financial Interests averted a general war on the continent They are now becoming aroused to the evils result ing from "the mad rush of Increasing armaments." Disarmament Sentiment Growing. Sentiment on the continent of En- rope is changing toward a saner policy of disarmament and of arbitra tion as opposed to increasing military establishments and appeals to the sword, though this sentiment has not yet been able to express Itself In no- litical international agreements and legislation. The reneated strife in tha Balkans la only an apparent exception In the general trend. The raw, un disciplined peoples of the mountains set their neighbors' houses on fire. That the conflaeration Reread no far ther was due to the self-restraint of more civilized Europe and to a senti ment for peace, which was non-ex istent a few years ago. AH this must be written- with some reservation. The mlllenium of neace and Inter national (rood will Is not Imminent. but notwithstanding the portentous ngures of expense which have been quoted, there are signs of the dawn. Supremely suggestive, perhaps, is the behavior of European nations in re cent crises of international disagree ment Fifty years ago, twenty years, possibly ten years ago, these crises would have resulted in war. Today they have been settled bv conference. The recent treaties have been written with the pen and not the sword. They smell of tobacco smoke, not powdei And not what a man says when noth ing is happening to him reveals his real self so much as what he does when something is hacnenine to him. And nations, which are but collections of men, are, In this, as otherwise, like unto them. They are many men, but with the same mind. Church Influence for Peace. The powerful aid of the sDlrltnal group of the church in Europe is cast ror disarmament and peace. The church exists under many names and With doctrines and deeds much at variance. Set aside the large section or a co-called Christian church which drills soldiers in Ulster, lnsnlres blood- ritual persecutions In Russia, blesses statues to Moloch in Germanv. and worships Mars and Mercury, militar ism and commerce, everywhere. TTnto these who call themselves Christians Jehovah Is a man of war and the Christ came into this world to bring not peace but a sword. They, for consideration of temporal power and arternoon teas and fat livings, are helping him to this end all over this continent of Eurone. Verilv. thev have their reward. Are they not chap-lains-ln-ordlnary to Mars at a good stipend which enables them to dress in purple and fine linen and fare sumptuously every day? Ona meets and hears them in all European lands. It is another and different ernnn In the church. In mosque and synagogue, in cathedral and chanel. in monastery and mission house, which. Increas ingly potent and numerous, pleads for peace and spiritual, as onnnand to merely temporal, things. Almost or entirely a paradox is it that the trav elers who look below the surface,, who go In and out among the religious Anders of the European peoples, agree that the spiritual forces are reassert ing themselves In a. surprising way and that, despite the blatant material ism of the European wosld of today, the world-ofTomoiT Is to Tenade by and for the things' of the spirit In, this . factt lies large ,Bope lor the advocates of peace and human broth erhood. Even amid the throbbing of the war-drum he who listens - may hear "the still small voice." "The mightiest of the spiritual leaders In. Europe la his holiness, the pope. To an American journalist granted an au dience at the Vatican, said the kindly old gentleman -who la the head of the great Catholic church: "I hope that your great nation will spend Its time In strengthening itself In all good things and refrain from war; wars tre fatal to the progress of mankind." 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