LET US HAVE PEACE
Lathrop, John E.
Let Us Have Peace By JOHN E. LATHROP LET US PROMULGATE a constructive program on behalf of the advocates of disarmament and international peace. In a series of articles for La Follette's, I have...
...It will be answered by the war alarmists that it would be impossible and each nation would be in constant danger of the aggressions of some creditory power...
...And all this amounts to asking that we laugh in the face of the Prince of Peace, whose coming into this world was heralded as one who came to bring good will to men...
...In a series of articles for La Follette's, I have sought first to present the negative phases of the question, to show the weakness of the position of the war advocates and those who are responsible for entailing an annual burden of approximately $5,000,000,000 on the backs of the taxpayers of the great powers...
...The criticism almost universally passed on the peace advocates is that they never offer a constructive program...
...A First Step Proposed ABILL has pended in the House during the Sixty-first Congress, introduced by Congressman Robinson, of Arkansas, which provides that the President shall issue a call for a world parliament...
...They are asking an increase in the army from the present 70,000 men to 450,000 men...
...Do you begin to see the point...
...In frontier communities in the early days every man went armed...
...Must we not do something to check the military enthusiasts...
...Is it not feasible...
...THE SECRET OF IT.—"Why do you always put a pitcher of water and a glass on the table before an orator...
...William O. McDowell, of New York City, who has written a record of twenty years' devotion to the cause of international peace...
...every family "looked out for number one...
...It is true that the Douma is as yet weak and halting in the functions assigned and in their exercise...
...They are asking for large increases in the navy...
...It has been industriously advocated by Dr...
...Nevertheless, Russia and China, the last of the great powers, have finally adopted the principle of representative government...
...Washington Evening Star...
...Imagine, if you can, an organized community having submitted to it the proposal to dispense with the community police, and return to the crudity of having every citizen bear arms to protect himself against others...
...In my opinion, it could be accomplished by the assembling of a world parliament, simple in, its organization, and in which representatives of all the parliaments in the world should participate...
...How, then, could the great powers insure for all time international peace...
...ALL THAT A MAN HATH.—An automobile does not prove that a man has money but that he did have.—Judge...
...What a magnificent opportunity presents itself to the Chief Executive of this nation...
...Note this—for the first time in history every civilized power has a parliament...
...Every domicile was the headquarters of the police organization of that family...
...Ten men policed a city of 10,000...
...The bill has had earnest consideration by the House Committee on Foreign Relations, and has the enthusiastic support of Mr...
...That would be asking that community to do nothing more than is now done by the great powers...
...Presume this world parliament were to plan an international police navy in which any nation refusing to enter into the international police pact would be branded as an outlaw...
...The settlement increased and it became necessary, as well as economical and sensible, finally to organize a community police body...
...They are asking for four battleships a year...
...that hand's lame...
...I have not, as some eritics would make it appear, argued that wars are impossible for the future, but rather to show that wars are unnecessary...
...Here is a constructive program...
...It is true that the Assembly in China is in the process of outworking into a constitutional body...
...Foster, the Chairman...
...Lippin-cott's...
...The last of the great nations to adopt representative government have been Russia, with its Douma, and China, with its Assembly...
...In my judgment, the adoption of this measure as a law would be the first step in the actual solution of international peace...
...Let me shake the hand that shook the hand of Roosevelt...
...That," said the chairman of many reception committees, "is to give him something to do in case he forgets his piece and has to stop and think...
...Let us see if we cannot find a parallel in the evolution of our present social organization in the nation, which will lead us to the one device to make this plan workable...
...What nation could stand in the face of such an agreement...
...One hundred men a city of 100,000...
...The individual gave up the carrying of arms and two men bore arms in a village of 1,000 people and successfully kept the peace...
...An Opportunity for the President PRESUME that President Taft on the authority of Congress were to issue a call to all the great powers to send representatives to a world parliament to assemble in this country, and to continue its deliberations for six months...
...Presume that this war parliament were to work out a plan for world-wide disarmament and a cessation of the military activities of each nation, and presume such a plan to be put into operation...
...They are asking that the Panama Canal be fortified, notwithstanding the Suez Canal is unfortified...
...No, sir...
...That plan would not be an absolutely ultimate one, but an intermediate step toward the final, more nearly ideal, condition which some day will exist the world over...
...USED UP—"So you were introduced to Teddy Roosevelt this morning, eh...
Vol. 3 • March 1911 • No. 12
