Word: militariste
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...statement that "we know as certainly as we know anything that the language of big guns alone is able to command respect for any nation." Does Germany, the country of big guns, command the respect of the world? It was not so long ago that an even more cynical militarist, Napoleon, made a similar statement, "God is on the side of the heaviest artillery...
...nearly as I can gather, the militarists' arguments in support of that premise are somewhat as follows: Man has always fought; therefore he will always continue to fight. It is true that the world is advancing, but--look at Europe. (Here the pacifists may be pardoned for a reference to the United States and Canada). All law and order, all national and international equilibrium, are ultimately based upon arms, proceeds Mr. Militarist. One enthusiastic "Amateur Soldier" even suggests that government is merely a matter of brute force. Others are frequently heard to say that though perhaps force is not always...
...answer of the militarist doubtless is that he is quite ready to give up armaments as soon as the other nations do, but till then let us protect ourselves. And it is just there that the pacifist of today, and especially of the United States, has an opportunity unequalled in all history to serve the cause of civilization. When the present war is over the belligerents will be in a state of exhaustion from which they cannot recover in less than a generation at least. Men and women throughout the entire civilized world will have endured and seen suffering such...
...well that college men, especially, should perceive clearly the fallacies of the militarist arguments. For Germany or Russia to adopt the Swiss system in place of their present enormous armaments would be a step away from militarism, a measure of progress; but for the United States to adopt such a plan would be a distinctly retrogressive policy. Moreover, if there is any one lesson that the present war has taught, it is that, for us, at least, such a program as this is totally unnecessary. Neither our geographical nor our political position warrants any specific preparation for war Instead...
...extent that they succeed in the purpose for which they were founded, will the Summer Training Camps stifle the university man's belief in the chance for peace now and today. The man who served in an army reserve of any kind may believe he is thoroughly anti-militarist in spirit, but the insurance in which he invests is always of one kind,--a little bigger and a little stronger army or navy; he is never the man who will be found taking difinite steps forward on the only path which can ever lead to real progress...