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...United States. Would a compulsory military law work differently in this country? An indication of what would happen here is shown in the working of the Slater Bill recently passed in New York State, requiring military training of all school children, not even excepting the children of Quakers. To us as ministers of Christ and lovers of democracy the compulsion of conscience is abhorrent, but with compulsory training it is inevitable. Therefore we oppose...
...policeman needs arms; but how much? Do our policemen go about, armed to the teeth, wearing steel helmets and bullet-proof waistcoats? They are sufficiently armed as they are because they are superior to the rest of us whom they control. All armament is purely relative, and we have no way of knowing yet how high the standard of armament will be set in the future. Each European country exhausted by the war, will be glad enough to reduce the scale,--providing only it can be sure al others will agree to do so. Organization against aggression will tremendously reduce...
Once a league is formed; once the world may be assured of our intentions in arming,--then America must do her share. If it is required of us, let us have an army of a million men and universal training. Then no danger of suspicion attaches to so radical a change in policy; but until then it is a stumbling-block in the road of the world's progress. HALLOWELL DAVIS...
...much for the negative aspect of the question. Let us consider for a moment some of the almost inevitable consequences of the inauguration of a system of universal military training. In the first place, every student of international relations is well aware that the strengthening of a nation's military establishment incites either nations to do likewise; so that, not only are the resources of all the countries concerned taxed to the utmost, in the vain hope of successfully vying with one another in the up building of armaments, but the very act of increasing a country's military forces...
...source of temptation to our imperialistic interests as inevitably to be used for purposes of foreign exploitation? We have, since the Spanish-American War, embarked on a career of imperialism, which, together with the fact of the admitted aggression and exploitation of the Mexican War of 1846-1848, gives us little assurance that our politicians and diplomats will necessarily use such power for righteous purposes...