Belligerents
are forbidden to move troops or convoys of either munitions of
war or supplies across the territory of a neutral power. Great
Britain, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy refused to sign
it and did not sign it. Russia was not represented.
MILITARISM. There is one more subject which many people in this country
have failed to understand, and that is the matter of militarism. German
militarism is supposed to be something dreadful, and many good people
believe that it would be a great advance toward eternal peace if that
militarism could be wiped out. Well, now, let us see.
If Germany did not require every one of her sons to spend a year, or at
most two years, in the army, and if she had not provided for all these
men sufficient arms and accoutrements for immediate use in case of war,
what would have happened when Russia entered her territory, or when
France came on a like errand?
Any one who lives among enemies is expected to be sufficiently prepared
to defend himself should they attack him, be he ever so peaceful.
At the time the United States of America was born there was no such
thing as Germany.
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