Three Men Behind the Guns (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Three Men Behind the GunsThe problem to-day, then, is not war but Armed Peace. He who stops to declaim against war is belated. War is conceded to be hell, and by common consent is taboo. But in consecrating itself to Armed Peace, many are be ginning to wonder whether mankind has not jumped out of the frying pan into the fire. At any rate the wealthof Christendom is being consumed. A volume setting forth the cost of armies and navies reminds one of a book on astronomy. The only figures used are millions and billions. A1lfigures, aft'erjhey pass a certain 1imit, . Cease to make a definable impression on the mind. The imag ination is first dazed, and then paralyzed. When one scrutinizes for an hour the tables compiled by the statis ticians showing the cost of Armed Peace, the mind is stupefied and the heart benumbed. The gold is ¿owing in a widening stream and to squander a people's money is to squander their blood. Governments are to-day not only impoverishing the living, but hanging millstones of debt around the necks of generations yet unborn. Guns are bought With borrowed money. The house is being mortgaged that the foolery may go on. All schemes of internal improvement are curtailed and embarrassed, and every program of social betterment is handicapped or fpostponed. Militarism blights like a pestilential wind the higher life of nations, and eats like a gangrene into the Vitals of civilization. The very sinew and bloom of humanity are going into this expanding establishment of gold braid and steel, and the end is not yet. One thing is certain, the world cannot go on indefinitely in the direc tion in Which it is now moving. Something is going to break. I tremble When I remember that God is just, exclaimed an American statesman When he looked out across the tragedy of slavery, and well may any man Who believes that nations, as well as individuals, are in the grip of inexorable moral law, tremble When he beholds the satanic heartlessness with Which the peoples of Christen dom are being plundered and oppressed by the ever ac cumulative expenditures for the enginery of slaughter.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.