A Needed Caution

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 5, 1909

HON. DAVID J. BREWER, Justice of the United States Supreme Court, in an address before the New Jersey Bar Association as reported in the Commoner of July 16, gives this needed caution:—

With brass buttons and epaulets becoming more plenty, with constant talk of fighting and inventions of new weapons, this country must watch to prevent its people drifting into dreams of empire that can only lead to disaster. Many wars are simply caused by political ambitions of men and the love of military action, and we must be careful not to use our great and growing prosperity as an excuse for building new navies and increasing standing armies beyond the point where they are still a mere guard.