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The Price of Peace

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 14, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 2.

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The Price of Peace.

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The Springfield Republican, in its issue of December 19, well says:
“‘No man on earth,’ said New York’s governor-elect, Mr. Sulzer, the other day, ‘is more in favor of universal peace than I am, but I know the best guaranty of peace is for the United States to have as great a navy as any on earth.’ Just so, and for Germany to have as great a navy as England and for England to have a navy 50 per cent greater. That way madness lies, and the poorhouse, too. ‘The cost of a battle-ship is a bagatelle,’ says Mr. Sulzer loftily, ‘when you consider the cost of war.’ When you consider the cost of peace, however, battle-ships is in the plural, and the faster they are built the faster they go to the scrap-heap. Build 10 next year, and in a few years you will be told that an appropriation for 10 battle-ships just about makes good the wear and tear of the navy.”
And we may add that it is this sort of thing which has placed the awful burden upon Europe which she is bearing to-day; and the end is Armageddon.