furnish the strongest arguments for the League to Enforce
Peace.

Preparedness is one of the watchwords of the hour. The
Executive Committee of the League to Enforce Peace has
pronounced more than once in favor of national prepared-
ness to meet all emergencies and pointed out the fact that the
plan it puts forward makes preparedness a necessity.

The duty to support the President in his foreign policy
is plain. The League has declared a thousand times that
it is not a stop-the-war movement, and has pledged its sup-
port in the defense of civilization and the rights of our
citizens.

The reason we have protested against Germany's ruthless
submarine warfare and broken off relations with her is be-
cause her conduct is subversive of any peace that is worth
having.

As we are forced into the war, our sole purpose must be
to secure the right kind of a peace after the war, for our-
selves and for the whole world -- a permanent and righteous
peace.

This fact is fundamental to the whole situation, and ought
to be kept constantly before the minds of all our people.
We are contending for a righteous and permanent peace
and for nothing else whatsoever. Preparation for such a
peace is the most important part of preparedness. The
President has this strongly in mind. If, through the growth
of hatred and the cry for vengeance, the world should lose
sight of its real purpose and come to the end of the war not
knowing what it most wants and needs, and so should fail
to roll the burden of militarism off its shoulders and to
establish lasting peace, it would be a tragedy in the history
of the world.

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