Army and Navy Review 1915 Panama-California Edition - Balboa Park

FOREWORD
by LIEUTENANT COLONEL W M. C. DAVIS
Commanding Coast Defenses of San Diego
L IE U T . C O L . W M . C. D A V IS
DU R IN G the past few years an organized propaganda largely subsidized by a
retired steel manufacturer has endeavored through the instrumentalities of
the press, the public schools, and the pulpit, to preach their so-called doctrine
of “peace,” in which are promulgated to the people the wickedness of all
past wars, the needlessness of the present great war (which they oracularly
declare will be the last), and the wastefulness of all m ilitary preparations.
Moral Suasion and Arbitration are henceforth to settle all disputes between nations;
and the U. S., as the exponent of justice and m orality (they claim ) should lead the way
by dism antling forts, scrapping its ships, and disbanding its Army and Navy. The
names of W ashington, Jackson, Scott, Taylor, Lincoln, Grant, Dewey and McKinley are
held to obloquy as exponents of “m ilita rism ;” and the soldiers who in the Revolution