Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1914 — what War Would Mean. [ARTICLE]

what War Would Mean.

Englishmen well know what wars of conquest and wars of pacification mean in the outlay of life and money, for they have participated in them in India, in the Soudan and in the Transvaal, and it is therefore of some interest to have the opinion of an intelligent British citizen, well acquainted with conditions in this'cpuntry, on the results of a war between the United States and Mexico.

Norman Angell, an English writer and editor of prominence, now in New York, says one of its first eftects would be on the financial situation. It would ef>t up capital in this country, he declares, and would Put an enormous strain upon farmers who want capital au d are now paying a high interest, for it. In Mexico, he points out, there is a population of between 15,0Q0,000 and 16,000,000, fitted for warfare of . the bandetti, guerrilla type—the men accustomed to the use of the rifle, good horsemen, used to very simple and hard conditions of life, and able to support themselves oh little. The United States can, of course, conquer Mexico, but it will be a long and hard task. If England had to employ against the Boers an army numbering two or three times the entire population of the Transvaal, ‘‘what sort of an army,” he asks, ‘‘are you going to need to conquer a Population many time the 100,000 Boers who fought against England, and to whom guerrilla warfare is meat and drink.”

If the subduing of Mexico is undertaken, he thinks United States progress will not stop there, but that conditions will force it to go on its conquering way down to the canal, but it will not be a conquest of a brief time. The conquest of ( Ireland, he says, has been going on