Bad Times: An Essay On the Present Depression of Trade
Bad Times: An Essay On the Present Depression of Trade
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913
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At present any important alleviation of these burdens seems hopeless. A step will be gained, however, if the working classes can be brought to see clearly how much they suffer from those huge armaments which suck the very life-blood of a nation. They will then, perhaps, when they have political power in their hands, insist that our own armament shall be strictly confined within the limits needful for self-defence, and that we shall on no pretence whatever send our armies to invade another count...ry, or our ships to bombard its cities, unless we are first attached. The only case in which a foreign war would be morally justifiable, would be that in which we gave assistance to a people struggling for freedom, or to a weak nation when unjustly attacked by a more powerful one; and these are the very cases in which we should reap the natural reward of good actions in the benefit to our trade from the increased prosperity of free and progressive communities ; yet, as a matter of fact, we never make war in so good a cause.
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