CONTENTS
CHAPTER I Page
Shall There Be An End of War? [1]
Question may be answered in the affirmative by the United States?—Facts must be made known to the people—Nationwide educational campaign is necessary—Every individual must be aroused to action—Appalling consequences of triumph of militarism—United States must lead the world in its overthrow—Cannot be dependent for peace on coöperation of other nations—Appalling losses may result from public apathy and indifference—Necessity for national policy for flood prevention—Naval is out of balance—Other things more needed than battleships—Nationalisation of manufacture of armaments and battleships—There must be an end of private profit from such manufacture—It inspires militarism and stimulates war.
CHAPTER II
Inadequacy of Militarist Plans for National Defense [24]
Militarists believe war inevitable—Urge United States is unprepared—Peace Advocates leave to Militarists all plans for National Defense—Militarists have no adequate plan—Enormous cost of large standing army—Menace of a military despotism—No reliance can be placed on State Militia—Impracticability of a Reserve composed of men who have served in the Regular Army—War must be recognised as a possibility—Hypocrisy of opposition to war by those who profit from so-called civilized warfare—Peace Propaganda must be harmonized with national defense—All plans far world Peace have thus far proved futile—United States spends enormous sums on Army without any guarantee of national defense—The Frankenstein of War can be controlled.
CHAPTER III
Impregnable Defense Against Foreign Invasion [44]
Plans for national defense must primarily operate to prevent war—Reasons why War Department will never devise satisfactory system—Militarists have no sympathy with peace movement—It aims to render military profession obsolete—Standing Army is economic waste of money and men—It should be a great educational institution—Chairman Hay of Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, shows enormous cost of Standing Army and impracticability of Reserve as proposed by Army Officers—Comparison of Military Expenditures and Results in United States and Japan—Increase of Standing Army to 200,000 would be futile and unwarranted—European War will not bring disarmament—Warning of Field Marshal Earl Roberts—Standing Army promotes military spirit which increases danger of war.
CHAPTER IV
National Construction Reserve [74]
Enlistment of Construction Corps in government Services in time of peace—Transformation of same organization into military force in time of war—National forces must be organized for conflict to save, not destroy, life and property—Forest Service and Reclamation Service work should be done by Reservists enlisted in Construction Corps—Same system should be adopted in all government services—Construction Reserve to be so trained as to instantly become army of trained soldiers whenever needed—More than work enough in time of peace for a million Reservists—planting forests—fighting forest fires—preventing floods—irrigating deserts—draining swamps—building highways, waterways, and railways—Importance of safeguarding nation against destruction by Nature's invading forces.
CHAPTER V
Adaptability of System for National Defense [115]
Swiss Military System ideal for Switzerland—Not adapted to United States as a whole—Reserve of wage earners impracticable—Their mobilization would cripple industry and cause privation for families—City clerks and factory workers lack physical stamina—A citizen soldiery needed of hardy men like founders of this nation—Anglo-Saxon stock is deteriorating in cities—Only remedy is Homecrofts for workingmen and their families—Otherwise Industry will destroy Humanity—Greatest danger to the City of New York is from within—Racial degeneracy is most serious menace—Patrician class warned against Roman System which resulted in Proscription and Confiscation—The spirit of Switzerland should sway the world—Inadequate Standing Army a serious danger—Invites attack against which it cannot defend—United States Standing Army gives no assurance of national safety.
CHAPTER VI
Menace of Asiatic Competition And Invasion [135]
Japanese influx into Hawaii and Pacific Coast States—Unexpected incident like blowing up of Maine might precipitate conflict—In that event peace advocates and governments might be powerless to prevent war—Japanese merit the good will of other nations—Reasons why they come to Pacific Coast—Japan is overpopulated—30,000,000 rural people on 12,500,000 acres—Population increasing 1,000,000 annually—More Japanese in California of military age than entire Army of United States—Japanese in South America and Mexico—United States must meet economic competition of Japan—Pacific Coast must be settled with Caucasian population that will cultivate the soil as Japanese would cultivate it if it were their country—Otherwise armed conflict with Japan inevitable.
CHAPTER VII
Japan and the Colorado River Valley [176]
Another Japanese Empire could be created in the Drainage Basin of the Colorado River—What Japanese would do with that country if it were Japanese Territory—We waste annually water containing 357,490,000 tons of fertilizing material—5,000,000 acres can be reclaimed between Needles and Mexico—Every acre would support a family—Climate makes gardening equivalent to hot house culture out of doors—Inexhaustible supplies of nitrogen, phosphates, and potash for fertilizer—Enormous possibilities of electric power development—Japan would fight the Desert and Conquest it with same thoroughness that she fought Russia—Would develop vast Commerce from Colorado River and Gulf of California—Japanese Colonization in Mexico—Spirit of Speculation retards development by United States—What should be done with the Colorado River Valley—United States must reclaim and colonize that country the same as Japanese would do if it belonged to them.
CHAPTER VIII
Strength of a Homecroft Reserve [213]
A Homecroft Reserve in Scotland of one million Soldiers would have prevented this last great war—Scotch Homecrofters make such Soldiers as the Gordon Highlanders and the Black Watch—Story of the Gordon Highlanders—The Scots were the original Homecrofters—The description in "Raiderland" of the Homecrofts in Galloway—Grasping greed of intrenched interests drove the Homecrofters from Scotland—Same interests now blocking development in United States—Homecroft System of Education and Life would breed a race of stalwart soldiers in United States—Could leave home for actual service without disturbing industrial conditions—Homecrofters would be concentrated for training and organization—Would eliminate all danger of militarism or military despotism—Comparison in value of 1,000,000 trained Homecrofters with 1,000,000 immigrants—Homecroft Reserve System will end child labor and woman labor in factories and will also end unemployment.
Chapter IX
Homecroft Reserve in Colorado River Valley [247]
United States owns land, water and power—Development by national government would result in vast profit to it—Australian System of Land Reclamation and Settlement should be adopted—Action should be prompt to forestall friction between United States and Japan—Will never have war with Japan except as result of apathy and neglect—United State must create in Colorado River Valley dense population settled in self-containing Communities—Characteristics of Country particularly adapt it to requirements for Homecroft Reserve—Safety of Southern California from invasion would be insured—Military Highways to San Diego and Los Angeles—Defense of Mexican Border—Homecroft Cavalry Reserve in Nevada similar to Cossack Cavalry System—Correction of Mexican Boundary Line to include mouth of Colorado River in the United States—New State of South California to be formed.
CHAPTER X
California a Remote Insular Province [277]
More easily accessible from Japan by sea than from United States by land, in case of war—Mountain Ranges bound it north, east, and south—All plans for defense of California with a Navy or coast fortifications are futile and a delusion—Bombardment of English towns and comparison of English Coast and California Coast—Japan would, if war were declared, seize Alaska, Philippines, and Hawaii—Would then transport an army of 200,000 to California—Railroad tunnels and bridges being destroyed by dynamite would render relief by United States impossible—Reliance on Panama Canal too uncertain—Quickness with which occupation of California would be accomplished by Japanese—Huge military difficulties in the way of United States reconquering it—Mountain passes would be fortified by Japanese—Railroad bridges, culverts, and tunnels across deserts would be dynamited—To recapture a single mountain pass more difficult than capture of Port Arthur—Death and Desolation are Supreme in the Southwestern Deserts—Japanese would rapidly colonize all vacant lands in California—The way to make the Pacific Coast safe is for the United States to colonize it first with a dense population of intensive cultivators of the soil.
CHAPTER XI
Militarism and the Mississippi Valley [301]
Military caste absorbs to itself undue power—Danger seen in military opposition to improved system for river regulation—Military control of inland waterways detrimental to country—Army Engineers wedded to System of "Pork Barrel," political, piecemeal appropriations—Reason why Army methods of education hamper progress in river improvement—Mississippi River requires comprehensive treatment—Necessity for Source Stream Control on all upper tributaries—Why the Calaveras Reservoir was not built—Blunder in Construction of Stockton Cutoff Canal—War may be uncertain, but necessity for fight against floods and storms is certain—Description of a great Gulf Storm—Comprehensive plan for protecting lower delta of Mississippi River by great Dikes like those in Holland Safety from floods guaranteed by construction of Atchafalaya Controlled Outlet, Wasteway, and Auxiliary flood water channels.
CHAPTER XII
Benefits From the National Homecroft Reserve System [335]
What this generation would bequeath to future generations—United States safeguarded against internal dangers and made impregnable against attack or invasion—No other plan will accomplish that result—Summary of reasons why Homecroft Reserve System will accomplish it—Comparison of cost of larger Standing Army and same number of Homecroft Reserve—Epitome of advantages of a Homecroft Reserve from the standpoint of Peace—Homecroft Reserve System must be evolved gradually—Rapid development would follow when system once well established—This is illustrated by growth of Rural Mail service, Electric lighting, aërial navigation, and telephone—Where the first 100,000 Homecroft Reservists should be located—50,000 Reservists in California, 50,000 in Louisiana, 80,000 in West Virginia, and 10,000 in Minnesota—Specification of apportionment to projects of the $100,000,000 that would be saved from military expenditures for increased Standing Army—Homecroft financial System proposed—Homecroft Certificates to be issued—Advantages of the Homecroft Reserve System to the Homecrofter—Economic power created for the Nation would result in Universal Peace.