In the United States the trend is in the same direction. This country will soon become a great military nation if the present tendency is not sharply checked. Mere ignorance and indifference on the part of the people of the United States must not be allowed to stand in the way of the adoption of the national policy advocated in this book--a policy that will bring permanent and enduring universal peace to the world. That policy must be adopted. There can be no alternative. The final triumph of militarism would be too appalling to contemplate. Must every woman who bears a son live under the terror that she may have to dedicate him to be mangled in the service of the War God? Must every home remain liable to be ruined and destroyed by the fires of war? Must every fair and beautiful garden-land continue to be subject to the menace of devastation by marching armies or the bloody ruin of the battlefields? Must the flower of the world's manhood continue to be flung into the jaws of death to satiate the blood lust of militarism? Must the wheels of industry turn, and the sweat of human labor, for all time, be given to make machinery for human slaughter? Is there no inspiration to patriotism that will move the people to action but the death combat? Is there no glory to be won, that will stir heart and brain to supreme effort, except by causing human agony and devastation? Is there nothing else that will bring out the best there is in men but the stimulus of war, and its demands for sacrifice, even of life itself? Is there no higher service to their country to which women can give their men than to die fighting to kill the men of other women? Must this nation, as well as others, so impoverish itself by war and preparation for war that nothing is left to pay for protecting itself against Nature's destroying forces, flood and fire and waste of the country's basic resources? The intelligent and patriotic men and women of the United States would answer every one of these questions, with all the fervor of their being, in the way they must be answered to save civilization, if the questions could be put to them, face to face, by anyone who was ready to show them what to do to make good that answer and transform the desire into actual accomplishment. We must therefore arm the multitude with the facts and burn into their minds the clear-cut definite vision of the plan that must be carried out to make certain that accomplishment. That plan must provide that we shall first do the things which the people of this country can do by themselves alone without saying "by your leave" or "with your help" to any other nation. The influence of the adoption of a right national policy by the United States will draw the world into the current as soon as its practicability and benefits to humanity have been proved, but we must not begin with a plan that will fail unless adopted by all the great powers of the world.