The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-03-02
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Militia Plutocracy VIII Drill the High
School Students.
Says Lucinda B. Chandler, ii the
Chicago Express.
"Hata you heard it, that a detail Of
army officers is appropriated to the col
leges, academies and universities OF
this country? Do you know that it is
proposed to place national military in
structors in the high schools in all the
large cities? What have We, the peo-
ple,' to say to this war department ex-
tension Of our school system? For what
purpose is this revival of militaryisrrs
For reply to my inquiry who had ap-
pealed to the secretary of war for ma
tional military instructors in our high
schools, Secretary Lamont has for
warded to me his annual report, and
refers me to pages a8-.e. The following
sentence is marked:
"T Concur in the recommendation of
the adjutant-general that the military
instruction now provided for colleges
might well be extended, with proper
limitations, to the high schools in our
large cities. The Introduction of mill
tary training into the free school sys-
tenn of the states should stimulate pat
riotism, of which that system is one OF
the best products, and should in time
become a most potent factor in making
the United States not warlike ma.
ton, but a nation capable of bearing
arms intelligentlv and victoriovsly
under all conditions
There you have it. The war de-
partment is to stimulate patriotism by
training the coming man to be a fighter
with arms. The report states also that
the growth OF popular interest in the
endeavors of the war department to
furnish competent military instruction
to universities, colleges and academies
and schools entitled under the law to
it's benefits, has beer encouraging
IF il is benefit to youth to have
military training in cities, why not
everywhere? What occasion have we
to train fighters? There is not the re-
hottest proba bility that we shall be
attacked by foreign foe. Where is
there any occasion for fear within our
borders? A prominent editor writes:
'Arsenals and armories are being built
ever where and friend writes me that
ironclads are being built in Pittsburgh
for inland use to protect plutocraey
from the people Is it, then, the fear
of plutocracy from the people that has
set in motion the 'eadaavcfs of the war
Department.
VII we had department which
should furnish national instructors of
economics and finance in our colleges,
academies and universities, to instruct
our youth Of both sexes in the prin-
cieles that would establish justice and
promote the general welfare, we would
have citizenship who could use the
ballot 'intelligently. and VIGOROUSLY
over the accessions of illiteraey by i'm
migration and the selfish scheming of
politicians Such training of intellect
and morals would furnish the country
With genuine patriotism.
THE only salvation of our republic
is in the great plain people who out
number and can outvote the plutoc-
racy, and whose patriotic endeavors
can make as useless as it is perficous
the training of youth to bear arms
VIII the people abjure their allegiance
to partyism and unite at the ballot box
for the defense of economic liberty?
That is the question of supreme import
to this nation. Shall we have plutoc-
racy and an army of unemployed. or
shall we study earnestly, persevering-
ly, how to adapt our industries and
finance to the changed condition, and
secure to all persons Opportunity to
gain subsistence, and comfort, and
culture?
1.-THE working people of this land can
answer this question, 'intelligently and
victoriously,' if they will unite and set
aside every consideration, personal and
political, except how to do this. But
each and every individual must work
as though every thing depends on ones
personal effort. Protest to the war de-
partment against military instructors
in high schools, work without ceasing
to seizure the united, unanimous uni
versal vote of the people for economic
freedom. This will make the war de-
partment and its annex of military in
struction in schools supertluous and
void"
Writing upon the same subject in the
Corner Stone, Mrs. Emery says,
"a general order has been issued by
the war department prescribing the
regulations in regard to the detail of
officers of the army as instructors at
colleges, universities and other institu-
tions. Under a recent act of congress
the number of officers allowed for duty
of this character was increased to ITO
and new apportionment has been
made. The superintendent is based on
population, the states being grouped.
Eleven officers are allotted to the
first group, which comprises Maine.
New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu-
sets, Rhode Island and Connecticut;
ten to the states of New York and New
Jersey; eight to Pennsylvania and
Delaware; seven to Maryland, Vir-
ginia, West Virginia and the District
of Columbia; five to North and South
Carolina; three to Georgia; four to
Alabama and Florida; two to Missis-
sippi; two each to Louisiana and
Arkansas; three each to kentucky and
Tennessee; five to Ohio; three to Indi-
ana; five to Illinois; six to Michigan
and Wisconsin,; four to Missouri; five
to Minnesota, North and South Da-
kota; three to Iowa; two to Nebraska;
six to Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas;
Eve to Montana. Idaho, Wyoming, Colo
RADIO, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona.
and six to Washington, Oregon, Cali
fornia and Nevada.
''As the appropriations for the supply
of ordnance and ordnance stores to the
army are very limited, and as the Ian
guage of law restricts the issues that