The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-31
THINGS WE NOW KNOW.
Information That Has Been Brought
to Us by the War.
Army and Navy Journal.

army ana navy Journal.
That George Washington's head was level
when he said: I'm peace prepare for war"
That talking peace and refusing to pre-
pare for war is not the best way to avoid
war.
That the size of a country's population or
the extent of it's wealth is not the measure
OF its strength; but its capacity for prompt
action in war.
That the combination of a gun, man
and uniform does not necessarily make a
soldier.
That no country has better raw material
for soldiers, more of it, but that time
spent for training and discipline is an es-
sential factor in the formation of an army.
That, man for man, the American is not
out-classed as fighter by any foreigner.
That pluck and energy and a COOL calcu-
lating disregard of danger is not merely an
individual but a national characteristic
That, judged by their product, our nation
and army have no superiors and the scope
of their education should be widened as
to prepare for the necessary increase of our
military and naval establishments.
That in proportion to its size the Ameri-
can navy has no superior in ships and
guns
That the American navy retains the SUI
periority in gun practice that it showed in
the revolution and in the war of 1872; in
deed, wherever it has been brought into
contrast with foreign navies.
That American shipyards, American ord
nance factories, American armor plate fac
tories. can be depended upon for honest
and thorough work, and our ordnance Off
GERS for efficient inspection.
That the collisions, accidents and misun-
derStandingS so common in foreign naval
maneuvers are not the necessary accom-
paniment of joint action by vessels of war
properly handled.
That the sweet little cherub who sits up
eloft to watch over the life of poor jack
has peculiar peEchant for the Yankee
sailor.
That the injuries done to the Maine were
entirely unlike those produced by an inter-
nal explosion such as destroyed the Viz
caya, which was torn to pieces by the ex-
plosion of one of her own torpedoes.
That the regular army of the United
States is an army of native Americans, and
not of foreigners, as is so often falsely as
serted. This is indicated by the names APP
pearing in the lists of killed and wounded
and is proved by the statistics published
annually by the War Department.
That it is, moreover, as we have always
declared, composed of a body, of young
men ranking high, as compared with the
average citizen, in intelligence and manly
characteristics. They are picked body of
men. Even now one-half of those applying
for enlistment in the country are rejected
and three-quarters of those who apply at
the recruiting offices in our large cities.
That saving common sense and some ad-
miniStrative ability has been behind all this,
and that it is only simple justice that 1t
should be acknowledged.
That the spirit of American patriotism
was never more ardent than it is now, and
that at the first threat of foreign war all
internal disputes should be forgotten and
North and South, East and West should be
united as one man.
That the snarlng critics whose mission
it has been to deprecate everything Amer
lean in comparison with what was foreign,
have no place in this country and should
be deported.