Arizona republican., 1899-07-13
PRIDE IN THE ARMY
From inc First tO inc Last Has
 Stood by inc Country.

The friends of peace. at all times and under al circumstances meet with dise0ura9ing obstacle in their propa- ganda in the pride which every nation that amounts to anything feels in it's army. The flag of a country-which is the object Of it's devotion-ts. in the beginning, a symbol of war and is car lied by its soldiers. This was the original mission Of the Stars and Stripes. There was civil government and state, but ct was the commander En-chief of the American army who designated the flag which was to fly as the eI;blem Gf government. both civil and military The army is the recognized custodian and keeper of the flag.
 The regular army Of the United States though d small one. as the armies of the great plIiens go. has ali ways been the pride of the people In the earliest days of the nation a school was provided by the government primarily for the education 5f officers of the army and it has been the boast of Americans that West Point as q military academy has no superior in the world. Both the uniform oif the cadets at West Point and of the army of the Crited States has been held in honors and rO American who has among lis family pictures these of ancestors weaWng the old gray or the old blue fai'S to show these first to his friends and visitors. The youth who locks from the canvas in perpetual kovkCiod and perpetual bell buttons. and the old soldier who wears the garb perhaps. that set off the tall figure of General Winfield Scott ;t the battle of Lundy's Lane are q ike the object of pride that never aims or fades.
 The army of the United States has always been So small and so scatter cd over an immense country that it has never indulged in the grand maneuvcrs common to European armies but the movements of a regiment. or even of troop Or a battery. never fail to draw q crowd of interested spectators. In the country. TO open air shClw cOmpetes with a muster or the movements of the men -at-aInrs. It is safe to say that no civil or religious procession is regarded as 9 impressive as the orderly march ing of armed oldiers.
 Ip a hundred years and na1re this sentiment of the American people to- ward their onemy-bY which is meant the standing army which exists con- tinuCusIy in peace and .war-haS never changed. The honor raid the army which remains the guardian of the flag. which raises it at sunrise every morn frg. in crowded cities and in lone- some posts a hundred miles from any other collection of white habitatic that honor is perpetual. We are said to inherit what is called an aversion to 9. standing army. from eur Fnglish an- cestry: yet no people take more pride in their armies than the British and the Americans who cherish civil liberty if any people in the world do. Both maintain armies which. though sup posed to be continued iron; year to year by the will of congress or ;iarlia. mem. are. :n truth standing and per petual. No armies are more thorough " cared for CT more popular with the people.
 Public orators who sneak Of tEe soldiers of the ITrfted States as as sassinS and murderers will not draw That is not .le talk fer Americans and never has been. Till the advert f tne pew heaven and the new earth the American nation vii stand by the army which. from the firs's peril to the last stood by the country.-Kdnsas City Journal