The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-30

ing to outwit the German government,
labored with Mckinley and urged him to
have his government start in colonial
government and pattern after England.
was that the Lord? The syndicates that
urged him to embark upon that policy
did not pretend to hold a commission
from the Lord, net at ALL When on Dec.
q, 1893, he issued that order to Gen. Otis.
which practically began a war of subju--
cation and of conquest before We had
any legal right or moral right there that
order was not signed by the Lord at all.
1t was signed by William Mckinley. (Ap-
plause)
Well what does this involve? Why OBJ
ject to it? Just about that time, about
the time he issued that order to Gen. Otis,
he sent a message to congress, and In
that message he asked congress TO in
crease the standing army-our regular
army to 100000 men. Our standing army
you know usually in our country has con-
sisted of about $4,000 to $4,000 or 5000 men,
At that time we were at peace with all
the world The war with Spain was over,
nobody was attacking us. We We're at
peace. Why want a regular army of 1Oo,-
get volunteers? The American people have
always rushed to the defense of their in
situations.
WORK OF VOLUNTEERS.
Volunteers have always fought our bat
ties. Volunteers fought the Revolution
ary war and established American inde-
pendence. Volunteers drove the British
off of our shores In 1912. Volunteers
fought the Mexican war and planted our
the great Civil war the greatest war that
was ever waged on this EARTH formed
battle line that stretched half across the
continent; wiped out slavery 1Syc and cement.
came to the front and drove an ancient
despotism off Of our Western hemisphere.
The glory of this republic Is written In
the blood and with the yaior of our vol
unteers. Yet here comes a president who
wants a regular army-don't want volun-
teers. Why? Your own great governor,
plause) You seem to have a. good opin--
ion of him. L want to say to you that
that man is making an impression upon
the American people as being one of the
great men of this land. Towers away up
above the average politician; whether you
agree with him politically-or not does not
matter. He is impressing himself upon
this country as being patriot, states
man and man of courage. Applause)
In referring to the great history of the
volunteers In this land he. said to them
finally, But your career Is over. You ara
no longer wanted. You are thing of the
past. We don't want volunteers any
more. We want regular soldiers. after
this. The reason is that the volunteer
carries q conscience as well as gun.
That kind OF a soldier is invinctble when
he is fighting for liberty or for great prin-
ciples; but he is not considered to be alb
solutely reliable when 1t comes to doing
dastardly work. These monarchies of Eu-
rope don't have volunteers. They have
regular Notwithstanding armies-fighting
machines-and the fighting machine is
better suited for the purpose in hand.
Now we are going to follow In the wake
of England, Russia and Germany. We
are going to enter into the scramble with
those monarchal tyrants over there. We
are going into the same business they are
In. We are going to. govern by brute
force That can only be done by fighting
machines We will just begin, says the
president. with one hundred thousand