The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-21
That Bogev of a Standing Army.

It probably never to these rip-roarng dema-
gogues who are everlastngy shaking the bogy of "stand
ing army" in of the tid, declaring that it is
real menace to our government institutional that
the United States has by standing
according to its population any world The
republic has soldier to 6S inhabitants
while the United States only 24S3 population
Great Britain has the smallest standing army per capita Of
any monarchy or in every inhabitants while
many has one to every IS nhabtapts The standing army
of the the of the Spanish
war would have be increased thrty-sx and half
times to have increased the per capita of Frances
Yet Mr. Bryan imitators followers are pre-
tending to be frightened Of American
standing army. Chicago Tribune writer has been
looking up tells that strength of
the standing army President
feson sent his first message to congress in December 1901
4Q soldier to each 1910 of the population
the country Eight later at the beginning of Presi
dent Madsons administration the had increased to
10 the population 1920 Pres-
Monroe the army consisted S6SS officers and men
of all ranks to 11OS of the population. 1870
toward close President Burens term an army
Of 1850 in the proportion of 6O5 the popua-
April l. $685. strength of the army was 281S3
Assuming at that date population 100000 army
President Mckinley at the outbreak of
the with Spain was proportion population
2iSs relatively than onehaf as large as
the army peace footing during the administrations Of
Thomas jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe
which covered the first quarter of the century.
The army increased CO.. sequence of the war Of
1912 numbered 9SS6 September 1914 which was one
every population. On August l. 1898 at the
close of the with Spain volunteer army of
26O9 easily raised the total strength of the regular
56SS the proportion one to Of the
population Of the country proporonaey than one
fifth the army command Of President
1874 The conclusion Of peace with Spain brought
with it serious responsibilities which justified recommend
alton for increase in the permanent strength Of the
and subsequent events particularly in China have
obun5anty demonstrated wisdom of the action taken
thereon by congress,
army of 100000 represents one soldier to $50 Of the
population United States On peace footing Great
Britain which relatively smallest standing army Of
al the other great powers Of the world has Tommy At
kins Us Of the population while Germany has an
armed soldier every inhabitants and the republic Of
France to every 6S Europe which is smaller in area
than United States including Alaska maintains mora
than 100000 in times of peace aud including
the reserves has more Than 2ooooooo trained soldiers avail
able The American army is not only scat
tered over home territory larger than all Europe
the ws Pn are separated from the sarrtsons in Porto
Rico by onehalf the circumference Of the globe The bogey
Of rarism which OF 10000 has evolved in the
minds Of some nd souls profess believe that 1t is
fusht with danger to the republic ana The rerpetuty o,
free Institutions VIII nevertheless fa alright the ot
zen Wao considers tho facts of the case.