Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1900-09-13
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from these islands and, in order to
get votes ia support Of criminal
cause, is willing to libel those in
nocent people, who have done ne-
Their him nor us sny harm, but
whose towns we have been burning
for nearly two years, whose fathers
and brothers we have been shoot
ing down, whose fields we have been
laying waste, on the order Of Presi
dent Mckinley issued December
81, 1898, beginning a war Of con.
quest.
Danger Of Eilitarism.
again read from the Governor
speech as follows "Of all lille
chatter, the talk Of danger Of mill.
tarism ia the idlest" Let us see.
Heretofore our regular or standing
army has generally consisted Of
%, 600 to $4,000 men. But in De-
cember, 1898, about the time that
the President issued bis order 20
General Otis TO begin the war Of
conquest, when the Spanish war
was over, when we were q peace
with the world. when nobody was
threatening us, when all that the
Philippine people asked Of US was
that we should treat them the
same "a the Cubans, tho President
sent a message to Congress asking
to have the regular army increased
to 100, 600 men. What for? IL
wo were in danger, why not call for
volunteers: Volunteers fought the
Revolutionary war and founded
this republic; volunteers drove the
English Off OF our shores in 1912;
volunteers planted the Stars and
Stripes all over Mexico; volunteers
fought the greatest war for liberty
ever waged, struck down slavery
aud cemented this union; and in
1898 volunteers came to the front
and struck down the last yestige
Of ancient despotism on this hem
isphere.
The glory Of our republic has
been written with the valor and
blood Of our volunteers. They
founded it and they have defended
it and made it great. Yet now. in
time Of peace, Republican Pres
dent asks, not for volunteers, but
for regular soldiers. Why? Be-
cause we are departing from tho
ways Of the fathers; we are going
into rivalry with the despotic ma
tions OF Europe in governing peo-
pie by brute force, and we must
HAYS the same kind of machinery
that our rivals have used in that
business.
Kind Of Soldiers Needed.
Governor Lind, of Minnesota,
some time ago explained why for
this new business we must have reg
ulars and not volunteers. He said
the volunteer carries conscience as
we'll as a gun. That kind Of sol
der is invincible when lighting for
liberty and his country, but is not
considered absolutely reliable when
it comes to doing dastsrdly work
For this purpose we must have reg
ular soldiers. The despotisms of
Europe do not have volunteers
they have regular armies, and if we
arc going to initiate them then We
must have regular armies and If
we are to be their rivals, we must
have as large military establishments
as they have.
And if in time Of peace, with no
trouble even threatening, you can
Jump military establishment from
% 600 "a 100 600 mon All Mt once
will it not be easy then to jump to
200, 900 and 10000, and will it
take us long, do you think, until
we have a military establishment
equal to that Of Germany or Rus
siaP Government BY brute forco
means militarism. It cannot be
maintained without it. And the
colonial policy means militarism.