Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-03-01
CROMWELL AND WASHINGTON.
Each Had the Same Difficulty in Get
ting a Permanent Fighting Force.

ting Permanent Fighting Force.
! Certain points of resemblance be-
| tween the experiences of Oliver Crom-
well and George Washington are
pointed out by John Morley in the
Century:
A hundred and thirty years later a
civil war again broke out among the
subjects Of the British crown. The
issues were not in form the same.
Cromwell fought for the supremacy of
parliament within the kingdom:
Washington fought against the SUI
premacy of parliament over English
men across the Atlantic ocean. It is
possible that if the Stuart king had
only possessed an ampler leaven Of
the tough cunning of the Hanoverian
king and the struggle on English
ground might have run a different
course. However that may be. in each
The dresses of school girls show
wear quickest on the under side Of the
arm, from elbow to wrist. where the
rubbing against desk or book is most
OI0ST
day it was noticed that several of the
girls wore sleeve protectors made from
the material of the frocks. They were
merely straight cuffs, slightly full, and
shirred at each end on an elastic band
case the two wars were in their earlier
stages not unlike, and both Marston
moor and Bunker hill rank among
those engagements that have a lasting
significance in history, where military
results were secondary to moral effect
1t was these encounters that first
showed that the champions OF the
popular cause intended, and were able
TO make, stand-up fight against the
forces of the monarchy. In each case
the combatants expected the conflict
to be short. In each case the battle OF
popular liberty was first fought by
weak bodies, i'll paid, i'll disposed TO
discipline, mounted on cart-horses and
armed with fowling pieces, mainly
anxious to get back to their homes "a
soon as they could, and fiuctuating
from month to month with the hu-
mors, the jealousies, or the means of
the separate countries in England or
the separate states in America. Short
enlistments," said Washington. "and
mistaken dependence on militia
have been the origin of all our mis-
fortunes; the evils of standing arm,
are remote, but the consequence of
wanting one is certain and inevitable
ruin. To carry on the war systematic
ally, you must establish your army or
permanent and national footing"
what Washington said in 1875 was
just what Cromwell said in 1914
1t is unjust to Essex and Manchester
TO lay all the blame on their want of
heafC IN the cause. The system had
broken down. Officers complained
that their forces melted away, because
men thought they would be better
treated in other countries, and all
corners were welcomed by every asso-
citation. One general grumbles that
another general is favored in money
and supplies. The governors of strong
towns are in hot feud with the COM
mlttee of the town. Want of pay made
the men sulky and mutinous, and there
were always evil instruments" ready
to trade on such moods. Furious pas
sages took place between pressed men
and the county committees.
With the knowledge of all the dis
content that must be burning in the
hearts of his countrymen, Cromwell's
Unborn love of good order, and his
passionate interest in the good cause,
must alike have fired him with the
conviction that only a new system of
action could avert ruin. hypothesis
OF Selfishness or personal ambition
are superfuous.
You will never get your service
DONE said Waller, until you have
an army entirely your own, and at
your own command" This theme was
the prime element in the new model
the substitution of one army under a
single commander-in-chief, supported
by the parliament, instead of sectional
armies locally levied and locally paid.
The second feature was the wedding
out Of worthless men, a process stig-
matiZed by Presbyterians out of tenn
per as a crafty means of filling the
army with sectaries, a vile compound
OF Jew, Christian and Turk, mere tools
of usurping ambition. The third was
the change in the command. The new
army was intrusted to Sir Thomas
| Fairfax as cOmmander-in-chief with
liberty to name his own officers, sub
iect to ratification by the two houses
The honest Skippon, valiant fighter
and faithful man, was made major
general, and the higher post of lieu
tenant-general was left significantly
open. 1t is curious to find that the
army was reduced in numbers