Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1901-12-05
are making and have in part already Of.

fected.
The reorganization provided for by the
act has been substantially accomplished.
The improved conditions in the Philip
pines have enabled the war department
materially to reduce the military charge
upon our revenue and to arrange the
number of soldiers so as to bring this
number much nearer to the minimum
than thu to the Sor ma x limit established
Elementary legislation. Thorough roili-
tary education must be provided and in
addition to the regulars the advantages
o OF inns ef th snoIld be given to the
in civil life who desire intellgently to 1T
themselves for possible military duty.
to perfect themselves by study in tho
higher branches of this art. At West
Point the education should be of the kind
most apt to turn out men who are good
should not be laid on mathematics. nor
should proficiency therein be held to es-
tablish the right of entry to a corps
delite. The typical American officer OF
the best kind need not be good mathe-
matician, but he must be able to master
hlmself. to control others, and to show
poldness and fertility of resource in
every emergency.
The National Guard.
Action should be taken in reference to
the militia and to the raising of volunteer
FORCES our militia law is obsolete and
VOL worth5 of g., me organization and arma.
states, which are treated as militia in the
appropriations by the congress, should be
made Identical with those provided for
the regular forces. The obligations and
duties of the guard in time of war should
be, carefully defined and a system estab-
l1shed by law under which the method Of
should be prescribed in advance. It is
utterly impossible in the excitement and
haste of impending war to do this salts
baen if the arrangements have not
SHOULD be made for utilizing in the first
volunteer organizations called out the
training of those citizens who have al
peclally for the selection in advance Of
the officers Of any force which NAV be-
raised: for careful selection Of the kind
of war
That the army is not at all mere in
strument of destruction has been shown
innnss TIE b last three years In the Phil
itself a great constructive force a most
potent implement for the upbuilding of a
peaceful civilization.
Justice for the Veterans
No other citizens deserve SO we'll of tho
republic as the veterans, the survivors
OF those who saved the union. They did
the one deed which if left undone would
have meant that all else in our history
proWess in the greatest crisis of our his
tory all our annals would be meaningless
and our great experiment in popular free
dom and self government gloomy fail
ure. Moreover, they not only left US a
united nation, but they left US also as a
heritage the memory of the mighty deeds
by which the nation was kept united. We
are now indeed one nation, one in fact as
well as in name: we are united in our de-
votion to the flag which is the symbol OF
national greatness and unity, and the
very completeness Of our union enables
US all, in every part of the country, to
glory in the valor shown alike by the
sons of the north and the sons of the
south in the times that tried mems souls
The men who in the last three years
have done so well in the East and in the
West Indies and on the mainland OF Asia
have shown that this remembrance is not
lost. In any serious crisis the United
States must rely for the great mass of it's
fighting men upon the volunteer soldery
who do not make a permanent profession
Of the military career. and whenever such
a crisis arises the deathless memories OF
the civil war will give to Americans the
lift of lofty purpose which comes to those
whose fathers have stood valiantly in the
forefront of the battle.