Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-12-13

vice, and they are seeing to the honest
 collection of the revenues, turning over
 45 per cent to the government for run
 ming expenses and putting the other
 5 per cent into a safe depository for
 equitable division in case the treaty
 shall be ratified, among the various
 creditors, whether European or Ameri-
 can.
 Under the course taken, stability and
 order and all the benefits of peace are
 at last coming to Santo Domingo, dan
 ger of foreign intervention has been
 suspended, and there is at last a pros
 peet that all creditors will get justice,
 no more and no less. If the arrange
 ment is terminated by the failure of
 the treaty chaos will follow and if
 chaos follows, sooner or later this gov
 ernment may be involved in serious
 difficulties with foreign governments
 over the island, or else may be forced
 itself to intervene in the island in
 some unpleasant fashion. Under the proposed treaty the independ-
 ence of the island is scrupu-
 lously respected, the danger of viola
 ton of the Monroe Doctrine by the in terference of our government is mini
 mixed, so that we shall only act in
 conjunction with the Santo Domingo authorities to secure the proper ad- ministration of the customs, and there fore to secure the payment of just debts and to secure the Dominican gov ernment against demands for unjust debts. The proposed method will give Al -e hn same chance to move onward and up- ward which we have already given to the people of Cuba. It will be doubly to our discredit as a nation if we fail to take advantage of this chance; for 1t will be of damage to ourselves, and it will be of incalculable damage to Santo Domingo. Every consideration of wise policy, and, above all, every consideration of large generosity, bids us meet the request of Santo Domingo as we are now trying to meet 1t.
 Army and Navy.
 We cannot consider the question of our foreign policy without at the same time treating of the army and navy. We now have very small army-in- deed, one well-nigh infnitesimal when compared with the army of any other large nation. Of course the army we do have should be as nearly perfect of its kind and for it's size as is possible. I do not believe that any army in the world has better average of enlisted man or a better type of junior officers; but the army should be trained to act effectively in a mass. Provision should be made by sufficient appropriations for maneuvers of a practical kind so that the troops may learn how to take care of themselves under actual service conditions; every march, for instance, being made with the soldier loaded exactly as he would be in an active campaign. The generals and colonels would thereby have opportunity of handling regiments, brigades and di- visions, and the commissary and medi- cal departments would be tested in the field. Provision should be made for the exercise at least of brigade and by preference of a division in march ing and embarking at some point on our coast and disembarking at some other point and continuing its march. The number of posts in which the army is kept in time of peace should be ma terially diminished and the posts that are left made eorrespondingly larger. No local interests should be allowed to stand in the way of assembling the greater part of the troops which would at need form our field armies in sta tions of such size as will permit the | best training to be given to the per sonnel of all grades, including the nigh officers and staff officers. To | accomplish this end we must have not | company or regimental garrisons, but | brigade and division garrisons. Pro- notion by mere seniority can never re- ;ult in a thoroughly effective corps of ssTun s4uBI IsqSIq eql LII sI90yJo here accompanies it a vigorous weed ng-out process. Such a weeding-out is, such a process of selec ion-is a chief feature of the four years' course of the young officer at Vest Point. There is no good reason why it should stop immediately upon lis graduation. While at West Point he S dropped unless he comes up to a cer- ain standard of excellence, and when le graduates he takes rank in the army ccording to his rank of graduation. The results are good at West Point, nd there should be in the army itself that will achieve the same nd. After a certain age has been cached the average officer is unfit to o good work below a certain grade. should be made for the pro- notion of exceptionally meritorious len over the heads of their comrades, nd for the retirement of all men who ave reached a given age without get ing beyond a certain rank this age f retirement of course changing from ank to rank. In both the army and he navy there should be some principle ', f selection, that is of promotion for lerit, and there should be resolute ef- Ort to eliminate the aged officers of equitable character who possess no pecial efficiency.
 There should be an increase in the past artillery force, so that our coast { can be in some degree i dequately manned. There is special eed for an increase and reorganization , the medical department of the army. , n both the army and navy there must e the same thorough training for duty | tho ctaff in bo Eorht lsna !