New-York tribune., 1908-02-23
HOW WE'D FIGHT JAPAN
GENER GRANTS FIEUS.
Could Not Get Along 7cith Less
than a Million Men, He Says.

The New York State Society of the Cincinnati
cslehrated the birthday of George Washington with
a dinner last night at the Waldorf This was the
1Sth celebration by the society in honor of General
Washington. the first being al Newport. at which
General Rochambeau. of the French army, was
present.
In the absence OF the president of the society
President Francis X Pendeton, Corporation
Counsel presided. The first two toasts were 70
The Memory OF Washington and The President
of the United States" General f. D. Grant speak
ing The Army" impressed on his hearers the
Importance of large trained force in case of war.
Speaking of the contingency OF a war between the
United States and any great nation. General Grant
said that five hundred thousand men would not be
enough.
was. for instance, To be with Japan, would
have to protect the entire Pacific Coast. The navy
would be protection shore, and If We
were TO lose on sea the army would have TO come
into action. With the Japanese army well
trained, could not get along with less than d
million men
General Grant went say that with only
England and France with a sea power greater
than that OF the United States other nation
would have chance with this country. although
Germany. he said, equal far
guns and ships concerned. He said that,
although there eight million in the
United States who could carry arms the people al
ways regarded their armed force the fifty thou
sand troops actually In the service.
General Grant also spoke OF the importance OF
the state militia receiving its training with the
regular army and said that he maintained gar
rison school in all the forts over which he had
command
WfnsIow Warren ex-Collector Of the Port Of
Boston and president general of the Society of the
Cincinnati responded to The Founders of the
Cincinnati" making detour in his speech to the
subject OF present political and commercial affairs
He said:
Washington was calm and conservative, and
therein lay his greatness. At previous time
have the people more fully felt the need OF such
characteristics than at the present The utmost
stretch OF their imagination could never have
caused them 10 believe any respectable official
would ever try interpret the Constitution to
that all powers not expressly reserved to the
states intended be exercised by the federal
government. 1t has been d wise maxim that 'ss9
guilty people had better escape than one innocent
man suffer i Is strange reversal OF this maxim
decide 999 innocent stockholders shall suffer
rather than sui!ty man escape.
We have had political brainstorms III Boston
about railroad gers, and We have also 4 select
branch of the Ananias club, whose plumber is in
definite Ii the present laws not strong enough
Jet Us make them strong. Let not lose our
heads because fraud and corruption still exist The
much abused corporation has the same right as an
individual TO be free from persecution. The busl-
ness men in the main honest. and great cor
porations honestly administered. What is
needed is rest for every body from the President
down o the office boy"
Let us not lose faith in the perpetuity OF the
government or the intelligence OF the American
people. No great political moral reform be
effected without a Wen conceived action. We know
rot what Lincoln and Washington would do If they
rere in the flesh to-day, but we know what they
would not do They would not ignore. abandon or
, Feryert the Constitution to which they devoted
their precious lives
The other SPEAKERS were Rear Admiral Goodrich
The Navy. General w 6. Bates. state New
York; II. \. Prince City of New York;: Colonel
Asa BIRD Gardner. The Cincinnati" and Charles
isham. Our Guests"