The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-04-24

The proves Of the Japanese in the
Manchurian campaign has impressed
no one more powerfully than Senator
MONEY Of Mississippi. While he does
not think that 1T is wise to talk about
cutting down the naval expenditures y
especially az he feels in his bones there
will be a war with Japan within ten
years, he is much concerned about the
fate Of an American army II it comes
into contact with the japanese troops
and their jiu-jitsu methods Of training
and calisthenics. In the Senate on
Tuesday when Mr.. HALE was explaining
the need Of GOLFERS to supply the Amer
lean warships with fuel Mr.. MONEY made
the following remarks, OF which the moral
and the warning are too conspicuous to
be lost:
You can take the best regiment IN The Amsr.
can army I pay honor to the American SOL
der, In resources, In natural courage. which are
the commonest qualities In the American soldier
| notice he never lacks them and IL conspicuous In
them In battle, and I have been in a good many
myself. Granting all that, you may take the crack
regiment OF the United States and run II a mile
double quick and can 60 In and Kill them with a
baseball bat. they will be completely exhausted
Yet when the nrtt japanese army crossed The Yalu
River some Of them swan and some wsded-they
ran al double quick across three miles Of barren
sand over their shoe tops, and climbed up the
esclrpment, protected by live wires and blrbed
wires and everything else. aud with every kind Of
artillery and gun, automatic and rife, and everything
else nHng al them all the way across. scaled to the
summit, and drove out The Russians to the bitches,
where they retired. do not eIAggerate the Jspa
nese capacity for lighting | think everybody Will
well understand II. | want to say, gentlemen,
whenever we tackle that little nation Of brown men
we are going to have all we can do"
We do not know which is the crack
regiment OF the American army: the
people believe that all the regiments
rome under that head; but we assure
Senator MONEY that there are plenty Of
American soldiers who can double quick
for a mile that is to say, can take 1866
steps to the minute and at the end Of
the mile a regiment OF them, or the sur
vivors, would be more than a match for
a veteran United States Senator with a
baseball bat. As regards his description
of the performance Of the Japanese in
the battle Of the Yalu, we think he was
probably misled by the illustrators
everybody remembers Mr.. REMINGToN's
picture Of Colonel ROOSEVELT charging
up San Juan Hill On a horse. In adj
miration Of the Japanese soldiers light
ness Of foot and his lung power WI are
second TO none, but even he cannot double
quick for three miles in sand above his
shoe tops and afterward charge live
wires with impunity. We believe that
Mr.. MONEY has exaggerated the Japa-
nese capacity for fighting, excellent as
it is. No wonder the Senator, realizing
the physical inferiority Of the American
army man, would turn the government
OF the Philippines over to the natives az
soon as it can be managed, and thus re-
move one possible bone Of contention
with Japan.
In the meantime does il not behOove
us to put the enlisted men Of the army in
the hands Of Mr.. WESTON and Mr.. Null
doom TO develop their leg muscles and
expand their chests for three mile runs
through deep sand and up escarpments
at an angle Of IS degrees?