Arizona republican., 1913-12-15
THE MILITARY
 POLICY OF J. 5.
Major Evan NJ. Johnson, Jr., Secretary of Infantry Association, Complies a
 Pamphlet on Nation $ Lack of Military Platform
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 The policy which permits the lack of discipline and training. which countenanccs short enIstments, inn provised armies. and which fails to make provision for reserves of men and supplies. should be carefully studied in connection with our seV- eraI wars if we wish to arrive at just conclusion as to it's value and effect.
 The results of this policy, its great cost in lives and treasure. and the grave responsibilities it has entailed upon our government at times when it's embarrassments are greatest, can best be illustrated by a brief con sideration of the conditions which have obtained during the wars of the Revolution. 1872. the Mexican, Civil, and Spanish-American wars.
 War of the Revolution
 Al it's commencement We were not nation. and therefore the war is in teresting in connection with our mili- tarv policy only in so far. as it indi- ,ates tho source from Which such policy sprang. During it were de veIoped the systems of militia and volunteers of short enlistments. pen si0ns and bOunties. Militia and vol unteer systems are due to an illoSi- cal fear of a standing army: pen sions and bounties to the failure to have available trained troops. That this is So and the value of these systems win be shown by the fol- lowing extracts from the letters of Washington. whose ripe experience makes him. more than any other man of that period. a judge.
 "To place any dependence upon militia is assurcdIy resting upon a broken staff. Men just dragged from the tender scenes of domestic life. unaccustomed to the din of arms. to- tally unacquainted with every kind of military skill (which is followed by want of confidence in themselves when opposed bv troops regularly trained. disciplined and appointed su perior in knowledge and superior in arms). are timid and ready to fly from their own shadows
 "The jealousy of a standing army. and the evils to be apprehended from one. are remote. and. in my judgment. situated and circumstanced as We are, not at uall to be dreaded: but the consequences of wanting one. accord ing to my ideas formed from the present view of things. is certain and inevitable ruin. For if I was called upon to declare upon oath whether the militia had been most servicea- Llc or hurtful. upon the whole I should subscribe to the latter.
 It is needless to add that short enlistments. and a mistaken depend | c--ce upon militia have been the ori- e-E of all our misfortunes and the great accumulation of our debt. Can anything (the CXigenCE of the case indeed may justify iD be more de- structive to the recruiting service than giving $10 bounty fer six week service to the militia who come in. you cannot tell hos; go, you cannot tell when, and act, you cannot tell where, consume your provisions. eN- Eaust your stores, and leave you at last at q critical moment
 The enormous bounties given by the states. towns. and by individuals to men for very short services are the source of the present discontents and of a thousand evils among the soldiers. and as long as they con tinue to be given so long will they excite dissatisfaction. They induce the soldier who has undergone q long service and Who engaged for the war in the first instance on a very moderate bounty, to reason upon his situation, and to have to draw a com parisOn between what he receives 1 and the great emoluments others get. 1 and put him upon inventing means from which he will be able to derive ! the same advantage. And from this compa rison and these considerations it is. I am convinced. that most of cur assertions proceed. especially