Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-06-23
ADDRESS OF THE
HON. RICHARD PARKER
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world to tell us the woes hat come
upon a nation which is not prepared
and which has to send it's men out
as Russia has done, armed with clubs
against muskets, or keep them home
as England has done because she had
not the best rifles to put in their
hands. We must not forget that even
in the best military nations they put
too much stress on this. They do no
training in time of peace and too lit
tie in time of war. A million meu
we'll fire away in fifty days a thous-
and million cartridges and the target
is going begging-why? Because
though the machinist whom l knew
wanted to take the contract he said
if he put a million dollars in a plant he
could make a million cartridges a day
and how long would it take a thous-
and million cartridges at a million
cartridges a day-a thousand days, or
three years.
Now, as to the tools / say that small
sum would comparatively do much to
get the real tools, and the real tools
for Americans and for var are not
armor of defence, they are weapons OF
offence-not the dreadnought or the
fort thai cost money and get out of
a and the soldiers behind them are
captured as they were in Metz and
as they nearly were in Antwerp. 1t
Is the weapons of offence, ii is the
rifle III the hands of the sharpshooter;
1t is the cannon in the hands of those
who know how to aim them. / only
will state h act hat two hundred
millions 81 year., including the fifty
million nave spoken of, would in five
years provide all of the arms and
equipment for 5000, 900 men; and half
of the sum which ! have spoken of
for the first year, or 800, 900, 900,
oul In that year give you rifles
for h 100000 men, and it is those
rifles for the 10000, 900 that you need
If war comes you have got to train
"a'h ~" 4 HOu kOlDR W
do it unless you put guns in their
hands? You may go on making guns
but you cannot train your men without
the rifles. And II Is an odd thing that
the men can be trained all at once
and the rifles and supplies have to he
made n after the other. II Is an
odd thing that II the men are realIy
trained with their rifles they don't
use 80 many cartridges. It is really
economy when you get to war that you
don't shoot off hundreds of cartridges
a day into the air or into the ground
1t Is real economy that / am speaking
OF which says you don't wish TO see
the spectacle that my friend Coudert
spoke of the other day of 800, 0OO
French troops sent home at the be,
ginning OF the French war because
they had no arms to put In their hands
n because the arms had been dl.
verted to the building of workmen's
houses, with the best intentions. If
you do not wish that you will have
the arms n as to the building OF
workmen's houses there will be a good
many to be built, but they will not be
built as new houses but rebuilt.
We should thank the members OF
this association for their interest,":
they started 1t, but the whole nation
now feels It and realizes 1t. Don't
worry about them. Tut your minds,
you business men for America IA 4
business country-not to the question
OF what we need, but TO the question
OF how you a do tho most with your
money from year to year SO as to pro.
vide not for a reserve, q first line
army of 5000 men, but for a peoples
army Of 100000 men, arms and
equipment all ready. Factories. thank
God, have sprung up all over the land
which will help us In the work OF SUP.
plying the arms and ammunition. And
beyond all that, men who have onic.