The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-10-14
An Argument For the Military Train
ing OF the American
Youth


citizens, is published by request. II
was written to be delivered to a New
England society. Copies of the ad.
dress in pamphlet form may be OBJ.
tanned upon request from the author.
When, in the early days, New Eng.
landers left New England. seeking a
home further in the American will
derness, they carried, carefully be.
slowed among their belongings, a
small portion of the last rising of
bread in the old home. From these
small portions Of leaven has been
leavened the bread of people along
the Hudson, through the valleys of
the Mohawk and the Tennessee; over
the Western reserve and beyond to
the Illinois; to the Mississippi; west
and south, Wherever these people
made their homes.
1t is of the character of leaven that
1t retains its qualities while impart-
ing them, and this however finely
subdivided, however much diluted
So long as It is noruished its virtue
persists. SO the little Jumps of leav-
en- taken by them into the wilderness
long served the purpose of these
pilgrims and of their neighbors and
descendants.
And other leaven than the leaven
of bread did these people from the
home of our ancestors carry into the
new lands. The leaven of univers-
al education; of liberty of thought
and of expression-and of worship
they took with them; and In the
minds and consciences of generations
of men in all the land, from New
England to New Mexico, has the lea
ven Of the New England spirit work
ed to the expansion of free institu-
lions and the peace and prosperity
of the people.
In all this the inspiration of New
England mas been potent and per.
sists; but in what relates to my sub
ject, and to the imminent peril of
the nation, the leaven once so pot
ent In New England and wherever
men Of New England blood made
their homes has failed OF nourish.
ment and has lost its vitality.
The military spirit of New Eng
ly vigor, found expression in a con-
slant state of preparation and, when
necessity required in action prompt
and stern. or the latter expression
of the militancy of the New England
spirit history makes an heroic rec
ord. The past at least is secure.
The blood Of our ancestors. given
In defense of home and ideals. and
slowly dripping from the shaft Of
the red mans arrow or pulsing from
the blue Tipped pathway of the red
coats bullet has dyed the grass
and stained the snow of every col
only from the Housatonic to the An
droscoggin. Through the dreadful
winter of 1777 and rs Pennsylvania
learned to what heights OF self sac.
rifce the appeal OF great cause
could carry our fathers.
Eighty-fve years later, When the
litter bearers went up and down tae
dreadful hollow over which Picketts
superb infantry-gaunt mountaineers,
debonair Creole boys, heroic descend
ants OF the heroes Of Kings noun.
tain and Cowpens-grizzled men and
beardless boys from all over the gal
liant Southland that day carried the
stars of the confederacy to the zen
it'll of their glony along the line
where the wave OF flame fiickered
and went out, strewn thick among
the northern dead, they found New
Englands sons. And these dead,
whom we claim as children of New
England blood and inspiration were
from every free state of the Ameri-
can union.
New England, when the appeal is
for the defense of ideals or OF home
has thus ever been ready for sacri-
fee. But the New Englander's love
is for peace, and so long as New Eng
lands military spirit retained its
vigor, and to whatever bounds its in
huence extended, there was the first
essential of peace-a condition OF
preparedness for war.
/ am persuaded that the great Vir.
gilman, first In peace, as in war, when
he said-"In time Of peace prepare
for war" means not to express
sequence OF events. am persuaded
he had in mind that in the presence
Of predatory nations our only insur-
ance OF peace is a state OF prepared
ness for war-a state promising so
much OF Ill 10 an adventurous peo-
pie, who might seek the mitigation
Of their own condition at tho exnanaa