Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-01-07
Says United States is
Unprepared For war
Declares We Never Whipped Eng.
Iand-CiViI War Merely Con-
fIict Of Mob Organization.

CHICAGO, Dec. f4.-Milit2ry service
during the youth of every male Amer
lean citzan was suggested tonight as .
means of providing sufficient reserve
army by Col. II. o. s. Heistand, adiu-
tant-general Of the central department
Of the army. in an sdress here. Col Hell
stand said che United States was to-
tally unprepared for war. declared the
regular army and the National Guard
were inadequate and protested against
what be termed false history. He de-
clared the wars against Mexico and
Spain we're the only ones tho United
States hsd won and that the United
states never really whipped foeman
worthy of her steel. 'If at this min
ute," he said, "every one OF the 10000
regular soldiers in the United States
cavalry, infantry, coast and field artil-
lery were asse N bled in New York city,
there would not be enough men to man
the guns there on war footing. and
if every one OF the $4,000 National
guardsmen were Assem- bled in New YORK
there would not be enough to protect
those guns from attacks. Those guns
as they are now situated are menace to
New York, because all foe would have
to do would be to turn them around and
point than at New York and begin fir
ing. For the purpose OF defense, /
would have every male citizen OF the
Late Ito tna in thu ri u nariDH nf hl
life give . sufficient time to the United
States to qualify himself in the essen
sials OF soldier. | would have him
learn how to shoot and how to march,
how to pitch and roll his tent, how to
ride horse, how to cook and take care
OF his health. And l would nave him 10
that with very small pay.
"But the trouble with people is they
are suffering from false teaching and
preaching. In our school histories ne
teach that in the war of the revolution
and Of 1912, we whipped England; that
in the war with Mexico We whipped her,
and that in the war Of our own rebel
lion we rose up from the fields and the
farms and marched right opt and put
down that rebellion. True we whip
ped Mexico. we whipped Spain. There
lsa slang phrase about taking candy
from baby, and that is what we did.
We did not whip Great Britain in the
war Of the revolution. Great Britain
WAS busy at home, and quit because she
- hi nd az
real estate we had here. In the war
oi1S12 We were humi lated and our cap
ital burned and Great Britain, because
she was busy at home, quit without in
sisting on her rights In the war OF
the rebellion, two great mobs OF the
finest citizenry that ever stepped up to
the cannon's mouth, went to the front
without knowledge OF organisation or
warfare, for four straight years, and AZ
the end the one with the longest purse
aAd the greatest number Of men triump PHI
ed. 1t was scarcely . war. 1t was
conflict of mob organisation. "Whas
We want to day is to teach our people
that in the history OF the world We have
not whipped foe worthy Of our steel.
for we never have. But We have in us
the power, for there is not really good
American who is not ready to die Zoe
bis country. plead for . training
Of every citizen so that il the time ever
comes when we need to defend those in
stitutions under which We live so glor-
iously, he will be able to do so, instead
OF dying a suicide or becoming simply
foolish victim Of the foe, he will have
made . good account OF himself in the
defense OF his country"