The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-07-28
OPPOSITION TO
STANDING ARMY
Is Voiced BY Speaker
Champ Clark At
INSTALLATION LIBERTY BELL
Favors Doubling Number of
Cadets. and Providing A
National Guard.
OPPOSES PEACE AT ANY PRICE

San Francisco, July 24.-The Lib
erty Bell, Americas chief relic Of
the War of Independence. was in
stalled here at the Pennsylvania Pa
vilion of the Panama-Pacific EXPOSE
ton. Crowds which increased steadi-
ly through the early morning hours
| broke into uncontrolled demonstra-
ton when the bell, banked by GRIM
son rambler roses. reached a great
plaza at the Exposition, where
Champ Clark, Speaker Of the Ma
nonal House of Representatives; iii
ram w. Johnson, Governor OF Cali
fornia, and other Speakers were
gathered.
Automobiles parked on the steep
hillside streets and large crowds
afoot marked the path traversed by
the bell across the city. and thous-
ands of SCHOOL children sang and
tossed garlands. At the Exposition
4S little girls, representing the
States Of the Union, placed vreaths
on 1t.
Mr.. Clark, In his speech, discuss
ed the need Of greater military pre-
paredness to preserve to citizens OF
the United States that liberty Of
which the bell Is an historic symbol.
In the course of his remarks he
said: 81
81 differ wholly from the advo-
Gates of Peace at any price That
is an amazing. demoralizing. a de-
grading doctrine
ION the other hand am utterly
opposed to those who advocate a
large standing army and to those
who advocate a navy equal to the
two biggest navies in the world. l
am not lingo. God forbid!
hope most profoundly there will new
er be another war-particularly an
other to which we are party-but
knowing that human nature has not
changed a jot or little since Adam
and Eve were driven with flaming
swords from Paradise. / am In favor
of putting the, country in such pos
ure that II war should for any rea-
son become necessary we may
emerge from II conqueror, as we
have been in all our wars.
Towards the contamination OF
this plan I +, favor doubling the
number of cadets at West Point and
of making II obligatory upon the
Secretary of War 10 detail an army
oeicer to any school. college or uni
versity. which will furnish mini
mum of 800 students to drill. In
that way. and at the least possible
cost, we could in a few years have
enough drilled men to officer a vol
unteer army Of million soldiers
II needs be.
"In fact there would be wisdom
in a scheme BY which, in addition to
the cadets educated free by the Gov
eminent at West Point and Annapo-
lis, any boy possessing the prescrib-
ed qualifications might on reasona-
BILE terms be educated at those two
great institutions. The surplus
West Pointers could be used to adj
vantage In drilling the youths of the
land, while the surplus naval grad
yates would make splendid oficers
for the great merchant marine
which President Wilson and some OF
the rest OF us are determined to
place upon the high seas. from
which our flag has almost entirely
disappeared.
eve shopId also have we'll drill
cd and we'll equipped National Guard
TO he ssed for strictly national pur-
poses on the principles enunciated
by Thomas Jefferson, a we'll discip-
lined militia, our best reliance In
peace and for the frst moments Of
war. till regulars may relieve them
'It seems that II little Switzer-
hnd can mobilize In . few days an
aBmy OF half million well drilled
men by means OF her system OF mil
itary education and discipline-the
cheapest system known among men,
and sufnciently sffsctiye-we could
by such application OF her system
as Ats our case. in year or two. be
able 10 mobilize an army OF 2,000.-