The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-30
Starvation CryFrom Subjugated States
VIKINGS From the People the Gold
the Willy Conqueror Wants

biles every day to carry regiment,
each machine capable OF making 100
miles an hour with four men and ten
days rations of food n ammunition.
Others had agreed between them to
produce enough motors in every
working day to carry five or six regi-
ments.l7
The efficient land was rising to the
occasion with magnificent ability and
temper. So far those were justified
who had said that America could meet
a crisis with miraculous speed. But
there were things that could not be
met with speed, and these things
were vital.
All the industrial efficiency in the
land could not provide 5000 trained
and experienced officers. and that
number was needed IL the country
was to put half a million volunteers
into the field.
All the efficiency Of men and en-
gines could not correct except by
tedious. slow training the defects in
an army system that had made II i'm
possible in peace times to concentrate
10000 men and officers at the San An
tonic border of Texas In less than
three months after the order vas is
sued. Is
All the efficiency could not alter the
fact that of the whole militia force OF
the United States enrolled rs men
armed with the rifle" exclusive of the
four divisions already with the army,
there were only $4,000 or 3S per cent.
who could shoot well enough to make
them suitable for battle purposes.ls
The capture OF Massachusetts and
Connecticut had cut off at one blow
the source of IS per cent. Of all the
ammunition and weapon works of the
United States. The army. already
short of cartridges, would have to re-
main short till al. the complicated and
minutely accurate machinery for
making them could be built and es-
tablished.:o
There were only 425. 900 rifles in re-
serve. The volunteers would have to
drill without arms till factories could
he put into operation.
Seven militia mobilization camps
were in the territory lost to the United
States. One thousand acres Of powder
works in New Jersey were in the pos
session Of the invaders.
The volunteers needed shirts,
breeches. underwear. The four lead
ing cl'ies IN the manufacture Oh COT
ton goods. the four that led in making
woo'ieh goods ana the ieauers III max
ing clothing were cut off from tn
United States.
The volunteers needed shoes. More
than all they needed shoes. Shoes.
shoes. and again shoes. Americans
realized with heavy hearts how these
uhromahtic Things were making them
ne'piess-Wha a oioW IL hau peeh 10
thelr defehce when the great Massa-
Havcrhill and Boston with their unre-
~placeabie machinery had been taken.
These cities and cities scattered
,hr,u,h III. ,os, 90 ,,s, Nau, I,n,.
,,nt ~, nr.,noa, - 100 go &, ~
"'u '' p'o"'" . ~. te"'' w
""u.s an" SINUS LOT the hl'eu 'ta''s'
The army was short. even under its
old, economical estimates, of more than
500 pieces of field artillery. To put
the army of 400 600 volunteers into the
cola I, vor,a roo5 n, Io,s, , 5oo In
,ha H., - $40 - -
,ne uaEs vi peace II hau peeh ta!tu-
lated mat the shortage then exlstinS
could not he made good in less thar
two years. Now. with half a hundred
factories tolling. with blackened
Wateryliet roaring and Changing as
noyar , f,c,,ry h,a ,,horaa hafora
r, hatn ,,rroa am, ~ 49,
suns "ie 'V.nS 'u'",u ou' d " iale
'hat PROMISED 10 reacn surprising oil
mansions when all the shops were
fully at work.
But at best there was six months
during which nothing could he dom,
oycan, :, nr.n,ro Dur,ry tho, civ
1872 " mrp nm 'na
months WINE 'he country poured