Arizona republican., 1915-04-26
BUILDING DIRECTORY
 Building Supply Houses of Phoenix
VITAL FACTS CONCERNING
 OUR MILITARY PREPAREDNESS
Uoon What Can We as a Nation O 1oo,000,000 Place Our Military
 Defense

Defense i. Available mobile army within the limits of the United States. 5000. Z Possible to secure from our par ] tially traired organized militia 50,00O. 8 Trained Reserve for the regular army, 16.
 1. Trained Reserve for the organized militia, 0.
 ,. Untrained men between the ages of IS and 45, census of 1910, 20, ,52S, 347
 6. Reserve equipment inadequate for war with a world power. '. Money, sufficient. &. Undeveloped resources, sufficient Our Previous Policy in Case of Ma tionaI Need
 l. Immediately deplete the regular army by sending it's personnel to drill raw levies.
 ?. Ruin the efficiency of the regular army by sending into it's ranks more than 50 per cent of raw recruits, or by not sending, for everyone joins the volunteers.
 3. Call cn untrained citizenry to meet our opponents. 4 Delude ourselves with the thought that a man, a uniform and gun make a soldier.
 D. Pay bounties to secure what pa | tTiotism demands. 6. Resort to drafting. ' Permit the hiring of substitutes, thus developing the bounty jumper
 s. Pay pensions to all deserving cases and to many who never heard a hostile bullet. 9. Commence military training when war is upon us. 10. Provide munitions of war when war is upon us. II. Make eXorbitanr wasteful con- tracts due to the urgent demands of war. and enrich many unscrupulous, unpatriotic contractors. F. Place the lives of our sons, our fathers, our husbands, under command of the political general. 13. When Providence, and other less powerful agencies, have seemingly fla vored our arms. pay millions as a SO lace to the opponent. MT. American Business Man, Mir. Le- qislator-Your Attention! l. Do you know that our pensions each year are far greater than the en tire expenditure for the army and the Ji S7ciiliLd IIIiIiliel ,. Do You know that since our last trouble in 1898, more money has been paid as pensions to the citizen sol diery employed during that short war. l April to August, than has ever been paid as pensions to the regular army since the founding of this nation. 3. Do you know that the applica- | tions for pensions after the Spanish Atr1nr -lT rod felN quite. 90 per cent, of the strength of
 of the citizenry organizations called into the service? 1. Do you know that in one regi-
 ment 100 per cent Of strength applied for pensions, and this regiment did not l leave the limits of the United States. }. Behold the enormous debt that we
 saddle upon posterity. as shown by our
 present pension lists. We have re i gently finished paying pensions for the
 revolutionary war. which terminated in t7S3. Is this good business? Is it just 1 business? Is it not a lack of business
 ability in handling military matters Where Does the Fault Lie 1 l. With the founders of this nation. l ?. With the people of this nation who ! persist in the error of their ancestors.
 3. In the halls of Congress.
 1. In the regular army. 1 5 With you.
 How Can a Change be Effected? 1. By teaching our school children
 the truth in our history of the United States.
 (a) That Bunker Hill was a British victory
 (b) That these United States did not
 vanquish the power of England twice but succeeded in engaging only a smal | portion of her power. In the revolu- | tlon the number of British regulars I opposed to the American forces in 177G | was slightly over 10000. The maxi mum number of British regulars in the
 United States and Canada was fl, 1,5S6 While in 1776 we had a population oi 3,O0O,0OO, it required an enlistment o 395,S5S Americans, assisted by the l French, to win our independence The
 greatest number of American troops
 that Congress could command at one time was about S9,000, while Washing ton could never assemble over IT, 900. Co In the war of 1912 the largest number of British regulars in the Uni 1 ted States and Canada was 16,500. Al
 the beginning of the war there were
 5.000 regulars in Canada. Three thous-
 and five hundred British troops cap-
 tured and burned Washington City.
 Our population was 7,5O0,OO0. w,
 never won battle on the land unti
 after the treaty of peace was signed
 We employed 526654 Americans in this
 war, all having a. claim for pension
 The Right of Search. the cause of the
 war, was ignored in the treaty O
 peace.
 ,. Convince the adult public of ouI
 ancestors error in believing that sol
 diers would destroy this country. They
 may but they will not be our soldiers
 evening the great educational film, en-
 titled ."rhe Man Mko Came Back From