The Prescott daily news., 1916-04-07

or Lost Under the Great Dome al
 Washington - All of Our Armeo
 Struggles Have Been Attended b)
 Unnecessary Sacrifice of Life ane
 Treasure.
 [PART II
 That more lives and more money can be wasted in Washington this winter than have been destroyed in the great est battles in the European war is the unavoidable conclusion of every one who reads Upton's Military Policy Of the United States buried for years in the government archives and at las, rescued from oblivion by Elihu Root when the latter was Secretary of War
 ln the present national crisis this work-merely a paper covered govern ment document-rises to the height oi a great beacon by whose light both the paciticist and the advocate of adequate preparedness may clearly see the route to the nations safety. As the author a distinguished veteran of the Civil War. has long since been dead and the book was both written and published years before any of the present-day events claimed attention. its deduc. tions are free from any suspicion of bias.
 By remarkable assembling of facts i'll their logical sequence it is plain that our lack of military knowledge has produced and prolonged wars, and has hfrn1pAlp nf h., ,Ac Af and billions of dollars.
 Brushing aside the mass of popular histories of the United States as not only misleading, but as dangerous in the impressions that they give, Gen. Upton presents a startling array of facts. He shows for instance that the Revolutionary War should have been ended in two years instead of seven and that the Civil War need not have been fought at all-that had we been adequately prepared in 1881 the four years struggle would have been avoid ed
 Our want of a military policy, he writes. has been tested more than a century and while military men are united as to its dangers our final SIC. cess in each conflict has so blinded the popular mind as to induce the belief that as Il nation we are iuyincible'
 With the greater mass of people. who have neither the time nor the in clination to study the requirements of military science, no error is more com mon than to mistake military resources for military strength, and particularly is this the case with ourselves
 "Enormous and unnecessary sacrifice of life and treasure has attended all our armed struggles"
 We have rejected the practice of European nations and with little varia Iion have thus far pursued the policy If China" and instead of saving money and lives and producing peace as the pacihsts- have thought to be the fact. this policy gave us, from the Declara- ton of Independence down to the time of writing one year of war for every three years of peace!
 Fears Prolonged the Revolution.
 It is the policy of some nations at the present day to carry on in secret among the peoples Of rival nations q propa canda of uupreparedness. Thus the mciists may become the tools of their country's enemies. Such policy may have been employed during the Revo lntjon, but, in any event. the war had not been under way long when tAcrc arose among the colouiSts strone feeling of jealousy of what they c;uic.l a standing army, n fear that such uu army might he detrimental to the wei fare of inc new republic
 The intense feeling of opposition nl. most wrought the ruin of our cause says Upton since then this fecliu. has been diligently kept up and has formulated itself into the maxim that a standing army is dangerous to fiber tF. The annals of the Revuiu ton show conclusiyely that for the lack Of well disciplined regular army enlisted for the war we were continually forced to call out double and treble the number of raw troops. D
 Tint the opposition to an army oi sufficient size dil not wreck the cause of independence is due to the ciEcum stance that England was busy witt wars on the European continent. that she was there fighting for her very life iuSt as she Is today. and her people did not know or foresec the value of this country.
 Even with the eremy thus hundi capped the Americans would not have won had it not been for the aid extend ed to us by France in the shape of 2 formidable fleet which, as Washington aptly stated it. cast the deciding vote