Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-03-25
resson Again Urges National Proper Place
Tor tay !rammg-Four Nomination Papers-Porand Water
District Would Issue $5OO0O and York Shore Water D+ seo ooo
in Bonds-Report Fgcide Insectcde Inspection
from the Departments About Good Roads Meeting

The little group was seated in the
.sce of Adjutant General Presson at
=. state House and the talk turned
t,on, the Mexican frontier to the ques-
81, Of our citizen soldiery. Some one
cautioned the military training camps
% he established the coming season in
New York and Georgia and some spoke
;. nraise of the idea-in fact no one
-o;d word against the good which it
s hoped Will be accomplished by
.,ese institutions-but when the
,res.ion was put up to the adjutant,
rvhat do YOU think about it?" Gen.
,,neson swung in his chair and re-
pied:
~ is the theory of republic that
cory citizen must become a soldier ii
raeds be. \ government by all, and
al are entitled to the services of all.
o.. 70 be of any value as a soldier in
,,odern wars a man must have con-
sisrable preliminary training and
,,,nt nt time. 1t is manifestly too
Wv. to begin such training after war
| a.c'arpd Therefore if we are to
r.,a any training at all. the people, or
., reast such portion of them as may
- reei,d. must submit to it in time
raace. THIS was the idea of the
t,rcrs when they enacted the oil"
.,n,,ia ,aV Of 1893. Under the law
,.,,, able bodied citizen between IS
.,5 I, WAS required to be enrolled and
an,e3r for drill on certain muster
a.,- ,qch year. I;ut while this plan
.as reasonable and just and in exact
.,,i with the theory of Il govern
.n+ hy the people, its requirements
..-ro fc,jYG 90 10 exceedingly irksom"
.roft,, immensely unpopular. it was
curse ineffective and even became
,,a.n,ous 50 that in time the whole
,..,,n ren into ntempt and finally
,...s...f,at The. Jaw. however, was
,aua4irj for 4 hundred years, and
to.d If vas not till 1903 that it was
.,osrraded 10y the act now popularlS
.,o,,r as the Dick Law. This act
,,t,,,Ify r.,o2nizeS that conScrlp-
/, tinr If pcacn has been aban-
..rod and white it still retains its
.n Mi anlc bodied male citizens
rrouor 4er - IN ambers OF the mill
and therefore liable to be drawn
'.,, e.,~yjr.. IN case of necessity, IL ac-
r.,.s tins National GCard as the only
.y.s,mr force which can he looked 10
=. quickly yyal1u}le to supplement the
,..l STANDING am.
~, link ,yp ar. all inclined to rec
.,i7. ,.ith tho present disturbance OF
M. n,ielncrS across the water a'.'
.. ,r.ull.- un the border that this
or.a il entirely inadequate ana tla'
Lamentations MANY times for Its sup
II 49,. AVE- altogether too measfe. hu>
tsis i. the only organization IN the
Vac If = reserve which we nave oe-
raonaj :, should he oi deep concern
M only to IL" nilitiaman out ~
s,pry other oitiEeH under ll!e ""9 -
make it the hrs; poasihle. '.
.i,ntl saa,. other scheme IL thooS"'
.,, NO >lotil1 lend our energies 10"
.,3s nerfa,, -.s y, ina. We have and u
his end Ne should strive to MAKE Us
,agjpmcnt. lis administrations nS
naming and its discipline as compete
and thorough as a citi2en-soloiefS can
,ons ia attain. Anything short OF TINS
7pajrs puhir confidence, eN@'''3
rfrue brings the Guard into con
tempt and saps the very founaa'loi
II stticencv
# the National Guard is to be