The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-05-03

urday evening, Colonel Roosevelt MOI
only made a strong appeal to be al
,owed tn raise a division to proceed at
opce 70 the battle line in France, but
he stirred the patriotic blood OF the
nation. for the speech was American
from beginning to end. lie placed
himself sauarely behind the president
in al, that he is attempting to do to-
ward preparing the country to enter
the war and endorsed CONSUMPTION as
the only fair and democratic method
If creating and maintaining an ade-
ouate army. He pointed out that his
p,an to raise a volunteer army would
supplement the CONSUMPTION plan by
nroyiding an army of trained men
from those who are not subject to
consumption. In explaining his plan
and appealing for authority, the col
onel said in part:
Americans on Battle Line.
So | ask that we at once send
force over to the fighting line primar-
ily for our own sakes. Even if the
allies asked us merely to furnish
them with money and foodstuffs, such
a request would imply so Calling
contempt for our manhood that l
would with equal scorn refuse it, J
would answer that in war as IN
peace put the man above the dollar,
and would not rest content to see
America make this on her own part
merely a dollar war instead of mans
war But / speak of my persona'
the allies eagerly desire to see IA
send fighting force to the front AT
the earliest moment, and steadily IN
crease it's size. 1t would be absurd
for us to expect them as supplicants
to ask us to send over men; they
would not assume such an attitude
and 1t would be unworthy of us to
ask them such a question. ! have al
ready seen in the public press the
statement from the French minister
of war that he confidently expects us
to send troops to the battle line. In
a letter just received from James
Bryce he urges me to support as
especially useful two steps, of which
the first one is the dispatch of an
American force to the theater of war.
The moral effect of the appearance in
the war line of an American force
would be immense" From France,
England and Canada, from the high
est sources, | have been told the same
thing.
Could Be Speedily Trained.
Our regular army is so small that
such a force, if sent abroad at the
moment ought to consist
largely of volunteers. OF course, no
men should be given
but to refuse competent
men commissions for fear of lack OF
strength Of mind to refuse the incom-
petent Is at the outset to confess m
to handle armies. AS for
the persons who say that such force
of picked volunteers could not be
speedily trained, they show utter ig-
norance of what Canada and Aus
tralia have done. | have before me
tatement made on behalf of one or
the highest military authorities OF
Canada. as follows: 81 can person
ally say that with the use of the Ca
madam system of intensive military
training your announced plan to nave
Americans at the front in four months
would be entirely practical
Prepare in All Lines.
BY all means let us set our house
in order here at home. Let us obey
the presidents exhortation and put
stop to waste. Let us do as he out
lines in furnishing money and ships
and food to the allies. Let us furnish
the war craft necessary to hunt down
the submarines wherever the British
deems that this service can
best be rendered and in whatever
manner it desires. Let us, II neces-
sary by governmental action, see that
the fullest use is made of the soil and
the largest possible production OBJ
tanned therefrom. Let us see that
skilled workers are employed where
ever they can do most good, and all
our industrial establishments and
TRANSFORMATION lines used to the ut
most. Let us see that there is no i'm
PROPER or excessive profit making by
those whose business activities by
legislation and administration ana
through the activities of private as
sociations and organizations, to Sc
cure q larger social and industrial
iustice for the men who actually toll
the workingmen on the SOIL ana III
industry; the wage workers and the
farmers: so that we may show by our
deeds that this Is their country the
country of all of us, where the well
fare of every honest and hard work.
ing man Is the prime object OF gov
eminent, where the flag means JUS
tice and fair play, and reasonable
equality of opportunity to all, and
where in consequence we have right
to expect. and If necessary to eXacts
from all the fullest measure OF loyal
service to the flag. DO all this; ana
vet remember that 1t is all or httle
avail unless we also show by tho