Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-16
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single instance that can countenanee an opin.
ion OF militia or raw troops being nj Tor .he
real business Of fighting. i have founa mem
useful as light parties TO skirmish IN tne
woods. but incapable Of making or sustaining
q serious attack. This frmness Is only ac-
guired by habit Of discipline and service
The late battle Of Camden IS q msi,
anchoy comment upon this doctrine. inc
militia fed at the first fire and left the CONF,
mental troops surrounded on every side ana
overpowered by numbers to combat for sateIy
arise from consideration Of our circumstances.
either in a domestic or foreign point OF view,
calls upon US to abandon temporary expedieuts
and substitute something durable, systematic
and substantial. Our present system furnishes
is in emergency u mob Of men, but no army.
The creation of military school
was one of the things for which
Washington strove, and the result
was West Point
Washington no doubt heard discus
sion Of a league of nations. Such n
league as Insurance against war was
q plan frequently emphasized by lead
ers of the French revolution. The
theory was given voice many times
during debates in the constituent as
sembly. Danton, Mirabeau, Robes
pierre and many others who took
leading parts in that epochal period
spoke of the free consent Of peoples,
the merger of nations, of the oblitera~
ton of the boundaries of nations,
states and provinces. and OF just and
equitable government based on
French academic and revolutionary
Ideals. which would include mankind.
Nolney proposed as an article OF the
French constitution that the assem-
ply regards mankind as forming one
society, the object of which is the
security and happiness of all it's mem
bers," and at another time Robes
pierre proposed as one of the articles
of the constitution this. Men of all
countries are brothers. and the differ
emit people must help each other in
proportion to their power and as be-
comes citizens OF the same state
These ideas were unquestionabJy
known to Washington, for the gov
ernment at New York and Philadel-
phia kept close watch on the prog
ress OF the French revolution. But
washington never spoke of society
OF nations. He was interested in
Keeping the United States well armed
and tree from all "entangling al
liances."
Government ownership or other
forms of state socialism did not inter-
est washington. He never heard the
words socialism" and Socialist"
Those words loosely formed from the
Latin adjective "socialis" from $50
Gus. a comrade, were not invented
until the second quarter of the nine
teentn century, when they were used
IN connection with "Owenism." That
word was applied to the doctrines OF
ROBERT owen, who started out as re-
former Of conditions under which mill
workers in England and Scotland IA
pored He erected model homes for
ms work people and instituted a
proht-sharing plan. He was a civic
upliiter OF sort that would now he
considered very conservative. G d.
ually he came to advocate communis-
tie settlements. and in 1926 he estab-
hshed such settlement at New Har-
many Ind, which had a brief life.
george Washington had heard OF
communism and "anarchism." but
these theories never made impression
enough on him to call for any discus
sion of them between him and his
trends The early American idea was
'illdipidlialism" with met "a, ,ttt. g.,