The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-02-05
AMERICAS GREAT ARMY.

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Today's dispatches state hat wher
the armistice was signed on November
IL the United States had 3,703,2
men under arms. More than 100000
or practically half of these, were al
ready in Europe. More men were
being called at the rate of about 300,-
600 per month and men were being
sent to Europe at about the same
rate.
Yet we can all remember how, less
than two years ago., the pessimists
who were bowling for the United
States to raise an army and prepare
for war told US, with all Of the ap-
parent wisdom of a Solomon, that the
United States could not raise and
equip an army of a million men in
two years." We all remember how
the pessimists, the same men who are
now criticising every movement made
by the administration, predicted the
utter inability of the United States
to produce arms and equipment for
m army of a million men or to raise
and train and transport that many
men to Europe before the war closed.
These. men proved themselves false
prophets then. They are still false
prophets. They are obstructionists.
They are trying, as they have tried
before to "obstruct the wheels OF
progress and they will fail as they
have failed in the past.
Don't you remember about two
ear ago how the leader of these
critics of the administration and the
American people, mapped out a plan
for the raising of an army and send
ing it to Europe, stated that we ought
to have $4,000 men in Europe by the
beginning of 1918, and should have
500 900 men in Europe by September,
of that year. This was regarded as
a great "rush program and the pessi-
mists announced that they favored it
but predicted that the administration
would never reach the figures.
The facts are that at the beginning
of 1918 the United States had in Eu-
rope more than 100000 men, or 10
times as much as the rush program"
provided, and in September, 1918 had
1,500, 900 men in Europe, or three
times as many as the great war pro
gram of the critics had suggested
should be there.
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had fed the allied armies and the
civilian population of the allied coun-
tries and had built a million tons. of
shipping and had made and shipped
to Europe millions of rifles, thous-
ands of machine guns and some of the
best cannon used in the great war.
Surely the men who belittle the
efforts and the attainments of our
wonderful country which made a rec
ord equalled by no other country in
the world, and who would detract
from that greatness for partisan po-
purposes are not good Ameri-
can citizens. Americans have set the
for the rest of the world and
Vic uidI WHO ID HOI proud Vi our rec
ord and of our country ought to move
out of it.
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BOTH HAVE BEEN ANSWERED.
The kaiser and his war lords COM
forted themselves with the repeated
declaration that "America cannot
raise, equip. and transport an army to
France in time to save the allies"
A bunch of American politicians
reechoed the kaiser's statement and
,eralded it abroad throughout Che
ands and it was repeated in the halls
# congress.
The kaiser got his answer on the
field when on November IL,
he allied armies, with the great aid
,iven them by the American troops,
the kaiser's hosts for
he first time since the war began
nd the kaiser's army quit and the
7ar was over.
The American members of the
party are given their answer
,day by the encouragement that al
lost four million American soldiers
ere under arms when the war closed
nd 1, 100000 of them were in Eu-
,pe.