| Show KEEP ARMY UP TO HIGH i POINT OF OP I It is i not necessary ry to t increase our army beyond its present sine atae at this thi time But it is necessary to keep it at atthe athe atthe the he highest hl he t point of ot efficiency The In Individual units who as officers and en enlisted enliSted listed men MeA compose e this army are we weun have bare good reason rea to believe at least allt l as efficient as those of any other ether army ann annta in ta the t e entire world It Ss Is our duty to see that theft thelt training Is of a kind to insure the highest t possible expression of power to these theae units whet when acting in combination The conditions con of modern war are such sueh as to make mak an infinitely heavier demand than ever before upon the in individual character and capacity of or the officer and the Ute enlisted man and to tomake I make It far fu more difficult for men amen to act together with effect At present the fighting must be done in extended or order order order der which means that each man must act for himself and at the same time act in iii I combination with mt others with whom he hf is 18 no longer in the toned touch Under sack conditions a few men mea of the high highest hl est eat excellence are worth more snore than many men without the special skill which is only found fourni as the result of special training applied to men inca of ot ex cx exceptional exceptional physique and morale But nowadays the most moat valuable lighting fighting man and the most difficult to perfect is the rifleman who is 18 also aiho a skillful and daring rider The proportion of our cavalry regiments has baa wisely been increased The American cavalryman trained to maneuver and fight ft ht with equal facility on 08 foot and on horseback is ill 1 the best type of soldier for general purposes now te be e In the world The Ideal idea cavalrymen cavalryman f the present day is I a 1 man who can ean fi ii ht at on foot as effectively a in the best beet man and who is in addition unsurpassed un arpa ed edIn In hi the tile errs f n and management of his horse and aDd in his ability to light on horseback eback Should Be General Staff StaffA A general staff st should be created As Asfor Asfor for tor the present staff stall and aDd supply depart departments meets ments they should be Jilted hued by details from the line the men so detailed re me returning returning turning after a while to their line duties dude It t is ill very undesirable to have the senior grades of the army anny composed compo ed of men who have come to fill the positions po by the mere fact of seniority A system tem y be adopted by which there shall abaIl be lie an elimination grade e by grade e of those Woo who seem MellI unlit unfit to render mender th the tho best bait ser ear service vice in the next nut grade de Justice to the veterans of ot tile the civil war ar who are still In la the army would seem to require re that in the matter Of f retirements they tiley be he given by law the same privileges accorded to their comrades in the navy 4 4 The process of elimination of th the 4 4 f least fit Ok t should b be conducted in a 4 4 manner that would render it 4 4 4 t impossible to apply political 4 4 or social pressure on Oft behalf of any f 4 candidate 00 so that e seth h man m n may be 4 4 Judged purely on his own merits 4 4 Pressure for tor the promotion of civil 9 4 officials o for or political reasons te Is bad 4 4 4 enough enoh but if I is iii tenfold worse where 4 4 applied on ou b hf balf alf of officers of the themy 4 4 army my or nav nai Every promotion and andery 4 4 very ery detail under er the war depart department 4 4 4 ment must be made solely with re rep f 4 gaPe p to the good BOOd of ot the service and 4 4 to the capacity rapacity and merit of the man 4 bm elf No pressure political so t 4 4 cial dal or personal of any kind will be 4 4 permitted to exercise the least leen effect 4 tin 4 to mu any question of promotion or de do det 4 tall t and If It there to is reason to be 4 4 lieve that such pressure pre sure is exercised 4 4 at the instigation of the officer con concerned 4 4 earned it will wUl be held MId to militate 4 I 4 against pinn him In our army we can cannot 4 4 t not afford to have rewards or duties 4 4 distributed have en the simple 4 4 ground that those who by their own 4 4 merits are entitled to the rewards 4 4 get them then and that those who are 4 4 peculiarly pec lit fit to do the duties are 4 4 chosen to perform them 4 I Constant Work is Necessary Every eort dort should be made to bring the army to a constantly increasing state of efficiency cy When on actual service no o work save lave that directly in the line of such service aenice should be required The paper paperwork paperwork work w rk in the army as in the navy should be greatly reduced What That is Js needed id is i proved power of command and capacity to wok well lell elI in the field Constant earn care earnIs I Is necessary ry to prevent dry rot in the transportation and commissary depart departments departments departments ments I Our army is so small and so much scat seat scattered tred red that tt ft is very difficult cult to give the higher officers o as well as the lower officers cert cers and the enlisted men a chance to practice maneuvers in mass and on a comparatively large scale In time of neer neet ne no amount of o individual excellence would avail against the paralysis which would follow inability to work as a co coherent coherent coherent herent whole under skillful and daring leadership The congress should provide mean meaD whereby thereby it will wilt be possible sIble po to haY have haYfield field exercises by at least a division or of orlan regulars lan and if possible P also a division tf ff f national guardsmen once a year These Th ie exercises might take the form onn of held field maneuvers Deavers or if on the gulf SUlf coast or the Pacific or Atlantic At seaboard or in the region ot of o the lakes the army corps when assembled could be marched from rom some mme Inland island point to some BOme point on the water ter there embarked disembarked after a couple of days day Journey at a t some other point and again marched inland Only by actual handling h and aDd providing for men In masses while they are marching camping embarking and disembarking wilt will it be poss posse e to train the higher officers to o perform their duties well and smoothly 8 Nations Debt to Fighting Ken Men KenA MenA A great gna t debt is owing from the public to the men of the arm army and navy The They should be so treated t as to enable them to reach the highest point of efficiency so that may be able to respond in instant instantly stant h to t any aD demand made upon them to sustain the tile interests of the nation and aad the honor of tIle the flag hag The individual American eulist d d mar wr is Ie probably on an anthe the whole a more mor formidable fighting man than the regular of any other arm army very Every consideration const should be shown him bim and in return mature the highest standard of usefulness should i ie t exacted from froni him hm It hi ii well worth while for the con congress conns congress gress ns to consider whether the th pay or of enlisted men upon second and subsequent enlistments should not flOt be increased to correspond with the increased value of the veteran soldier Much good has already come from froID the act ct reorganizing reorganising the army passed early earl earlIn in the present year The three prime reforms all of them of literally inestimable Inestimable inestimable able value are first fint the substitution of details from the line for perma permanent nent neat a in the sH staff divisions second the establishment e of a corps of artillery with a chef chief at the head third the establishment of a maxi maximum maximum maximum mum and limit for the arm armIt army I It would bo be difficult to overestimate or the it in the efficiency of our army which bich thee thes thres reforms are ar making and hn have r in 11 part already a y hit Th r fur fer f bj by b the j i h I art act usa has been n substantially accomplished The improved conditions in the Philip Philippines Philippines pines have enabled the war department materially to reduce Ute the military charge j upon our oW revenue and ami to arrange the number of soldiers s se as ae as to t bring thit number much nearer to the tha minimum than to the maximum limIt established i by bylaw law lawI I Need of Legislation n There is IL however need of df supplement supplementary ary legislation Thorough military edu education education education cation must be provided and In addition I to the regulars the tIte advantages of this I j I education should be given V 1 to the officers of or the tile national guard ua I and a others in civil life lite who tire desire to fit nt them themselves themselves selves for possible duty The officers should be given tJ the chance ance to per i feet themselves tb o by y study in the higher branches of this art At Jt West Wes Point the i education should be M of the nd n most ost apt to turn out Jut men who are lire good in actual held Odd service too stress should not 1 be laid on mathematics mathe nor should pro proficiency therein be h held td to establish the i right of entry to a carps cerps delite deUte The typical American officer deer of at the best kind need not be a Mod mathematician mi but he must be awe atria us toe master ter himself to I control others other awl to skew shew boldness and fertility of resources in hi every emergency 4 Action should lIIM be taken in reference ference r 4 4 to the militia aad wi d te to the raising of ot 4 4 volunteer forces Our Oar militia m law la v is Js 4 4 obsolete aad and worthless The 4 4 ration and aM armament of ef the thi national 4 guard suard of the Ute several veral states which t 4 are treated as S militia In the t f t by the congress should be 4 made identical with those provided 4 for the regular The obliga 4 tons Cons and duties at tie the 11 guard gird in time 4 of war should be carefully defined 4 aad 4 a system at established by law 4 under which W tile the method of pro i 4 endure of raising volunteer er forces 4 4 should be prescribed eG in advance 4 It is ill utterly impossible In the ex excitement excitement excitement and haste baste of ot impending war to todo todo do this satisfactorily If It the arrangements have not been made loner lou Ion beforehand Provision should be made ade for for utilizing in inthe inthe the e first volunteer organizations called colled out the training of those who have already had h d experience under underarms arms and especially for tor the selection e in ad advance advance advance vance of the officers of any force forC c which may be raised for careful selection S ot of the kind necessary is impossible after the outbreak of ot war That the army is ig not at all a mere in itt instrument strument of ot destruction de has beck shew during the last throe three y yrs Yrsa ars In t tile the Philippines Cuba and Porto Porte P r it lies has h proved Itself a great at constructive force a most potent implement for the of o a peaceful civilization civilisation Praise for Veteran Soldiers Soldier No other citizens deserve so 98 we of the tim republic as the veterans tb the tb survivors of those who saved the Unless ey did the one deed which if left undone endemic would have bave meant that all else in our history went for nothing But for tor th their T stead stand standfast fast falt a t prowess in m the greatest crisis of oar ot history all our annals would be mesh m ingless and aDd our great gt experiment in popular freedom and a gloomy failure Moreover th tb not nut only onay left us a united nation tat hut they tJ left US also as a heritage the memory of tit the mighty deeds by which the natien 11 nati thin n was kept united We are new now Indeed t eed one nation one in fact as wen well as m name we are united in our devotion tUie Ue flag fl f which is iii the symbol bol of gr imea and aDd unity and aad the very ness of our Union enables us da all ll In n every evem part of the country to io glory In lit the 6 valor shown W alike by the sops son ef of th t ith and the sons of the et south O In the times that tried mens masts souls The men who In th the loot last l JJ s year veers have done so 80 well in the th East And pd nd the West Indies and OR oc the of Asia have shown shew that this t 15 is not lost In any serious crisis the United States nn met t ely for fr the te great mass mAst of its fighting ft laig men me upon the volun volunteer teer soldiery w who o do ao not ake a perma permanent permanent nent flent profession prote sion of the military career and whenever such a crisis arises the deathless memories ot or th this the civil war er will give to Americans eaM the lift te To lofty 10 y pur per purpose pose po which comes to those WhO bo fathers have hav stood valiantly In the forefront of the battle |
