Show MRS OF THE VOLUNTEERS I is now abundantly clear says the New York Times that he regular army of the United States has once more saved the country I I constituted the only trustworthy and efficient fighting force we had at the outbreak of the war I was substantially the only available fighting fight-ing force that we had for the purpose I of an invasion when the invasion of Cuba was made necessary by the arrival I rival of Admiral Ceneras squadron at i Santiago six weeks after the war I broke out Bit two regiments of mill i ta and one of volunteers all technically I technical-ly volunteers alike were found after I that lapse of time sufficiently ad 1 yanced in equipment and drill to be 1 worthy of going with the regulars Upon the regulars also fell the brunt I loss of the fighting and the brunt of the I I I is not the intention to institute a I II comparison between the regulars and the volunteers The people are just as proud of the regulars as they are of the volunteers but the volunteers are more immediately from the people by being more recently from them and this explains why so much more has been said about the volunteers There is another reason There are ten times a many volunteers a gulars I and this again explains why so much I more has been said about them Again the business of the regulars is i fighting and the American people have I a way of expecting and exacting the highest efficiency of all engaged in any business And they expected the highest high-est efficiency from the regulars and JI every expectation was fulfilled I is a standing compliment t he regulars I that the people always have such high expectations qr them I And now as to what the Tines says about the volunteers I is said that but two regiments of militia and one of volunteers all technically volunteers volun-teers alike were found after that laps of time six weeks sufficiently advanced in equipment and drill to be worth or going with the regulars POppycock There were dozens of volunteer vol-unteer regiments as well prepared in every respect to have gone to Cuba as those that did go The volunteer regiments reg ment that did go to Santiago with the exception of the First b talon of the Seventyfirst New York behaved just as well as the regulars but they did not behave one bit better than the voluntecrs at Manila That midnight attack at Manila when the very he yeas wee torn with thunder and lightning was a severer test on the Tenth Pennsylvania and thE Utah battery bat-tery than the charge up San Juan hill was on the Seventyfirst New York the Sixth Massachusetts and the roughriders rough-rIders and they stood it equally as feUstood it as well a it could have been stood Could anything be finer than the conllct of the Colorado and California and other volunteers at Manila Ma-nila Nothing could be finer The victory at Santiago was a regular regu-lar amy vIctor but why say that in i J I al the countr theew re only three volunteer Seginiepts that were deemed fit to ac10mparthc regularsJo Sant I I ago2 Such a statement is i disgusting |