Show NO HASTE It is said to be A gdod general rule to make haste slowly but thtre are times when haste Ehoufd be1 made hastily one of these times is when a all for vdlunteersls made in time of f war The president Iras issued a call for 75900 more volunteers and yet the peo pie are infdrmed from Washington that it isitilluncortaln justhowfar the natIOnalauihorities will go towards recruiting theseforcestbemseves nor Is it positjjeJyTsnQwn that independent organization companies Battalions and reyirngits raised by i dlyd ali will be J1 ceptede btoc If by so doing the department is required to accept the officers with the men Indeed Jt is now cuestioned whether under the law the department could if i It would accept services of officers under such conditions as the governors of the states appear to be the only persons authorized to issue commissions below the regimental grade There are many other various questions to be settled before the regulations can be promulgated promul-gated but fortunately in the judgment judg-ment of the department officials due nQtice having been given to the people of a desire for more troops by the government gov-ernment there is no occasion for haste in deciding upon details in view of the fact that the full draft of men called for under the first proclamation has not been secured If the national authorities do not know Just what they will do or how they will do It In the matter of calling out these volunteers they should The war department should know precisely what it can and what It cannot do in all matters connected with the calling out of volunteers and formulate its plans accordingly Most certainly all questions relating to the regulations should be settled before they are promulgated pro-mulgated but they should have been settled long ago If there is no occasion oc-casion for haste In deciding upon details I de-tails because the full draft of men called for under the first proclamation has not been secured then a second proclamation should not have been issued Is-sued There has been no haste at Washington Washing-ton and there are no signs that there will be It is said there is no need for haste now The people will not agree with the statement The volunteers that are now In camp are being held there for the purpose of drilling and disciplining them and that they nlay be seasoned and hardened before being sent to the front The volunteers now called for should be undergoing the same training those already In camp are yet the people are informed there I is no haste It may be wise not to be in too great haste to move upon Cuba but it is not wise to delay hastening preparations for moving upon Cuba We have all been Jeering at the man ana of the Spaniards but headquarters headquar-ters for manana seem to be in the war department Washington D C |