Show THH ARMY The Philadelphia Record has Its partisan par-tisan snarl as follows A permanent military establishment of 00000 ofriccra and men Is the War depait mcill view of the requirement of tho Republic Re-public In j this regard after peace In the Philippines shah have been llnully restored re-stored Tho former peace basis of 28000 soldiers lua been rwept away never to return and the down of the new century will Und the United StateN firmly cstab lished among the great military powers for whom Gods footstool Is a battleground battle-ground The Record docs not fear any great military establishment in this country does not fear that this country will run I gui on militarism imperialism but it has to make its partisan point and have Its partisan growl The former peace basis of 2SOflOsoldiers was not I 28000 it was 25000 and It should have j been increased ten j years ago to three times that number at least The United States would have made lots of money by doing so because had it possessed a respectable army sufficient to garrison the seacoast forts and the frontier as It should hove had when the war with Spain broke out there would have been no call for volunteers volun-teers tljore would have been no occasion occa-sion for volunteers The regulars would have whipped J the war In half the time It was necessary to wait to organize organ-ize and train In a hurry recruits And then If we were to have a war wUh any real power today any real power of the Old World the 00000 men provided I pro-vided in the bill would not be enough to make skeletons of armies around I vhich volunteers could gather In numbers 1 num-bers sufficient to fight the forces of a real fighting power A vast amount of I suffering In 1S9S the terrible devastation devasta-tion by disease among the volunteers I in that year all the tremendous expense ex-pense attending upon preparations for the war < are chargeable to the fact 1 j I that our country neglected all the advice I ad-vice of the fathers did not In time of peace make the slightest preparations for war and when the war was Iud I denly sprung upon the country there was not a modern gun In tho seacoast r fort there was not a garrison In one I of them Soldiers were sent to the I field with obsolete weapons and with powder which every time a gun was fired showed the presence of the sol dier arid they wet n werev sgnttp 1g1 flgjht a power armed with modern guns using smokeless I powder and hud It been France or Germany Or Great Britain the loss before I we > e we could have gotten s r into position I to make a fighf would have been more than the cost of an army of 60000 men for thirty years |