Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-07-06 | Page 6 | New York's Army

NEW YORK'S ARMY. When the movement of Xew York militia to the Brownsville district is completed the Empire state will have 22,000 guardsmen on tho border. The figure is surprising if compared with the number of guardsmen furnished by all the other states and the number of regulars available for border duty. Not counting the troops of the coast artillery artil-lery tho regular army, we believe, has less than 45,000 men on the line and in Mexico. New York, therefore, will have practically half the number of men which the federal government is able to mobilize in the present crisis. Granting that the figures are approximately ap-proximately correct New York deserves great credit. If estimated by numbers alone the New York militia form more than an army division, but this only half tells the story. As a matter of fact New York's militia comprises all the units of an army corps. They are an army in themselves. All branches branch-es of the service are represented and all branches are efficient. Compared with the armies which even tho small states of Europe are putting into the field the New York army is small, but in case of necessity it could and would be expanded to vast proportions. propor-tions. New York has more inhabitants than Rumania and if Rumania goes into the war she can place 750,000 men in the field.. New York could furnish as many men for in invasion of Mexico if occasion arose and could supply them from her. factories with more munitions of all kinds than Mexico could assemble at home and from abroad in many months. In a word New York, single-handed, single-handed, could crush Mexico if put to the test.