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Show to mwm Issues Statement to the Effect Ef-fect That the Precedent Would Not Be Unwise. XhW YOftK. April Z. -- 'ulonel Thco-dorr Thco-dorr l(ooevt-It. iti'd ;i sMt'-ment here tunighi in whh'h h: denied that "unwise precedent" woul'l be ri-ated, us hits hcen ii,'i.Ht.il, It) pcnnli i i u i iilni to niie & dhuioii fur ;utive s i -1 'tii the French f r oi t f . 'The A m) r i ' ;i ii if-.ip!-." ii verted Colonel Colo-nel ftnOMA'HI, ".m- milted h-llllld III.: pr-Mlcnt 111 tin- fUTiniiiatlon (O w;ij,'fl f r t L . II T - i : W'"" f"r "'r I'lglHH and for the rU;htM of huiiwuiil y ami i-llz,'iti..n. i-llz,'iti..n. I iiflu-vf t hat our ! .Ui now r(.z- thai the sv.steni or' universal military mili-tary Mrrvlr-it Is t i 10 only fftjrt 1 v n and the imly absolutely denec'i-atl nyntrm. 1 most enrncMilv hope for the passage of legislation e.Hiabllnhiug tb primlple of universal, obligatory military service and luinilng. '"I hell eve the A rnenean people deal re l'ia I In t lip Immcduito future we send abio;ui an r:prdll tunary force. It. is an excellent and hid ispmiKl hie thing to raise money for and furnish supplies to our fllli.-H. . The American people wish to do their own fighting. Thev do not wish merely to pay others to fight for them. They helipve that we owe tt. to ourselves nnl to ihe national honor to Rend a fighling fon-e of at lcimt an army corps, under the Ameriean flag, to the front al the earliest moment. This army eoi ns should he commanded by one of our first-class regular major generals. It might con-,isi con-,isi of three, or perhaps only two divisions. divi-sions. '1 hove asked permission to raise a division di-vision which would lie in (Ms army corps m nd under its commander. No unwise precedent can possibly ho created by permitting per-mitting nu e-p'esMcn( of the United Stales of previous military experience to raise such a division and to .serve with it at tho front under the command of the mmeral who heads the army corps. ' . |