| Show IILI IIOlH VI Til FitONT Some weeks bore war measures actually began a French newspaper summing up the respective merits of our soldiers and sailors and those of Spain concluded that the latter had a good force of seasuned men on land and sea while the American army was largely on paper Probably the Manila affair did something In the dl lectlon of opening that editors eyes If I not dispelling his prejudices but It Is I not very consequential anyway From much nearer home can occasionally occa-sionally be heard similar statements en now that our mon are raw anti undisciplined that they are not fit togo go to the front set and so on Such I case7errounce conclusions tire I A most e r ous if nothing worse Replying to a statement to the effect that our troops are not prepared for work at the front the Chicago Times Herald pointedly observes that such feeling should not exist showing that there is no foundation for It The troops being hurried forward for service ser-vice In Cuba and In the Philippine Islands are nol raw recruits A ma Jorlty of them have been drilling five years or mar some oC them ln years This Is I particular true of the olfl cers The moat of thIn are skilled soldiers Many of them know what actual war Is They have the olun I titers well disciplined and these are ao brave as the untrained levies which did such heroic service at Antletam Fredericksburg Shiloh and on stores of other battlefields The Poorest drilled regiments In the national guard are as regulars compared with hundreds ot regiments that were then plunged Into battle and did valiant service I The national guD1 01 the country converted Into United States volunteers volun-teers It Is nhorfn has been readier for war at any time during the past ten Sears than the volunteers of the sixties were a year after the war began li view ot these facts the public can wel afford to cease worrying about raw troops being pushed to the front too soon for there are no raw troops save the few recruits needed to nil up companion and n few days of their mingling with the veterans of the guard will lit them to keep the pace I In on engagement This would seem to be the proper vlewtd take n d being so opinions and statements should be mad to correspond corres-pond A soldiers or seamans experiences ence are none too comforting and It In I Injudicious If not unpatriotic to add slighting words to their burdens The American warrior on land or sa seems to be Invested with an Intuition which enables him to be equal to all requirements require-ments from the beginning and of none will this be found truer than of Utahs contribution to the great cause |
