| Show HE NEEDED THING if military training could be introduced into our public schools tor for boys when they reach twelve years of age aa short exercises daily and then a more thorough training could be made a fea ture of the high schools and universities with encampments encamp ments each autumn it would be the best security for tile the maintenance of order and the cordial good will of the people toward each other that could be devised had this been inaugurated leverty five years ago we should have had no civil war the bane of most peoples Is fe their provincialism they are prone to mingle in small communities talk over what they have and what they can do and after a while become obsessed with themselves in addition they become clannish and unconsciously offensive in some of their ways when california was peopled after forty nine the young men that met and mingled there learned many les sons quickly in a single year they had separated and reunited re united congenial ial spirits gravitated to each other massachusetts men had found that the boys who grew up in south carolina were really brave and large hearted and the new yorker saw that the afas missourian when ile he wanted some one to show him was dead right when the constitutional convention with but one dissenting vote consecrated the golden state to freedom forever had calhoun and toombs and davis and the others been wise they would have accepted the vote as a certain sign that the infinite had grown tired of the institution of slavery in the united states and from that hour have prepared to do away with it thru purchase and gradual emancipation with willi military training in the schools and annual autumn maneuvers in different states having the young men of different states meet and mingle under the same flag before very long these encampments encamp ments would be bookel forward to as the feature of the year and a good fellowship would result upon which tile the safety of the state would rest with absolute security and the very best that is in the young men would be brought out the best in their bodies tile the best in their souls the best in their Jie hearts arts and in insult to native land would come to all 01 0 them alike as a blow in the face by this means the very best possible selections could be made tor for west point and annapolis and in van ten years there would come this consciousness to all the world that in the united states in every state in every city in every hamlet on all the fields everywhere the men who are carrying on the republics work are likewise keeping watch and listening and rea ready ady as s trained soldiers to spring to their count rys defense at the first symptom of danger thiv thia would beget no militarism tor for this would have all come to them with no thought of covetousness of what any other country possesses but with the thought thit tile the inheritance which the fat freis transmitted to us the most sacred entailed must be preserved that our children may be guaranteed peace and that the light shed by our hag flag may be kept full high advanced for the eyes of the children of the worlds oppressed to rest upon the world a round with our nation so trained bad men from within would hei hesitate tate before becoming coniff ig lawless and outside nations would fight shy of any antagonisms with a power which never wants aught but a square deal and which is so equipped to enforce justice goodwins weekly |
