Inter-Mountain Farmer | 1902-10-21 | Page 4 | The Reduction of the Army

THE REDUCTION OF THE ARM, The order inducing the Lnlted State irm) to It peace footlig of Mono men will be welcomed I) the reoilo of the countr) on account of Us reing rue tlcally an olllclal notice that there is now no war on our hand Tlm It is most welcome Put at the acme time an army of that size Is rathei small for u great countr) like this It n ecistl) thing In boih men an 1 money tn Im proviso un aimy 11 s r hnl In In cm ihe outbreak or the war with HihIii Much theuier in both res ectM would It have been if we hi I hod in army nf a hundred thousand men nil tho time lhat would hive leen an ample fo.ro for that war anl we should have been spared the losses In the volunteer camps ihe supply squabbles unci rent and th hlttei re rlmlmtlnn tint foi-lowed foi-lowed the throwing together of the large forces most of which were not used at all In om opinion there hnl be at all times an irmy of nbout 1 bun drd thousand men so organise 1 thit It coull be doubled by the aldltlon rf battalions or csmpanle to be Inroi-Porated Inroi-Porated In the ,rnem , orranlzd Thl. woulJ procur. lh continuity anl certalnt) of supple, ,he providing nf arm munitions of war etc an I nbov Ml woull crure to tho cnllsM men that aie nnl piotecllon which me hi generally lacking nd lm0.slhl In Piovlde In Ihe nM Wll , la,l)K male volunteer forces, te IPLrl o 1111 cstatllslej ..si,,,,,,,. ,,,, ,, 1 H d in ) 1y ,, , llm '"I 1 K.111 rs m one qunrter cf n, 1 ,h ' v hrn , 1 niP ' 1 6-He nfti ers as well us ' ' Ihe, t teni of in renting the armv under the old plan was the caue of m st of the deiths In cntnps ln the I nlte 1 State" nnd of all the public scandals during the Spanish war. It was the cause of Infinitely more deaths anl scandals during the great Civil War and it added Indefinitely to tho pension roll since Congress ought to work dlllgentl) on thin matter of the arm) and provide an altogether dlffet-cut dlffet-cut method of Increasing the countr) J mllltir) forces when the need of that Increase suddenly comes The true names for the old s)stcm arc waste, scundit and death