Show subscribe for or the standard I 1 I 1 OUR MILITARY UNFITNESS S 1 the other day we read in in ta news dispatches from our south I 1 ern bader border that some armen I 1 had bad to be hauled in ambulances on a ten tell mile hilee I 1 even i without their packs which were carried in trucks this shows that the volunteer militia system is worthless for immediate active service if our volunteers had bad been dispatched for active service in mexico balf of them would have perished for lack of seasoning england when the great war broke out was totally unprepared to furnish troops had she blie hearkened harkened bark hark ened to lord roberts ap peal made ten years ago to havo have enacted compulsory military service laws lawa this war would have been ended inside of one year with the sav ng of millions of men and billions of treasure after the war broke england refused to send a man to the front save her small army of available regulars until the raw recruits had been strenuously for six months in all the tha arts of war until every soldier was brot up to his maximum of health strength and endur ance any other policy would have been suicidal to have sent those magnificent young englishmen to the front in their raw state would have been suicidal and worse than useless it is most fortunate that war has not as yet been declared in mexico we are as yet unprepared and most of our troops unfit for an active campaign soldiers who fell by the wayside a 04 oi a ten mile march relieved of offee bac ks would stand a poor show sang a mexican desert with a forty pounds of food arms and ammunition on their shou shoulders loers with the seasoned enemy popping at them thein from behind every mesquite buh light horse harry lee of convinced as I 1 gra am that a government is a murderer of its citizens that sends them to the field unseasoned and untaught where they meet men of the same age and strength mechanized by education and disciplined for battle I 1 cannot withhold my denunciation of such wickedness and fol ly r what is the answer universal compulsory military military training commencing with the school boy it will make him a better man mentally and physically it will give give him a discipline which w will 11 better f fit t him for any walk in life |