. Review of reviews and world's work. behalf ot thenavy, which was $.?! PresidentWilson supported the Senate amendments inboth cases. As \\v have showti, he secured,by a vote of ahiiost six to imr, the aKpiies-ccnce of the House in the Senate naval did not secure the acceptance in theHouse cjf the Senates arniy provisions, butin lonfrrence conimiftrc a result was securedthat adds ^^ to the sum providedin the r)ri(;inal Hr)Use bill, while cutfini^down ahjut :^4S,()()() tin- Thiin the Army bill, as /irtally 248 77/A AMERICAS RFJIFffOf RhJI
. Review of reviews and world's work. behalf ot thenavy, which was $.?! PresidentWilson supported the Senate amendments inboth cases. As \\v have showti, he secured,by a vote of ahiiost six to imr, the aKpiies-ccnce of the House in the Senate naval did not secure the acceptance in theHouse cjf the Senates arniy provisions, butin lonfrrence conimiftrc a result was securedthat adds ^^ to the sum providedin the r)ri(;inal Hr)Use bill, while cutfini^down ahjut :^4S,()()() tin- Thiin the Army bill, as /irtally 248 77/A AMERICAS RFJIFffOf RhJIFirS perfected and adopted, calls for the expendi-ture of $267,597,000. As we have remarkedconcerning the Naval bill, so we maj say ofthe Army bill, that it appropriates by far thelargest sum we have ever spent for militarypurposes in time of peace. The Naval billmarks the full acceptance by the nation of alarge navy as a matter of public policy. TheArmy bill marks the acceptance by the Presi-dent and the Democratic party of the doc-. @ Underwood 4 IndcrMood A CAI-I. ON \L PKRSHtNG(Mr. Rohcrt Bacon, of New York [on the left],rcccnUy called upon General Pershing in northernMexico.) trine that the country must make militarypreparation for defense at any cost. Our Unfortimately, however, weAbturd Army havc not > ct found a nationalSch,m« policy as to what is meant bymilitary preparedness. The Army Reorgan-ization Act. wluch has been explained andcharacterized in previous numbers, will inour judgment prove a highly expensive fail-ure. It contains no important principle thatis not fundamentallv wrong. Ihe amotuit ofmoney we are spending uix)n the army wouldsuffer to train e\erv bo\ in the United States and make the country invincible. Our stand-ing army of enlisted men is wholly obsoletein t> pe and plan. Its trained officers are rep-resentative of the nation, but its enlisted menare not. The so-called federalized Na-tional Guard is a foredoomed failure. Theparty in po
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