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f MM f Our College Cadets — I» W. W. Own . m MM HACK hath her victork- no Ira renowned than war, sang the poet, anil no one ha ever denied his assertion. Rut until tin' duv when “Tlie lion and the lamb shall lio down to-(tether,” men will continue to re-or I to war a a final arbiter of all international difference! . The Cxar of Ku-.-ia called his famous peace conference at The Hague and asked the great natiom t agree to disarmament, lint he was at that time. ar. l is now, straining ull the resources of his nation that his army ami navy may successfully co|»' with those of Knglaml. We have just ended a war with Spain and are -till fighting tin- Tagalo trils-s in our Hast Indian possessions. Knglaml is well into a struggle with the South African Republics. Japan ami Russia are each waiting for a vantage point to attack the other. Tin nations ol Kur»|«- are liovering around jsxir old disintegrating China, each ready to fight for it» share of tin- fragments. (leneral Sherman's famous remark as to the nature of war is true in every particular, hut until man has lost most of his human characteristics ami taken on more of the Divine a distant time war will exist ns a necessity. Our Country is so situated that hut twocountries, Knglaml ami Mexico, can attack her by land. The latter is too weak to lie considered an enemy. The former, with all her out lying colonies scattered over the world, will never again dare to attempt an invasion of American soil. Tin- continental nation of Kurope are the only great |».wcrs with which we art- likely to come to blows and wc a re protected from their great armies hv three thousand miles of ocean. Ours i a land of freemen, ever ready to do tattle for their country and their country's flag. With our great number of intelligent men in all the walks of life, we med no large standing army for our protection. Wo dc-(icitd for home defence upon the American Volunteer, who can stand against the strongest army a foreign foe could land uj»m our shores. The Civil War allowed that our civilian soldiers wen- tin- liest fighters that tlie world could produce. Its first month also sliowid that wc wore woefully lacking in competent ofiicers to eommaud them. Tlie officers f the n-gular army wre naturally advanced to till the higher positions and consequently Diet of the company, Inttalion, mid even regimental commands were given-to men who had not the least idea of leading and caring for men. Outside of West I’oint there wa practically no place where young men were given practical military training. It has bevn said that a- a n-sult of this, whole regiments went into tattle Ini by colonels wIh li l not know as much about military principles as their inmo st corporals should. This difficulty was of course soon overcome hv natural selection in the fierce sclioo| of war, hut not until many thousands of brave ami patriotic lives hail Iwcn sacrificed on the altar of military ignorance. Tin- congress which shared with I'nwident I.incoln the cares and responsibilities of the great struggle early saw this terrible shortage of coiii|s'tent officers among the volunteers and resolved that in future wars this evil should not reappear. In ISfi'J a bill pas— 1 the national congress which established tlie col-leg'- of Agriculture and Mechanic Art , and this bill provided that each of tliese colleges should giv - instruction in military science and tactic . Nearly forty years have gone by since the | as ag«' of the famous “ Morrill Art,”
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