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These facts and many more which one could find on examination expose the fallacy of our ability to produce a million soldiers whenever the President calls for them. If the call should go out today, we would do well to have a million soldiers in 1918. No doubt our resources are great and our patriotism unbounded, but an untrained citizen is not a soldier as was proved by the first three years of the Civil...
Leaving out of discussion the fact that the eight-million women workers and the millions of women tax-prayers in the United States have especial interests which their proxies cannot, and do not, sufficiently protect, one may observe that this assumption is based upon a false conception of the theory of democratic government...
...flat money." He also dealt on Lincoln's unfriendly relations with Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, and the latter's withdrawal and subsequent appointment as Cheif Justice of the Supreme Court. And finally he considered Lincoln's high-minded plan of 1864: of paying to the slave states four million dollars for the giving up of their slaves, and the formation of peace. But there was no one else in the government fine enough to take the President's stand, and his plan could not be carried...
...matter of the army Mr. Ratcliffe said that conscription is dangerous in that it would almost certainly lead to disunion and the overthrow of the democracy which has been the back bone of England for so many years. Already an entirely new army of over one and one-half millions has been organized from volunteers in addition to the scant million previously under arms, and the war office in England has repeatedly expressed its satisfaction with the speed of recruiting...
Although in 1913, with the exception of Great Britain, the reserves of the other powers were each estimated at over a million, the United States has no reserves whatever. The present task of Lord Kitchener bespeaks the effect of Great Britain's policy. There is a general confidence in our volunteer system. Experience has shown that many hundreds of thousands would readily respond to a call, and this mere statement of the numbers available is apt to produce a false feeling of security. General Leonard Wood, M.D. '84, has declared that 300,000 men would be necessary at the outset...