Our National Army
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Excerpt from Our National Army: A Question for the People The following pamphlet, reprinted from The National Review, is issued with the object of bringing a question of vital importance to the notice of busy men, of working men, of Englishmen less slothful or cowardly than so many of our politicians seem to believe. In this preface, in which I attempt to sum up my main points in a few words, the references in brackets are to those pages of the pamphlet in which the matter is dealt with more fully. The most formal Ministerial pronouncement as to the general military policy of Great Britain is probably that made by Lord Salisbury and Mr. Wyndham at the great Primrose League gathering of May 9th. Yet the main point of the Premier´s long speech rested upon the assumption that our old English archers and the modern Swiss riflemen had been trained on a volunteer system, an assumption which is directly contrary to the facts (pp. 1, 10). Again, the final sentences of Mr. Wyndham´s speech can only be construed as an appeal to the rich middle classes to persuade other men to fight for them, lest they should he compelled to fight themselves (p. 1). So false, and so utterly unworthy of a manly people, is the best advice which these Ministers can give to the nation at a moment of exceptional gravity! Now, this is no matter of mere politics. Badly prepared as we were for this war, we were probably better prepared than under any previous Government of this generation. Neither political Party can throw the blame upon the other: the question stretches far beyond mere Party limits. It is of the deepest national importance, and every citizen bears his share of the responsibility. Nor can we throw all tho blame upon the War Office. It is full of able and hard-working men; and the nation itself is very much to blame in compelling these men to work under a bad system - a system which often numbs the energies of the capable official, and never allows us to fix upon tho incapable the full responsibility for his failure. Yet these failures have been shameful and notorious during the past twelve months. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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