Plans for a National Reserve
“The general staff of the United States army,” says the Northwestern Christian Advocate, “is said to be perfecting plans for the increase of the country’s military forces, providing for the creation of two or three lines of reserves, one being a ‘regular reserve’ of forty thousand men, and the other a ‘national reserve’ of one hundred thousand men. Both bodies would be under the control of the national government, subject to the call of the President at any time for service either at home or abroad. The scheme in its entirety would place at the national government’s disposal for foreign service at least two hundred and forty thousand soldiers, every one of them a man who had received military training.” There is much more probability, in view of the prevalent industrial disturbances, that this strong army would be used for service at home than that it would be required abroad.