PRESIDENT WILSON QUOTED AS SAYING THAT THE NATIONAL GUARD COULD NOT BE SENT OUTSIDE OF UNITED STATES
President Wilson Quoted as Saying 1 hat The National Guard Could Not Be Sent Outside Of United States PRESIDET Wilson's own speeches show that he has taken on more than one occasion i. distinct...
...and I believe it is the duty of Congress to do very much more "for the National Guard than it has ever done heretofore...
...and that only upon occasions of actual invasion has the President of the United States the right to ask those men to leave their respective States...
...under what authority does he now intend to send uie Guard of these various States, mustered in training camps all over the country, across the ocean to__e scene of war...
...The President of the United States is not at liberty to call them out of their states except upon the occasion of actual invasion of the territory of the minted States...
...but how great is it, ladies and gentlemen...
...Two days later, at Topeka, Kansas, President Wilson declared: "You will say...
...President Wilson Quoted as Saying 1 hat The National Guard Could Not Be Sent Outside Of United States PRESIDET Wilson's own speeches show that he has taken on more than one occasion i. distinct position in voicing the constitutional prohibition of this government in sending the National Guard abroad...
...I have had the privilege of being Governor of one of our great States, and there I was brought into association with what I am glad to believe is one of the most efficient portions of the National Guard of the nation...
...The Constitution of the United States puts them under the direct command and control of the Governors of the states, not of the President of the United States, and the national authority has no right to call upon them for any service outside of their state unless the territory of the Nation is actually invaded...
...Speaking at tne seventh annual dinner of the Railway Business Association, at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York City, January 27th, 1916...
...Since he himself, in four separate speeches, says he has no constitutional authority to send the National Guard out of this country...
...It is subject to the orders of the Governors of the several States, and the Constitution itself says that the President had no right to withdraw them from their States even, except in case of actual invasion of the soil of the United States...
...iuo, Ac L. v ; tional Guard, and the units of it, so far as I have observed them, command my admiration and respect, but there are only 129,000 enlisted men in the National Guard, taking the nation as a whole, and they are divided up into as many units as there are states...
...President Wilson said: "1 am not forgetting our National Guard...
...but, you know, gentlemen, that under the Constitution of the United States the National Guard is under the direction of more than tvvu bCuft blui-to, thai it is not permitted to the National Government directly to have a roice in its development and organization...
...He said: "You will remind me of the great National Guard of the country...
...I believe that that great arm of our national defense should be built up and encouraged to the utmost...
...we havp a \a-uoticii uau<(j...
...There are one hundred million people in this country, and there are only 129,-0»0 men in the National Guard, and those 129,000 men are under the direction, by the constitutional arrangement of our system, of the governments of more than two score states...
...This was not the only time that President Wilson expressed himself so forcibly on this proposition...
...I, for my part, am afraid, though some gentlemen differ with me, that there Is no way in which that force can be made a direct resource as a national reserve under national authority...
...that the only use the President can mako of the Guard is in case of invasion...
...Speaking in the Auditorium at Milwaukee on January 31st 1916, he told his hearers: "I have not rorgotten the great National Guard of this country, but in uiis country of one hundred million people there are only 129,000 men in the National Guard, and the National Guard, fine as it is, is not subject to the orders of the President of the United States...
...Again, before a tremendous audience at Chicago, Illinois, in the Auditorium, on January 31st, 1916, President Wilson expounded his belief that the national executive authority had no power to send the National Guard abroad...
...I learned to admire the men, to respect the officers, and to believe in the National Guard...
Vol. 9 • June 1917 • No. 7
