The trouble in the Spanish war was not with the then existing officials of the War Department; it was with the representatives of the people as a whole who, for the preceding thirty years, had declined to make the necessary provision for the Army.
Roosevelt points to the failure of the public and its representatives to adequately support military needs over the years.
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