Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 8, 1915, Page 4

4 TIHE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, President Wilson Addresses Congress on * National Defense and Other Timely Matters of men and guns. ciplined might. If our citizens are -v-r‘ to fight effectively upon a sudden sum- mons, they must know how modern the summons comes to render themselves by chastened ambition to play i “It 18 with these ideals i mind that | the plans of the Department of War for | more adequate national defense were | concelved which will be laid before you, | and which I urge you to sanction and | put Into effect as msoon ns thsy c¢an be | properly serutin‘'zed and discussed. They | seom to me the essential first steps, and strength of 7,138 officers and 184,707 en- two companies of coast artillery, fifteen companies of engineers, ten regiments of and four aero squadrons, besidns T5) of- extra service, especlally the all Important | | ;i El ,. | i : L i | You will get from them, I think, a fresh ease and Intelligence advantage with which Americans of continents may draw together in tion and of what the £f j i : Importance of Preparedness is Em- 2 . .- . phasized and Need for Additional . . . Revenue is Plainly Pointed Out--- : | eftective. Merchant Marine Also Urged as i ot ot v !lhcm with the training they need to take Necessary to Proper Defense Pro-|c o hmives wna of it |tary arm of thelr government, which | they will not allow to direct them, they ‘fam. | may properly use to serve them and | make thelr independence secure—and not WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—President Wilson addressed the | their own independence merely but the febeny iy 4 | rights also of those with whom they senate and house of representatives in joint session at noon to-| have made common cause, showid they day. He said: Also be pit in jeopardy. They must be “Gentlemen of the congress: Since 1 cerned, upon a footing of genuine equality | fitted to play the great role in the world, Jast had the privilege of addressing you | and unquestioned independence ;u'\'d particularly in this hemisphere, for on the state of the unlon the war of [ . Well Teated (n Mesico. | hich they are qualified by principle and Which had then only begun o disclose | out Whether we have benefited Mexico “ its porteutous proportions, has extended {by the course we have pursued remains its threatening and sinister scope until it |to be seen. Her fortunes are in her own ‘swept within ita flame some portion ""::"B“tl St oo gy Hy o b we not tako advantage of her in her PLETEFY quartay GL the globe, Not ROPA- | 4,000y 'una undertake to impose upon l-':m own hemisphere, has altered the he: i order and government of our own WHolS fact of mmternational affairs, and |choosing. Liberty is often a fierce and in- NoW presents o prospact of reorganisa- |tractable thing, to which no bounds can | clent. tion m reconstruction such as states- |be set, and to which no bounds of a few | men and peoples have never been called [Moh's choosing ought ecver to be set. | - fprohe oW (‘;“:"w:m:-.:r -;:o":‘ml-a u::;‘ni:r:‘:“::; | Manding force of the regular army from “We Have 8tood apart, studiously nNeU- | must subscrive w!m“r iR 8 | ita present strength of 5028 officers and tral. It was our manifest duty to do 8o. |the high dootrine of the Virginla Bill of Not only did we have no part or interest | Rights, which in the great days in which §n the policies which seem to have |OUr government was set up was ev::.yd- Drowught ¥ where amongst us accepted as the ci ot g g A """";" e o |of free men. That doctrine is, “That gov- S SAPTOTIN . SMastréphe WRe - tA ernment Is, or ought to be, instituted for Avolded, that a limit should be set to the | the common benefit, protection and secur- #weep of destructive war and that some [ty of the people, nation or community:' [ part of the great family of nations should | that ‘of all the various modes and forms - koep the provesses of peace alive, it only |of government, that is the best which is to prevent collective economic ruin and |capable of producing the greatest degree the breakdown throughout the world of |of happiness and safety, and s most ef- the industries by which its populations |fectually secured against the danger of | sloned officers for service in drill, are fed and sustained. It was mani- [ maladministration; and that, when any jorulting and the like, and the neceswary festly the duty of the self-governed na- | government shall be found inadequate or | Quota of enlisted men for the quarter- tions of this hemisphere to redress, If pos- contrary to these purposes, a majority | master corps, the hospital corps, the #ible, the balance of economic loss and [of the community hath an indubitable, | ordnance department, anl other similar confusion in the other, if they could do |inallenable and indefeasible right to re- | auxiliary services.. These are the addi- nothing more. I8 the day of readjust- | form, alter or abolish It, in such manner | tions necessary to render the army ment and recuperation we earncstly hope |as shall be judged most conducive to the ‘udequnto for Ita present duties which it :::I:Ikvo that they ean be of infinite | public weal’ We have unhesitatingly 80 | has to perform not oniy upon our own plied that herole principle to the case of | sontinental sts and borders and at our “In this neutrality, in which they were | Mexico, and now hopefully await the re- | interior ‘:n::. pom.d ot also 1R e bidden not -only by their separate 1ife | birth of the troubled republic, which had | Philippines, fn the Hawallan islands, at thelr habitual detachment from the |so much of which to purge itself and 80 | (e fathmus, and in Porto Rico. _ Dolitics of Europe but also by a clear |ijttle sympathy from any outside quarter | «By way of making the country ready of international duty, the [in the radical but necessary process. We | o aasert some part of Ita real power | Statos of Amorica have become conaclous | will ald and befriend Mexico, but we | o PRSI SRS Pt of TEe WAL FOREC gf & new and more vital community of | will not eosrce her; and our course With | CCCicy i, the plan also contemplates and moral partnerehip in affairs, | rogard to her ought to be sufficient proof | (UECEL FEIE: (1 PR BISD €OREERATE consclous of the many com- |to all Ameriea that we seek no political | g BPISTEEE 2 i and Interests and duties suserainty or selfish control. 'our hundred thousand disciplined cit! stand together. o tia Gt ".| R unr:. r:’::y}:hincm:‘nu o!don- hundred o nger ostile i N n “three \OLSn N n year a m’:&;‘:‘" ot| 'Tho moral is, that the states of Ame: throughout a period of three years. and of the republics fca are not hostile rivals but co-operating | This it is proposed (o do by a_process B hesenaenos 1n | A . Tine o maasier | mes of ihe sountry would be ssked o community of luterest, al ..:: .:;,l::: political and In matters economie, is likely | bind themaelyes to. serve with the colors u‘:‘ the guardian |10 §1Ve them & new significance as factors for purgokes of training for short periods “south of It in international affairs and in the politi- | throughout threo years, and to corthe to eal history of the world. It presents them | the colors at call at any time through- or efforts at| " ory deep and true sense a unit |out an additional “furlough’ period of the other side of | ' "Ly etairs, spiritual partners, | three years. This force of four hundred It its duty to play the |\ . s togethor because thinking to- | thousand men would be provided with hout invitation from them; | coiher, quick with common sympathies | personal accoutrements as fast as enlisted EENE L vs B daim that the land common idoals. Soparated they ‘are | and thelr equipment for. the fleld made subject to_all tihe cross currents the | ready to be supplied at any time. They enthusiasm for the freedom of | confused politics of a world of hostile | would be assembled for training at stated and the unmolested self- | rivairies; united in spirit and DUrpose | intervals at convenient places in asso- they cannot be disappointed of their | clation with suitable units of the re:u:u peaceful destiny. army. Thelr period of anhual training “This 18 Pan-Americanism. It has | would not necessarily exceed two months the embodiment, o ual embodi- i ment, of the spirit of law and inde- | DePends On Fatrietio tupeibt. o pendence and liberty and mutual service. | o 070 the younger men of the coun- “A Very notable body of men recently |y "oy ihor they responded to such a call mot lu the city of Washington, at the |t TEEE THE TP Ot epend upon invitation and us the sueats of this KoV~ | g "ogiriotie spirit of the employers of ernment, whose deliberations are likely the country whether they made it possible b for the younger men in their employ to respond under favorable conditions or not. T, for one, do not doubt the patriotic devotion eéither of our young men or of those who give them employment—those for whose benefit and protection they would In fact enlist. I would look for- ward to the success of such an experi- ment with entire confidence. “At 'east so much by way of prepa ation for defense seems to me to be ab- solutely tmperative ndw. We cannot do leas. “The program which will be laid be- tore you by the secretary of the navy is similarly concelved. Tt involves only i L st vantage ol i f this hopeful - | & shortening of the time within which sphere g II'...".... " g plang long matured shall be carried out; o ‘ but it does make definite and explicit ts Al of America stand, so far as we are con- | bullding. National Defense Most Important Topic Now Bcfm American People m"' b i (0% S TN Cor RTINS | testing of stresBth 4 efCiclency and g e g v vy’ development to the in- |t press that plan to complotion within ‘o bonds of honorable | affect the next five years. We have always b - . only ourselves. We feel It wher: | jgoked to the mavy of the country as our first and chief line of defense; we have always seen it to be our manifest course of prudence to be atrong on the seas. Year by year we have been creating & vy which now renks very high indeed that our nelgh- | Jrong the navies of the maritime na- | program which has heretofore been only implieit, held In the minds of the com- mittees on naval affairs and disclosed in the debates of the two houses but nowhere formulated or formally adopted. It seems to me very clear that it will be to the advantage of the country for the congress to adopt a comprehensive plan for putting the Wavy upon a final i‘ HH di £ sea, and have. i deemad Qe | bors should all outside | jns We should now definitely deter- 11 domination mine how we shall complete what we on | be; have set America aside as a whole |\ e vegun, and how soon. ou | for the uses of independent nations and o Shb the | political freemen. Strength of New: . your Our | “The program to be Iald before you contemplates the construction within five 102,985 enlisted men of all services to & | infantry, four regiments of fleld ertillery, | ficers requited for a great varioty of | duty of training the citizen force of whish | I shall presently speak, 72 noncommis- | re- | It is a thing of dis- [ submarines, | immediately avallable and |mm..m..,|,|x.m apprentice seamen and 1,600 marines, And the government must be | This Increase would be sufficient to care | be completed early | necessary that the number of midshipmen |at they seem to me for the present suffi- | listed men, or 141,843, all told, all services, | rank and file, by the addition of fifty- | fifteen coast submarines, one gunboat, one ammunition ship and one repair ship. “The secretary of the navy is asking Ifl[hunx i1s done, and what to do when |also for the immediate addition to th personnel of the navy of 7,500 sailors, for the ships which are to be completed within the fiscal year, 1917 and also for The milf: | the number of men which must be put in training to man the ships which wili in 1918, It is also the Naval academy at Annapolis should be increased by at least 300, in | order that the force of officers ghould | be more rapidly added to; and authority | s | duties only, approved graduates of en- asked to appoint, for engineering gineering colleges, and for service in the aviation corps a certain number of mef taken from civil life, “If thie full program should be carrled out we should have bullt or build- ing in 1921, mccording to the estimates of survival and standards of claseifi cation followed by the General Board of Department, an effective navy' consisting of twenty-seven battiships, of the firs line, six battle cruisers, twenty-five bat- tleships of the second line, ten armored crulsers, thirteen scout cruisers, five first | class crulsers, three second class crulsers, Inerease in Foree Desired. | “They contemplate an Increase of the | ten third class crulsers, 108 destrovers elghteen fleet submarines, 157 coast sub- marines, slx monitors, twenty gunboats, tour supply ships, fifteen fuel ships, four transports, three tenders to torpedo ves- #els, elght vessels of special tyPes and two ammunition ships. This would be & navy fitted to our needs and worthy of our traditions, Merchant Marine s Needed. “‘But armies and Instruments of war are only part of what has to be considered if we are to consider the supreme matter of natlonal self-sufficlency and security in all its aspocts. There are other great matters which will be thrust upon our attention whether we will or not. There Is, for example, a very pressing question of trade and shipping Involved in this great problem of national adequacy. It 18 necessary for many weighty reasons of national efficlency and development that we should have a great merchant | we marine. The great merchant fleet once used to make us rich, that great body of sturdy saflors who used to carry our flag Into every sea, and who were the pride and often the bulwark of the natlon, we have almost driven out of existence by inexcusable neglect and in- difference and by a hopelessly blind and provincial policy of so-called economic protection. It is high time we repaired our mistake and resumed our commer- clal independence on the seas. “For it is a questioh of independence. If other nations go to war or seek to hamper each other's commerce, our mer- chants, it seems, are at thelr mercy, to do with as they please. We must use their ships, and use them as they de- termine. We have nbt ships enough of our own. We canngt handle our own commerce on'the seas. Our independence is provinelal, and is only on land and within our own borders. We are not Hkly to be permitted to use even the ships of other nations in rivalry of their own trade, and are without means to ex- | tend our commerce even where the doors ' are wide open and our goods desired. Buch a situation is pot to be endured. Tt is of capital importance not only that the United States should be its own carrfer on the seas and enjoy economic independence which only an adequate merchant marine would give it, but alsa that the American hemisphere as a whole should enjoy a llke inde- pendence and self-sufficiency, If it is not to be drawn into the tangie of European affairs, Without such independence the whole question of our political unity and self-determination s very serlously clouded and complicated indeed. ‘‘Moreover, we can develop no true or effective American policy without ships | of our own—not ships of war, but ships of peace, carrying goods and earrying much more; creating friendships and rendering indispensable services to all |ll~I ‘torests on this side the water. They must move constantly back and forth be- tween Americas. They are the only shuttles that can weave the delicats fabric of sympathy, comprehension, confidence, and mutual dependence in which we wish to clothe our policy of America for Americans. Must Welp Private Capital. “The task of bullding up an adequate merchant marine for America private capital must ultimately undertake and achieve, as It has undertaken and achieved every other like task amonget us in the past, with admirable enterprise, intelligence, and vigor; and it seems to me & manifest dictate of wisdom that we should promptly remove every legal | obstacle that may stand In the way of | this much to be desired revival of our| old independence and should facllitate 1 | every possible way the bullding, pur-| chase and American registration of ships. | But capital cannot accomplish this great task of a sudden. It must embark upon ' it by degrees, as the opportunities of trade develop. Something must be done | at once; done to open routes and deveiop opportunities where they are yet un- developed; done to open the arteries of trade where the currents have not yet learned to run—especially between the two American continents, where they are, singularly enough, yet to be created the | DECEMBER 8, 19156, |and quickened; and it is evident that only the government ean undetake such beginnings and assume the initial finan clal risks. When the risk has passed and private capital begins to find ite way In sufficlent abundance into these new channels, the government may With- draw. But It cannot omit to begin. It should take the first steps, and should take them at once. Our goods must not lie plled up at our ports and stored upon side tracks In freight cars, which are dally needed on the roads; must not be left without means of transport to any forelgn quarter. We must not await the permission of forelgn ship owners and torelgn governments to send them where we will, Presses Ship Parchase Plan. “With a view to meeting these press- ing necessities of our commerce and availing ourselves at the earliest possible moment of the present unparalleled op- portunity of linking the two Amiericas together in bonds of mutual interest and service, an opportunity which may never return agaln It we miss it than were ever moat reasonable terms. way, Weber, Hardman, Toned Schmoller & Mueller Brand New Upright § Used BARGAINS Former o « Price. $226 Small, upright .. $250 J. P. 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I am not so much’ interested in the par- ticulars of the program as I am In tak- |Ing tmmediate advantage of the great oppertunity which awaits us If we will but act n this emergency. In this mat- out of it of this counsel should prevail, and should come an carly solution pressing problem ““There {s another matter which seems PAY FREE STOOL. PIANOS offered by any the A superb array of New Pianos from which to make your selection from $1756 and up. Stein- Pl: Sons, Emerson, McPhail, Lindeman & Sons, and our own Sweet 0. A WEEK WEEK Buys This Piano. A WEEK WEEK Buys This Player Piano SPECIALLY PRICED for CHRISTMAS | Former Price. 3 ) $ 1 H <3 $ 550 Steinway, 14 1,100 Steinway, 3 450 Schubert 55 500 Autonelle Also the Aeolian line of Pianola Pianos, including ‘Steinway, Steck, Wheelock, Stroud, Stuy- vesant, Aeolian and Schmoller & Mueller Player Pianos. Every instrument marked in plain fig- ures. Select a bargain now and have it held for Xmas delivery. 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