Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 31, 1916, Page 3

| | / { ‘ Full Text of President’s Speech at Cleveland; Warning of Great Dangers Confronting Nation CLEVELAND, 0. Jan. . Wilson's address follows The times are such It I8 necessary that we should take coun sel together for them. In the fact, two thirds of the world are at war. It is not merely a European struggle; nations in the orient have become mvolved, as well | A% nations in the west, and 0\'".\“?7""‘ there seems to be creeping even upon | the nations disengaged the spirit and the | threat of war. All the world outside of America is on fire. Do you wonder that | men's imaginations take color from this| President gentlemen, tha situation? Do you wonder that there is | a ‘great reaction against war? Do you wonder that the passton for peace growe| stronger as the spectacle grows more| tremendous and more overwhelming? | “And do Fou wonder on the other| hand, that men's sympathies become deeply engaged on the one side or the| other? For no small things are happen- iNg This is a struggle which will de- | termine the history of the world, 1 dare say, for more than a century to come. | The One Great Neut And in the meantime we, the people of the United States, are the one Ereat| disengaged power, the one neutral power, | tinding it a lttle different to be new tral, because, like men everywhere else, we are human; we have the deep pas sions_of mankind in usi we have sym- pathies that are as easily stirfed as the sympathies of any other people. We have interests which we see being drawn slow- | Iy into the maelstrom of this tremen-| dovs upheavat 118 very difficult for us to hold off and look with cool judgment upon such tremendous matters, And yet we have| held oft. It has not heen easy for the| government at Washington to avoid the| entangloments which seem to beset us on every side, It has needed a wreat deal| of watchfilness, and an unremitting pa-| e to do go. but all the while no Awer can cguld fail to be aware that Amerdcs il rot wish to me el saged, (hat she w'shed to held apart not hecarse soe did not see the issues ¢ the. strugaie but becavse she thought her dutics 1o be the dutles of peace and of} sepsiate action. And all the while the nationg themselves. that were engaged secimed to be look n to us for seme sort| of acdon, nyt hog'ile I character but i atin e in charaeter | Calle to Intervene, Vi rdl ir fe thisg has occuriad in | Fere o which hag in any degree shocked the of mankind that the g v e the United States has not colicd upen by the one side or the cther to prote:t and/intervene with its me infiuence, if not with its physical fore. 1t is as if we were the great ience before whom this stupendous @ i3 being p 1 out and we are asled to comment upon the turns and orists of the piot. And not only are we the ntdisnce and challenged to be the umpite, #o far as the opinion of the worid 1% concera~d. but all the while our own lifc thushee thase matters at many | points of vital contaet. i “The United Stutes is trying to keep up ‘the. proce Oulslanding Sentences solemnly you can't afford to postpone » | this th 1 do not know what a sin In President’s Speech |any may bring tortn - ' Heset with Danger ‘We should be prepared mot for war | o : " O anything that smacks of aggres- | . 0 not Wih 10 leave vou wih the 08, Bey for SeNeS on that | am thinking of some particular danger. | merely want to leave you with his solemn mpressior “As your respomsible servanmt 1|00 ML (UL RO e amidst must tell you that the dangers are |, " (oS (G e and that th Infinite and constant. dangers that we are treading amongst oo it are not of our making and are not l? far, we have held Aiffleulty &t |, 4. our control: and that no man in | Arm's length by patience, and X hoPe | (ne United States knows what a single ‘we wil] continue to do » week or a single day or a single hour may "1 0 immediate danger, but yOU | thinge to say to you, but I would be un- must be ready if trouble comes.” worthy: of my office if 1 did not come " out and tell you with absolute frankness | “What I am pleading for 18 the just exactly what I understand the sit great spirit of patriotism that marked uation to be. the revolutios I do not wish to hurry the congress - of the United States. These things are “I am afraid of the danger of oo important to be put through without shame; I am afraid of the danger of very MMoroush sifting and debate and 1 not being able to express the correct am not in the least jealous of any of character of the country with tre- |the searching processes of discussion mendous might ana effectiveness That is what free people are for, to un whenever we are oalled on 0 act im | derstand what they are about and to do the field of the world's affairs.” “The issue lies with the young men discuss the detalls of plana and the employers of the countsy.” in great bodies, unorganized bodles of wien, like this audience, for example. All that I can do in this presence ia to teéll | and forget every difference that may you what I know of the necessities of the have divided them. “And what ought they to do? Well, in executive authorities of the United the first place, they ought to tell the States urging upon those who make our truth, There have been some extraordls Jaws .as early and effective action as nary cxaggerations both of the military possible weakness and the military strength of this country Some men tell you that Amerien N Afrald. e have 0 eans of defense, and - 3 o 1 2 T hes America is not afraid of anybedy. I others tell you that we have sufficient means of defense, and neither statement XNOW that I express your feeling and the e Aol it feeling of all our fellow citizens when I it say that the only thing T am afraid of is for example, the matter of our fonses, It is obvious to every not being ready to perform my duty, I At e T ? am afraid of the danger of shame; I am | man that they are of the most vital im el ! 01 e to the country. Such coaet de. 8fraid the danger of inadequacy; 1 b gt Rt e Hana Arid am afraid of the danger of not being able SR e v ‘m w‘_("m“‘ de. 10 expr the great character of this mirable, but we have ot B v auality |COURY ‘With tremendous might and ef- | fensea In cnough places v is insut.!fectiveness whenever we are called upon e ek ol th! L0 aet 't @ © fleld of -the - Worli's Golent..; The milibary; SEEREE ot \ivey | STNIFY Aor 0 18 onANIOLOr - W A0Ne country have not oo R priations 80INE (o' expross, not power merely. have sOugit cquate appropriations o o ews und' in most instances' “THe United States is not in love with O g them 50 far as we saw,the aggressivo use of powers. It de- the work in hand that it was ssary | fpises aggressive use of power. There at ihey have is mot m foot of territory belonging to to do. And the wor that they 18 by ¢ \hese appropriations | ANy other nation which this nation covets done In the of thcse app e A ; : a t has been admirable and skilfull work. | OF desires. There is not a privilege which Do not let anybody deceive you into sup- posing that the army of the States, so far as it has had opportunity, is in any of your con-{ Lidence i The American Navy. And th United have been told that it is the 1 am sorry to| with those | its ac- degree unworthy State second | navy of the in strength in the world sny that experts do not agree who tell you that. Reckoning by tual. strength, I believe it to be one of ! the most efficient navies in the world:| but its strength ranks fourth, not sec- rd stand What they possible to case, and to ask bring forth. ‘The are solemn what tgey wish to do only if they under- are about. But it is im you to stand back of the we ourselves enjoy which we would United | dream of denying any other nation in {the world 1f there is one thing that the American people love and belleve in more than another, it is peace, and all the handsome things that belong to peace. 1 hope that you will bear me out in saying that I have proved that I am a partisan of peace; and I would be ashamed to be bellizgerent and impatient when the fortunes of my whole country and the happiness of all my fellowmen were involved. But I know that peace is not always\within the cholce of the of peaceful commerce|ond. And you must reckon with the fact! .\ . 4hd T want to remind—and remind while all the werll is at war and while | (hat it is necessary that that should bejy " o v solemnly—of the double obliga- all the world is in nced of the essential things which the Upited States produces, arel yet by an ovetsight, for which it s difficult to formive ourseives, e did not| provide ourselves when there was proper peace and opportunity with g mercanii'e | marine, - by ‘means of which, we could | carry the commerce of the wor'd with- | out ‘futerference- of the motives of other nations which might be engaged in con- troversy not ouwr own. Warring Nations Have Trade. | “And so the carrying trade of the world | is for the most part in the hands of the | nations now embroiled in this great strug- | gle. Americans have gone to all quar- ters of the world, Americans are serving the business of the world in every part of it, and everyone of these men in'bu ness affairsis our ward and we must see to his rights and that they are respected. Do you not see how all the sensitive | places of our life touch these great dis- turbances? Now, in 'the midst of that, what is it that we are called on to do as a nation? 1 suppose that from the first America has had one peculiar and par- ticular mission in the world. Other na- | tions have grown rich, my fellow citizens; other nations have been as powerful as we in materfal resources in comparison | with the other nations of . the world; cther nations have built up empires and | exercised dominion. We are not peculiar in any of these things, but we are pecu- | liar in this: That from the first we have | dedicated our force to the service of jus- tice and righteousness and peace. Our Chief Interest. ‘We have said, ‘Our chief interest is not in the rights of property, but in the vights of man; oui chief interest is in the sp'rits of men’' that they might be free, that they might enjoy their lives unmolested so long as they observe the Just rules of the game:. that they might deal with their fellowmen with their heads erect, the subjects and servants of no man, but the servants only of the our first arm of defense, and you ought| to insist that everything should be done; fhat it is pessible for us to do to bring} the navy up to an adequate standard of | strength and efficiency. ! “YWhere we are lacking more, perhaps, | is on land and in the number of men | who are ready to fight. Not the n\lmber‘ of tighting men. but the number of men who are ready to' fight. Some men are born troublesome, some men haye trouble thrust upon them and other men acquire trouble. | “1 think I belong to the second clasa. But the characteristic desire of Amerll‘ll is not that we should have a great body of | men whose chief business is to fight, but a great body of men who know how | to fight and-are ready to fight when | anything that js dear to the nation ln‘ threatened. You might have what' we have, millions of men who had never ' handled arms of war, who are mere ma terial for shot end powder if you put thei in the field, and America would be | ashamed of the inefficlency of calling such men to defend the nation. \ Want Volunteers in Train ! “What we want is to associate in train- fng with the army of the United States, ! men who will volunteer for a sufficient Jength of time cvery year to get the rudi- mentary acquaintance with arms, —the rudimentary skill in handjing them, the | rudimentary acquaintance with camp life, | the rudimentary acquaintance with mili- tary drill and discipline, and we ought to see to it that we have men of that sort in sufficient number to constitute an| initial army when we need an army for the defense of the country. “I have heard it stated that there are, | probably several million men in this coun- try who have . recelved a sufficient amount of military drill either here or in the countries in which they were born and from which they have come to us. Perhaps there are; nobody knows, be- cause there 1s no means of counting them, principles upon which their lives rested.’ | but if there are so many, they are not And America has done more than care | obliged to come at our call. for her own people and think of her own fortunes in these great matters, It has sald ever since the Monroe that it was the champion of free- dom and the separate sovereignty of peo- ples throughoeut the western hemisphere. It is trustee for those ideals and it is pledged, deeply and permanently pledged, to keep those momentous promises. ‘It not omly, therefore, must play its part in keeping this conflagration from spreading to the people of the United States; it must also keep this conflagra- tion from spreading on this side of the wea, Can Never Draw Back. These are matters in which our life and our whole from them. And I, my fellow citizens, because of the extraordinary office with which you have entrusted me, must, whether 1 will or not, be your responsi- ble spokesman in these great matters, It is my dutytherefore, when impres- sions are deeply borne in upon me with very | pride are embedded | and rooted, and we can never draw back | We do mot ' know who they are. That is not military preparation. Military preparation con- time of President | sists in the existence of suth a body of men known to the federal authorities, or- | ganized provisionally by the federal au- thorities and subject by their own choice | and will to the immediate call of the fed- | eral authority, Variety of Discipline, We have no such body of men in the United States except the National Guard, Now, I have a very great respect for the National Guard. 1 have been associated with one section of that guard in one of | the great states of the union, and I know | the character of the officers and the quality of the men, and I would trust' them both for skill and efficlency; but the whole National Guard of the United States falls short of 120,000 men. It is characterized by a very great varlety of discipline and efficiency as between stote and state and it {s by the constitu- tion itself put under the authority of more than two score state executives, | | regard to the national welfare to speak to you with the utmost frankness about them: and that is the errand upon which 1 have come away from Washington. “For my own part, 1 *m sorry that these things fall within the year of a na- tional political campaign. They ought to have nothing whatever to do with pol- ftics. The man who brings partisan feel- ing into these matters and seeks parti- ®an advantage by means of them is un- Wworthy of your confidence. I an® sorry that upon the eve of a campaign we Should be obliged to discuss these things for fear they might run over into the campaign and seem to constitute part of it. Let's forget that this is a year of national elections. That is neither here nor there. The thing to do now is for all men of all parties to think along the same lines and to do the same things The president of the United States has | not the right to call on these men except in the case of actual invasion. And, therefore, no matter how skillful they are, no matter how ready they are, they are not the instruments for immediate national use. “I belleve that the congress of the United States ought to do, and that ft will do, a great deai more for the national guard than it ever has done, and every- thing ought to be done to make a model military arm, but that is not the arm that we are interested in. We are inter- ested in knowing that there are men sl | over the United States prepared, equipped | and ready to go out at the call of the national government upon the shortest possible not You wifl ask me, why |80 you say the shortest possible notice Because, gentlemen, let me tell you very tion you have laid upon me. 1 know ou have laid it upon me, because I am constantly reminded of it in conversation, Ly letter, in editorials, by means of every voice that writes me out of the body of the nation. You have laid upon me this double obligation we are relying upon you, Mr. President, to this war, but we arg relving upon you, e S % 3 | keep us out of | M( Mr. President, to keep the honor of the nation unstained What the Mennce In, Do you not see that a time may come | when it is impossible to do both of these things? Do you not see that if I am to guard the honor of the nation, I am not | protecting it against its self, for we are Inot going to do anvthing to stain the honor of our own country. 1 am protect Ing it against things that 1 can not con {trol, the action of others. And | the action of others may bring ue, 1 can {not foretell. Yeu may count upen my {heart and resolution to keep you out of |the war, but you must be ready if it is necessary that 1 should maintain vour I honor. That is the only thing a real w |1oves about himsel “Some men who are not real men love other things about themselves, hut the | real man believes that his honer is dearer | than his Nfe: and a nation 1s merely all {of us put together, and the nation's | honor is dearer than the nation's com | fort and the nation's peace and the na { tlon's 1ife itself. So that we must know | what we have thrown in the balance we must know the infinite issues which are impending every day of the vear | ana when we go to bed at pight and when { we rise in the morning. and at every in { terval of the rush of business we must lrfimln:l ourselves that we are part of a great body politic in which are vested {#ome of the highest hopes of the human | race. plon of W wity, “Why fs it every nation turns to us with the instinctive feeling that if any | thing touches humanity, it touches us Because it knows that ever since we were born as a nation we have undertaken to be the champions of humanity and of the rights of men. Without that ideal there would be nothing that would distingulsh | America from its p sors In the his | tory of nations. Why Is it that men that love Iiberty have crowded to these shoves? Why is it that we greet them as they en- ter the great harbor at New York, with that majestic Statue of Liberty holding up & torch whose visionary beams are { Is free and where we love all the we | of righteousness and peace? ' |Four Men Indicted For Robbery of Bank CHICAGO, Jan. 30.—Four men accused of robbing the Washington Park National bank of §15,000, were Indicted yesterday on | six counts, after Rddie Mack, confessed leader of the quintet of robbers, had told bery. Mack, himself, was not The state’s attorney sald he would not prosecute, “if he kept his promise to leave the country after testifying in the indicted. trials of the indicted men.” Mack, the state's attorney said, had made allegations that fifteen Chicago policemen had protected criminals, and that criminals had been imported into Chicago from New York to discredit the police department heads. The allega- tions, sald the state's attorney, were be- ing Investigated, The four indicted men were all said to have come from New York. They are Alex Brodie, Harry Kramer, Charles Kramer and Harry Feln, After Konetehy. The New York Giants and Chica White Sox are after First Baseman Konetchy of the Pittsbhurgh Rebels, Wil Trade Jennings. It the Washington club cannot use transfer him to New York. ANUARY supposed to spread abroad over the | waters of the world, and to say to all| men, ‘Come to America, where mankind the grand jury of the story of the rob.| Bhortstop Morley Jennings that club will 'CONTINENTAL ARMY PLAN IS DISCUSSED! Scheme Faces Serious Opposition in Military Committees of Congress ADDED NAVY éTREN()TH URGED | | WASHINGTON While | President Wilson is carrying to the | country his appeal for adequate na-| tional defense, one of the vital ele- ments of the program he has recom Jan. 30 mended to congress, the continental army, faces serious opposition in | both the senate and house military committees Such an army, described by Secre tary Garrison, as embodying the most attractive scheme that cotld be devised to give a national test of the problem of training an adequate number of federal volunteers in peace times, would be expected to provide 400,000 men of the total of approximately 1,000,000 which the entire plan is caleulated to make available Likely to Be W | Present indications are that the con- | ten Into BIY | tinental army proposal in some form | [ Wil be written into the army increase | bill being prepared by the senate military though that measure will be mainly to a special reorgani- ation of the regular army on the basms of approximately 258000 men with the | | colors, increasing Secretary Garrison's | | proposals in that respect by nearly 100,- | | committe devoted 000 men Senator Chamberlain, chalrman of the ! military committee, said tonight he was confident his committee would | turn out without great delay a well | rounded bill providing for all the ele-| ments of a national army of 1,000,000 ( or more men. lle thought proposals for| | compulsory service or universal tralning in the schools would be presented as separate bills, as few advocates of the | universal service system had’ been able | to satisfy themselves that either con- gress op the country was prepared for senate such a radical change in policy. Wil Try to Add Rider, ! Some members of the house military ommittee are expected to make vigorous efforts to couple government production of war materials with any army In- crease program that may be recom- mended. Just what form this proposal will take is unsettied, but its advocates, are acting on the theory that some such provision is advisable to meet the war scares and armament movements for selfish reasons. S0 far as the navy ls concerned, there has been little on which to judge the feeling of the house committee, but it seems evident that a considerably in« creased bullding program for 1917 will be favored; In general discussions of mem- bers of both houses, the prevalling opin- fon seems to be that Secretary Danlel's | five-year program finally will be through and possibly be augmented in some particulal N nk by Storm. 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