Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-02
SCORES MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
WHO OPPOSE eATTLEshlP
APPROPRIATIONS.
DISBURSEMENT OF CHINA
EXAMPLE OF uNPREPAREpNEss
Dinner Resolutions by Well Meaning
Men No Insurance Against War
Present Tendency to Disregard
PIedsss-Addrsss to Prosressivss.

Newport. r. l., July 2,-"Navyfday."
with which the progressives'r three
days conference opened today. brought
thousands Of visitors to Newport to
hear Theodore Roosevelt speak twice;
partake of Rhode Island clam bake.
listen to speeches by several other
leaders, and witness a
drill of the naval apprentices at the
naval station.
D. Leroy Dresser presided. The navy
was represented on the platform by
Rear Admiral Charles J. Badger, COM
mander- in chief of the Atlantic fleet.
and other officers.
Among prominent progressives pres
ent were former United States Senator
A. J. Beveridge. Oscar Strauss. Gif-
ford ,Pinchot. Herbert Knox Smith,
former Governor Bass. OF New Hamp-
shire. William Draper Lewis and JOS
eph Walker.
Newport. r. l.. July 2.-Theodore
Roosevelt addressed gathering OF
Rhode Island leaders of the national
party here today on pa
triotism and national honor. and made
q plea for the maintenance Of adequate
naval strength. Congressman who vote
against two battleships year. he said.
were ION level with men who voted
against fortifyinG Hawaii and our sta
are unft to represent tho American
people, and they by their actions In
vito national disaster and humiliation.
He characterised ~ wicked any ad-
vocation OF arbitration where national
honor and interests are concerned. and
said that to enforce the Monroe doc
trine. to retain Panama, Alaska ana
our insular possessions. to determine
what aliens and on what terms they
shall come to this country demanded
the power to "back up our words with
deeds."
OPPOSING conarsssmsn Scored.
After scoring those congressman
who opposed 4 two-bat attleship "a year
policy. he continued:
There h. however, lower depth
even than that plumbed by the men
who seek by their votes In congress TO
keep us impotent to protect ourselves.
This lower depth 10 reached by those
who. while voting. against every meas
ure to provide US with means to pro-
teot our honor against anv foreign zoe.
nevertheless, by foolish. brutal and In
sultine utterances concerning foreign
powers. expose us to the liability or
war which they themselves by their
own actions have striven to render II
impossible for US successfully to un-
dertake
There could be no worse type OF
public servant than those congressmeh
who first do all they can to prevent
the American people from being aple
to uphold their interest and nonor III
the event Of war. and then do al theS
can with wanton and ignorant folly 10
plunge us into war. Remember always
that in such case these men wouid not
themselves be the ones to suner. iney
are very rarely sensitive TO natlohai
honor. and still moro rarely willing 70
expose their persons In the event OF
there being an appeal to the final arpl-
ter between nations. In such event
these men almost always themselves
in safety, and let their mis-
be atoned for by other men,
bv brave men who pay for 1t with thelr
blood by patriotic men who perforce
have to pay for it with shame
China as an Example.
Hero Colonel Roosevelt took up the
situation in China, (Which has sut1ereo
partial dismemberment purely because
she has permitted herself to become
,,o,otent in war" II the American
neople were to follow in Chinese 1oot-
steps he pointed out, doubtless some
decades would pass before we wouh'
suffer to the extent of China: but long
before that time had come we should
have had to abandon all pretense OF
unfolding tho Monroe doctrine "e
shauld have had to abandon faha"h"
and Alaska and every insular posses
sion and we should have had 10 sur
render all right to say what Immigrants
shall ana what immigrants shall not
no admitted to our country, ana the
terms upon which they shall come mere
and hecome citizens or hold lano. IL
1. a matter Of vital concern to all our
neople. but above all 1t Is a matter OF
vital. concern to our wageworkers ana
farmers and small business and profes-
sional men, to have the undisputed
right to decide every such question FOR
ourselves; and our claim so to decide
these questions would be treated WIN
utter derision II we did not have an
efsicient navy and IL we did not posses
both tho will and the power to back
up our words by our deeds.
Dinner Resolution Not Peace Insurance
Therefore, It. seems to me incredi,
bio folly that any Of our people should
wish. to put MS in the position OF
china ana should believe that by hav-
ing worthy persons put their name.
on scraps OF paper, or get together AZ
banquets and pass resolutions we
would be able to substitute some pa :
tent remedy like universal international
arbitration for navy. This is espec-
iafly true whom We remember that this
country would not for ane momens
permit any. Of these vital questions OF
national honor and interest to be sub
mittea =, :, :: e !: :::S::. ::S: Tc advocate