Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-12-08

long as we retain our present politi-
cal principles and institutions. And
what is 1t that it Is suggested we
should be prepared to do? To de-
fend ourselves against attack? We
have always found means to do that,
and shall find them whenever 1t is
necessary without calling our people
away from their necessary tasks to
render compulsory military service
in time of peace.
From the first we have had a clear
and settled policy with regard to
military establishments. While we
maintain our present principles, we
shall never have a large standing
army. If asked, are you ready to de-
fend yourselves? we reply, most as
suredly, to the utmost; and yet we
shall not ask our young men to spend
the best years of their lives making
soldiers of themselves
We must depend in every time OF
national peril, in the future as in the
past, not upon a standing army, not
yet upon a reserve army, but upon
citizenry trained and accustomed to
arms II will be right enough, right
American policy, dependent on our
principles and policies, to provide a
system whereby every citizen who
will volunteer for the training will
be made familiar with the use of
modern arms, the rudments of drill
and maneuver, and the maintenance
and sanitation of camps We should
encourage such training and make it
means of discipline which our
young men will learn to value. 1t Is
right that we should provide IL not
only, but that we should make it as
attractive as possible, and so induce
our young men to undergo II at such
| times as they can command little
/ freedom and can seek the physical
exercise they need, for mere health's
sake, ii for nothing more. Every
means by which such things can be
stimulated is legitimate, and such a
4 method smacks of true American
ideas. 1t is right, too, that the Ma
tional Guard of the state should be
developed and strengthened by every
means which is not inconsistent with
out obligations to our own people or
with the established policy of our
government
Navy for Defence.
n pOMeIlul navy we nave dlW d1 ,
regarded as our proper and natural
means of defence; and It has always
been of defence that we have
thought, never of aggression or OF
conquest But who shall tell us now
what sort of navy to build? We shall
take leave to be strong upon the
seas, in the future as in the past;
and there will be no thought of of
Tense or of provocation in that. Our
ships are our natural bulwarks. When
will the experts tell us just what
kind we should construct and wheI
, will they be right for ten years to
. gether If the relative efficiency o.
. craft of different kinds and uses con
tinues to chance as we have seeI
it change under our very eyes Ii
these last few months?
:, But | turn away from the subject
! 1t is not new. There Is no new nee'
!. to discuss II. We shall not alter ou
attitude toward il because som
! amongst us are nervous and excited
, We shall easily and sensibly agre
! upon a policy of defence. The ques
= tion has not changed it's aspects bt
= cause the times are not normal. Gu
! policy will not be for an occasion.
;. will be conceived as a permanen
3 and settled thing, which we will pul
:. sue at all seasons; without haste an
after fashion perfectly consisten
with the peace of the world, the abit
ing friendship of states, and the III
s. hampered freedom of all with whoi
le we deal Let there be no misconcel
d tion. The country has been misil
d formed. We have not been negligeI
y of national defence We are not III
re mindful of the great responsible
10 resting upon us. We shall learn an
Of profit by the lesson of every exper
'e ence and every new circumstance
We and what is needed will be adequat
so ly done.