The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1915-11-26
PRESIDENT BARES
DEFENSE PLAN To
GUARD AMERICA
sSks Country to Support Pro.
gram to Protect Nation.
WILSON ASKS BIGGER ARMY
Wants 10000 Citizens Trained in the
Next Three Years Through voIun.
tary Enlistment and Approves
Large Naval Increase
Hits ALLEN Voices"

New York. Nov. 5.-President VII
son outlined last night the program
Tor national defense which he will
place before the next congress. ant
appealed TO the whole country for sup
port.
In an address before the Manhat
tan club at it's fftieth anniversary
dlnner the president expounded his
plans on preparedness and his views
on other national questions.
president Wilson's speech in part
was as follows:
MT POSTMASTER and Gentlemen:
warmly felicitate the club on the com.
pletion of fifty years of successful and
interesting life.
snail assume that around the din
ner table on this memorial occasion
our talk should properly turn to the
"lue ana common interests which are
most In our thoughts, whether they be
the interests of the community or of
the nation.
Tells of New Problems.
year and half ago our thoughts
would have been almost altogether of
great domestic questions. They are
many and of vital consequence. We
must and shall address ourselves to
their solution with diligence, firmness
ana possession, notwithstanding
we lind ourselves in the midst of a
world disturbed by great disaster and
aDiaze with terrible war; but our
thought is now inevitably Of new
things about which formerly we gave
ourselves little concern.
We are thinking now chiefly of our
relation with the rest of the world
not our commercial relations: about
those we have thought and planned
always-but about our political rela-
lions, our duties as an individual and
independent forcegin the world TO our
selves, our neighbors and the world
itself.
y. 5. Champion of Liberty.
Our principles are we'll known. 1t
Is not necessary to avow them again.
we believe in political liberty, and
founded our great government to OBJ
tain it, the liberty of men and of peo.
pies-of men to choose their own lives
ana or peoples to choose their own al
egiance.
Our ambition, also, all the world has
of. 1t is not only to be free
ma prosperous ourselves but also to
'e the friend and thoughtful partisan
II those who are free or who desire
reedom the world over.
III we have had aggressive purposes
nd covetous ambitions, they were the
ruit OF our thoughtless youth as a
alton and we have put them aside.
Wants No More Conquest.
We shall. confidently believe.
ever again take another foot of terri.
Dry by conquest.
We shall never in any circumstances I
eek to make an independent people
lbJect to our dominion: because we
elieve. we passionately believe. in '
lie right OF every people to choose c
leir own allegiance and be free of v
asters altogether.
For ourselves we wish nothing hut i
lie full liberty of self-development. I
Id with ourselves in this greater 4
after we associate all the peoples OF {
lr own hemisphere. s
We wish. not only for the United II
ates, but for them the fullest free. 81
'm of independent growth and of Il
tion.
f.ft 1 ~
All this Is very clear TO US and will e
confidently predict. become more "
d more clear to the whole world as u
Q great processes Of the future un. W
ID themselves. Ii is with a full con. e'
Iousness of such principles and such sc
EDITIONS that We are asking our. &C
ives at present what our luty ia d'
tn regard tn the armed force of the 10
ton. w
Force everywhere speaks out With ST
loud and imperious voice I'm a II. ca
tic struggle of governments and We
IN one end OF our own dear coun- nc
to the other men are asking one ar
,ther what our own force is. how
we are prepared to maintain our u.
YES against any interference with
national action or development. Br
We have il in mind to be prepared
not for war. but only for defense.
with the thought constantly in
minds that the principles we
d most dear can be achieved by loo
slow processes of history only In gil
kindly and wholesome atmos- no
re OF peace. and not by the use OF
tile force. tur
he mission Of America I'm the world va
essentially a mission Of peace and wo
d will among men. III
merica has been made up out OF tie.
nations OF the world and is the !
nd OF the nations OF the world. Ia,
Ut we feel justified lin preparing ter
selves TO vindicate our right Ia OF
pendent and unmolested action Dy he
ling the force that is In us ready eve
ask
nd We know that We can do this tioi