Bisbee daily review., 1915-11-05
President Wilson Speaks Before
the Manhattan Club of New
York City on the Duty of United
States to Itself.
AGAINST ENLARGEMNT OF
NATION BY ANY CONQUEST
'We Should Remember to Be
Prepared, Not for War, But
for Defense" Was One of His
Most Pertinent Remarks

NEW YORK, Nov. president
Wilson, outlining his plans for nation
al defense before the Manhattan Club
here tonight, at its hftieth anniversary
dilner, spoke as follows:
"A year and a half ago our thought
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, firm
ness and selfpossession, uotwith-
standing we find ourselves in midst
of a world disturbed by great disaster
and ablaze 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 re-
lations with the rest Of the world
not our commercial relations-about
those who have thought and planned
always-but about our political rela-
tions, our duties as an individual and
independent force in the world to
ourselves. our neighbors and the
world itself.
we shall confidently believe,
never again take another foot OF ter
ritory by conquest We shall never
{ in any CIRCUMSTANCES seek to make an
Independent people subject 10 our
dominion; because we believe, we
passionately believe, in the right of
every people to choose their own al
! legiance and be free of masters alto
1 gether For ourselves we wish moth
/ ing but the full liberty Of self deyel-
/ opment; and with ourselves i'm this
greater matter we associate all the
peoples OF our own hemisphere. We
wish not only for the United States
but for them the fullest OF independ
ent growth and action, for we know
that throughout this hemisphere the
same aspirations are everywhere be
ing worked out, under diverse condi'
tions. but with the same impulse and
ultimate object.
"All this is very clear to us and
will, confidently predict become
more and more clear to the whole
world as the great process Of the
future unfold themselves. 1t is with
a full consciousness of such principles
and such ambitions that We are ask
ing ourselves at the present time
what our duty is with regard to the
armed forces of the nation.
In no mans mind, / am sure, is
there even raised the question of vii
ful use of force on our part against
any nation of any people. No matter
what military or naval force the
, United States might develop, states
men throughout the whole world
might rest assured that we are gath
ering that force. not for attack in am
quarter. not for aggression of am
kind. not for the satisfaction of am
! political or international ambition
but merely to make sure Of our owl
r security.
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j. peace and not by the use of hostil
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rs times of international peace. But W
IN do not want TO feel that there is
Ie great body Of citizens who have II
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themselves into a lighting force Z
Ty the call of the nation and that III
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lit out delay, should it be necessary
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H. supply them with the training the
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