Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-11-11

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the other navies of the world is that
we should hasten our pace in the
policy we have long been pursuing,
and that chief of all we should have
a definite policy of development, not
made from year to year but looking
well into the future and planning for
a definite contamination. We can and
should profit in all that we do by the
experience and example that have
been made obvious to us by the mill
tary and naval events of the actual
present. 1t is not merely a matter OF
building battleships and cruisers and
submarines, but also a matter of max
ing sure that we shall have the ade-
quate equipment of men and NUM-
tions and supplies for the vessels we
build and intend to build. Part of our
problem is the problem of what l may
call the mobilization of the resources
of the nation at the proper time II IT
should ever be necessary to mobilize
them for national defense. We shall
study the efficiency and adequate
equipment as carefully as we shall
study the number and size of our
ships, and ! believe that the plans al
ready in part made public by the navy
department are plans which the whole
nation can approve with rational en-
thusiasm.
mo thoughtful man feels any panic
haste in this matter The country is
not threatened from any quarter. She
stands in friendly relations with all
the world. Her resources are known
and her self-respect and her capacity
to care for her own citizens and her
own rights. There is no fear amongst
us. Under the new world conditions
we have become thoughtful of the
things which all reasonable men con-
slider necessary for security and self
defense on the part of every nation
confronted with the great enterprise
of human liberty and independence.
I'm the fulfillment of the program l
propose l shall ask for the hearty sup
port of the country, of the rank and
| file of America, of men of all shades
| of political opinion. l would not feel
that was discharging the solemn OBJ.
legation / owe the country were not
to speak in terms of the deepest
solemnity of the urgency and necessi-
ty of preparing ourselves to guard and
protect the rights and privileges of
our people, our sacred heritage of the
fathers who struggled to make us an
Independent nation.
Hits at the Hyphenates.
1.-THE only thing within our own Dor.
ders that has given us grave concern
in recent months has been that voices
have been raised in America profess
ing to be the voices of Americans
which were not indeed and in truth
American, but which spoke alien sym
pathies, which came from men whit
loved other countries better than they
loved America, men who were par
tisans of other causes than that Of
America and had forgotten that theil
chief and only allegiance was to the
great government under which they
live. These voices have not beer
many, but they have been very louC
and very clamorous. They have pro
ceeded from a few who were bitter
and who were grievously misled
America has not opened its doors il
vain to men and women out of othel
nations. The vast majority of those
who have come to take advantage o
her hospitality have united their spirits
with hers as well as their fortunes
These men who speak alien sympa
thies are not their spokesman, but ar
the spokesman of small groups whom
it is high time that the nation SHOULD
call to a reckoning. The chief thin
. should let all the world know
that she is prepared to main
, tain her own great position is tina
the real voice of the nation shoul,
sound forth Enthusiastically and in mf
jestic volume, in the deep unison of
common, unhesitating national fee
! ing. do not doubt that upon tn
) first occasion, upon the first opporti
nifty, upon the first definite Challenge
, that voice will speak forth in tone
r which no man can doubt and wit
> commands which no man dare gail
p say or resist.
4 MAY / not say, while l am speal
ing of this, that there is another dal
d ger that we should guard against
e We should rebuke not only mantle
+ tt lions of racial feeling here in Anne
] lea where there should be none. bl
i also every manifestation of religion
t and sectarian antagonism.
l. Here is the nation God has builde
o by our hands. What shall we do wit
d It? Who is there who does not stan
: ready at all times to act in her beha
;. in spirit of devoted and disinteres
i ed patriotism? We are yet only
Q the youth and first consciousness
II our power. The day of our country
life is still but in its fresh mornin
Let us lift our eyes to the great trac
% of life yet to be conquered in the !
10 terests Of righteous peace. Come, |
Q. US renew our allegiance to Americ