The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-12-02
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AMERICA EASY PREY FOR INvAD-
ING FORCES


ING FORCES
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tional Security league, and offer tC
drill, train, and fight for the defense
Of our country.
Now il you will, for moment, fol-
low me carefully and open-minded-
ly, | think I shall be able TO justify
this modest proposal for our nation
al defense by few facts and cir
cmns'ances which are very plain
and simple, and yet so powerfully
true that I believe they will appeal
not ,nly TO your sense of security,
but to your patriotic impulses as
well, and be assured in the begin
ming that l am not making, and shall
not make, any attack upon the pres
ent administration, or upon any po-
litical party, the deplorable condi-
ton OF our national defenses being
due, in my opinion, not so much to
unwise party policies, or to lack OF
administration, as to that false sense
OF security which the American peo-
pie have always felt on account OF
our democratic form of government,
our isolation from the Old World,
and the phenomenal success which
has always attended our arms whep
we have gone to war. Our national
defense is not a party question, and
no patriotic citizen will make it
such. The man who would divert it
to his or to his party's exploitation
is an unsafe counsellor, and could
not be trusted in time Of national
peril. Our national defenses are for
protection against foreign invasion,
and the man who loves his country
will let party strife cease with the
shore Of the sea.
Type Of Army
In considering the size, type, and
equipment Of an army of defense, we
must be governed by three consider
ations, first, what is to be protected
and defended; second, the foreign
policies necessary to its protection
and defense; and, third, the strength
OF the probable attack.
First and foremost, we have the
continental United States of Ameri-
ca, with its 100000 square miles Of
rich and smiling lands, teeming with
the best that God has permitted the
earth TO produce, a glorious heritage
from our fathers, and sealed with
their blood on thousand battle
fields; with its iOOOOO,OOO Of people,
with their lives and liberties in our
with its happy memories
and its glorious traditions, reaching
far beyond the American revolution;
with its vast heap of $50 billion dol
lars OF respondent wealth; with its
Of beauty and its CALLER
les OF art; with its churches and its
religious institutions; with its
schools and its colleges; with all its
scientific inventions that
have given such swift wings TO
thought and such powerful arms to
industry.
Far to the south OF us, and under
tropical suns, we have the Isthmian
oanal, a mighty enterprise OF $780,
100000, the browning workmanship
Df the world by which we have we'd
led the two great oceans separated
rom the beginning OF time, and cut
he worlds distances in twain,
which we constructed for the well
ARE OF mankind. and for the defense
md neutrality OF which we have
given pledges TO all the nations OF
he earth.
Away TO the northwest we have
Alaska, that boundless tract OF 59i,-
100 square miles OF undeveloped
reasure land, rich in gold and silver
md fuel and forest, those prime nee
'ssaries OF mankind which we shall
70 much need in after years when
,ur homeland shall have been cut
'ver and burrowed into and wasted
way by the scrambling masses OF
oming generations.
Out a step from the Pacific shores,
We have Hawaii, group OF over