The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1915-11-12
BE PREPARED
ogT READY, NOT FOR WAN, BUT
FoR oEFENsE, sAYs THE
PRESIDENT.
Wilson Asks Nations Support Of
Plans fer Preparedness At Ban
qvst In New York City.

western Newspaper Union News Service.
New President Wilson
epsAed the administration campaign
for its national defense program In .
comprehsnsive and carefully prepared
ad4Sss delivered on the 4th at the
MaQ6attan Club banquet.
1hs President was received with
Snthu6iasttc applause a. he entered
the banquet hall and during his ad-
dreeA .. q
The President called upon men Of
al shades Of political opinion" to rally
20 the support of the program.
He sDoke Of the United States ~
- nation too big and generous to be
exacting. but yet courageous enough
to defend its rights and the liberties
OF it, people. wherever assailed or in
volved."
The President spoke in part a. fol-
lows:
'Mr. Toastmaster and Gentlemen:
"A year and q 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, firmness
eand self.possession.
I'VE are thinking now chiefly Of our
relations with the rest OF the world
mot our commercial relations-about
those we have thought and planned
always. but about our political rela-
tons, our duties as an individual and
Independent force in the world to our
selves. our neighbors and the world
itself.
Our principles are we'll known. 1t
again. We believe in political liberty
and founded our great government to
obtain it, the liberty Of men and Of
psoples-of men to choose their own
lives and of peoples to choose their
own allegiance.
I'VE 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 to our do
minion, because we believe, we pas
sionately believe, in the right Of ev-
cry people. to choose their own al
legianc0 and be free Of masters alto
gether.
For ourselves we wish nothing but
the full liberty of acknowledgment;
and with ourselves in this great mat
ter We, associate all the peoples Of
our own. hemisphere.
I'VE have 1t in mind to be prepared
rsMt not for war, but only for defense.
That plan calls for only such an
'fncreasS in the regular army Of the
United States as experience has
proved TO be required for the perform
ance Of the necessary duties of the
army in the Philippines, in Hawaii, in
Porto Rico, upon the borders OF the
United States, at the coast fortifica-
lions and at the military posts of the
Interior.
"For the rest, It calls for the train
ing within the next three years OF
force Of 100000 citizen soldiers to be
raised In annual. contingents Of 1873,
900, Who would be asked to enlist fol
three years with the colors and three
years on furlough. but who during
their three years of enlistment with
the colors would not be organized as
standing force, but woui'l be expected
merely to undergo intensive training
for . very brief period Of each year.
Their training would take place in
immediate association with the organ
lied units of the regular army.
1T has been American policy time
out Of mind to look to tn, navy as the
first and chief line Of defense. The
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