White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-12-12
PRESIDENT WILSON N
MESSAGE, LAMBASTS
NATIONS MAl|GNERS

President Wilson, in his annual ad-
dress to Congress Tuesday dealing
mainly with national defense, pro-
claimed an advanced Parliamentary
ism growing from guardianship of
the Monroe doctrine to "the full and
honorable association of all the
Americas.
Although in the longest address he
has yet delivered to Congress. the
President touched upon a variety of
subjects. the predominating note was
the necessity of a policy of military
preparedness to meet the readjust-
ments of the next generation as they
will affect the American continent.
He emphasized his point by saying:
Unless you take 1t within your
view and permit the full significance
of 1t to command your thought, / can
not find the right light in which
to set forth the particular matter
that lies at the very front of my
whole thought as I address you to-
day. | mean national defense"
The point was not overshadowed
when the President, in the most un-
measured terms he ever has employ
ed before Congress, denounced natur-
allied Americans who by their SYM
rathies for the European h~elligerents
have endangered American neutral
ity. While Congress cheered him
loudly he referred to them as having
poured the poison of disloyalty into
the very arteries of our national life
and as those who would turn in
malign reaction against the Govern
ment and the people who had well
coined and nurtured them" With
evidences of deep feeling the Presi-
dent expressed 1.-THE even deeper hui
initiation and scorn which every self
possessed and thoughtful patriotic
American must feel when he thinks
Of them and the discredit they are
daily bringing upon u.s."
While the Presidents outline of
the administration plan for the Army
and Navy passed without a ripple of
applause, and his references to Pan
Americanism were only p%uncuated
with evidences Of approval. Repub-
licans and Democrats alike joined in
an emphatic demonstration at his
words of condemnation of those he
~assailed SO un~reservedly.
Great demoeraeies, the President
said, are peaceful, not seeking wal
and without thought of conquest Of
dominion.
The President emphasized the need
of a national training for defense in
harmony with American ideals and
institutions, and then referred briefly
to the plans outlined for the Army
and Navy, which he urged Congress
to sanction and put into effect las
soon as they can be properly scruti-
nized and discussed"
Frequent demonstration of appro-
val greeted the Presidents declara-
tion of the manifest duty of America
to remain "studiously neutral to-
ward the warning nations abroad; his
assertion of friendship for Mexico;
his urgent recommendations for an
increased merchant marine; the sug.
gestion of legislation for furtherine
the interests of the people of the
Philippines and Porto Rico, and his
Recommendations for increasing Gov
eminent revenues.
But chief attention conferred about
the delineation of the plans for ma.
tional defense, the proclamation OF
Pan-Americanism, and the virility OF
the attack of the President upon
Americans, who, he said, had brought
the good name of the Government
into contempt. He delivered his de-
nunciation in crisp phrases, and Con
gress seemed to hang on every word
Cheers rose from every part of the
hall when he concluded it, and the
demonstration reached its climax
when the President urged enactment
of laws to purge the nation of its
internal peril.
There are citizens of the United
States, l blush to admit" he de-