The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1915-11-12
Asks Country to Support Pro-
gram to Protect Nation.
WILSON ASKS BIGGER ARMY
Wants 100000 Citizens Trained in the
Next Three Years Through Volun-
tary Enlistment and Approves
Large Naval Increase
Hits "AIien Voices"

son outlined last night the program
for national defense which he will
place before the next congress. and
appealed to the whole country for sup
port.
In an address before the Manhat-
tan club at it's fiftieth anniversary
dinner the president expounded his
plans on preparedness and his views
on other national questions.
President Wilson's speech in part
was as follows:
MIR. POSTMASTER and Gentlemen: |
warmly felicitate the club on the com
pletion of fifty years Of successful and
interesting life.
| shall assume that around the din
ner table on this memorial occasion
our talk should properly turn to the
wide and common interests which are
most in our thoughts, whether they be
the interests of the community or OF
the nation.
Tells of New Problems.
A year and a half ago our thoughts
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
and self-possession, Notwithstanding
we find ourselves in the midst OF a
world disturbed by great disaster and
ablaze with terrible war; but our
thought is now inevitably Of new
,lings about which formerly We gave
ourselves little concern.
We are thinking now chiefly OF our
relation with the rest of the world
not our commercial relations; about
those we have thought and planned
always-but about our political rela-
tions, our duties as an individual and
independent force in the world to our
selves, our neighbors and the world
itself.
U. S. Champion Of Liberty.
Our principles are we'll known. 1t
is not necessary to avOw them again.
We believe in political liberty. and
founded our great government to OBJ
tain it, the liberty of men and of peo-
ples-of men to choose their own lives
and of peoples to choose their own al
legiance.
Our ambition. also. all the world has
knowledge of. 1t is not only to be free
and prosperous ourselves but also tC
be the friend and thoughtful partisan
OF those who are free or who desire
freedom the world over.
If we have had aggressive purposes
and covetous ambitions. they were the
fruit of our thoughtless youth as 6
nation and we have put them aside.
Wants No More Conquest.
We shall, confidently believe
never again take another foot of terri
tory by conquest.
We shall never in any circumstances
seek to make an independent people
subject to our dominion; because W.
believe. we passionately believe. II
the right Of every people to choose
their own allegiance and be free o
masters altogether.
For ourselves We wish nothing bu
| the full liberty Of self-development
! and with ourselves in this create
! matter we associate all the peoples o
our own hemisphere.
We wish, not only for the United
States. but for them the fullest free
dom of independent growth and o
action.
United States Duty on Military.
All this is very clear to us and will
| confidently predict, become NOR
and more clear to the whole world a
the great processes of the future VI
fold themselves. 1t is with a full cor
seriousness of such principles and sue
! ambitions that we are asking oul
selves at present what our duty
with regard to the armed force Of tn
nation.
| Force everywhere speaks out wit
loud and imperious voice in [
tanic struggle of governments an
from one end of our own dear couI
try TO the other men are asking on
another what our own force is. ho'
far we are prepared to maintain GU
| selves against dry ihlCi ChNC VII
our national action or development.
We have ii In mind to be prepared
but not for war. but only for defense
and with the thought constantly
our minds that the principles "
hold most dear can be achieved
the slow processes of history only
the kindly and wholesome atmo
phere OF peace. and not by the use
hostile force.
The mission of America in the wor
is essentially mission of peace ar
good will among men.
America has been made up out
the nations of the world and is Il
friend of the nations OF the world.
But We feel justified in preparir
ourselves 10 vindicate our right
! independent and unmolested action |
making the force that is in us reaC
for assertion.