The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-21
DISCIPLES OF BRYAN
LIKENED TO TORIES
"ShOuld H. Run Into Canada"
Sons Of American RrvOlu-
ton Are Told.
ARMY AND NAVY TOASTED

The wording Of the toast 20 the army
and navy by Louis Amin Ames. toast
master. at the t%wenty-sixth annual ban
quet Of the Empire state Society Sons
of the American Revolution In the grand
ballroom OF the Waldorf laet night was
in a way the text used by about all
of the speakers Of the evening.
ITO the army and the navy" said
Mr.. Ames. as the 200 or more men and
women descendants of revolutionary
stock drank the toast. MAY both arms
of the service be as strong as the needs
of the nation"
That doctrine OF preparedness ran
through the addresses which. with songs
in,erspersed by Miss Fetelle Harris and
John Barnes Wells. followed. particularly
In the speeches OF W. Morsan Shustci.
ex-Treasurer-General and financial adj
wiser of Persia. and of Henry a. Wise
! Wood. metnber Of the United States Navy
Advisory Board. who. after saying ina
ne Intended 10 be 'brutally rank In
ened the advocates Of Organism and
Ford.sm, which is an ofshoot Of Bryan
ISM" to the Tories whom the ancestors
of the diners drove into Canada, just
as these men to-day. going about with
no sincerity In their hearts and preach
In the maine of Christ should he treated.
Mr.. Wood lashed into Germany for
what he called her assault upon the
Monroe Doctrine in her ,norts AT com
, mercial colonization In South America.
On the ives, coast he said he had IT on
"nnimpeachable authority" that at the
| present time lecturers employed by the
japanese Government are preaching that
preparedness Is running Japan ana thar
America. Therefore. hould best not fol-
low Japan
Then MIR. Wood got after the Admins
! ~tration, characterizIng tn" Secretary or
War az IAN amateur Secretary Of War,
| a charming legal gentleman" VINO turns
down the General Stlfs plans and al
though mot aualiii.d" to perfect pre-
~paredncss lis attempting TO put through
"A plan OF his own which Is worthless be-
, cause. Mr.. Wood thought. II Is "A haIf
hearted compromis" plan designed 10
pleas Sc all factions II voters. Mr.. Wood
described things as quite as bah IN tne
| Nevy Departments scheme OF prepared
ness, where again he said factions such
a. THE $4,000 farmers In North Caro-
| lima who decided We do not need greater
! preparedness have their hands on the
| overnm=nt throat our navy must
be second in size at least. said Mi.
Wood.
Mr.. Wood admitted lie wasn't speak
ing automatically. Mr.. Shuhier spoke
dlplo,naticaily. He too spoke for pre-
paredness. and he lost some OF his re-
serve as he spoke Of the dislike ana
jealousy which. he said. he knows that
all the nations now at war feel toward
America.
"Expel any thought YOU may have.
SAIL Mr.. Shustcr. that abroad we are
regarded as dem!eois. The countries
now struggling In Europ" all dislike W.
| because OF our institutions. our size. our
wealth. 7 have no fear what the great
mass of our people would do III u crisis.
but | nav" great fears for tn" ability OF
our people to understand the steps neces-
sary 10 taxi. ear" OF ourselves. for
ON. have no fear OF the demon nilitar-
ism IN the United States. nc fear that
IL will end4nger our liberties, but If II
does prefer to have them endangered
from the inside rather than from "A
,iespotism thrust upon us from the out
side" lApplause.l
Mrs. William Cumming Story. rresi-
den, general of the National Society
Daughters Of the American Revolution,
the only woman at the sneakers table
also spoke on the necessity FOR prepared
ness. President General Newell Is
Woodwork OF the sons OF the American
Revolution, Frederic & Howe. United
states Commissioner of immigration. anc
John Sayles. secretary TO Mayor Fuhr'
mann OF Buffalo. also spoke, The Rev
Dr. Frank oliver Hall, chaplain OF thu
organization, spoke the invocation.