The Detroit times., 1915-11-05
Urges All Parties to
Give Support to
Program
RAPS LIP-LOYAL
AMERICANS
Great New York Crowd
Greets Wilson With
Enthusiasm

NEW YORK. Nov. 5.-Before a
distinguished audience in the Man
haitian club last night President VIII
son opened his preparedness" cam
paign:
The president said In part II shall
assume that here around the dinner
table ON this memorable occasion
our talk should properly turn to the
wide and common interests which
they be the interests Of the commun-
! ity or OF the nation.
"A year and a half ago our thought
would have been also altogether OF
great domestic questions. They are
many and OF vital consequence We
must and shall address ourselves to
their solution with diligence, firm-
standing we md ourselves in the
midst of world disturbed by great
disaster and ablaze with terrible
war, but our thought is now newt
ably. OF new things about which for
merly we gave ours, Ives little con-
Germ. We are thinking now chiefly
OF our relations with the rest of the
worfd-not our commercial relations
planned always--hut about our poll
zeal relations. our duties az an in
dividuaI and indepe ndent force In the
world to ourselves, our neighbors,
ana the wOrlu ltteir.
Our principles are well known.
We heiievs' in political liberty and
founded our great government TO
obtain IL. the liberty OF men and OF
peoples--of meu To cnoose their own
lives and Of peoples "a choose their
own allegiance our ambition. also,
all the world has knowledge OF. IL
IL not only 10 be free and prosperous
ourselves. hut also To be the friend
and thoushtful partisan of those who
are free or who desire freedom the
world over n wee have had aggres-
sive purposes and covetous ambitions.
they were the fruit az our thought
less youth as n nation and we have
put them aside. We shall. ! con-
fidently believe. never again take an
other foot of territory by conquest
All this n i very ri.sn e S Us and
more and more clear to the whole
future unfold themselves. It Is with
full consciousness OF such prin
are asking ourselves at the present
time what Our duty 10. With regard
to the armed force of De nation:
Within . yesr we have witnessed
great European confiiet involving
many OF the greatest nations Of thu
world. The infiuences Of great war
are everywhere In the air and from
the other men are asking one an
other what our own force In. how
far we are prepared to maintain our
selves against any interference with
We have It in mind to be pre-
pared. but not for war. but only for
defense; and with the. thought con-
stantiy In our minds that the prin-
ciples we hold most dear can be
history only in the kindly and whole
by the use Of hostile force.
But we feel justified In preparing
independent and unmolested action
by making the force that In In us
ready for assertion.
in q way that viii be Itself an ilius-
tration of the American spirit In
accordance with our American tradi-
tons we want and shall work for
only an army ,., dt9uats to Q, i ,,s con- .;
International peace, But we do want
to feel that there In a great body Of
citizens who have received at least
the most rudimentary and necessary
will be ready to form Themselves
into q lighting force at the call OF
the nation: and that the nation has
the so .Sn. ; ana HBass a:. sS
should II be necessary to. cali them
into action. We wish TO supply them
with the training they need. and We
think we can do 30 without calling
them at any time too long away
from their civilian pursuits.
II 10 with this idea, with this con-
ception, In mind that the plans have
been made which Il will be my priv.
ilsge to lay before the cons rsss at
It's next session. That plan calls for
only such an increase in the regular
army of che United States ~ exper-
isnce has proved to b: required for
duties Of the army In the Philippines.
In Hawaii, in Porto Rico. upon the
borders Of the United States, at the
tsry nosts az the interior For the
rest, u calls for the training within
the next three years OK force Of