Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-12-18


our manifest course of prudence 10 be
strong on the seas. Year by year We
have been creating a navy which now
ranks very high indeed among the
nayies OF the maritime nations. We
should now definitely determine how
we shall complete what we have be-
gun and how soon.
1.-THE POISON OF DISLOYALTY"
have spoken to you today, Gentle
men, upon a single theme, the thor
ough preparation of the nation to care
| for its own security and TO make sure
! of entire freedom TO play the Impair
tial role in this hemisphere and in the
world which we all believe TO have
been providentially assigned TO 1t.
have had in my mind no thought or
any immediate or particular danger
nations. We are at peace with all the
nations OF the world, and there is rea-
son to hope that no question in con-
troyersy between this and other gov
ernments will lead to any serious
breach of amicable relations, grave as
some differences of attitude and pol
icy have been and may yet turn out to
| be. am sorry to say that the grayest
threats against our national peace and
safety have been uttered within our
own borders.
There are citizens of the United
States, | blush to admit, born under
other flags but welcomed under our
generous naturalization laws to the
/ full freedom and opportunity of Am
erica, who have poured the poison OF
disloyaIty into the very arteries OF
! our national life; who have sought
Etc bring the authority and good name
Of our government into contempt, to
destroy our industries wherever they
thought ii effective for their vindic-
tive purposes to strike at them, and
to debase our politics to the uses Of
! foreign intrigue. Their number is not
great as compared with the whole
number of those sturdy hosts by
which our nation has been enriched
in recent generations out OF yirfle
foreign stocks; but It is great enough
i to have brought deep disgrace upon
US and to have made it necessary that
we should promptly make use of pro
cesses of law by which We may be
purged of their corrupt distempers.
America never Witnessed anything
like this before. II never dreamed 1t
possible that men sworn into its own
citizenship, men drawn out of great
free stocks such as supplied some OF
the best and strongest elements fof
that little, but how heroic, nation that
] in high day of old staked its very
| life to free itself from every entangle-
ment that had darkened the fortunes
OF the older nations and set up new
standard here-that men of such orig.
i ms and such free choices of allegiance
would ever turn in malign reaction
against the government and people
who had welcomed and nurtured them
and seek to make this proud country
once more a hotbed of European pas
sion.
luNPREPAREp FOR SUCH THINGS.
A little while ago such thing
would have seemed incredible. Be-
1 cause 1t was incredible we made no
Il preparation for it. We would have
been almost ashamed to prepare for
it. as if we were suspicious of our
selves, our own comrades and neigh
bors. But the ugly and incredible
thing has actually come about and
we are without adequate federal laws
1 to deal with it. / urge you to enact
such laws at the earliest possible mo-
ment and feel that in doing so am
urging you to do nothing less than
save the honor and self-respect of the
nation Such creatures of passion
disloyalty and anarchy must be crush
ed out. They are not many, but they
are infinitely malignant, and the hand
OF our power should close over them
at once. They have formed plots te
destroy property, they have entered
into conspiracies against the neutral
ity of the government, they have
sought to pry into every confidential
transaction of the government in or
der to serve interests alien to oul
] ~Pre.G5 fs~posSible to deal with these
livery effectually. / need mo-
- the terms in which they may
Co., 6iSht with.
Ssh that it could be said tina
few men, misled by mistaken
6s2 Kitents of allegiance to the gov
, and 2Elts under which they were
ruga naO Deen, SuIlIy VI uiolui olht
llf-possession and misrepresent
temper and principles of thu
OTTO, 515y during these days of terrible
nber anghen it would seem that ever.
Who was truly an American
- instinctively make it his dut.
IVA, coris pride to keep the scales o
> rugs, lent even and prove himself
an of no nation but his own. Blu
az. 1ednot There are some mel
o. hS us, and many resident abroat
though born and bred in tn
States and calling themselye
cutcans, have so forgotten them
- and their honor as citizens a
nikiyo. their passionate sympathy wit
br the other side in the grea
------7ean conflict above their regar
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