The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1915-12-09
tage because of the economic readjust-

tage because OF the economic readjust-
ments which the world must inevi-
tably witness within the next genera.
ton, when peace shall have at last re-
sumed its healthful tasks. In the per.
Torrance OF these tasks believe the
| Americas to be destined to play their
parts together. | am interested to fix
your attention on this prospect now
because unless you take it 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 les
at the very front of my whole thought
as ! address you today. | mean ma
tional defense.
No one who really comprehends the
spirit OF the great people for whom
we are appointed to speak can fail to
perceive that their passion is for
peace, their genius best displayed In
! the practice of the arts Of peace. Great
| democracies are not belligerent They
| do not seek or desire war. Their
| thought il OF individual liberty and OF
the free labor that supports life and
! the uncensored thought that quickens
| it. Conquest and dominion are not in
| our reckoning, or agreeable to our
| principles. But Just because we de.
mand unmolested development and
the undisturbed government OF our
own lives upon oJl own principles OF
| right and liberty, we resent, from
whatever quarter it may come, the ag.
grcssion we ourselves will not prac-
| tce. We insist upon security in prose.
! cutting our selfchoscn lines of nation.
al development We do more than that
We demand it also for others.
Question of Preparedness.
Out of such thoughts grow all our
policies. We regard war merely as Il
means Of asserting the rights Of PEG.
pie against aggression. And we are
as iiercoly Jealous of coercye or die
tatorial power within our own nation
as of aggression from without. We
will not maintain a standing army cX-
cept for uses viii = are as necessary
in times of peace as in times OF war;
and we shall always see to it that our
military peace establishment is no
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which no enemies move against us
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citizens ready and sufficient to take
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