New Britain herald., 1915-11-05

1 force and efficiency" a definite policy
 must be adopted and hastened and an
 adequate supply of men and equip I ment provided.
 ] In addition to speaking on national
 defense the president attacked linen who love other countries better than
 America" and men who stir up relig-
 ious and sectarian antagonism. He 1 declared that such men should be
 "called to a reckoning?" Just before
 the dinner the president shook hands
 with ali the guests, including Charles
 F. Murphy.
 Distinguished Guests Present.
 The guests at the banquet included l Secretary of War Garrison, Senator 1 O'Gorman, Mayor John Purroy Nit
 chel, Dudley Field Malone, Collector
 of the port of New York; Judge Ed 1 ward Swann, district attorney -elect of
 New York county; Charles F. Mur-
 phy and other Tammany leaders;
 Roger c. Sullivan of Chicago, and more than 400 other democrats, most 1 of them prominent in New York. 1 The president tonight changed his plans for tomorrow. Instead of leav- 1 ing in the morning he will remain until the afternoon and he and Mrs. Norman Gait, his fiancee, will take lunch with Cleveland H. Dodge, at 1 the latters home here
 The president arrived here short 1 ly after 3 o'clock today and spent l the afternoon with Mrs. Gait. After 1 the banquet he went to the home of 1 Col. E. M. House to spend the night. 1 Each time he appeared on the street he was applauded. Cleveland H. 1 Dodge, personal friend of the presi- dent and member of the Armenian I relief commission, paid him a brief l visit.
 The presidents speech in part fol- l lows:
 Principles We'll Known. Our principles are we'll known. It is not necessary to avow them again. We believe in political liberty of men and of peoples,-of men to choose their own lives and of peoples to choose their own allegiance.
 Our ambition, also, all the world has knowledge of. It is not only t. be free and prosperous ourselves, but also to 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 a nation and we have put them aside. We shall, I confidently believe, never again take another foot of territory by conquest. We shall never in any circumstances seek to make an inde- pendent people subject to our do-. minion; because we believe, We pas sionately believe, in the right of every nnY,1o fo ol hni1 o1 oi and be free of masters altogether Tor ourselves we wish nothing but the full liberty of self-development; and with ourselves in this great mat ter we associate all the peoples of our own hemisphere. We wish not only for the United States but for them the fullest freedom of independent growth and of action, for we know that throughout this hemisphere the same aspirations are everywhere being worked out, under diverse conditions but with the same impulse and ulti mate object. 't,.
 Influences Of War Everywhere.
 'All this is very clear to us and will, l confidently predict. become more and more clear to the whole world as the great processes of the future un- fold themselves. It is with a full con- seriousness of such principles and such am bitions that we are asking our selves at the present time what our duty is with regard to the armed force of the nation. Within a year we l have witnessed what we did not be- l lieve possible, a great European con- 1 f1ict involving many of the greatest 1 nations of the world. The influences of great war are everywhere in the 1 air. All Europe is embattled. Force everywhere speaks out with a loud ] and imperious voice in titanic struggle of governments, and from one l end of our own dear country to the i other men are asking one another
 what our own force is, how far we are
 prepared to maintain ourselves against | any interference with our national l action or development.
 '.In no mans mind, l am sure, is
 there even raised the question of the | wi1ful use of force on our part against any nation or any people. No mat
 ter what military or naval force the
 United States might develop, states
 nen throughout the whole world
 might rest assured that we were 1 gathering that force, not for. attack in any quarter, not for aggression of | any kind, not for the satisfaction of
 any political. or international am- bition, but merely to make sure of our | own security. We have it in mind to
 be prepared, but not for war, but only for defense; and with the thought 1 constantly in our minds that the prin- ciples we hold most dear can be achieved by the slow process of his tory only in the kindly and whole
 some atmosphere of peace, and not by
 the use of hostile force. The mission
 of America in the work is essen
 tally a mission of peace and good 1 will among men, She has become