Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-12-08
WILSON LASHES
DISLOYAL;; ASKS
They Be CURBED
President Flags NaturaliEed Amer
leans Who Peril U. S. Neutral
ity by Sympathies with
Belligerents.
PLEADS FOR PREPAREDNESS
Executive Tells Congress His Plans
for Strengthening National
Defenses.
TALKS ON PAN-AMERICAN1sM

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-Presi-
dent Wilson in his annual address to
congress today dealing mainly with
national defense, proclaimed an ad-
vanced PanAmericanism growing
from the guardianship of the Monroe
doctrine to 1.-THE full and honorable
association" of all the Americas.
Although in the longest address he
has yet delivered to congress the
president touched upon variety OF
subjects, the predominating note was
the necessity of policy of military
preparedness to meet the readjust-
ments of the next generation as they
will affect the American continent
He emphasized his point by saying:
"Unless you take 1t within your
view and permit the full significance
of It to command your thought,
can not find the right light in which
to set forth the particular matter
that lies at the very front OF my
whole hought as l address you today.
i mean udllOudl uSlSuSO'
Flaws DisloynI Americans.
The point was not overshadowed when
the president in the most unmeasured
terms he ever has employed before con-
gress denounced naturalized Americans
who by their sympathies with European
belligerents have endangered American
neutrality. While congress cheered to
him loudly he referred to them as having
poured the poison of disloyalty into the
very arteries of our national life. and
'who would turn in malign reaction
against the government and the people
who had welcomed and nutured them"
with evidences of deep feeling. the pres'-
dent expressed "the even deeper humili-
alton and scorn which every self possessed
and thoughtful patriotic American must
feel when he thinks Of them and Of the
d,scredit they are daily bringing upon us, =
While the presidents outline Of the
administration. plan. for. the army AND
navy passed without ripple OF applause
and his references to pan-Americanisn
were only punctuated with evidences OF
approval republicans and democrats alike
Joined in an emphatic demonstration al
his words OF condemnation for those he
assaiIed so unreservedly.
The president took up Pan-Americanisn
at the very outset of his message.
On Footing of Equality.
'All the governments Of America" hC
said ''stand so far as we are concerned
upon a footing of genuine equality ant
unquestioned Independence. We retail
unabated the spirit which was so franlxl!
= put into words by President Monroe. w
national independence and of politica
liberty in America. but that purpose 4
now better understood so far as 1t con
Germs ourselves"
The moral the president said is tina
the states of America were not hostil
rivals, but cooperating friends and tina
their ASSOCIATION were likely to give then
a new significance in world affairs.
Separated they are subject to all tbs
cross-currents of the confused politics o.
a world of hostile rivalries." said he
United in spirit and purpose they canno
be disappointed in their peaceful destiny
This Is pan-Americanism. 1t has none o.
the spirit of empire IN It. 1t is the EN-
bodiment. the effectual embodiment o
the spirit of law and independence anC
liberty and mutual service"
Great DemOcracies Peaceful.
Great democracies, the president said
are peaceful, not seeking war and with
cut thought or conquest or dominion.
But just because we demand unmo
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