The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-12-07
Annual Address Shocks Congress;
Most Far'Reaching Ever
Given.
WORDS SNAP WITH VIGOR:
BURN WITH STRENGTH
Asks That Law Be Passed at Once
Against Disloyalty in Ma
tional Lite.

Washington, Dec. I'm words
fairly swapping with vigor and burn
ing with vitrillic strength, President
Wilson at noon today hurled to con-
gress in his annual message a de-
of hyphenated American
ism. His annual message was
shock to congress. The bitter words
with which he embellished his de-
termination that congress take cog
nizance of corrupted mind and heart
OF those who had poured disloyalty
into the national life, rang out in
the house of representatives. Over
1900 people were jammed in the hall
to hear the message which was prob
ably the most far-reaching in effect of
any in the history of the country.
Must Save Honor.
In regard to hyphenated Americans
President Wilson said:
II am sorry to say that the gravest
threats against our national peace
and safety have been uttered within
our own borders. These are citizens
of the United States, I blush to ad-
nit, born under other flags but well
coined under our own generous natur-
alization laws to the full freedom and
opportunity of America, who have
poured the poison of disloyalty into
the very arteries of our national life:
who have sought to bring the auth
GRITTY of our good name of our gov
eminent into contempt, to destroy
our industries wherever they thought
it effective for their vindictive pur-
poses to strike at them and debase
our politics to the uses of foreign
intrigue. America never witnessed
anything like this before. I urge
you to enact such laws at the earliest
possible moment to deal with this
I am urging this to save
the honor and self respect of the ma
tion.'' ~. ,..5.@
President Wilson's address in part
is as follows: 's.';-s a. -=''' - = :
eve have stood apart, studiously
It was our manifest duty
to do so. Not only did we have no
part or interest in the policies which
seem to have brought the European
conflict on; it was necessary, "
universal catastrophe was to be avoid
ed, that limit should be set to the
sweep of destructive war and That
some part of the great family of ma
tons should keep the processes of
peace alive, if only to prevent COL
lective economic ruin and the break
down throughout the world of the
by which it's populations
are fed and sustained. The states CT
America have become conscious of q
new and more vital community Of
interest and moral partnership in at
fairs, more clearly conscious of the
many common sympathies and inter-
ests and duties which bid them stand
together.
-. Have Stood Test.
1--WE have been put to the test in
the case of Mexico, and we have
stood the test. Whether we have
benefited Mexico by the course we
have pursued remains to be seen. Her
fortunes are in her own hands. But
we have at least proved that we will
not take advantage of her in her
distress and undertake to impose up
on her an order and government of
our own choosing.
1--WE will aid and befriend Mexico,
but we will not coerce her; and our
course with regard to her ought to
be sufficient proof to all America that
we seek no political suzerainty or
selfish control. ~
1.-THE moral is, that the states of
America are not hostile rivals but CO.
operating friends, and that their
growing sense of community, of in
terest, alike in matters political and
in matters economic, is likely to give
them a new significance as factors in
affairs and in the polit-
ical history of the world.
'.This is Pan-Americanism. It has
none of the spirit of empire in it. It
is the embodiment, the efectual en-
bodiment, of the spirit of law and in
dependence and liberty and mutual
service.
War Disciplined Might.
"But war has never been q mere
matter of men and guns. It is q
thing of disciplined might. II our
citizens are ever to fight effectively
upon a sudden summons, they must
know how modern fighting is done,
and what to do when the summons
comes to render themselves immedi-
ately available and Immediately eff
fectiye. And the government must be
their servant in this matter, must
supply them with the training they
need to take care of themselves and
of it. The military arm of their gov
eminent, which they will not allow
to direct them, they may properly
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