The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-12-09
WILSON URGES BROAD
PANA1dERICAN IDEAL
WITH PREPAREDNESS
President Asks fer Laws Il
Stamp Out These Who In
lure United States to Aid
Lands Of Birth-Plea
for Development Of
Merchant Marine
APPRENTICESHIP
road Inquiry
Favored.

. road Inquiry
Favored.
Washington, d. c., Dec. T.
President Wilson in his annual
address to Congress today, deal
ing mainly with national defense,
proclaimed an advanced Pan
Americanism grown from the
guardianship Of the Monroe Doc
trine to "the full and honorable
association of all the Americas.
Although, in the longest adj
dress he has yet delivered to Con-
gress, the President touched up
on variety of subjects the pre-
dominating note was the necessi-
ty of a policy Of military pre-
paredntss 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 it within
your view and permit the full
significance of it to command
your thought, l cannot find the
right light in which to set forth
the particular matter that lies at
the very front of my whole
thought as | address you today.
| mean national defense"
The point was not overshad-
owed when the President, in the
most unmeasured terms he has
ever employed before Congress,
denounced naturalized Americans
who by their sympathies for the
European belligerents have en-
dangered American neutrality.
Republicans and Democrats
alike joined in emphatic demon
stration at his words of condem-
nation for those he assailed SO I'M
reservedly.
The President took up Pam
Americanism at the very outset
of his message.
'All the Governments OF
America, said he, stand, so far
as we are concerned, upon foot
ing of genuine equality and I'M
questioned independence. We re-
tain unabated the spirit which
was so frankly put into words by
President Monroe. We still mean
to make a common cause Of ma
tional independence and of politi-
cal liberty in America, but that
purpose is now better understood
so far as it concerns ourselves"
The moral, the President said,
was that the States of America
We're not hostile rivals, but coop
Grating friends, and that their as
ISOLATION was likely to give them
a new significance in world af-
fairs,
The President emphasized the
need of a national training for
defense in harmony with Ameri-
can ideals and institutions, and
referred briefly to the plans out
lined for the army and navy,
which he urged Congress to sane
ton and put into effect "as soon
as they can be properly scrutl-
Enized and discussed"
Frequent demonstrations of APP
proval greeted"-tiieN Z President g
declaration Of the manifest duty
of America to remain studious-
ly neutral" toward the warning
nations abroad, his assertion OF
friendship for Mexico, his urgent
recommendations for an increased
merchant marine the suggestion
of legislation for furthering the
interests of the people of the
Philippines and Porto Rico and
his recommendations for increas-
ing Government revenues.
! But chief attention centered
about the declaration of the plans
for national defense, the procla-
nation of Pan-Americanism and
the virility of the Presidents at
tack upon Americans who, he
said, had brought the good name
of the Government into contempt
Cheers arose from every part
of the hall when he concluded it.
and the demonstration reached
its climax when the President
urged enactment Of laws to purge
the nation of it's internal peril.
There are citizens of the
United States, blush to admit, I
he declared .'born, under othei
flags, but welcomed under ouI
generous naturalization laws, to
the full freedom and opportunity
LOT America, who have poured the
poison Of disloyalty into the very
arfarusaa ~ 0np national life who