The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-05
Iof National Defense Program
and Reitera les ThatItis for
Peace. Mdt Iar.

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I, Peace \. Not ]: Mar.
President Wilson'S address bsfpre
the Manhattan Club. IN New York
Thprsday night at It's fiftieth amt
vefBary dinner was as follows:
MI. foast ,master md Gentlemen:
warmly feIici tate the club upAn
the completion 81 fifty years OF sue
cessfuf and interesting life. Club life
mey be made to mean. q great deal
No those who know how to use It.
have no doubt that to a great many
OF you has come genuine stimula-
tiQn in the associations Of this place
ana that as the years have multi
plied you have seen more and more
the useful ends which may be served
by organizations ot93this sort.
But I have not sepme to speak
Wholly OF that, for there are others
ofyour members who can speak Of
the club WITH knowledge and an
intelligence which no one can have
who has not been intimately as
ISOLATED with It. Men band them-
selves together for the sake Of the
association no doubt, but also for
something greater and deepen than
that because they are conscious of
common interests lying outside their
business oecup ons, because they
are members OF the same commune
" and in frequent Intercourse find
mutual stimulation and a real maxi
mum Of vitality and power. !. shall
assume that here around the dinner
table on this memorial occasion our
talk should properly turn to the
wide and. common interests which
are mostzain our thoughts, whether
they be the interests Of the communi-
+ ~ or of the nation.
A year and a half ago our thought
would have been almost altogether of
great domestic questions. They are
many and Of vital consequence. We
q must and shall address ourselves to
their solution with diligence, firmness
and self-possession,a Notwithstanding
we find ourselves in the midst OF q
world disturbed By. great disaster and
ablaze with terrible war; but our
thought 10 now inevitably Of new
things about which formerly we gave
ourselves little concern. We are
thinking now chiefly pf our relations
with the rest Of the world-not our
Monumental relations-about those
we have thought and planned al
] Ways-but about our political rela-
ttons, our duties as an individual and
Independent force in the world to
ourselves, our neighbors, and the
world itself.
Our principles are we'll known. 1T
issnot necessary to avow them again.
We believe in political liberty and
founded our great government to
obtain 1t, the liberty of men and Of
tpeople-of men to choose their own
Hives and Of peoples to choose their
Town allegiance. Our. ambition, also,
rail- the world has knowledge of. It
lis not only to be free and prosperous
/ ourselves, but also to be the friend
land thoughtful partisan OF those who
! are free or who desire freedom the
world over. If we have had aggres-
Esiye purposes and covetous ambtl
tons, they we're the fruit Of our
thoughtless youth as a nation and
we have put them aside. We shall,
confidently believe, never again
take another foot OF territory by con.
quest. We shall never In any cir
scumstances seek to make an indepen-
I dent people subject to our dominion:
because we believe, we passionately
believe. in the right Of every people
(. to choose their own allegiance and
be free Of masters altogether. For
ourselves we wish nothing but the full
liberty Of self-development; and with
ourselves in this great matter 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 tho
same aspirations are everywhere be.
ing worked out, under diverse con-
ditions but with the same impulse and
ultimate object. ,'as'Si vi E g
Ali thisis very, clear to us and will
] confidently predict become mora
and more clear to the whole world as
the great processes Of the future un,
fold themselves. It is with q full con-
seriousness of such principles and
4 6US4 1iuOLL1OuS LAdt VIC 'dl6dSh OuEN'
selves at the present time what our
duty is with regard to armed force
OF the nation. Within a year we have
witnessed what we did not BELIEVE
possible great European conflict In
yolvihg many Of the greatest nations
Of the world. The influences OF q
great war are everywhere in the air.
All Europe Is embattled. Force every.
where speaks out with a loud and inn
perious voice In a titanic struggle OF
governments, and from one end OF our
own dear country to the other men are
askipg one another what our own
force is. how far we are prepared to
maintain ourselves against any inter-
ference without national action or
development.
In no mans mind, am Sure. Is
there even raised the question Of tina
wilf1l use Of force on our part against
any nation or any people. No mat,
ter what military or naval force tho
United States might develop, sta:es.
men throughout the whole world might
rest assured that we were gathering
that. force, not for attack in any quar-
ter not for aggression OF any kind, not
for the satisfaction Of any political