The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-08
Presidents message in full will be found on pages s and 9.

k.s-s.s~s-s-s-s-s~s-s-s. December 7-President tison in his annual address to Con- Ess today, dealing mainly with national Fense, proclaimed an advanced Pan- Etericanism grown from the guardian No of the Monroe doctrine to "the full Ia honorable association of all the hericas.
 Hlthough in the longest address he has \ delivered to Congress the President Eched upon variety of subjects, the Nominating note was the necessity of Eolicy of military preparedness to meet they will affect the American con |hnt. He emphasized his point by Eing:
 EJnless you take it within your view
 permit the full significance of it to lmand your thought, I cannot find right light in which to set forth the UIliSuidl HidttSI tidt lleS dl the very Nit of my whole thought as I address
 to day. I mean national defense' he point was not overshadowed when
 President, in the most unmeasured kns he ever has employed before Con- .ess, denounced naturalized Americans Ip by their sympathies for the Euro ] in belligerents have endangered Ameri- neutrality. While Congress cheered N loudly he referred to them as hav- poured the poison of disloyalty into N very arteries of our national life, ?
 as those who would turn in malign ,tion against the government and the ple who had welcomed and nurtured En-" With evidences of deep feeling President expressed "the even deeper piliation and scorn which every self asessed and thoughtfully patriotic erican must feel when he thinks of Nh and of the discredit they are daily ISging upon us.'
 |7hile the Presidents outline of the linistration plan for the army and " passed without ripple of applause his reference to Pan-Americanism 3e only punctuated with evidences of <roval, republicans and democrats &e joined in an emphatic demonstration his words of condemnation for those ssailed so unreservedly.
 PAN-AMERICANISM
 Be President took up Pan-American- at the very outset of his message Iall the governments of America" said t"stand, so far as we are concerned, "a footing of genuine equality and Questioned independence. We retain epated the spirit which was so frankly into words by President Monroe. We r mean to make a common cause of sonaI independence and of political Ir,ty in America. but that purpose is II better understood so far as it con rs ourselves
 ,,e moral, the President said, was that 4 states of America were not hostile Els but cooperating friends and that M association was likely to give them New significance in world affairs. Keparated they are subject to all the Fs currents of the confused politics V world of hostile rivalries," said he. lteu III SplTlt anu puTpoSS lney cdii- Abe disappointed in their peaceful des- q This is Pan-Americanism. It has rs of the spirit of empire in it. It le embodiment. the effectual embodi- &t, of the spirit of law and independ- &, and liberty and mutual service Hreat democracies, the President n, are peaceful, not seeking war X without thought of conquest or & inion.
 <3ut just because we demand un- Rested development and the undis- ped government of our own lives h our own principles or right and lrty,' he declared, we resent from
 tever quarter 1t may come the az Bsion we ourselves will not prac-
 We insist upon security in prose ng our self-chosen lines of nation evelopment. We do more than that
 demand it also for others. From
 first we have made common cause
 all partisans of liberty on this
 of the sea and have deemed il Important that our neighbors should frex, from all outside domination as
 we ourselves should be; have sei ,rica aside as a whole for. the uses
 Independent nations and poiitica
 dom"
 NATIONAL DEFENSE
 om that point the President em
 sized the need of national train
 for defense in harmony with Amer.
 ideals and institutions. and ther
 rred briefly to the plans outlined
 the army and navy which he urged
 gress to sanction and put into eff,
 s'as soon as they can be properl,
 tinized and discussed.
 requs-t demonstrations of approva
 
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