Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-12-10
PRESIDENT TELLS
CONGRESS HIS IDEAS
WILSON'S ANNUAL ADDRESS COW
EDED BROAD FlELD-DE
TENSE TOPIC LEADS.
URGED MERCHANT MARINE
Pan American Policy and Indictment
of Hyphenated Citizens Cheered by
Congress and Visitors-Latin
American Diplomats Attend.

Washington. President Wilson in
his annual address to congress Tues
day laid down the administrator
plans for national defense and told his
hearers it was necessary to have a
new and broad doctrine for Pan-Am-
erica
With sharp words he arraigned
American citizens who by their sym
patty for the foreign belligerents had
endangered the neutrality of the u S.
America never witnessed anything
like this before" declared the presi-
dent with deep feeling
Diplomats Give Heed.
The presidents outline of the plans
for national defense and the need for
them was received in silence by the
senators and representatives, but with
rapt attention. His declaration of
new Pan-American doctrine was re-
ceived with the deepest interest. This
reference was greeted with prolonged
applause and evidently was received
with great interest by the Latin-Amer
lean diplomats who were present.
Outside of the main points of ma
tional defense and his reference to
Pan-Americanism the president COW
cred a broad range of subjects-the
broadcast he ever has included in an
address to congress. They included
the building of merchant marine, the
raising of revenue for the defense
nroiactc rural oradit Iaw ultima = q
independence of the Philippines; con-
servation bills and a variety of meas
ures left over from the last congress.
Republicans AppIaude.
When the president urged merchant
marine legislation he was loudly ap
plauded. He was forced to stop when
he said at is high time we resumed
our commercial independence on the
high seas
Republicans clapped their hands
vigorously when he said that "the tasl
of building up an adequate merchant
marine for American private capita
must ultimately undertake and achiev.
as it has undertaken and achieved
every other like task among us in tn.
past with admirable enterprise, in
: telligence and vigor."
Close attention was given while tn,
; president spoke of the fiscal situation
and there was more applause when h,
: said:
81 for one do not believe that tn,
: people of this country approve of post
. poning the payment of their bills"
Our Own People Blamed ..
81 am sorry to say that the graves
threats against our national peace an,
safety have been uttered within GU
, own borders. There are citizens O
> the United States, l blush to admit
born under other flags but welcomes
+ under our generous naturalization Lax
5 to the full freedom and opportunity o
y America, who have poured the poiso
of disloyalty into the very arteries O
Q our national life; who have sought t
:, bring the authority and good name O
u our government into contempt, to dc
stroy our industries wherever the
It thought it effective for their vindict
y i've purposes to strike at them, and t
o debase our politics to the uses of fol
/ eign intrigue.
"A little while ago such thin
would have seemed incredible. Be
cause it was incredible we made n
preparation for it.
1--WE would have been almost asian
& ed to prepare for it, as if we wer
suspicious of ourselves, our own con
lf.oH lob
and incredible thing has actually com
9 about and we are without adequat
federal laws to deal with it. | urg
7 you to enact such laws at the earlies
possible moment and feel that in DE-
ing so l am urging you to do nothin
less than save the honor and self-r,
A. spect of the nation. Such creature
h of passion, disloyalty and anarch
Y, must be crushed out"
d Conquest and dominion are not /
l. our reckoning, or agreeable to on
o principles. But just because we d,
n mand unmolested development an
the undisturbed government of on
own lives upon our own principles {
right and liberty, we resent, froI
"a NAdNtfCA QdoA tti IL may OOAlC, III
r aggression we ourselves will not pra'
If tice. We insist upon security i
It prosecuting our self-chosen lines {
IL national development. We do NOR
than that. We demand it also fc
others.
I'VE do not confine our enthusiasm
s for industrial liberty and free nation
lie al development to the incidents an
Is movements of affairs which affect OF
lie ly ourselves. We feel it whereve
II there is a people that tries to wal
in these difficult paths of indepen,
ence and right. From the first "
have made common cause with all pa
10 tizans of liberty on this side of tn
f. sea, and have deemed it as importar
Ie that our neighbors should be free frol
D. all outside domination as that we GU
selves should be; have set Americ