Connecticut western news., 1915-11-11
WILSON TELLS PEACE PLANS TO COUNTRY
First Public Speech on Pre-
 paredneSS In New York.

President Wilson. in an address at the tiftieth anniversary banquet of the Manhattan club held in the Fillmore hotel, New York. after warmly fclici- tating the club on its success. launched into q speech dealing with national problems. Mir. Wilson outlined the ma. tons principles. declared against con quest of territory and then referred to the new problems created by the Euro pean war He said in part:
 We have 1t in mind to be prepared not for war, but only for defense and with the thought constantly in our minds that the principles We hold most dear can be achieved by the slow process Of history only in the kindly and wholesome atmos. phere of peace and not by the use of hos tile force.
 The mission of America in the world is essentially a mission of peace and good will among men. She has become the home and asylum of men of all creeds anu races.
 But we feel justified in preparing our elves 10 vindicate our right to independ. ent and unmolested action by making the force that is in us ready for assertion.
 And we know that We can do this in way that will he itself an illustration of the American spirit. Tn accordance with
 
 shall work for only an army adequate to the constant and legitimate uses of times of international peace
 Plans Going to Congress.
 It is with this idea. with this conception. in mind that the plans have been made which 1t will be my privilege to lay before the congress at its next session. That plan calls for only such an increase in the regular army of the United States as ff ha performance of the necessary duties of the army in the Philippines in Hawaii, in Porto Rico. upon the borders of the Unit ed States. at the coast Qualifications and at the military posts of the interior.
 For the rest it calls for the training within the next three years of force of GOO citizen soldiers to be raised in an- nual continGents of 133000, who would he asked to enlist for three years with the colors and three years on furlough. but who during their three years of enlistment with the colors would not be organized into standing force, but would be eN- pected merely to undergo intensive train ing for a very brief period of each year
 Their training would take place in .im- mediate association with the organized units of the regular army. It would have no touch of the amateur about it, neither would 1t exact of the volunteers more than they could give in any one year from their civilian pursuits.
 And none of this would be done in such a way as in the slightest degree to super sede or subordinate our present service able and efficient national guard.
 Navy First Line of Defense.
 Moreover. it has been American policy time out of mind to look to the navy as the first and chief line of defense. The navy of the United States Is already a very great and efficient force. Not rapid ly, but slowly, with careful attentions our naval force has been developed until the navy of the United States stands recog. nized as one of the most efficient and not. able of the modern time.
 Part of our problem is the problem Of what I may call the mobilization of the resources of the nation at the proper time if 1t should ever he necessary to mobilize them for national defense. We shall study efficiency and adequate equipment as care fully as we shall study the number and size of our ships, and I believe that the plans already in part made public by the navy department are plans which the whole nation can approve with rational enthusiasm. %
 No thoughtful man feels any panic haste in this matter The country is not threat ened from any quarter. She stands in friendly relations with all the world. Her resources are known and her self respec' and her capacity to care for her own citi. zens and her own rights. There is no feai amongst us. Under the new world condi. tions we have become thoughtful of the things which all reasonable men consdn necessary for security and self defense c' the part of every nation confronted wit the great enterprise of human liberty anf independence That is all.
 Tn the fulfllment of the program I pro pose I shall ask for the hearty support the country, of the rank and file of Amer ica. of men of all shades of political opin ion.
 Come. let us renew our allegiance [, America, conserve our strength in It's nu rity, make her chief among those whr serve mankind, self reverenced, self com manded. mistress of all forces of quiet counsel, strong above all others in goo" will and the might of invlncible justir' and right