Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-11-06
WILSON PLAN0N
PREPAREDNESS
IS MADE KNOWN
President Publicly Outlines
the Proposals He Will
Make to Congress
"HYPHENS" GIVEN
SEVERE LACING

Says Nation Must Deal With
Those Whose Sympathies
Are in the Old World
New York, Nov Sin an address
before the Manhattan club at its
fftieth anniversary dinner last night
President Woodrow Wilson expounded
his plans on national military prepar-
edness and his views on other national
questions. Summarized, his speech
embraced the following suggestions:
Army.
Increase of tile regular army The
training within the next three years of
force of 100000 citizen soldiers, in
annual contingents of $4,000. They
are to enlist three years under the
colors, not organized as a standing
force but undergoing intensive train
ing for brief period each year; then
three years on furlough.
Navy.
The president approves the navy de-
partment plans. They call for five
year program at cost of 100000, 900.
They propose fifteen to twenty ships
of the dreadnaught and battle cruiser
type; nearly 100 new submarines; sew
eral swift scout cruisers; seventy tor
pedo boat destroyers; a proportionate
number of hospital and supply ships;
an adequate fleet of aeroplanes and
dirigibles
Territory.
America will never take another
foot of territory by conquest This
. declaratinn,, applies inferentially to
Mexico and Haiti, and Is interpreted
as a reinsurance to the Pan-American
people.
Americas Mission.
Peace and good villa hint Of our
willingness to mediate in the Euro
pean war.
Arraigns the "Hyphens.''
His arraignment of the "hyphenated"
Americans was most severe as was
also his condemnation of those who
inject religion into politics. Follow
ing are extracts from his speech bear
ing on these matters:
"The only thing within our own
!, borders that has given us grave con-
: cern in recent months has been that
voices have been raised in America
processing to be the voices of Ameri-
cans which were not indeed and in
truth American, but which spoke alien
eympathjes, which came from men
who loved other countries better than
they loved America; men who were
partisans of other causes than that of
America and had forgotten that their
chief and only allegiance was to the
great government under which they
lived These voices have not been
many, but they. have been very loud
and very clamorOus. They have pro-
ceeded from few who were bitter
and who were grievously misled.
"The vast majority of those who
have come to take advantage Of her
(America's) hospitality have united
their spirits with hers as we'll as their
fortunes. These men who speak alien
synnpathies are not their spokesmen
but are the spokesmen of small groups,
whom it is high time the nation should
call to reckoning"
"The chief thing necessary in Amer
lea - is that that real voice of the
nation should sound forth unmistak-
nbly and in majestic volume, in the
deep unison of a common, unhesitat-
inR(y national feeling. I do not doubt
that upon the first occasion, upon the
arst opportunity, upon the first definite
challenge. that voice will speak forth
In. tones which no man can doubt and
with commands which no man dare
gainsay or resist.
"There is another danger that we
should guard against. We should re-
buke not only manifestations of racial
feeling here in America, where there
should be none, but also every mani.
festation of religious and sectarian
antagonism. It does not become
America that within her borders,
where every man is free to follow the
dictates of his conscience and worship
God as he pleases, man should raise
The cry or church against church. TO
10 that is to strike at the very spirit
Ind heart of America"
"Come. let us renew our allegiance
to America, conserve her strength in
ts purity, make her chief among
Shose who serve mankind, self rever-
enced. self commanded, mistress of all
forces of quiet counsel, strong above
ali others in good will and the might
of invincible Justice and right
BRYAN Is OPPOSED.
Washington, d. c., Nov. 5.-William
J. Bryan came out squarely against
President Wilson's national defense
plan today In formal statement in
, which he took issue with the presi
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