Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-12-10
Mr.. WILSON 70 CONGRESS
President Delivers Notable Annual
Message.
IMPORTANCE OF full PREPAREDNESS.
Would Have all American Govern
ments to Get Themselves In Shape
to Stand Tosether-very Emphatic
in Denunciation of DisIoyaIty.

Would Have all American Govern
ments to Get Themselves In Shape
to Stand Tosether-very Emphatic
in Denuneiation Of DisIoyaIty.
President Wilson in his annual ad-
dress to congress last Tuesday deal
ng mainly with national defense, pro-
claimed an advanced pan-Americanism
grown to guardianship of the Monroe
Doctrine to "the full and honorable
association" Of all the Americans.
Although in the longest address he
has yet delivered to congress- the
president touched upon variety Of
subjects, the predominating note was
the necessity Of a policy Of military
preparedness to meet the readjustment
of the next generation as they will af-
feet the American continent He en-
phasized his point by saying:
Unless you take it within your
view and permit the full significance
Of 1t to command your thought,
cannot find the right light in which
to set forth the particular matter that
lies at the very front Of my whole
thought as address you today. I
mean national defense"
The point was not overshadowed
when the president in the most un-
measured terms he ever has employed
before congress denounced naturalized
for the Europen belligerents have en-
dangered American neutrality. While
congress cheered him loudly, he re-
ferred to them as having poured the
poison Of disloyalty into the very ar
teries Of our national life" and as
those who would turn in malign re-
action against the government and the
people who had welcomed and nurtur-
ed them" With evidences Of deep
feeling the president expressed the
even deeper humiliation and scorn
which every self possessed and
thoughtfully patriotic American must
feel when he thinks Of them and Of the
discredit they are daily bringing upon
U.s."
While the presidents outline of
the administration plans for the army
and navy passed without ripple Of
applause, and his references to pam
Americanism were only punctuated
with evidences Of approval, Republi-
emphatic demonstration at his words
Of condemnation for those he assailed
so unreservedly.
The president took up pan-Ameri-
canism at the very outset Of his mes
sage.
"All the governments Of America"
he said, stand so far as we are con-
cerned, upon a footing Of genuine
equality and unquestioned independ-
ence. We retain unabated the spirit
which was so frankly put into words
by President Monroe. We still mean to
make common cause Of national
in America but that purpose Is now
better understood 80 far as 1t con-
Germs ourselves"
The moral, the president said. was
that the states Of America were not
hostile rivals but cooperating friends
and that their association was likely
to give them new significance In
world affairs.
Separated they are subject to all
the cross currents Of the confused
politics of the world Of hostile rival
purpose they cannot be disappointed
in their peaceful destiny. This is
pan n-Americanism," he said. 1T has
no spirit of empire in it. 1t Is the
embodiment, the effectual embodi-
ment Of the spirit Of law and inde-
pendence and liberties and mutual
service"
Great democracies, the president
said, are peaceful, not seeking war
and without thought Of conquest or
dominion.
But just because we demand un-
molested development and the undis-
turbed government Of our own lives
upon our own principles or right and
liberty" he said, I'VE resent from
whatever quarter it may come the
aggression we ourselves will not prac-
tice. We insist upon security In pros
pecting our self chosen lines Of ma
tional development. We do more
than that. We demand 1t also for
others. From the first we have made
common cause with all partisans Of lib
deemed 1t as important that our neigh
bors should be free from all outside
domination as that we ourselves should
be; have set America aside as whole
for the uses of Independent nations
and political freedom"
From that point the president en-
phasized the need Of g. national train
ing for defense in harmony with
American ideals and institutions and
then referred briefly to the plans out
lined for the army and navy for whicn
he urged congress to sanction and put
into effect "as soon as they can be
properly scrutinized and discussed"
Frequent demonstrations OF ap-
proval greeted the presidents declar-
action Of the manifest duty Of Ameri-
ca to remain "studiously neutral to-
ward the warning nations abroad, his
assertion of friendship for Mexico, his
urgent recommendations for an In
creased merchant marine, the sugges-
ton Of legislation for furthering the
interests Of the people Of the Philip
pines and Porto Rico and his recon-
mendations for increasing govern
ment revenues.
But chief attention centered about
the delineation Of the plans for ma.
tional defense, the proclamation OF
pan-Americanism and the virility OF
the presidents attack upon Amerl-
cans who, he said, had brought the
good name Of the government into con-
tempt He delivered his denunciation
in crisp phrases and congress seemed
to hang on every word. Cheers rose
from every part Of the hall when he
concluded it and demonstration reach
ed it's climax when the president urged
enactment Of laws to purge the nation
Of it's internal peril.
There are citizens Of the United
States, / blush to admit" he said.
born under other flags, but welcom-
ed under our generous naturalization
laws to the full freedom and opportu-
nifty Of America, who have poured the
poison Of disloyalty into the very ar
teries Of our national life; who have
sought to bring the authority and
good name of our government into
contempt, to destroy our industries
wherever they thought it effective for
their vindictive purposes, to strike at
them and to debase our politics to the
uses Of foreign intrigue. No Federal
laws exist to meet this situation be-
cause such a thing would have SEEM
ed incredible in the past. Such crea-
lures Of passion, disloyalty and an
archy must be crushed out. They are
not many but they are indefinitely
malignant and the hand Of our power
should close over them at once"
There was rapt attention through
out and members generally comment
ed favorably on the message. Repub-
licans, however, and some Democrats
opposed some Of the presidents sug-
gestions for increasing revenues. His
concluding suggestion relating to an
inquiry into railroad laws was re-
ceived with interest and administra-
ton leaders already have undertaken
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