The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-07-09
,dAlaIR asta7lount QUESTION.

Ts1ff' ddestitf Of egislation.t TO vastly increase
the army and navy both in personnel and
effectiveness, and for the creation Of system of
reserves for both branches of the service is GER
tain to have large place in the deliberations of
congress this fall Theodore Roosevelt, backed by
several of his former cabinet officers and by the
secretaries of the navy and war departments of
the Taft cabinet is vigorously campaigning for
preparedness" while William Howard Taft has
launched crusade for the establishment of an in
ternational league to preserve peace. .. y,
These, with the cooperation and Oacking OF the
Navy League and practically every leading army
and navy officer who is willing to risk department
al censure by speaking his mind, are forcing the
attention of the nation to the paramount question
of the necessity of degree of preparation that
will discourage foreign Intervention into Amer
lean affairs. ~
William Jennings BRYAN. footloose from cabinet
responsibilities and with food OF pent up near
ideas to promu1Eate has leapcd upon the platform
in opposition to anything that smells IKE powder,
paving particular attention to the suggestions of
the two men who defeated him for the presidency.
Tie ersfwhile secretary of state has plans of his
own for preserving peace, one means being his
arbitration treaties
"Ex-President Ruosevclts plan," says Bryan,
would make the United States a vast armory,
with skull and cross bones above the door, and
the designing architect of the system will go in
and out in uniform with the proud Consciousness
that our nation no longer contains mollycoddles
or weddings" r@.,y..,....,
And of the Taft peace Organization, the ex-
secretary says: when it's plan is understood, it
will be seen that its effect is to aid rather than
obstruct the Roosevelt propaganda. If the purpose
of Mr. RoOsevelt's organization is to make prep
aration for war pleasant, Mr.. Taft's organization,
may be regarded furnishing plausible pretext
for the preparation which Mr.. Roosevelt advises
rhe Taft plants to organize international police
force which will compel peace and compel it by
the use of force. The plan would involve sur
render of the Monroe Doctrine"
Union labor organizations also appear to be
rownng on Colonel Roosevelts American Legion,
at least to the extent of holding few large meet
ngs of protest. When the subject of preparedness
comes up in congress the representatives from
large labor constituencies will be heard from Or
ganized labor has frequently opposed congression-
II enactmcnts for the advancement of state militas
a part of the federal fighting force but their
opposition has not generally been effective.
P~~';'ent Wilson, whose opinions on these ques-
tUn,, are of most moment because he will have a
congress at his back to put his opinions into oper
1tiOn, is saying nothing about his attitude.
What hs does say about it in his annual message
% congress should be one of the most important
features 1of that document. His party will presum-
ably line up right solidly behind him on this ques-
ton The committees of military affairs and on
he navy in senate and hOuse-there are two for
each Legislative branch-will have big tasks at the
forthcoming session. Their work promises to at
tract major attention. The talk of more guns and
more men and more warships and more forthca-
tons will reverberate from the Capitol and out
through the country.
The resolutions of leagues and conferences and
ivers other organizations will be dumped before
the senate and house by tens of thousands. The
| CITATION for preparation and against "mtarism
may overshadow the question Of government own
ed and operated ships, conservation programs and
| WELD of federal revenue
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