The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-12-10
MESSAGE
Of President to Congress Is
Strong OnPreparedness
Members Cheer when Executive
DenOunces DIsIOyalIy of POis-
ers I'm National Life.

btNHs AOddJB hNaAAAB AldAhAg WIN Ia
tional defense, proclaimed an advan
ced Pan-Americanism grown from
the guardianship of the Monroe doc
trine to "the full and honorable as
sociation of all the Americas"
Although in the longest address he
has yet delivered to congress the
President touched upon a variety oi
subjects; the predominating note
was the necessity of a policy of mill
tary preparedness to meet the read
justments of the next generation as
they will affect the American contin-
ent. He emphasized his point by
saying:
Unless you take it within your
view and permit the full significance
of IL to command your thought, can
not find the right light in which to
set forth the particular matter that
lies at the very front of my whole
thought as l address you today.
mean antional defense"
DenOunces the HyphL mated
The point was not overshadowed
when the President, in the most un-
measured terms he has ever employ
ed before congress, denounced nat
uralized Americans who by their
sympathies for the European belli-
gerents, have endangered American
neutrality. While congress cheered
him loudly, he referred to them as
having poured the poison of dis
loyalty into the very arteries of ma
tional life," and as those who would
turn in malign reaction against the
government and the people who had
welcomed and nutured them"
With evidence of deep feeling, the
president expressed 1.-The even deeper
humiliation and scorn which every
self-possessed and thoroughly patri-
otic American must feel when
he thinks of them and the discredit
they are daily bringing upon us"
While the presidents outline of
the administration plan for the army
and navy passed without ripple of
applause and his references to Pan
Americanism were only punctuated
with evidences of approval, Republi-
cans and Democrats alike joined in
an emphatic demonstration at his
words of condemnation for those he
assailed so unreservedly.
Americas ON Footing of Equality
The President took up Fan-Amer-
icanism 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 absolute
equality and unquestioned indepen-
dence. We retain unabated the spir-
it which was so frankly put into
words by President Monroe. We
still mean to make a common cause
of national independence and of pol
itical liberty in America, but that
purpose is now better understood so
far as it concerns ourselves"
The moral, the President said, was
the states of America were not nos
tile rivals but cooperating friends.
and 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 a world of hostile rival
ries," said he. United in spirit and
purpose, they cannot be disappoint-
ed in their peaceful destiny. This is
Pan-Americanism 1t has none of
thespirit of empire in it. 1t is the
embodiment of law and independence
and liberty and mutual serveice.
Great Democracies Peaceful
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 of right and
liberty" he declared, I'VE resent
from whatever quarter it may come
the aggression we ourselves will not
practice. We insist in security in
prosecuting our self chosen lines of
development. We do more than that
by also demanding it for others.
From the first we have made common
cause with all partisans of liberty
on this side of the sea and have
deemed 1t as important that our
neighbors should be free from all
outsidedomination as that we oursel-
yes should be; have set America |
aside as a whole for the uses of i'm
dependent nations and political free
dom"
National Training for Defense
From that point the President en-
phasized the need of national train
ing for defense in harmony with |
American ideals and institutions, and
then referred briefly to the plans
outlined for the army and navy and
which he urged Congress to sanction
and put into effect ''as soon as they |
can be properly scrutinized and dis
cussed"
Frequent demonstrations of ap
provaI greeted the presidents declar-
alton of the manifest duty of Amer
lea to remain "studiously neutral"
toward the warning nations abroad,
IA s.f III dci1 N
leo, his urgent recommendations for |
an increased merchant marine. the
suggestion of legislation for furth
ering the interests of the people of
the PHILIPPINES and Porto Rico, and
his recommendation for increasing
government revenue.
Poison of DislOyalty
But chief attention centered about
the delination of plans for national
defense, the proclamation of Pan
Americanism, and the virility of the
presidents attack on Americans who,
he said, brought the good name of
the government into contempt He |
delivered his denunciation in crisp
phrases and Congress seemed to hang
on every word Cheers arose from
every part of the hall when he finish
ed it and the demonstration reached |
its climax when the president urg-
ed enactment of laws to purge the
nation Of its internal peril.
"There are citizens of the United |
States, blush to admit, he declar-
ed, born under other flags, but well
coined under our generous naturali-
zation laws to the full freedom and
opportunity of America who have
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