The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-08-31
ADDRESS DELIVERED
BEFORE THE CONVENTION
Of THE GOVERNORS
their return at evening.


women and men at work in their fan.
cied security, and the gem like hous.
es in which even the poor resided
Then the present came over me with
horror; | wondered where now the
children, and the men and women
had seen and what of the future Of
/ those who are left. Then | thought
of the address which had to prepare
of the horrid cause which had made
1t necessary and OF you, gentlemen,
who wear the heavy robes OF respon-
sibility and who are charged with the
lives and happiness of those who
have placed themselves in your keep
ing.
found myself wondering If some
Of us are not yet unaware of the full
meaning Of the change which has
come oyer the world of what it pre-
tends, and Of the hideous possibilities
for us which it contains. l wondered
If some might not still be blinded by
the few fragments which remain Of
our belief that all controversies may
be settled without war, and if they
know how thoroughly that belief and
our ovcrconfdence in the integrity Of
the world has thrown our means of
defense into decay and left us open
to the marauder.
These things | say to you frankly
gentlemen, because l am fearful.
know how devoutly you wish that we
be left at peace, to work out the
huge problems of a healthier exist
ence, in the solution Of which we are
engaged. But | am fearful lest many
of us should misiudge the means by
which that peace may be secured, and
thereby permit our very love for
peace to impe~il the preservation of
it. I confess 20 being a hater Of
war, a passionate advocate of the
maintenance OF peace, but I realize
that peace to be had must sometimes
be fought for, that to be preserved II
must be protected, and that TO be pro-
tected it must be surrounded by i'm
pregnab @ barriers. In the names Of
those whom | represent now ask for
those barriers, and beg that with MI
weight of your great Office you win
labor with us to surround orr common
, country with such barriers by sea END
by land, as shall place wholly be.
ycnd the possibility of enactment on
your soil and mine, among your poo
pc and my own, the hidaous scenes
of carnage and rape, that have made
the face Of cur clean and chlyalrcus
American manhood hot with anger
and shame.
Gentlemen, am no alarmist; ! am
merely looking the facts OF life, as
they are today, straight in the face.
The things | am pointing out are not
fanoies, they are dreadful realities.
They are not remote, they are but
weeks time away, by transport
travel. They are not isolated, they
are general and widespread, and are
not accidental occurrences, but have
become the established procedure of
modern warfare. There Is a moral
pestilence abroad pestiience we
thought the physicians of diplomacy
had eradicated forever. We now see
that they hadn't; that instead It has
suddenly broken out afresh, to sweep
Europe with such yirulence as the
world never has seen. That was one
of our misconceptions. What shall
We do? Permit this pestilence to
flow over our coasts, and devastate
our land, as 1t has Europe Or shall
we establish a quarantine and place
ourselves in position to repei It, at
our borders?
We were taught that our seas would
insulate us against this pestilence;
that we might rest secure behind their
seeming vast expanse. But We find,
instead, that they are its swiftest
highway, that over them It may pass
countless forces of destruction with
celebrity never before known to the
passage of armies. That was another
of our misconceptions.
But few days since an associate
informed me that in the archives at
Washington there is a document that
sets forth the celebrity with which
these very seas may suddenly be
used for an attack upon us. Accord
ing to its contents, which gave the
numbers OF men each of several ma
lions could land upon our shores with
in a given period Of time, It lay with
in the power OF one OF those nations
to set down upon our Atlantic Cats,
in 46 days, over 100000 men with
sufficient artillery, ammunition, and
supplies to last them for three months
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