Evening star., 1915-12-07
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and permit the full significance OF 1t 10
| command your thought 1 cannot nn1
| the right light In which to SET IoIsn III
:, the particular matter, that lies at tne
very front of my whole thought as l
| address you today. ! mean natlohai
| defense. s- -'--- A..
No one who really comprehends the
are appointed to speak can fail TO per
| ceive that their passion Is 1or peaoe'
! their genius best displayed In the prac- az
| tice of the arts of peace Great oe.
mocracies are not belligerent; Iney ht NJ
not seek or desire war. Their thougns @
! is of individual liberty and OF the Tree
| labor that supports life and the uncen-
sored thought that quickens 1t. Con
quest and dominion are not IN .ouf
reckoning. Or agreeable to our @princi-
pies But Just because we demand uh-
molested development and the undis-
turbed government of our own hves
upon our own principles OF right ana
liberty, we resent from whatever quar-
ter it may come, the aggression We
ourselves will not practice
Right to Develop Nationally.
We insist upon security in prosecut-
ing our self-chosen lines Of national
development. We do more than tnat-
We demand it also for others. We do
not confine our enthusiasm for individ-
ual liberty and free national develop
ment to the incidents and movements
of affairs which affect only ourselves.
We feel it wherever there is people
that tries to walk in these diincule euls
paths of independence and right. FROM
the first we have made common cause
with all partisans of liberty on tnls
side the sea, and have deemed 1t as I'M
portant that our netshbors shouid De
free from all outside domination as
that we ourselves should be; have set
America aside as a whole for the uses
of independent nations and political
freemen.
out of such thoughts grow all our
policies. We regard war merely as
means of asserting the rights OF
people against aggression. And we are
as fiercely jealous of coercive or dlc-
tatorial power within our own natIon
as of aggression from without. we
will not maintain a standing army ex-
cept for uses which are as necessary
in times of peace as In times OF war,
and we shall always see to 1t that our
military peace establishment ls no
larger than Is actually and continuous
ly needed for the uses of days in whlcn
no enemies move against us. But we
do believe in body OF Tree citizehs
ready and sufficient to take care OF
themselves and of the governments
which they have set up to serve them.
In our constitutions themselves we
have command that 1.-The right Of the
people to keep and bear arms snali hot
he infringed," and our commence nas
been that our safety IN times v1 oan'
ger would lie in the rising OF the ma
tion to take care of itself. as the farm
ers rose at Lexington.
War Is Disciplined Thought:
Rut war has never been. a mere mat
ter of men and guns 1t is thing OK
disciplined might. II our citizens are
ever to fight effectively upon a suooeh
summons. they must know how moderh
fighting is done, and what to 90 "heh
the summons comes to render tnem-
selves Immediately ava1laDie anu IN
mediately effective. And tne eoss
ment must be their servant IN thts ma.
ter. must supply them WIN en ns them-
selves and Of it,. The military arm OF
their government, which they WALL not
allow to direct them. they may propesaS
use to serve them and make tneir inu
nendence secure-and- not their own
Independence merely. but the rights
also of those with whom they nave
made common cause, should they
be nut in Jeopardy. They must pc IA
ted to play the great role IN tne ,nr
and particularly in this s'heInisphere, I9s
which they are qualified by principle
and by chastened ambition to play.
1t is with these ideals in MIND Ihat
the plans of the Department o. a was
we're los " Conceived which win be laid be-
fore YOU, and which urge you 70
sanction and put into effect as soon as
they can be properly scrutinizeo anu
discussed They seem to me the es
sential first steps. and they see" ~
me for the present sufficient,
Standing Army of 141,s4a.
They contemplate an increase OF the
force Of the regular army
from its present strength OF S.ols
officers and 102.985 enlisted men OF all
services to a strength Of 1896 officers
and .134,T07 enlisted men. or 1855
ali told, all services. rank and ME. by
the addition of SO companies OF coast
artillery, fifteen companies Of engi-
neers- ten regiments OF lntantrY.. Iour
regiments Of field artillery. and four
aero squadrons. besides Ieo omcers re-
quired for great variety OF extra
service, especially the all important
duty of<6raining the citizen force OF
which shall presently speak. sIsI non
officers for service IN
necessary quota Of enlisted. men for the
Ouartermaster Corps. the Hospital
Corps, the ordnance department. and
other similar auxiliary services.
These are the additions necessary TO
render the army adequate for Its pres
ent duties, duties which it has to per-
form not only upon our own continen-
tai coasts and borders and at our IN
terror army posts. but also In the phil
fnpines, in the Hawaiian Islands. at the
Isthmus and in Porto Rico.
Plan for Citizen Soldiery.
By way of making the country ready
to assert some part Of its real power
nromptly and upon larger scale,
should occasion arise. the plan also
contemplates supplementins the army
hv a force Of 100000 disciplined ctti-
zen, raised in increments of $4,000
wear throughout a period of three
wears. This II Is proposed to do by a
yracsss Of enlistment under which the
serviceable men Of. the country would
he asked to bind themselves to serve
u,ith the colors for purposes Of tram
Inc for short periods Throughout three
years. and to come to the colors at
call at any time throughout an aodl-
tional 'furiough' period OF three year,.
T'his force Of 100000 men would De
nrovided with personal accourterments
as fast as enlisted and thltr equlptnens
for the field made ready to be suppiiea
AZ any time They would be assembled
for training at stated Intervals AZ COL
yenient places in association Win SuIt-
able units Of the regular army. IheiI
period of annual training Woo ~
necessarily exceed two months IN tue
year. n.+rtot,c
feelinR OF the younger mon OF the cooh-
try whether they responded 20 soch =
call to service or not. II wouio oepeno
unon tho patriotic spirit OF the en-
pioyeTs OF the country wnetner a, ,nsy my