The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-01-21
President Decides To Go Before
People of Nation with Program
For National Preparedness To
Bolster Congressional Fight
WANTS NATION TO KNOW
JUST WHAT HE PROPOSES
His Appeal To Electorate VIII Be
Made In View Of Increasing
Growth Of Bryanism Which
Stands For Peace At Any Price
rtAssOcia.sd Pres, by Federal wirslsss)

NV ADllNblONb JaHuaIy ~
" President Wilson is getting
t. ready 10 buckle on his oratorioal
armor and HE him into the country
on strenuous campaign in behalf Of
his administration s preparedness pro-
gram. ., r.g.
This announcement came last night
when the afternoon papers were full of
the address which had been made at
the last session of the National Civic
Federation, session filed TO the brim
with words aimed at the peace at any
price propagandists of the country and
their propaganda, aud other addresses
urging active work for real preparation
against invasion. r. &
The President, IL was asserted, APP
pears to think that there Is need TO
erystalize the sentiment throughout
the nation in behalf of real prepared
ness, and he proposes to do his best.
He spent part of yesterday comforting
| with congressman from various sec
tons Of the country which are believed
| to be most in need Of a word from the
| nation chief executive to make them
stand fast against the inroads of the
| Bryanites. ,a#a .,sa.
Program Must Be Explained
II is believed, said visitors TO the
White House, that Mr.. Wilson and his
advisers are convinced the programs al
ready outlined by the President in his
| message to congress and in the reports
| from the heads of the war and navy
4 H.. A.. Iak ha
hoped for at present, and will serve
as basis for future development
The opposition of Former Secretary
of State Bryan to the program of a
| larger army and navy Is said TO have
personal advisers, and has failed TO
deter them from their determination
to begin a campaign in favor OF their
own ideas. The dates on which the Pres
ident will speak have not yet beea
settled upon, but they will be announced
soon. 'ls4 ~
In the mean time the house is hard
at work on the military and naval
budgets, and yesterday afternoon
| Chairman Hay Of the military commit
tee, announced that it will take at
least two months before the report of
his committee will be ready TO submit
to congress-. Chairman Padgett, hesd
of the house naval committee, admitted
that his committee win take at least
that long before it will be ready 10 re-
port,
Racihcists Are Assailed
Outside of official circles the fight for
real preparedness continued yesterday
unabated At the closing session of the
National Civic Federation, pleas for
national preparedness on broad scale
followed on the heels of talks more or
less scathing, aimed Mt the advocates
of peace at any price and their theory.
| John Hays Hammond. member OF the
consulting board of experts, urged the
expenditure of billion dollars over
and above the sums asked for by the
naval and military budgets. Such
1 sum, said Mr.. Hammond, would 90 fer
toward lesscning the awful effects Of
war, even though IL would not eltire
| ~ insure the nation against con fict.
"Regard the money MS a business in
vcstment,p he told the other delegates
The attitude Of Samuel Gompers,
president Of the American Federation
of Labor, toward preparedness, was
watched with considerable interest, and
his ardent support of the presidential
program in a speech advocating ade.
tguatc preparedness was hailed with
! pleasure. The dispatches from the
meeting of the United Mine Workers
in indianapolis, in which John White,
president OF that organization, was
! quoted as haviFg said that 81 am con.
WINGED labor as a whole is unalterably
opposed to the whole scheme Of pro-
pHredness, - added TO the effeet DTO.