Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1916-02-04
Navy Ready
Says Wilson
President Says All We Need is
Quantity, We Have the Quail
ity-Will Keep Country Out
of War, He Says.

MhWduhSe, w lS.J Jan. OLA lHrOHS
of 5000 persons, the largest that has
greeted President Wilson since he
started on his recent tour, cheered
him Justify here today when he said
he believed the danger of a division
of domestic sentiment was past, and
added that he never doubted that the
danger was exaggerated.
Referring again to the nations de-
sire for peace, the President gave his
hearers the pledge that, God helping
me, / will keep it out of war if it is
possible.
"And want at the outset to remove
any misapprehension in your minds"
said the President "There is no cris-
is; nothing new has happened. l came
to confer with you on matter which
we should confer on in any event. We
should see that our house is set in
order. When all the world is on fire,
the sparks fly everywhere"
The President said the presence of
the vast crowd attested the interest
of the people of Wisconsin in his
mission.
"American has drawn her blood
and her energy out of almost all of the
nations Of the world" he said. "Wc
know that our roots and our ira
ditions run best into our Soils"
"At the outset of the war it did
not look as if there were division of
domestic sentinel which lead up in
to some errors of judgment. for one
believe that the danger is past.
never doubted that the danger was
exaggerated. l for my part always
feel a serene confidence in waiting to
declaration of the principles and
sentiments of the men who are now
vociferous, who do their own think
ing, attend to their own business and
leave everything else alone.
81 have not supposed that the men
whose voices seemed to show a threat
against us represented even the people
they claimed to represent.
"I know the magic of America. l
know the impulses which draw men
to our shores. I know that they came
to be free.
1 know that when the test comes,
every mans heart will be first for
America" he declared amid applause.
"The trouble makers have shot their
bolt. They have been loud, but ineffec-
tual. Talk was cheap, and that was all
it cost them. There are dangers, how
ever which are past our control, and
which have not been overcome, dan
gers we cannot control. We can con-
troll the irresponsible takers in our
midst. All we have to do is to en-
courage them % hire hall, and
they will abundantly advocate their
own folly.
"There is daily, hourly danger that
they will feel constrained to do things
which are absolutely inconsistent with
the rights of the United States. They
are not thinking of us. They are
thinking first of their own affairs.
"The very uncalculated course of
affairs may touch us to the quick at
any time. Standing in the midst of
these difficulties, want you to know
am in difficulty"
Possible Danger Ahead.
He went on to say the nation want
ed him to preserve the honor of the
United States, but said there may be
at any moment time he could not
preserve the honor and the peace of
the United States.
"Do not exact of men an impossi-
BILE and contradictory thing but stand
ready and insist that everybody who
represents you should stand ready to
provide the means for maintaining the
honor of the United States?" he asked
"I want the people to know some
thing of military life if the call should
come. That is the reason 1 am urg-
ing on the Congress of the United
States that at least part of the peo.
pie be trained. We have got down
not to the sentiment of national de.
fense, but to the business of national
defense. Even that arch Democrat
Thomas jefferson, believed in compul-
sorry military education.
"There is another misapprehensior
i want to remove from your minds
1 don't doubt that these things tc
prepare for defense will be done.
believe that our people are entitled
to know just what is being done.
"I am not here to convert you; I'm
not here to argue with you, ;I'm JUS
telling you. 1t has been very sedu
lously spread abroad this country
that the impulse back of all this il
the desire Of men who make the ma
terials Of warfare TO make money ou
Of the treasury of the United States
wish the people who say that it is
could see meetings like this one. Die
you come for that purpose? OF cours,
you did not.
"If government does not manu-
facture what it wants somebody will