New Britain herald., 1916-01-21
GALL FOR AMERICA ID SAVE AMERICANS
|atiOn AStir With New Feeling,
 Says Former Secretary Bacon

Washington, Jan. 21.-A call to the American people to arm themselves @gainst a day fast coming when they Say need to fight was sounded yes- #rday and last night, in stirring Nheeches before the first congress of National Security league. It was < eeeted with continued and enthusiasts 8 applause by the several hundred M Manufacturers, publicists, merchants, #wyers and others gathered for the 8ngress. f S Robert. Bacon. former secretary of Z@ate. brought the audience at the @ cning session to it's feet when he 8 clared.
 @ Awakening In Land. E "Thc nation is astir with a new E eling, there is an awakening E Mroughout the land. The call for #nerica to save the Americans is N Nlnding from house ro house and x bm city to city like that call which @ tho eighteenth day of Aprtl in '75 zRnt through every MiddleseN Vil- SSse and farm. and believe the N swer will he as strong ana clear 5 it was then"
 Theodore Roo@cvclt's name was S#l dly cheered. His sister, Mrs. N codore Douglas Robinson. read to @ gathering a letter in which he K q he regarded the proposed con
 ental army as a sham which would H merely an inefficient rival to the Z ional guard: that the navy pro 3 m was "a paper program, entire 0 Inadequate to our needs": and I [ military preparedness should he 3 tIired "as a matter of favor" of all Z erican citizens.
 r. R. Draws Simiic. Z 'oi. Roosevelt likened the United
 tes' failure to take other action
 II diplomatic negotiations over the 5 of American lives by submarine Z fare to a man whose wife's face
 slapped on tho street and who
 l< no other action than to tell her HHstay home.
 Z Hiss Maude Wetmore, chairman of 8 Womans Section of the National 3 ic Federation, told the congress Bt mo woman who brings up her 8 dren on a policy that she did not Ne her boy to be soldier has a 1 BH t to the protection of another's N Policy Reversed. NE uke F.. Wright secretary of war i cabinet. declared that i
 S country had reserved the policy, 1
 eall softly and carry a big stick" 1 a Speaking loudly and carrying a
 #fed club"
 Z Z was time, he said, for adequate Z )aredness to meet what might 1
 s after the European war, if for Z other purpose than to make good l# reasaff vaunt of America for the
 erieans,' and to uphold the Mon- & Doctrine, "as prolific of fights as |z .rrel of red liquor."
 Is May Fight England.
 s r. Wright said it was possible the 2 ed States might have to fight i | land after the present war be-
 ke If there is anything that i aa es ain Englishman peevish it is to i Z arb his trade" gR g he present preparedness program 1 a said, was a step in the right di- | H on, "but a mighty stort step."
 z he entire program" he contin- ! s8 lis based on two fundamental 8 ehts, both of which seem to me
 Eng. The first is the thought that | can make a soldier while you E the second is the thought that | can get all the volunteers you
 t.
 sa RooscveIt's Criticism. | s J. Roosevelt in his letter relt- A ad his criticism of the adminis- Z on for failure to act more decis- sss on the submarine warfare issue N announced his preparedness pro- z T.
 believe" he said. ''that we S Id base our military and naval