Arizona republican., 1916-05-31

flicts arise The pressure of popula- tion and desire for wealth and power now as in former ages are urg- ing nations in the old world to get possession of all the unoccupied or weakly held parts of the earth from which profit can be derived. This is what has often brought rival Euro pean nations face tU face and to the verge of war in Asia and Africa. It has played great part in bringing on the present war It is possible that some nation will attack us out of hand, making of some action on the part of our people a plausible cause of quarrel. It is much more likely that if we are not strong enough to maintain our rights, including the as- sertion of the Monroe Doctrine, we shall be subjected to a series of az
 gressions upon our rights growing more and more grieVOus until we reach a point where we ourselves shall be obliged to resent the aggres- sion of or else to abandon policies es- sential to our national greatness and Well-heing.
 The prime needs in preparedness, the needs which can be immediately met are to give us, first the navy we require and second the regular | army we require l have elsewhere given the reasons why we require the | second navy in the world and small 1 highly efficient regular army of 250,- 1 900 men, with proper reserve. Here let it suffice to say that such navy and such an army would be our best insurance against war and for peace. ! Supplementary Force Needed
 But the navy and the regular army are not enough. Exactly as back of the navy should stand the regular ar my. so back of the regular army should stand the nation. l speak | to, and on behalf of, nation of freemen. Freemen fit to he free
 men do not have to hire other men
 to do their fighting. l speak here on the invitation of the men who wore
 the blue and the men who wore the gray of fifty years ago; of the men
 who fought in the two great citizen
 armies when. North and South. the
 bravest and best in the land went
 forth to battle for their deep con- victions l ask that we of this gen. eration be loyal to the memories of
 our fathers, and be ready at need to
 pay with our own bodies for our own
 principles. When ask you to prepare
 by seeing that your representatives
 provide q first class navy and first
 class Segular army, l am merely ask
 ing you to prepare to have the other
 fellow do your fighting for you. This
 does not satisfy me. 1t ought not to satisfy you. You and l, friends, can
 not be loyal to the memory of Wash , ington. and of Grant, and of Lee, un- less we are fit and ready to do our own fighting in time of need. l dc not wish us, the people, to sink into
 a condition where we are so soft, SC ease loving, so fond of pleasures, oi . so wrapped up in money getting tha , we cannot do the hard work thal
 brave men must do when the neet calls. I speak for universal servic' , based on universal training.
 , Universal Service
 Universal training and universal ser / vice represent the only service anc training a democracy should accept |, II is the plain people. it is the farmers ] the working men, the small bushes: p men. the professional men, who abov' . all others. should back up this plan. r have just received a letter from n friend, q farmer in North Carolina wh' I is arranging to have six farmers boy Q from his neighborhood sent to one q the training camps for boys this sum $. mer He writes that he has been be . seiged by farmers and their wives t n send their sons to that camp. The, f wish them to get the training, to hay Q the value of the trip, and of the asso Q citation with boys from other parts o - the country. They realize how muc a good it would do them in every way They realize that the kind of trainin a for preparedness that their boys woul F receive would help them industrlali f in time of peace just as much as l r. war. These farmers and their Wive <. do not wish war. They do not wis q their sons to go to war if the war ca " legitimately be avoided. But they fe' n that if the nation does get into figf ,e they wish their sons to take part l g that fight and in such event they WIS ,e them to be able to take care of them L. selves and not merely be helpless vic fe tins of fever or of bullets.
 A Democratic Effect
 e The farmers and wage workers, u " business men and professional me ,e who are not men of large means, ar whose wives have to exercise prop' IT economy in order to keep their nome
 happy and comfortable-these are u
 people who. beyond all others, shou ,t realize that such training should n 10 be reserved for the boys whose fathe r. or friends are rich enough to pay II es it. but should be given to all Amer - can boys at the expense Of the natio - It is the present lack of system, u G present method of allowing only tho
 bovs to train whose fathers ha'
 money, which is unfair and undem
 cratic. It breeds class distinctlo
 among other unhealthy things. ]
 not believe as a permanent thing in
 system that merely puts the Harva
 boy alongside the Yale boy or t
 hprinceton boy, the big merchants s H or railroad presidents son beside [
 big lawyers son, or, perhaps, besi B the 'employe of the rich man who patriotic enough to pay his eXpens 1 All this is the best that we can get r. present; and until the people as
 whole wake up. But it is not enout
 believe in the system that will I all the boys I have mentioned alon H side the boy whose father IS braR H man here in Missouri or a hardwof
 ing farmer in Kansas, or factory c erative in Massachusetts or New J' W .x.. z.. n honlykaanar nr cfanopra nhpr