The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-29
! Love PEACE
BUT We MUST
PAY ITS PRICE
WILSON
President Makes Initial Pre-
paredness Trip Speech.
MinceS No Words in Demand
That L. $. Defend Itself.
ARMY OF 500, 600 TRAINED men
Cautions Against JingOeS and
Heated War Counsel.
AppeaIs-NOt to Congress, but
to Young Men OF Country.
President Makes Initial Pre-
paredness Trip Speech.
MinceS No Words in Demand
That L. s. Defend Itself.
ARMY OF 500, 900 TRAINED men
Cautions Against JingOes and
Heated War Counsel.
AppeaIs-NOt to Congress, but
to Young Men OF Country.

Pittsburg, Pa. Jan. 29.-President
Wilson, opening here today his six
day program Of speaking in the mid
die west on national preparedness,
told a throng which packed Mem
orial hall that the test of national pre-
paredness lay. not with congress, but
with the young men of the country in
their answer TO the call to volunteer
and their employers, who should OPP
pose ..nc obstacle to free response.
And I. for one" the president said,
believe both the young men and the
employers will DO their duty"
Half an hour before the president
was due to speak Memorial hall was
packed with 1900 persons and
crowd OF several thousand stood al
the doors outside.
Guarded by 500 Police.
The president was closely guarded
by approximately 500 police as he
walked from the hotel to the hall.
The intervening space was solidly
packed with men and women. who
cheered as he passed.
The arrival of the president was
heralded by fanfare of trumpets and
the star Spaneled Banner" Mrs.
Wilson entered first and was warmly
applauded When the president ar
rived the crowd broke into loud
cheering.
As Mrs Wilson stepped out on the
platform. the band played wedding
march. She smiled broadly.
President Wilson rose to speak
amid applause. He declared he was
conscious of being a truant from
Washington. but that he felt it his
duty to report to the people on the
affairs o. the nation. He added he got
more Inspiration outside Of Washing
Ton than inside it.
Cautions JinSoism.
Il believe in peace. l love peace
he would he "A
American if l did not love peace, but
! know that peace costs something,
that the only way you can maintain
peace is to enjoy the respect of every
body with whom you deal.
~'There are other counsellors whose
sources of counsel is passion. 1t is
not wise or possible to guide national
policy under the influence of passion.
i would De ashamed of passion, of
fear"
The president also advised against
the taking of advice of professional
sailors and soldiers on some ques-
tons.
1T is time that we attempt to APP
ply the standard of our own life to ma
tional defense. What do we want to
defend? Need l answer? We want
TO defend the equal light of the ma
tion as against all other nations and
wish to maintain the peace of the
western hemisphere.
These are our great needs of de-
Tense.
Stands for Liberty.
Did you ever stop to reflect just
what it is that America stands for?
She stands for the sovereignty of the
self-governing peoples of the world.
our aim, our assistance, our encour-
Rgement has thrilled two continents in
this western hemisphere. This is what
we stand for.
Il, for my part. have a great en-
thusiasnl for rendering America spir-
itually efficient. The plans for our
military efficiency do not provide for
a great army. We want only army
necessary for the uses of peace, but we
want back of that army a trained body
of men. These men should be civil
ians, men who know that the arts of
peace come before the arts of war.
"A plain gentleman in black, some
times a very plain gentleman, often
presides over the army. Men should
dread war and know that everything
on which the nation depends comes
from peace.
Trained to Arts of War.
The details of the army plans do
not make any difference. Perhaps
others have better plans. But 1 do
want an adequate and efficient force
of at least 10000 men trained to the
arts of war, who will be ready to pro-
tect the nation.
This nation will not be stalked by
ghosts and fancies.
II am proposing something more
than temporary. Il is my conception
that as the government mas encour-
aged agricultural training, it should
also encourage industrial training and
it is perfectly feasible along with in
dustrial training to instruct cur young
mon in the mechanism and handling
of a rifle and guns and in the rudi-
pentary arts Of warfare.
But we can't take the time now to
develop and encourage these schools.
We must train and equip at once a
very considerable body of men.
THE test of preparedness does not lie
in congress. It is going to be in the
response Of the young men of the
country to the call to volunteer and OF
the employers of those men to place nc
obstacles to their answering the call
When it comes to the test, I believe
America can produce as much sub
stantiaI patriotism as any other land
under the sun
Must Defend Ourselves.
The presidents words were marked
frequently by applause. He spoke
rapidly but clearly. He spoke of the
effects of the war to show the Difficult.
ties facing America.
"As your responsible servant I mus
tell you that the dangers are constant
l must go out and tell the people thai
new circumstances have arisen which
make it necessary that America de-
fend itself" The president spoke
these words slowly and solemnly amid
deep silence.
When he concluded that portion Of
his address the applause was marked
I'VE should be prepared" con.
tinued the president. not for war. OF
anything that smacks of aggression
but for adequate national defense.
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