Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-19
Samuel Gompers, Governor O'Neal and Others Score
 Peace Theorists
WILSON WILL MAKE
 TOUR EAST, WEST
President Proposes SEeaAins in Be. half of Administrations National Defense Pr0gram-Go.., First tu
 New York.

Washington, Jan. 1S.-National
 preparedness occupied official and nm fficial attention to an unusual ex- /, tent here today.
 | It became known that President Wilson is contemplating making speeches in he East and Middle West, in behalf .cf the administra- tens def:nse program; speakers pleaded for adequate preparedness tofore the National Civic Federation convention, which adopted a resolu- t on for a committee to consider the best plans, and senate and house conn :. ittses held hearings on various phases of he subject
 President Wilson's first public ap- peal for support of his program will ba in New York on January 27.
 John Hays Hammond declared be- fore the National Civic Federation convention that if the United States upholds tho "open dor" policy in China and the Monroe doctrine, tt must be prepared to oppose Japan and Germany, respectively.
 Former Governor O'Neal of Ala hama deplored the "debasing and de- moralizing dcctrine" advanced by the peace-at- at-any-price advocates
 Rights of Labor.
 Samuel Gcmpers, president of the American Federation of Labor, insl9t- ed that Organized labor assert its right to representation in all commit jtees, commissions and bodies that de eide upon military defense.
 1x,nrth1y nf tho oroo0 hn said, twill fight even for scrap of raper,' when that paper represents ideals of human justiae and freedom There is little progress made in the affairs of the world in which resist ance of others is not involved. Though we may realize the brutality !cf war, though we may know the value of life, yet we know equally we'll what would be the effect upon the lives and the minds of men who would lose their rights, who would accept denial of justice rather than hazard their physical safety. The pr1gress of all the ages has come as the result cf protests against wrongs and existing conditions and through assertions of rights and effective de- mands for justice. Our own freedom and republican form of government have been >achieved by resistance to tryranny and insistence upon rights. Freedom and democracy dare not be SYNONYMOUS with weakness"
 Enormous Indemnity.
 Declaring chat the United States if ever def: :ated in war, would have to pay an inde1 nifty reaching as nigh as s10,O0O,0O0,OOO if the tribute laid on France by Germany in 1871 may be taken as a measure, Talcott Will Hams. dean of the Pulitzer schcol of Jcurnalism, said:
 Interest on this enormous sum would be as large as any expenditure new proposed for increasing this cuuntry's army and navy. For all the tin e. this interest charge would be met by all the industries of the land, and any attempt to throw this aside would destroy national solvency
 "The crowning reason for an ade- quate army and navy for the United States" said MT. Williams, "ls not war, but peace. The boundaries CT , tie country need defense, but no more than it's duties need discharge" Both the militia and naval affairs cc'rmitte'es of the house coI-inuel their work on the annual approprla- ton bills, aviation equipment for tho army and additional officers for the navy being especially considered.
 Indications are that the committee hearing will delay consideration or the apprapria' ion bill until June or