Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-06-16

think the second time before they strike a blow Democracy wants an army and navy in keeping with the dignity, preservation and worth of this great republic We do not want a foot of anybody's else's soil, and, by the eternal God, they shall not take foot of ours.
 Army and Navy Record.
 During this administration we have done more to build up an army end navy in three years than the Rcpub-
 Ian party did in forty years of it's cx- istence. More has been done to give the American people a navy and army in three months than Colonel Roose- welt and MT. Taft did in eleven years" Senator James spoke of the Repub lican platform declaration for "a con tinuous policy of financial defense"
 declaring that only two propositions for continuous policy ever had been made in American history; one, by the general board of the navy in 1903, which was pigeon-holed by Republi
 can secretary of the navy, and the
 other by President Wilson in his ad
 dress to congress last December.
 "But what happened when this mat
 ter was under consideration in the
 naval affairs committee of the
 house," continued the senator. Every
 Republican member on the committee
 decided to oppose the preident's con tinuous program and would vote for no program longer than one year. Af- ter sixteen years of failure, even to let the public know of the continuous policy proposed by naval experts, much less to carry out such policy, and after the Republicans on the house naval affairs committee, in June, 1916, unanimously opposed the presidents policy, they now say they favor the continuous policy"
 Republicans Insincere.
 The Republican plank, declaring for "an effective system of rural credits as opposed to the ineffective law pro- posed by the present Democratic ad- ministration," was assailed by Sena- tor James, who declared that almost every Republican in the house and sen ate had voted for the administrations rural credits bill and that none had | charged that it was ineffective or had | substitute.
 The senator also replied to Republi- can criticism of the administrators | shipping bill which, he declared would | have given the United States an ade quate merchant marine by now had it not been killed at the last session of by Republican filibuster.
 "For the first time in the history of our country" said Senator James, after reviewing briefly Democratic legislation which he declared had made prosperity possible, the United States leads the world in exports. We arc now more prosperous than ever, and mills which have not turned spindle for years, are now busy. All the laborers of the United States are as never before. With the world-war raging, our country is the only neutral one that is not in dis tress and the only one that has not de- clared moratorium. Every demand of the stress of war the Democratic party has met quickly We have freed business from the blackmail of the politician as we have emancipated it from the clutch of monopoly
 The senator hkened President Will sons Mexican policy to that of Lin coln, land quoted from a declaration of the latter to show that he had de- clined to intervene when conditions were the same as now.
 "It is a perfectly easy thing" he "for the president of the United States to plunge his country into war if he is a politician before he is patriot. He would seek his own reelection as he came upon horse back up the bloody highway of con- tending armies. Of course, our army could invade Mexico and march in tri- umph to it's capital, but after the war was over other armies would march an army of widows and orphans, an army of cripples and men broken in health, as army of pensioners, and an army of tax collectors gathering up the earnings of the people to pay the great war debt"
 "The president had acted quickly" the senator said, "when there was an invasion of American territory, ami the punitive expedition now was doing all that this country could do with honor in Mexico"
 Wilson Eulogized as Patriot and
 Statesman.
 "No president during the life of this republic" said the senator, "has ever had to deal with so many deli cate and dangerous problems as those which have confronted President Vii son. With more than half of the world in arms in Europe, with Mexico in revolution at our border, these dit ficult and complicating problems have him almost daily, and ne has handled them as becomes patriot and statesman. When the Lusitania was sunk the militant voice of Theo- dore Roosevelt cried out for war, and 1 if he had been president of the United | States at that time, today 500,000 | brave American sons would be con- | tending around the forts of Verdun in this mighty maelstrom of blood would have been buried in Our president, patient, patri- otic, far-sighted, the real statesman, handled this question with the great est ability, and won for America it's i greatest diplomatic victory. There are happily two kinds of courage, the of the man who is willing to undertake the dangers himself ana the courage of the man that sends others to the conflict. Woodrow Wilson has both kinds of courage-the courage of conflict and the courage to act coolly and sensibly when he is dealing with the lives of others-the fate of na- tiOn