Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-06-14
America should be ready, but not bel President Discusses Cam paign Issues in Address to
 West Pointers.
MILITARISM IS
 WARNED AGAINST
Reiterates That America Is Ready to Join With Other Nations to Sec That Justice Is Given, and That It Must
 Be "America First"

 dent Wilson, making his first address since the presidential campaign be- gan, today discussed preparedness, militarism, Americanism. the causes of the war in Europe, peace, the Mon roe doctrine divided allegiance, and the ideals of America. He declared it is the present imperative duty of the United States to be prepared, adding mankind is going to know that when America speaks she means what she says"
 The president said the United States should not be a nation with a "chip on it's shoulder" but calm na- tion which will withhold it's hands as long as possible and strike only for victory.
 The presidents address ran through almost the entire list of sub- jects discussed by former Justice Hughes in his telegram accepting the Republican nomination. He declared that the United States is ready to join with other nations to see that the kind of justice it believes in is given
 Americans Must Set Example.
 Shaking his finger emphatically, the president told the graduates of the
 Path for Army Man Cut Out.
 The presidents speech follows:
 "I look upon this body of men who are graduating today with peculiar interest. feel like congratulating them that they are living in a day not only so interesting because fraught with change. but also because so re- sponsible. Days of responsibility are the only days that. count in time, be- cause they are the only days that give test of quality. They are the only days when manhood and purpose is tried out as if by fire.
 "I need not tell you young gentle men that you are not like an ordinary graduating class of one of our univer- sities. The men in those classes look forward to the life which they are to lead after graduation with a great many questions in their minds. Most of them do not know exactly what their lives are going to develop into. Some of them do not know what occu- pations they are going to follow. All of them are conjecturing what will be 1 the line of duty and advancement and the ultimate goal of success for them.
 "There is no conjecture for you. You have enlisted in something that does not stop when you leave the academy. for you then only begin to realize it, which then only begins to be filled with the full richness of it's meaning and you can look forward with absolute certainty to the sort of thing that you will be obliged to do.
 "This has always been true of grad uating classes at West Point, but the certainty that some of the older classes used to look forward to was very dull certainty. Some of the old days in the army, fancy, were not very interesting days.
 Extraordinary Possibilities.
 "But in your case there are many extraordinary possibilities, because gentlemen, no man can certainly tell you what the immediate future is go- ing to he, either in the history of this country or in the history of the world , It is not by accident that the present great war came in Europe. Every .. element was there and the contest had } to come sooner or later. and it is not ,, going to be by accident that the re- suits are worked out. but by purpose by the purpose of the men who are strong enough to have guiding minds l and indomitable wills when the time i. for decision and settlement comes. fE "And the part that the United States is to play has this distinction in it. that it is to be in any event a disinterested part. There is nothine that the United States wants that Ii
 has to get by war, but there are
 great many things that the United
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 it's life is not interfered with by any
 body else who wants to do some ] thing.
 "These are the days when we art
 making preparation. when the thins
 most commonly discussed around
 every sort of table, in every sort O. . circle, in the shops and in the streets .- is preparedness; and undoubtedly, gen tlemen, that is the present imperativ' :, duty of America-to be prepared. Blu Il we ought to know what we are pre-
 pairing for.
 :, America, fortunately. does knoy Il what she wants to do with her force '- Warns Against Militarism. e "NoW what we are preparirg to d. J. is to see that, being safe itself agains 'f interference from the outside. all o r. our force is going to be behind it F. moral idea, and mankind is going t IS know that when America speaks sh l. means what she says. We are not il
 for anything selfish, and we want tn l. whole mighty power of Americ l. thrown into that scale, and not int $ ahv other.
 l. "You know that the chief thing tha f is holding many people back from CT ,s thusiasm for that which is called pre- :" s' paredness is the fear of militarism. 70 70 want to say word to you, youn ie gentlemen, about militarism. 'n "You're not militarist because yo are military Militarism does not cor 'y sist in the existence of an army, nc e. o,,or ;~ +hn o,,;.t..no of . ,,arx, r,roc