Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-16
MARTIN H. GLYNN'S
KEYNOTE SPEECH At
ST. LOUIS CONVENTION
Former New York Governor
Declares That Wilson Has
Given Country Peace, Pros
periB and Preparedness
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common sense we realize that. for a ma
tion. the policy of turning the other
cheek when unjustly smitten means na-
tional decapitation and a funeral n
which our people would be the mourn
ers. our enemies our heirs.
We fought one war for existence and
one for survival We fought one war 20
exclude foreign influence and another TO
preserve internal peace And we would
fight four more wars for the same rea-
sons but the reasons we must nave.
When necessity demands we stand ready
TO meet with force the enemies OF our
liberty, the defamers Of our honor and
the foes of our integrity.
The war across the seas has brought
home TO us the fear that so long as men
are men and nations nations wars VIII
continue.
We have been aroused from our
dreams of the millennium TO the knowl-
edge that nothing that men cherish -
safe from assault: that the man who
would preserve his happiness, must
stand ready TO defend those rights with
the last drop Of his blood
We have been carried too close TO the
rocks Of war during the past two years
10 believe that those rocks do not exist.
And looking into the future we can
perceive that if our sovereignty is not
challenged. if our peace is not assailed
that We are strong enough to defend
ourselves from every foe
For these reasons this administration
has done more for our army and our
navy than any administration in our
history.
More than this. it has modified the
resources Of the nation TO meet the needs
Of war. II has placed the wealth of the
country back of the strength of the
country, the tOiler back of the soldier
and the sailor.
REPuRLIcAHs TO BLAME
FOE WEAKNESS OF NAVY.
And to our opponents We say you
can't create an army, can't build
navy in the course of a day; to whom
We say il our navy is not strong enough,
il our army is not big enough. the Re-
publicans party is so per cent to blame,
for the Republican party has been in
control of his nation so per cent of the
time during the last fifty years.
The Democratic party advocates and
seeks preparedness, but IL is prepared
ness for defense. not preparedness for
aggression.
II is the preparedness which builds
the nations house upon A rock, so il
will not fall wien the rains descend
anu the LAODuS EVtGAE anu AAG NAAA4S bAuM-
We may look upon preparedness with
as little favor as we look upon taxes.
but we pay taxes because We want the
protection for which the taxes pay
Democracy refuses TO be frightened
by those who pretend to fear that this
great land or freedom will descend into
the abyss OF militarism.
II knows that militarism can no
more thrive in this country than the
cookie ana the tsrs can thrive amid the
wheat OF the husbandman who loves his
land. II knows that preparedness. that
reasonable preparedness. will not kill
democracy in this country any more
than IL killed democracy in Switzerland.
1t knows that reasonable preparedne IS
will ensure US peace just as il ensured
peace for Switzerland though war thun-
dered at her doors.
MfIitarism in the United States is
impossible as the shadow Of a ghost
in the midday sun. We had triumph
ant army in 17Is. we had an invincible
navy in 1912 and in 1859 we had the
two greatest armies the world had ever
seen
But when the crisis passed that call
ed these frsemen to the colors the first
TO leap forward were the first TO return
20 the farms and factories whence they
came.
From the ranks OF democracy theN
came as silently as Putnam left his
plough in answer to the shot heard
around the world: and back TO democra-
cy they went as silently as the southern
heroes whose horses Grant returned
that they might pillow the very fields
which had been narrowed by their can-
mons wheels.
WE MUST MAKE IT PLAIN
AMERICA IS NOT DIVIDED.
These, then, are the principles that
have been asserted and followed by the
president Of the United States during
the past two yeaTs-that the United
States shall not embroil itself in Euro
pean strife. that the United States
shall endeavOr to maintain friendly and
cordial relations with every other nation
and that the United States shall firmly
assert and maintain and be prepared TO
assert and maintain its neutral rights
against every belligeTent-
Nothing in the assertion of these prin-
E,v- har ha