Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-11

"by force Of arms II necessary" accord
ing to Rev. DR.. Charles A. Richmond.
president of Union College, Science
tady, n. Y, speaking on safeguarding
Our Inheritance" DR.. Richmond de-
MED that in urging proper prepared
ness for protecting it's inheritance OF
democracy there was any idea OF mill
tarism. which he said is "abhorrent to
every right-minded American. He de-
cried both the pacif1cist, who would
have the United States disarm. and the
| ''fire-eater, who would have every boy
go to school with knapsack on his
shoulders and a gun in his hand. He
declared that if the United States does
not become embroiled in the war 1t Will
be the richest nation in the world. He
paid his respects to former Secretary
Bryan, saying Grape juice is bland
and pleasant beverage. but there are
times when nothing will do but three
fingers of Scotch. The only safe refuge
shadow of a strong protecting power
We must be strong in time of peace as
well as in war. and if our voice is to
count it must have behind it the /au-
thority of strength" he added.
Middle West for Strong Navy.
In outlining The Defense of the Ma
ton the Business of the Citizen,
Charles Martindale of Indiana said
compulsory military service in this
country may be the desire of ma
jority of the people and they might
vote for it if the issue were put to
them. He said a very deep impression
had been created in this country by the
failure of the so-called volunteer plan
in Great Britain in the present war
Bringing message from the middle
west, Mr. Martindale asserted that the
people there are in favor of strong
antee of commerce and a protection of
the workingman's dinner pail
Charles Noble Gregory, dean of
George Washington University Law
School. won vigorous applause when
he stated II am here to advocate one
source of safety-that the business and
laboring man of this country be al
lowed freely to manufacture munitions
of war ana freely to vend and export
them to all except the enemies of the
United States. | claim these rights for
them because they are lawful, because
an nations agreed to them and because
they conduce to the welfare not only
of our country but of mankind and are
therefore polite and right
Jefferson and Hamilton Cited.
Mr.. Gregory quoted from jefferson.
Hamilton. Seward. Justice Story, John
Bassett Moore and others for author
IVY, say ing IL tIie utIHoCTdlS qucS-
ton our views, 1 cite Jefferson. their
founder. and if the republicans, 1 cite
Hamilton, their founder" He also cited
the following convention, adopted by
the second Hague peace conference in
1907: "A neutral power is not bound
to prevent the export or transit on be-
half of one or the other of the bellig-
erents. of arms. munitions of war or.
generally. of anything which can be of
use to an army or fleet"
DR.. Albert Bushnell Hart, professor
of political economy at Harvard, told
the convention that increasing re-
sponsibilities of the United States in
Latin America demanded a powerful
navy for enforcement of the Monroe
doctrine. The United States, he de-
clared. could not keep it's pledge to pre-
ser e the present territorial relations
Of the western world unless it always
was ready to fight.
The only thing that has prevented an
nexation of parts OF the western world
by European powers, he said. was me
belief that the United States was ready
to resist.