New Britain herald., 1916-02-03
NEVER ANOTHER WAR LIKE PRESENTLY WILL HASTEN Y TIME OF GENERAL PEACE Wilson Tells St. Louis Business Mems League Believes U. S. Navy Should Be Unconquer-
 able, ''the Greatest in the World" PRESIDENT JOINS WITH CROWD IN
 SINGING STAR sPANGLED BANNER'

Most Part the Instructions of Sub-
 marines Were in Accord With Inter-
 national Law, But That the Act of
 One Commander Might Cause
 Trouble.
 St. Louis, Feb. s.-President Will son today told an audience of 15,000 Nbich swayed with a tumult of cheering, that the United States should have the greatest navy in the world.
 T believe tho navy of tie Cnlted States should be unconquerable," he {, said, "hte gr,4test in the world" < The president declared that he be- ieycd there would never be another war like the present and that the war will hasten the time of general peace. He spoke at a breakfast of the St. Louis Business Mems league before going to the Coliseum for his main \ address.
 Governor Major of Missouri sat next to the president.
 Given Enthusiastic Applause. <%The room was decorated with American flags. Enthusiastic ap- plause greeted the president as he rose to speak. .....
 'Its just as we'll to shed speeches as you go,' he said. There are many things I would like to speak, but now l am talking of national defense. Not only is it necessary to mobilize the military forces of the nation but also the economic forces of the nation.
 Business Again Together.
 "I am not looking forward to war but to times of peace. People do not hate each other and therefore they will do business again together"
 The president spoke of the necessity of representing facts, or business as they really are.
 sA. U. s. Shy in Competition. America has been shy at going out in competition,' he said.
 T am ready to match the business of America against that of the rest of the world.'
 He explained that the United States must keep out of the war if possible in order to help in the healing pro- eesses."
 Never Come Again. The president declares that such war can never come again; that it will never come again; and that the war will put forward the time of uni- versal peace better than anything else could.
 Not Against Preparedness.
 The president opened with the statement that he had "come seek Ask something in the middle west and found it.. He said he had been told the middle west was against preparedness but did not believe it.
 q did not come out to learn how YOU thought but to tell you what was going on I came out that there may be absolute clarification of the is- S0es we are now confronting
 America Wants Peace.
 What is the situation? The situ- ation is that America is at peace with all the world and wishes to re- main at peace. It is a genuine peace, based on some of the most funda- mental things of international law. America is the friend of all the world.
 we believe we can show our friendship for the world better by keeping out of this struggle than by getting into it. I do not misread the spirit of America.
 'I have no indictment of any form of government
 Will Not Be Led.
 No man can lead America any ! where that her people do not de- % sire to be led I believe it to be my ? dsty to subordinate my individual feflings to the conscientious attempt to interpret and express in these International affairs the genuine spirit of my fellow citizens.
 "So far as America is concerned no man need go amongst us preach ing peace. We are disciples of peace already and no man need preach that Gospel to us.
 tThe instructions to commanders of submarines for the most part ar3 in accord with the law of nations, but the act of one commander may set the world on fire.
 May Cause Trouble.
 There are cargoes of wheat and cotton and manufactured articles on zthe sea, and every one of them may ease trouble because they go into tie zone of fire.
 America has drawn no fine points no new issues in her international relations: she has merely asserted the rights of mankind when the life of mankind is threatened in @ world a1ame with war. She has rested up on what is already written plain on the documents of international law. ~ The president said that some day Mstatesn1en of the older countrie:
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