Arizona republican., 1916-10-27
THING OF PAST IS NEUTRALITY
 SAYS WILSON
(Continued from rage One)

tContlnued rrOm rage One)
 disturbance of the worlds peace for an object which the worlds opinion | cannot sanction"
 After denying the republican claim that the business prosperity of the United States during the last two years has been due to trade created by the war, the president ridiculed predic- tions that after the war Europe will overwhelm this nation by its economic strength and dump" into the United States goods now being stored up for that purpose. He asserted that ex- ports of everything that goes to.supply armies makes only one per cent of the total of American commerce.
 We ought not to turn to these peo- pie in fear, but in sympathy" said the president He added: We have means of defense and we have means of az gression. Our means of defense are that we have taken pains to have all the instrumentalities to find out ex- actly what is going on, and to be ready to act immediately we find that it Is necessary to defend ourselves"
 The president, busy from the time he arrived here shortly before noon, until he left for Shadow Lawn at 10 o'clock tonight. delivered four speeches, par ticipated in an official reception and took an automobile ride
 Crowds which packed the streets for blocks through which he moved, and crowded into the halls in which he | spoke, cheered the president almost continuously. During his rides about | the city he remained standing in his automobile waving his hat to the crowds The president participated in an of | ficial welcome extended him at the l Chamber of Commerce by Mayor | George Puchta, then rode to a lunch given by the Women's City Club. later ! made an automobile tour of the city. | and reviewed thousands of school chil- dren carrying American flags. He smiled when he passed the Hughes | High School" Tonight he attended a | dinner given him by the City Club. and ! delivered an address later under its i auspices. All arrangements were made by non partisan committees. Mrs. Wn- son accompanied the president and be- | fore the day was over her arms were | heaped with bouquets of flowers given ! by committees of school children. 1 In his afternoon speech the president | urged the need for unity among the people of the United States to meet l problems resulting from the war. He gave his moral for the present and for | the future as let Us see to il that ] America as whole and every Amer lcan that constitutes America as one ! or the fractions is shot through with 1 that aPirit of human sympathy which Is the only spirit of true enterprise"
 The United States. Mir Wilson said. has had an industrial revival during | the last two years which it has never seen before. He declared that the 1 United States will lend not only it's moral influence but it's physical influ- ence If other nations will join with her to see that no nation or group of na- 1 tons takes advantage of another na- ton or group of nations. He discussed the e. uses of the present war saying ! nothing in particular started if but everything in general"
 In his afternoon speech here today President Wilson said in part:
 You know that I began that aca oemic career to which so many un- pleasant references are nowadays made as teacher In a woman's college. taught the women at Bryn Mawr as
 best l could the science of government
 It has therefore always been a well. known fact to me that when address
 women upon public questions can ad. dress them exactly as when address
 men.
 After all. the real problem of thi,
 countr% IS to make a community of it
 IS to get the civic spirit the same iron
 one side of the continent to the other
 Not only the spirit the same, but tn,
 conscious purpose the same
 am very glad in the midst of tn, confusion and the irresponsible tall or campaign, to be permitted to dis
 cuss these things that have nothini
 to do with campaign, that run al
 through the history of the nation an,
 might always run through and lool
 forward to the times to come when
 whether in one capacity or in another
 we must all cooperate for a common
 object And therefore, I for one. hay been very much disturbed by some O the things that have been predicted that are said to be going to happel aiter the war. after the present dis
 tresslng war in Europe. l say that have been distressed because appar ently the point of these prediction
 was that this war of arms was goin
 to be followed by another sort of con
 test based on n radical economi
 rivalry which would breed deepe antagonisms than the antagonisms c . actual force
 You know what has happened i Y countries like our own beloved coun , try. The feeling between the mort
 and the south in this country did nc arise out of the war, out of the fight
 ing. It arose out of the polite;
 measures that followed the war. It , in times of peace that the irreconcil . able antagonisms of nations are creat
 ed. When you fight you, so to sa, Il get the hatred out of your blood by tn Q very exertion of struggle. Moreover. . IS contact of force with an equ;
 force. and respect is bred between tn . antagonists. But 1t would be yer . sad pity if this war should be follow
 ed by subtle antagonism that can nc
 be cured in that way and that do nc
 lead to mutual respect.
 For one thing. 1t is predicted tha
 after the war is over, Europe will i
 some way overwhelm the Unite Q States by her economic power and ht
 economic antagonisms to the Unite f States. I wonder that any thinkin n man can entertain an opinion of ths f sort It is obviously based upon sing a ular and profound ignorance. Whs f is this war doing to Europe? Doc war increase the economic efficienC g of nation? Theree are some twenty Q five million men under arms, or WI
 hdNc btti uHutl III lnlS tlldn
 struggle. From forty to sixty D,
 cent of the skilled mechanics
 Europe have been called into the fielt
 not mechanics merely, but men : skill of every sort, musicians, men wi L. could play upon the human spirit d well. as deftly handle a mechanic if instrument
 r. And the whole energy, the who is physical energy, the whole dexterit