Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-02-04


The presidents official family want
him to start soon on another tour.
Enroute to Washington tonight they
looked both south and west for the
setting of his next appearance in the
role OF champion of national pre-
paredness.
The west and northwest are insist
ent that the presidents next visit
shall be to them
Minneapolis, st. Paul and Denver
have presented what they consider
strong claims.
Reviewing his trip in it's high light,
the president told his audience in st.
Louis today that he came away from
Washington thinking the country was
with him on the issue of prepared
ness, and is going back knowing that
it is with him beyond his greatest
hopes.
America is at peace with all the
world because she is the friend ofgslt
the world. The friendship is genuine.
We are the friend of all the world.
because we are made up OF allstAA
world. and understand all the world.
ut would tear the heartstrings "
America to be at war with any other
nation.
"My fellow-citizens, while we know
our own purpose, it does not follow
that other nations understand.
Men press forward with sort OF
blind recklessness.
1.-THE peace Of the world, including
America, rests with the remainder of
the world, and not with America.
Either We shall sit still and wait
for the necessity of immediate na.
tional defense to come, and then call
for volunteers, who would be for the
first few months impotent as against
trained and experienced enemy.
Protect Government.
"Or shall we adopt the ancient
American principle that the men Of
the country shall be ready to take
care Of their own government"
The crowd roared its approval.
"The plans now before congress are
merely plans to save the lives of
American youths" he said, "and these
plans will 60 through. l am not in
sisting upon the details but upon the
principle"
The president ended his speech
amidst applause. The band played
America He stood and sang.
important Dispatches.
president Wilson received from
Secretary Lansing today what mem
bers Of his party characterized as
very important dispatches" relating
to the foreign situation. Their exact
contents were not revealed, but it
was understood they related to the
Lusitania and !Appam cases.
A final settlement of the Lusitania
case is expected soon after the presi-
dent arrives in Washington. He is
determined that Germany make full
disavowal and reparation, and it is
understood he will be satisfied with
nothing less.
St. Louis Address.
St. Louis. Feb. 9.-President Viii
son in the concluding preparedness
address Of his western tour, told an
audience of $4,000 here today that the
United States should have the great
est navy in the world; that the navy
should be unconquerable.
His utterances were cheered to the
echo by the enthusiastic audience.
Submarine commanders abroad
have received instructions, which for
the most part, conform with interna.
tional law, the president said, but the
act of one commander might set the
world afire, including America, he
warned.
''On the oceans there are hundreds
of cargoes Of American goods" hs
said. Cotton, grain and all the
bountiful supplies America is sepding
out to the world-and any one Of
those cargoes, any one of those ships
may be the point Of contact that will
bring America into the war"
For the first time during the tour,
the president told Of how one set Of
belligerents is cut of from the world.
He said this keeps the United States
from helping them as it would Hike.
He made the statement IN trying to
show that the United States ID really
neutral.
General peaee comiW1.
The president declared that he be.
lieves that there can never be a0oeA.
er war like the present one. and tAAk
(Continaed On Fa9e 1WeJ