Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-19
NOT FOR PEACE 1T ANY PRICE
Justice, Truth and Righteousness Are Paramount Saving of Property CT Human Right Says Gen Aiken Before Broadway Church Brotherhood Preparedness is Forced Upon United States if Monroe Doctrine is to be Main tained h

pertinence" and some very significant acts of the German government have, at different times. gone to confirm this view.
 The plea, so often urged in some quarters. that the exhaustion into which all the belligerent powers will plunge themselves practically insures us against attack. is contradicted by our own experience within the mem ory of many TOW living. Did we not send a formidable armed force, after four years of strenuous fighting, to the Mexican border in warning to Ma pcleon Third. and did he not quickly reembark his army in consequence, thus leaving Maximilian to his sad fate2
 Whichever side wins in the great world struggle will have at command a seasoned force of trained warriors. ready. as ever. to obey orders where- ever those orders may direct them to SO.
 As to Germany--she hss now lost her colonies over the world. If she wins, 1t is doubtful whether she re- gains them. If she loses, she starts anew with her sixty million population on the world race for commercial &C., tivity and supremacy. In seeking markets she will seek new colonies in which she can dominate trade. Where are such inviting fields as in the tenn perate zones of the great Western f1en1Spnefe ana that VIII bring her face to face with us and with the Mon roe Doctrine which has just received its newest interpretation in President Wilson's message to congress deliver ed on December Eth in which he ex- plicitly announces the United States as the protector of the liberties of "all the Americas" The fact that the twenty odd other "Americas' than ours have not endorsed the paternal scheme makes no difference. We am nounce it officially. to the nations of
 the world in the most formal and dramatic manner possible, and within one day of it's announcement we get
 the first echoes of European opinion
 through the newspapers of our best friends and those most tolerant of the
 Doctrine" in the past. The new in-
 depreciation they receive with grave
 doubts. If England doubts and ques-
 tions, will the Continental Powers-es- pecially Germany-be more friendly to it? Her past attitude. think gives us clue to an answer.
 I am compelled to conclude that peace loving as the president says we are-and as we certainly ought to be,
 this re-announcement of the Monroe
 Doctrine absolutely forces upon us the
 duty of prompt Preparedness. This is certain. IL cannot be con- urine is either merely a scrap of bombastic paper, or 1t can be inter-
 preted cnly in terms of ships, guns and men.
 For that reason 1t seems to me that we have no alternative but promptly to prepare for any contingency. think this will be the view of the majority in the present congress. The | contest will come over the question of methods and extent. And it will be a serious one.
 l Several plans for Preparednessti have already come to the surface. By; afa1 i the most modest and moderate is that described by the president in his mes- sage. l understand the general staff | of the army has a more expensive and 1 elaborate one, the details of which have not seen; while Colonel Roosevelt swings the "big stick% with a much more radical programme in nature and | extent, pouring out the 'Vials of his contempt on plans less comprehensive | than his own.
 l The curtain is about to rise on new l and untried scenes for us, as a nation | God only knows what they will reveal l Showed Navy Views.
 Lieut.. Edwin c. Bliss of the Maya | Reserves then gave very interestins talk on navy activities and his tall l was illustrated by about 75 lanterr l slides of pictures taken at sea. | Refreshments of cake and chocolat, were served at the close of the ev, ening under the direction of a com. nittee comprising Frank Wilson chairman, Osten Ferguson, Johr
 Steele, A. M. Avery and Carlton Bow. CTS.