Arizona republican., 1916-02-03

government will prevail to maintain your honor
 There may come a time upon us, and come of a sudden, when l shall have to ask: I have had my say-who stands back of me? Where is that force by which the majesty and right of the United States are to be maintained and asserted?'
 T take it there may in your own conviction come time when that might and force must be asserted You are not willing that what your government says should be ignored T have been thrilled by the exper- fences of these past few days. and shall go back to Washington and smile at anybody who tells me the , United States is not wide awake. But gentlemen, crowds at the stations , cheers for the government the display of the emblem of the Stars and Stripes only express the spirit of the nation; it does not express the or ganized force of the nation. And while l know what the spirit of the people is, l have come to ask " Hdl lIltll IS, anu Nudt they intend to make it.
 | Modern wars are not won by mere numbers and enthusiasm. They are not won by mere national spirit.
 They are won by the scientific ap- plication of irresistible force. What is there behind the president i of the United States Well, in the first place, there is a navy, which l believe to be the equal of any navy in the world-ship for ship. But look at the great sweep of our coasts.
 There is tragedy abroad in the world We go about our daily tasks
 unmclested and unafrad. It seems strange this tragedy should be enacted while we remain so peaceful in our abodes But the world never before
 ill the history of mankind has seen the sweep of destruction comparable to that which now is devastating Eu-
 rope We think our own Civil War one of the bloodiest in history, but all the sufferings of all the four years
 of that war are as dust in the bal ance as compared to the sufferingS ard sacrifices which are being wit
 Eessed in Europe and upon the seas today. We are witnessing cataclysm and God only knows what the issues will Dc.
 | See, therefore, the noble part that 1 is assigned to America-to stand
 steady, to stand cool. to keep alive all the wholesome processes of peace.
 I would not Condescend to appeal to ] ,1 l,o arI,. ,.l
 if l tried to do anything but quie1
 your judgments. I dc not wish you | to be any more excited than I. 1 am
 tco solemn to be excited.
 T would not draw a passionate
 breath for fear I might disturb the
 equipose of the peace of this part of | the world. But, ladies and gentlemen.
 one cannot help seeing visions, one
 cannot help realizing what it means
 to stand for the homer of a migthy I nation like this.
 T am going away from here reas-
 sured beyond even the hope that
 entertained when I came; and yet i want to beg that you do not let the
 impressions of. this hour die with the I hour
 | Let every man and woman in this | place go out with the feeling that
 he has consecrated his influence from ! this moment until the thing is ac- complsEed to making sure the secur- l ity and the adequacy of the national | defense Because, if America suffers | al, the world loses its equipoise. Mad | ness has entered into everything and 1 that serene flag which we have 1 thrown to the breeze upon So many