The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-02-03

but we have done II pieccmeai. There
has been u party In congress that was.
for "A little navy, az well as a party
In congress that was for a big navy.
No nation ought to wish either am
army or navy Il make "a toy OF. II
IL the arm OF force which must lie
back Of every sovereignty In the
wcrld. and the navy of the United
States as rapidly as possibly must be
brought to a state Of efficiency n
of numerical strength which viii
make II practically im~pregnable to
the navies Of the world.
THE fighting force OF the navy now
Is splendid but II rs not big enough.
II II incomplete.
What the administration proposes
is that we limit the number of years
to nve within which w shall COM
pleie a definite program which viii
make our navy adequate for the de-
Tense OF both coasts.
But on land. what stands behind
the president II he should have to
enforce the demands OF the United
States for respect and right. our army
has not men enough to patrol the
Mexican borGcr.
The Mexican border is Il very long
border. | admit. but what is that
single border to the whole extent and
coast OF the United States? | have
not had men enough to prevent ban
! dts from raiding across the border OF
| Mexico into the United States.
some gentlemen pirate OF military
establishments. They see phantoms;
they dream dreams Of milirarism in
the United States sprinsing out OF
any of the proposals Of the admins
tration. Why. IA man must have a
very strong Imagination indeed to
conceive amy such nonsense as that.
! am not asking Ia be backed by any
bigger standing army han liz neces-
sary for the uses of the moment. but
I am asking this:
DO you remember the experiences
Of the spanish American var? That
was not much OF a war, was Il? You
remember the satirical verses some
newspaper man wrote about II;
" War is rude and impplitc. II
quite upsets a nation. It's made OF
several weeks of fight, and years Of
conversation
And yet what happened? You
sent thousands of men To their death
because they were ignorant. They did
not get u further than the camps
In Florida They did not get on the
water even. much less get to Cuba,
aud they died in the camps Like flies,
OF all sorts of camp diseases. Of all
sorts of diseases that come from the
ignorance Of camp sanitation. Splcn-
did boys: boys III with "a lite train
ing to make an invinciblc army, bu,
sent to their death by miserable dis
eases. the soil OF which was helpless
ignorance. Why the percentage oi
our loss in that war by disease IA tn,
camp alone was greater than the per
ccntage OF the loss of the japanese
by disease and battle In their wal
with Russia.
We poured crude. ignorant. un'
trained boys into the ranks of thos'
armies and they died before they Sol
sight Of an enemy.
do you want to repeat that? What
sort u disaster may come while you
are trying t. make an array cat o.
raw material
III seems almos, ridiculous To state
how little the present admia istratior
IL asking for.
1t IL asking that YOU give II some
thing that is not sheer raw matcrla
out OF which To begin To make al
army when 1t is absolutely necessar,
to make AN army. II is asking tina
five hundred thousand men he asked
1 - .MAlsa.s.-a a.. e.LA d. ltIfl. tr. aln
every year for three years In ordcl
that whcr volunteers are called TO
In ease OF war W. may have at leas
five hundred thousand men who know
something about wal. That IL all w
are asking. N II there is any crit
cism To he made upon II, II Ia that
is too little, not too much.
There ar. other things we hav'
been much concerned about Tn
railroads Of this country never hav'
been drawn into the counsols OF tn
government until recently to max
plans for co-ordinating them to trans
port troops. provisions ana iranspor
munitions. Never. until recently
have we called the business men ant
engineers Of the country into counse
to ascertain what are tho country
resources of manufacture and how w
can coordinate them so there will b.
no failure 10 so, every part of tn
machinery into operation a. case @
var
Il have been wringing my hear
and strnining every energy OF min'
that I have To preserve the honor an.
peace of the country. would ID
ashamed II I aid not use the utmos
powers that are IN me to A. II. Blu
suppose | should have to turn 10 yol
and say Fellow citizens, ! have don
AZ much as I can, now must asl
you TO back me M with the force %
the nation and suppose ! shout
know before I said II hat had no
told you what that meant. and I ~
telling YOU tonight Supp"fe ha'
not challenged you In q momsn q
peace "A make ready,
DO not suppose, however, thar
am afraid It IL not going to be done
would not do the injustice tina i'm
Iplication would involve 10 IN, gallan
mcn upon the hill yondcr H. Wash
ingtuu, who make the laws ~ the ma
ltion Th'y are going to d. a grea
deal of debating. but they are dom