The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-13
America Must Come First With All Her People, Chief Executive Says Tn Address Warning Cadet Graduates Against Spirit of Militarism.
Preparedness of Nation Is With Definite Aim In View, and Not Tn Spirit of Aggression, He Says Touches On Subjects Tn Hughes Address.

Hughes Address.
 West Point, N. Y, June 13- President Wilson, before the graduating class of the U. s. Military Academy, making his first address since the presi- dential campaign began, today discussed preparedness, mil /; tarism, Americanism, tn e ] causes of the war in Europe, peace, the Monroe doctrine, di- vided allegiance and the ideals of America.
 He declared it is the present cooperative duty of the United States to be prepared, adding Mankind is going to know that when America speaks she means what she says" \
 The President said the United States should not be a buster ing nation-a nation with "a chip on it's shoulder a calm nation which will with hold it's hand as long as possi- ble and strike only for victory.
 The Presidents address ran through almost the entire list of Former Justice Hughes in his telegram accepting the Re- publican nomination, and he declared that the United States is ready to join with other na- tions to see that the kind of justice it believes in is given. 1 Shaking his finger emphaticaIIy, the l President told the graduates of the military academy and a large audience i that nobody who does not put Ameri- ca first can be tolerated and he added, l however, that true Americans should set 8. good example.
 The President declared the present war did not come by accident but that 1 it had to come. The United States asked nothing from Europe, he said, and there is nothing she wants which she must get by war He sounded warning that no man can tell what the next day will bring forth in the worlds events.
 The word 'tAmericanism' was used ! time in recent addresses.
 He constantly referred to the. West Point graduates to whom he was speaking but referred more to national and international problems. He warm ed the graduates against Inihtarisrn.
 The Presidents speech was-fre- quentIy interrupted by applause and he was cheered .as he concluded. 1 The speech follows: | -'I look upon this body of men who
 
 interest. I feel like congratulating them that they are living in a day not only so interesting because fraught | with change, but also because so re- sponsibIe. Days of responsi bility are ] the only days that count in time be- cause they are the only days that give | test of quality. They are the only days when manhood and purpose is l tried out as if by fire.
 ''I need not tell you intelligent men that you are not like an ordinary l graduating class of one of our uni versailles. The men in those classes | look forward to the life which they are to lead after graduation with great many questions in their minds | Most of them do not know exactly | what their lives are going to develop into. Some of them do not know what occupations they are going to follow. All of them are conjecturing | | advancement and the ultimate goal of success for them-
 l ''There is no conjecture for you. l You have enlisted in something that | does not stop when you leave the ] academy for you then only begin to realize it which then only begins to be filled with a full richness of it's meaning and you can look forward with absolute certainty to the sort of thing that you will be obliged to do.
 '"This has always been true of gra aduating classes at West Point, but the certainty that some of the older classes used to look forward to was a. very dull certainty. Some of the old days in the army, fancy, are not very interesting days. The ordinary life of an ordinary officer at a West ern post could not have been very ex- citing and I think with admiration of those dull years through which off1- cers, who had not a great deal to dos insisted, nevertheless, upon being ef- fcient and keeping their men it for the duty to which they were assigned. '"But in your case there are many extraordinary possibilities, because, 1 gentlemen. no man can certainly tell i you what the immediate future is go@ 1 (Continued on Page -9.O