Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-01
Complete Address by Charles Evans Hughes Accepting the Republican
Nomination for Psdentenator lardngs Speech Of Notification

cal exigencies by it's naval program. But
it has imposed upon the country an in
competent naval administration.
We demand adequate national de-
tense; adequate protection on both our
Western and Eastern coasts. We de-
mand thoroughness and efficiency in
both arms of the service. 1t seems to be
plain that our regular army is too small
We are too great a country to require of
our citizens who are engaged in peace
full vocations the sort Of military service
to which they are now called AS we'll
insist that our citizens in this me-
tropolis be summoned to put out fires
and police the streets. We do not
count it inconsistent with our lib
critics, or with our democratic ideals,
to have an adequate police force
With a population of nearly one hun
dred million we need to be surer of
ourselves than to become alarmed at
the prospect of having a regular army
which can reasonably protect our bor-
der, and perform such other military
service as may be required, in the alb
sence of a grave emergency. believe,
further, that there should be not only
a reasonable increase in the regular
army, but that the first citizen reserve
subject to call should be enlisted as a
Federal army and trained under Fed
eral authority.
The country demands that our mill
tary and naval programs shall be car
ried out in business-like manner I'M
dor tho admin
tive heads; that we shall have an up
to-date preparations; that the moneys
appropriated shall be properly expend-
ed. We should also have careful plans
for mobilizing our industrial resources;
for promoting research and utilizing
the investigations Of science. And a
policy Of adequate preparedness must
constantly have in view the necessity
Of conserving our fundamental human
interests: Of promoting the physical
well-being of our population, as well
as education and training; Of develop
ing to the utmost our economic
strength and independence. 1t must
be based upon a profound sense of
our unity and democratic obligation 1t
must not mean the abandonment Of
other essential governmental work,
but that we shall have, in both. eff
cheney, and, in neither, waste or eX-
travagance. We should also be solicit
Gus, by wise provision and conference.
to remove so far as possible the causes
of irritation which may in any de-
gree threaten friendly relations. In our
proposals there is, I repeat, no mill
tarism. There is simple insistence
in, ino
sonable measures Of security and
avoiding the perils of neglect. We
must have the strength Of self-respect;
strength which contains no threat,
but assures our defense, safeguards
our rights and conserves our peace.
The Organization Of Peace
We are deeply interested in what l
may term the organization Of peace.
We cherish no illusions. We know that
the recurrence Of war is not to be pre-
vented by pious wishes. If the con-
f1ict of national interests is not to be
brought to the final test of force,
there must be the development Of in
ternational organization in order to
provide international justice and to
safeguard so far as practicable the
peace Of the world.
Arbitra ton treaties are useful with
in their proper sphere. but it is worse
than folly to ignore the limitations of
this remedy or to regard such treaties
as an adequate means Of preventing
war There should be an internation-
al tribunal of judicial determination,
thus affording the advantage of judi
cial standards in the settlement of
particular disputes and of the gradual
growth of a body Of judicial prece-
dents. In emphasizing the desirability
of such a tribunal for the disposition
Of controversies of a justiciable sort,
it must not be overlooked that there
are also legislative needs. We need
conferences of the Nations to formu-
late international rules, to establish
principles, to modify and extend in
ternational law so as to adapt it to
new conditions. to remove causes of
international differences. We need to
develop the instrumentalities of con-
ciliation. And behind this interna-
tional organization, if it is to be eff
fective, must be the co-opera ton Of
the nations to prevent resort to hos
tilities before the appropriate agen-
cies Of peaceful settlement have been
utilized. If the peace Of the world is
to be maintained, it must be through
the preventive power of COM
mon purpose. Without this, it will
still remain not only possible. but
practicable, to disregard international
obligations, to override the rights of
states, particularly Of small states, to
ignore principles, to violate rules. And
it is only through international CO.
operation giving a reasonable assur-
ance of peace that we may hope for
the limitation of ornaments. 1t is to
be expected that nations will continue
to arm in defense of their respective
interests, as they are conceived, and
nothing will avail to diminish this bur :
den save some practical guaranty of
international order. We. in this coun-
try can, and should. maintain our for
tunate freedom from entanglements
With interests and policies which do
not concern us. But there is no ma
tional isolation in the world of the
goth century. II at the close of the
present war the nations are ready 70
undertake practicable measures in the
common interest in order to secure in
ternatfOnal Justice we, cannot fail to