Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-31
Most Important Address of His
Tour For Preparedness at
Milwaukee
SPEAKS FROM THE CAR
Delivers Talks in Three Small
Towns; Back to Chicago
Tonight
BY Associated Press

Chicago, ILL.,, Jan. 81. - President
to-day enroute for Milwaukee where
he delivered an address which some
| of his party believe was one of the
most important of his tour of the Mid
die West to advocate the speedy up
building of an adequate national de-
fense.
His special left Cleveland at mid
night and arrived in Milwaukee at
noon to-day.
The trip from Chicago, where the
President did not leave his car, to
Milwaukee was broken by the first of
| several brief addresses by the Presi-
dent from the rear platform of his
| private car. Three such addresses
were at Waukegan, ILL.,, Kenosha, Wis.
and Racine, Wis.
During the ride from Chicago to
Waukegan the President devoted most
of the time TO correspondence and
| preparing material for his Milwaukee
address. Because of the large for
eign-born population of the city, it
was thought he would touch on the
duties of naturalized Americans in
their adopted country in connection
| with the preparedness policy.
President Wilson expects to leave
/
ended. His train is due to reach Chi
cago at p. m. tonight, two hours
! before he is to address an audience at
the auditorium here.
The train to which was attached
the special cars bearing President
! Wilson and his party, reached Chicago
| at S:15 a. m. The run from Cleve-
! land was accomplished without Incl
dent.
Crowds Gather
President Wilson was up early this
morning and was eating breakfast
with Mrs. Wilson when his train pass
ed through the La Sale street station.
cred at both the La Salle station and
I-NorthWestern stations in the hope of
catching glimpse of him.
| A few minutes after Mr. Wilson ar
! rived at the Northwestern Station he
alighted from his private car and
walked up and down the platform ac-
/ companied by guard of secret serv-
| ice men. He remarked on the fresh
ness of the air.
! President Wilson has not changed
his stand on the question of the right
| of Americans to travel on merchant
ships of belligerent nations. The
statement that the President now
favored the passage of a bill barring
American citizens from such vessels
which was published to-day, was de-
MED by Secretary Tumulty.
1.-THE President stands to-day just
where he always stood on that ques-
tion," said Mr.. Tumulty.
Raps Quibblers
! Milwaukee, Wis, Jan. 81. - Presi-
dent Wilson threw down the gauntlet
to-day to opponents of national pre-
paredness who have declared that the
movement sprang from the desires OF
munitions and armament manufac-
turers to make money.
II for my part have all along advo-
! Gated and always shall advocate that
| the government as far as possible shall
manufacture these things for itself, in
order that at any rate it may control
the PRICES at which these articles will
| be sold to the government. If it is
necessary to protect ourselves against
those who would make money out OF
| the necessities of the nation, there are
| adequate means of defending our
! selves and we will use these means
| But l don't believe the impulse comes
| from those quarters. L don't believe
| that in those quarters there is patriot
/ ism lacking anymore than there is
| patriotism lacking in other quarters" !"
! The Presidents declaration was de-
| livered from the rear platform of
his private car at Racine, Wis. half
an hour before he reached this city.