New Britain herald., 1916-02-03

] rather listen to the still small Volce 1 that comes out or the great body or | the nation than to all the vocal orators ! in the land. But there are times when | I must come out and say do not let ] the voice be too small and too still i when I must come and say fellow ! citizens, get up on your hind legs and l talk and tell the people who repre- I sent you, wherever they are, in your state capital or in your national capi- | tai what it is that the nation desires 1 and demands Because the thing l that everybody is listening for in 8 1 democracy is the tramp, tramp, tramp 1 of the facts" Right to Travel Abroad. l Topeka, Kas., Feb. 3-President ] Wilson yesterday asserted the right 1 of Americans to travel abroad and their right to send food. cotton and manufactured products to peaceful 1 populations "in open neutral markets and Wherever the conditions of war make it possible to do so under the
 ordinary rules of international law"
 ''It may be necessary to use the l force of the United States to vindi- cate the rights of American citizens
 to enjoy the protection of interna-
 tional law he declared emphatically,
 in a speech here. He urged the sup 1 port of the people of Kansas in pre- 1 pairing that force for use if neces- sary. l Given Friendly Farewell. ] When the president arrived in To- 1 peka, the applause which greeted him was scattering. When he left To- 1 peka, thousands roared friendly l farewell
 There is nothing you would be quicker to blame me for than for 1 neglecting to safeguard the rights of Americans, no matter where they l might be in the world" said the president. There are perfectly clear ly marked rights guaranteed by ir,- ternational law, which every American is not going to abide the hibituaI or continued neglect of these rights We have right to send food to peaceful populations wherever condi- tions of war make it possible to do so under the ordinary rules of war. We have a right to supply them with our manufactured products"
 Monroe Doctrine
 The Monroe Doctrine was spoken
 
 United States of the rights of na- tional and popular sovereignty on this side in both continents of the Western Hemisphere. Nothing sus- tains the honor of the United States in respect to this long cherished pol icy, the president said, but the moral and physical force of the United States. He spoke of the spirit shown by the nation in freeing Cuba and added that "the American people feel the same way about the Philip pines, though the rest of the world does not yet believe it."
 The president later spoke to ,ln overflow meeting in the Topeka High school. He mentioned the camps held last summer in connection with military posts and said more camps should be established and that the men should volunteer to go to them in sufficient numbers so that if war would be a nucleus for the army.
 The President said. in part
 Speech in Part.
 There is nothing, you would be l quicker to blame me for than fo- l neglecting to safeguard the right of l Americans, no matter where they might be in the world There are per fectly clearly marked rights guaran- 1 teed by international law which every | American is entitled to enjoy and | America is not going to abide the | habitual or the continued neglect of those rights. Perhaps not being as near the ports as some other Ameri- cans you do not travel as much and you do not realize the infinite num- Der of legitimate errands of relief, errands of business for the govern ments, errands of every sort which are making America useful to tue world. Americans do not travel to | disturb the world. They travel to quicken the processes of the inter- change of life and of goods in the world, and their travel here and there ought not to be impeded by re c'i- less disregard of international obii- gation.
 There is another thing that we ought to safeguard and that is our right to sell what we produce in the open neutral markets of the world. Where there is a, blockade, we recoE- 1