The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-16
CHAMP CLARK FOR
TN AN AMERICAN
FOREIGN POLICY
He Would Expatriate JingOes
and Peace at Any Price
Persons.
BELIEVES no NATION
DARES ATTACK Us

WARRINGTON, Feb. Ij.-Castigating
both jingoes and the peace at any price
element Speaker Champ Clark in an
address delivered to-day At For, Myer
virginia, on the occasion Of the e!gh-
,een.h anniversary Of the blowing up of
the United States bsitleship Maine. de-
clared In favor Of a foreign policy which
would give the phrase y am an Amefi-
can more potency than any other pro-
lection.
He declared tina, those persons who
are trying to pull US into the foreign
war and the persons II do not want
to feht no matter what the provoca,ion.
are both detrimental to the republic and
advocated taking them by the nape Of
the neck and putting them in the
trenches over In Europe.
''if we attend TO our business I don't
believe that we will ever have another
war the Speaker said. II hops we Will
not have another. We forced every war
that We ever did have. and what ls more.
We won every one II them.
Now some people ge, very mIoii ~
cited and they GO around stirring up
The country. telling everybody tina scme
great nation Is gong to jump on us. irsi
one and then another. They use ~, na-
ton as a raw head and bloody bones
until they wear II out and then they take
another.
II do not believe that there IS "A ma
ton on the earth that &. 40 unwise as
to attack us. II one OF them. IN a mo.
ment Of %lunacy. should jump OH AS. |
think IL would jump on very suddenly. %
Makes Q Prediction.
The Speaker declared that IL the
United States should be Suddenly
plunged into war 2.00o. 900 men could he
recruited in a month. The crying need
10 officers. he said, II the troops OF
both sides had been properly officered
in the civil war. the Speaker added. a5.-
600 deaths due TO ignorance OF santa
lion woul not have occurred.
The Speaker reminded his hes rers tina
the o has already passed a bill, pro.
Siding n large increase Of midsh prncn
at Annapolis and that lie had himself
introduced a bill designed TO double the
number Of cadets at West Point.
cha rman Hay Of the Military COM
mittee says he IN going TO report that
bill f~avorabiy in a day or two he
added. ~ ! had my way about IL. In
addition TO doubling the number I would
TX II so that any boy in the country
who has the mental. moral physical and
educational qualifications should be per
mitted to 90 10 these chool and get
an education there At exact cost.
Il am In favor Of cutting down the
term OF enlistment 20 far as 1t may
be cut down. So that we would pour
into the body Of the people 100. 900 or
100000 well drilled men every year. men
who are ~ to command companies. 70
BE- ~L.eutensnts. or az least 10 be orderly
osrgeants and drill scrgeants.
IN Obligatory step.
~ would make It obligatory on the
Secretary of War would not, allow
him any discretion or any option abou,
ihis-I would make II obligatory the
Speaker said. that wherever a school
a college or ~ university would furnish
a minimum Of coo boys VINO would volug
teer to drill ne hould furnish them a
drill officer. And ! would Sc, all these
retired of1ceis Ia this country 10 irill.
Ing boys. W. a very shor, time Nc would
have the nucleus OF an army.
II am IN favor. Of Increasing the
coast artillery and of making skeleton
iesimen,s,' Mr.. Clark continued. ia
quoted military ties as his pre.
cept for making up skeleton regiments
In which green troops could he put be
side veterans in time OF trouble athe
than recruit entire regiments OF rockies
II will give them all the fying ma.
chine they want" the Speaker declared,
although vii say that am no,
going up in any OF them. would Civ
them all the submarines the, want. Then
would breathe the breath OF life int
the National Guard and make II some
o All these thing. will not cos'
much.
You get the maximum OF good with
the minimum Of cost. and while you sol
der men here do not study anything
about taxes and raising money and al
that kind ~ stun the statesmen W ui
the hill have to study about that al
the time, and We do not want to bank
rupt the country. " We did there would
he no sense ot having an army to pro-
tsct II.
~ believe in special prov dences anc
believe We were set apart 5000 miles
from the other nations of the earth &c
demonstrate the great American IoCtriu,
that men can govern themselves. and ~
are demonst. atIng Il, think everybody
IN America IL patriotic. or course. IL
q great many cases the patriotism Il
latent. and now some Of it is getting
blatant. but ! think everybody has Il ana
IL IL getting stirred up
HrrOrs Of H. Maine.
Referring TO the sailors who iost the
lives In the Maine catastrophe N,
Speaker said they were az much heroe.
az IL they had died IN the shock Of b,',
tie. The volunteers of the Spanish va
do we'll to honor these men.
The Spanish war. the Speaker said
demonstrated things well worth con
sidrring to-day, war would have beer
declared at least thirty days before /
was" he continued. but for the fic
that We did not have oven three round
OF ammunition apiece for the guns ,ha
we had. The chanccs are a hundred I,
one that We will never be caught IN tha.
prediciment again"
Referring 10 the $50, 0h0. 900 which tie,
Wouse voted into the hands of Prrs,den
Mckinley at the outbreak of the VA
with Spain, Mr.. Clark said
I'm voting that money and hn,ii, il
declaring var W. were all patriotic
There was no politics ~ the inc-ptlol
OF the Spanish war. II was an swfu