Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-05
F. H. CHASE EDIFIES AUDIENCE.
Gave Illustrated Lecture American Defense Under Aus pices of Norwich Board of Trade-Compared U. s. Army and Navy With Foreign Powers.

treatment of Spain when she was a vanquished foe, and our subsequent conduct towards Cuba was ample guarantee that we didn't want what the other fellow has got, and we would protect what we had got.
 The American Defense Society is only pro-American, and 1t believes that by preaching preparedness it is stimulating patriotism. and by show ing this example to new corners to our shores, it is making better citizens of them, or in other words doing the job quicker.
 Most foreigners have served with the colors at home and how often we hear one of them refer with pride to the fact that he has been a member of the Kings Own or the Queens Own, and we want every man in this country to take the same pride in be- longing to Uncle Sam's Own.
 How Preparedness Is Received.
 Before closing permit me to relate two instances showing both extremes of the reception accorded to a man in this work of preparedness.
 Some few months ago while hold ling meeting in Louisville at the lSeelbach hotel Congressman Swagar Sherley openly attacked me, and among other things stated that he re- sented New York coming down there to tell them how and what to think. l had previously interview Editor | Mott of the Louisville Post, who in formed me that it was presumption for any individual or organization to l suggest any course of action to con- 1 gress. At the meeting in question, a citizen censured Sherley for his at tack, and said that if the movement which I represented had originated in | Louisville and had been taken to New | York, he felt sure that no congress- man in that state would have ques- | toned it's origin, as it was wholly an American issue.
 In Atlanta, Ga, met a bully old rebel, president of the leading bank | who had been with Gener-e Zee right
 up to Appomattox. This experience
 was the other extreme. He told me tc tell my Yankee friends up north, thai the next time there was a war they would all be up here to help.
 | When danger threatened in the ear ly days of our republic there was nc need to call for assistance. It came voluntarily. In 1794 when it seemed certain that we must again go to wal
 with England, it was decided tha I forts and redoubts must be thrown LII
 and the small sum of sr36, 600 wa
 thought sufficient and appropriated for that purpose.
 New London Enthusiasm.
 At Baltimore, the local militia 10 strong, started in to break ground and great company of volunteer
 joined them. Two hundred citizens il
 Boston assembled for work, and a . New London the citizens and shi captains 1abored free.
 [ At New York, the enthusiasm wa unbounded. It was decided that Gov
 ernor's Island was the first point t be defended. From April to June, me of every rank in life labored withou , hire. The tallow chandlers went fror the Exchange and the grocers fror } the old Coffee House. The cooper met in Whitehall Park. The baker
 followed suit. Columbia student
 marched from their college to tn r Battery and there took boats for tn t island. The sawyers, the lawyers, tn l sail makers and schoolmasters follow 5 ed hard upon each other, and gentle : men of the republican club, the dem g ocratic society and Tammany went i
 a body. These facts are all recorde
 in Macauley's History of the Amer.
 can People.