New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-30
u. S. Pledged to Use
Force for Justice,
Says President.
HONOR PLACED
ABOVE LIFE
Cleveland and Pittsburgh
Told Danger Is Infinite
and Constant"

From 9 STAT Correspondent q II. rr.hrr.
Cleveland, Jan. 29.-"You may
count on my heart and resolution to
keep you out Of war. but you must
be ready, if the necessity arises, to
maintain your honor.
THE real man believes that his
honor is dearer than his life, and the
nations honor is dearer than the
nations comfort, its peace or life
itself.
This country is lacking in the
number of men who are ready TO
fight-not in the number Of fighting
men,"
These three sentences epitomized
the message Of President Wilson on
the first day of his Western cam-
paign for preparedness-a day which
closed here tonight with an enthu-
Slastlc meeting.
Warning to Britain Seen.
A warning TO Great Britain, sup
plementing the one to Germany
which was seen in his New York
speech, was given by the President
at Pittsburgh this afternoon, his
hearers believed, in the first address
Of his Western campaign for pre-
paredness.
Wherever the ordinary rules ot
commerce at sea, and Of interna.
tional relationship, are apt 10 bs
thrust aside or ignored, there is dan.
ger Of the critical kind of controver-
sy," he said. where nations are
engaged. as many nations are now
engaged. they are peculiarly likely
70 be stubbornly steadfast in tho
maintenance of the purpose which is
the main object of the movement,
and SO, while we move among
friends, we move among friends who
are preoccupied-preoccupied with
an exigent matter which is foreign
to our own life, foreign 10 our own
policy. but which, nevertheless, inc
evitably affects our own life and
policy"
President Wilson repeatedly urged
the necessity Of speedy action, saying
that America Is not afraid OF any.
body" and that "the only danger u
fears is the danger OF shame"
Nobody doubts that, given tins
enough, we can assert any amount OF
force necessary" said the President
But when the world Is on fire, how
much time do you want TO take TO bs
ready When you know that there ars
combustible materials In the life of tho
world and in your own national life.
and that the sky is full Of floating
sparks from a great conAagration, arc
you going TO sit down and say il is
time when the fire begins to 90 some.
thing about it,
Be Ready for Fire. Says Wilson.
II do not believe that the fire -
going 70 begin, but would be surer
of it If We were ready for the fire."
Direct appeals fo- non-partisansh p
in behalf Of preparedness, as well -
increasingly vigorous advocacy ot his
programme and insistence on the i'm
mediate need of action, marked tbs
opening OF the tour. In three adj
dresses here and az Pittsburgh no
spoke 70 over ten thousand persons
and Was greeted by many thousands
more. In one he gave his first mes-
sage o. preparedness TO the women Of
America.
I'VE are in the midst Of a world tina.
we did not make and cannot alter" ths
President declared. cts whole atmos-
pheric and physical conditions are the
conditions Of our own life also, and
therefore, as your responsible se-van'.
| must tell you that the dangers ara
infinite and constant.
"l should feel that was guilty o,
an objectionable omission d | did nos
20 out and tell my fellow-countrymen
that new circumstances have arisen
which make il absolutely necessary
that this country prepare herself, nor
for war, not for anything that smscks
in the least Of aggression, but for ade-
quate national defence"
The Presidents adore. e.ses to-day
we're more direct and more yigorou,
than those with which he opened his
campaign in New York on Thursday
and they met with better response
He was in Republican country IN both
cities, but everywhere ihe appeal o.