Norwich bulletin., 1917-03-01
Fighting Our Battle

Fighting Our Battles.
 The allies have been fighting for liberty through favour ideal, Eng land IS a free country. F'rence, brave France, is a free land. If they should be crushed. her institutions here. as tnere,- would have to give way in fa- vor of militant autocracy. They have been fighting our battles, but now the relentless submarine campaign brings us directly into it. Can we permit man ruthlessness. as was Mrs. Hoy, whose son calls upon the president For protection Can we permit our mail ships to be held in our harbc.s and Ger trade which supports the al- lies to be cut off But the issue lies deeper: The success of the subma- rine campaign would end the sea DOW CT of England. We have depended up- lection of the great sea highways End that power. substitute anarchy for order on the sea. and America is ex- posed to European colonization and Invasion. Our security is at an end.
 Want No Referendum.
 We must prepare to fight We want no referendum. The president need not ask us whether we are with him. When the ship Is in a gale. we don't want the captain to ask the crew what they want, we ask only that he give clear and strong orders. We must ys create an army. proportionate to our strength. Canada has raised her tens of thousands. We must do more. Our army may not be used, but 1t must be ready.
 Universal Training.
 We can secure an army only through immediate universal training. We must take all fit young men of about the age of twenty and give them six or eight months of military in- struction- The volunteer system-"a million men springing to arms is an- other exploded bubble. Only by gen. eral training can secure enough men. The volunteer system failed in the Revolution, and we should not have won but for the aid of France, who now so needs our help. It failed in the the Civil War and it failed in England. Only by training our young men now can they be ready in time.
 All Must Aid.
 Do not imagine that the young men who must prepare to fight will bear
 allthe burden. An army is only a weapon. Its effectiveness depends upon the organized strength of the nation that uses 1t. Our resources must be mobilized under strong central control, so that an army can be supplied surely, abundantly and at expect to grow rich while the young fight. Patriotism and sacrifice are not only for the turret and the trench but for the counting house and the shop.
 The Only Peace Worth While.
 If we make America able to defend herself-as she is not today-we shall make her for more worth defending
 The old America was selfishly ab- sorbed in her old problem; the new America with broader vision. will look beyond her own borders and seek true security in helping establish in other countries liberty guaranteed by law, for which we stand. Let us take no step away from peace. but let us take the most vigorous steps towrd the only kind of peace in which is just, worthy of enduring.
 Charles B. Wiggin's Address.
 Charles B. Wiggin. vice president of the Merchants National bank of Bos- ton. first spoke of his pleasure in meeting so many business men of a on account of his director ship in the Danie1son Trust company and his presidency of the Wauregan  Mir. Wiggin said in substance: That while the Monroe >ctrine as a policy had done n1Isch to isolate the United States politically that there is no doc the markets of the world and that while we have been largely absobed from necessity since the inception of our government in developing our own resources we have of course gradually reached out to foreign markets-and 1t is impossible to believe that this | policy will not be greatly stimulated after the war. During the first few years after peace has been establish