Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-04-03
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| sunk, American lives taken, in ways
| which it has stirred US very deeply to
learn of, but the ships and people of |
other neutral and friendly nations have |
been sunk and overwhelmed in the wa
tiers in the same way. There has been |
no discrimination. The challenge is to |
all mankind. Each nation. must decide /
for itself how it will meet it. The i
choice We make for ourselves must be !
made with a moderation of counsel !
and a temperatures of judgment be- |
fitting our character and our motives |
as a nation. We must put excited feel |
ing away. Our motives will not be re- |
venge or the victorious assertion of the |
physical might of the nation but only !
the vindication of right, of human |
right, of which we are only single |
champion.
When l addressed the congress on !
the 18th of February last, 1 thought |
that it would suffice to assert our neu- !
tral rights with arms, our right to use
the seas against unla wful interference,
our right to keep ur people safe
| against unlawful violence. But armed
neutrality, it now appears. is imprac-
! tlcable. Because submarines are in ef-
feet outlaws when used as the German
submarines have been used against
merchant shipping, it is impossible to
defend ships against their attacks as
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merchantmen would defend themselves
against privateers or cruisers, visible
craft giving chase upon the open sea.
1T is common prudence in such cir
cumstances, grim necessity indeed, to
endeavor to destroy them before they
4 have shown their own intention. They
must be dealt with upon sight, if uealt
with at all.
The German government denies the
right of neutrals to use arms at all
within the areas of the seas which it
has protected, even in the defense of
5 rights which no modern publicist has
ever before questioned their right to
defend The intimation is conveyed
that the armed guards WI fch veg N-T-a
} placed on our merchant ships would be
treated as beyond the pale of law and
subject to be dealt with as pirates
would be. Armed neutrality is inef-
] fectual enough at best; in such circum-
] stances and in the face OF such preten-
| tons it is worse than ineffectual; it is
likely once to produce what it was
8 I meant to prevent; it is practically Ger
P tain to draw us into the war without
r either the rights o rthe effectiveness
of belligerents
There is one choice we cannot make
we are incapable of making: we viii
not choose the path of submission and
suffer the most sacred rights of our ma
e4OA anu OOl p6ODle u ne ignored OF
: violated. The wrongs AGAINST which we
= now array ourselves are not common
they cut to the very roots of
human life
What this will involve is clear It
: WI involve the utmost practicable CO.
y operation in counsel and action with
the governments now az war with Ger
many, and as incident to that the eX-
q tension to those governments of the
most liberal financial credits, in order
= thai our resources may, so far as pos
- sible be added to theirs. Il will in
vOlve the organization and mobiliza-
ton of all the material resources of the
country to supply the materials of war
| and serve the incidental needs of the
nation, in the most abunadnt and yet
the most economical and efficient way
possible. 1t will involve the immediate
full equipment of the navy in all re-
( | speots. but particularly in supplying it
with the best means of dealing with
; the enemyS submarines. 1t will involve
/ the immediate addition to the armed
Y forces of the United States already
( provided for by law in case of war, at
I least 100000 men, who should, in my
i opinion, be chosen upon the principle OF
\ universal liability to service, and also
/ the authorization of subsequent addi-
tional increments of equal force so soon
I as they may be needed and can be
I handled in training.
1T will involve also, of course the
4 granting of adequate credits to the
1 government, sustained l hope, so tar as
! they can equitably be sustained, by the
I present generation by well conceived
B taxation. | say sustained so far as
I may be equitable by taxation because
1 it seems to me that it would be most
/ unwise to base the credits which will
1 now be necessary entirely on money
/ borrowed. 1t is our duty, l most re-
/ specially urge, to protect our people
so far as we may against the very ser
ious hardships and evils which would
be likely to arise out of the initiation
which would be produced by vast loans
/ In carrying out the measures by
/ which these things are to be accom-
4 plished we should keep constantly il
mind the wisdom of interfering as little
as possible in our own preparation anC
in the equipment of our own military
forces with the duty-for it will be {
very practical duty-of supplying tn.
nations already at war with Germany
with the materials which they can OBJ
tain only from us or by our assistance
They are in the field and we SHOULD
help them in every way to be effective
there.
Il shall take the liberty of suggest
ing through the several executive de
partments of the government for thu
measures for the accomplishment of tn
several objects | have mentioned.
hone that it will be your pleasure t
deal with them as having been Framed
after very careful thought by tn
Z branch of the government upon whicl
the responsibility of conducting tn
war and safeguarding the nation vii
most directly fall.
l while we do these things, thes
deeply momentous things, let us b
very clear and make very clear to al
\ the world what our motives and on
objects are. My own thought has no
been driven from it's habitual and nor
NAL course by the unhappy events 0
the last two months, apd / do not be
lieve that the thought of the nation ha
been altered or clouded nv ther7
Il have exactly the same thing il
mind now that / had in mind when
I addressed the senate on the twenty
second. of January last; the same tina
I had in mind when l addressed tn
congress on the third of February an
on the twenty sixth of February. Gu
object now, as then, is to vindicate tn
principles of peace and justice in tn
l life of the world as against selfish an
autocratic power and to set up amongs
the really free and self-governed PEG
/ pies of the world such concert of pur
pose and of action as will hencefort
insure the observance of these prin