The weekly soliphone., 1917-04-05
WOULD ADD 5Oo,OOO TO ARMY.

dition to the armed forces of the United States already provided for 1 by law in case of war at least 500,- 900 men, who should in my opin- ion, be chosen upon the principle of universal liability to service, and also the authorization of subsequent additional increments of equal force so soon as they may be needed and can be handled in training. It will involve also, of course, the granting of adequate credits to the govern ment, sustained, I hope, so far as they can equitably be sustained by the present generation, by we'll conceived taxation.
 'I say. sustained so far as may be equitable by taxation because it seems to me that it would be most unwse to base the credits which will now be necessary entirely on money borrowed. It is our duty, most respectfully urge, to protect our people so far as we may against the very serious hardships and out of the imitation which would be produced by vast loans.
 ''In carrying out the measures by which these things are to be ac- complished we should keep con- stantly in mind the wisdom of in- terfering as. little as possible in equipment of our own military forces with the duty-for it will be very practical duty-of supply ing the nations already at war with Germany with the materials which they can obtain only from us or by our assistance. They are in the field and we should help them in every way to be effective there.
 "I shall take the liberty of sug- gesting, through the several execu- tive departments of the government, for the consideration of your com- mittees, measures for the accom- plishment of the several objects I have mentioned. l hope that it will be your pleasure to deal with them as having been framed after very careful thought by the branch of the government upon which the responsibility of conducting the war and safeguarding the nation will most directly fall
 FREEDOM OF THE WORLD IS
 MENACED.
 While we do these things, these deeply momentous things, let us be very clear and make very clear to all the world what our motives and our objects are. My own thought has not been driven from it's habitaual and normal course by the unhappy events of the last two months and I do not believe that the thought of the nation has been altered or clouded by them.
 'I have exactly the same things in mind now that I had in mind when I addressed the senate on the 22d of January last; the same that I had in mind when I addressed the congress on the Sd of February and on the 26th of February. Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power and to set up amongst the really free and self-governed people of the world such concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.
 Neutrality is no longer feasible or desirable where the peace of the world is involved and the freedom of it's peoples, and the menace to that peace and freedom lies in the existence of autocratic governments backed by organized force which is controlled wholly by their will, not by the will of their people. We have seen the last of neutrality in such circumstances.
 "We are at the beginning of an age in which it will be insisted that the same standards of conduct and of responsibility for wrong done shall be observed among ma tions and their governments that are observed among the individual citizens of civilized states.
 we have no quarrel with the German people. We have no feel ing toward them but one of sym pathy and friendship. It was not upon their impulse that their gov ernment acted in entering this war. It was not with their previous knowledge or approval.
 GERMAN PEOPLE NOT CONSULT
 ED IN WAR.
 ''It was war determined upon as wars to be determined upon in the old, unhappy days when peo- ples were nowhere consulted by their rulers and wars were provok- ed and waged in the interest of dynasties or of little groups of am hitiOnc man xhn uaro oaonct ovp aI