Arizona republican., 1917-04-10

1 endeaVor to bring before you some of the things which I think you and I as citizens of this commonwealth should come together and talk over earnestly and seriously.
 Each nation is it's brothers keeper and the greater the power the greater the responsibility. If that be so. no na- tion owes q greater duty to civilization than the United States For it to skulk behind the selfish policy of isolation would be the colossal crime of history From civilization she derives inestim- able rights. to civilization sine owes | immeasurable duties, to shrk which would be cowardice and moral death No nation can live to itself even if it would The economic developments of : the twentieth century have produced a solidarity of humanity which no racial prejudice or International hatred can destroy.
 No Question of Wanting War
 Today the United States is at war ] Whether sou wanted war or whether I wanted war is q matter of the past now. The president has presented our reasons to congress and to the Ameri- can people and to the world. Con gross has acted and declared war against the Imperial government of | Germany. The lines of democracy and autocracy are being rapidly defined and We have flung down the gauntlet 1 of our demand for the liberty of right i ful action to all humanity. With this problem facing us with our unrestrict- ed freedom of the high seas disputed; l with the appeal of a tortured and down. | trodden humanity demanding our in- i tereession lest civilization be cast back into the dark ages of barbarism; with | the honor Of your country hanging in ! the balance. what are you as Arizonans i going to do about it.
 | l am not here to indulge in any i flights of patriotic oratoFy. You have all followed the daily press from which you have obtained the history step by i step, of the events anG principles which have eventually thrust us into this calamity. If you have not all read the | presidents message to congress. l ] urge you to do so. It is q nasterptece of ! justice and thought and humanitarin- ism, and you will know better from it every attitude of the American nation regarding this war chan it would be possible for me to tell you. My pur- pose is to confine myself to the perils ! of cur own state and tne problems re- stlting therefrom, and the part she i may be called up to play Our po- sition with reference to inc border makes us practically vulnerable and ! fearful Of early atta K in view of the disquieting rUmors which have come to us from time to time making it d mat 1 ter of vital importance that we be well protected within our own confines
 In coming to the consideration of ! our Arizona national guard. | wish to ! place some stress upon q matter which seems to De very little understood. Un- i til the First infantry of the Arizona national guard is recruited to full war strength or mustered out, as is immi- nent, We cannot, according to the new law enacted June 1916. raise volunteer regiment, and at present the Arizona guard is lacking 1 300 men to bring il i up to fall war strength. Hundreds ol our patriotic citizens have rendered their services as Wo. nteers but only a few. g very few. have come forward and enlisted in the only organization officially recognized by the president of the United States and the war de- partrent-the First Arizora infantry.
 Doing Patriotic Duty
 Now and for nearly a year past this splendid handful of men has been doing patriotic and soldierly duty on our bor- der deyoting their valuable time t che protection of your hcmes and yOul
 
 eNaetlng duty at q sacrifice to self anC family, while we in the selfish certainty of security wended each our own way satisfied. in the knowledge that 'onl
 boys were on guard during the trying
 hours of day and keeping vigil in tht
 long hours of the night protecting tha
 security, while we went about our af.
 fairs by day and slept in peacefu
 oblivion Of their hardship by night.
 When the present crisis became ;
 reality and the danger. imminent ol
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 nearby, and it's possible conseuuence.
 became personai--I re1er to the Roose
 Welt dam-an immediate cry went Il,
 and demands were made for it's pro
 lection and 10 whom did we turn in otr
 hour of need2 To our own soldier boys
 Of course, and how did they respond
 forty eight hours after the reaues
 was made they were on the job. read
 and prepared te do or dle withou . thought of else bat duty the duty of 1, soldier who has learned the greates of all lessons obedience and the desir and ability to take proper care of sel and comrades
 Difference Of Opinion
 The differences of opinion as to tn best method of raising an army. that to say, by selective draft and conscrip ton or the oId yol,tpfapr ..x-s+aro a ..