The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-27
UNIVERSAL TRAINING
URGED ON CANADIANS
Theodore Roosevelt Told Them It Was
the Best Means of Maintaining
Permanent Peace.

Toronto, Nov. 2T.--Universal militar,
training in time of peace was advocated
by Theodore Roosevelt in an address, her,
last night as the best means of main
tanning permanent peace after the elos'
of the world conflict.
"As regards certain nations" he said
81 am sure that it will prove entirely
possible both to provide for permanent
lpeace among them, and also to provide
for common and disinterested action
Ialong certain lines and within definite
limits, to secure a betterment OF general
international conditions, to diminish the
likelihood of future wars, and to re-
strict their limits if they break out, As
regards Canada and the United States,
think the time has come when we should
declare that no possible question can
arise which cannot be determined sub.
stantially as questions between the vari-
Gus states or provinces are determined,
at Washington or Ottawa,
Gas regards some nations, / question
whether as yet we can trust the future
solely to even the most carefully devised
| treaties-lest in any real emergency we
suddenly discover that they are regard
ed merely as scraps of paper. There
| fore, on the general matter of securing
lasting international peace, / feel that
probably our action ought to be two
fold. We ought, with entire sincerity,
to take every step which makes it likely
that thereby the chance of future war
will be minimized But we should treat
a 1. = IA
a substitute for, preparing in advance to
guard our safety by our trained strength,
Let us in good faith enter into all rea-
sonable treaties which will render it less
likely in the future that the peace OF
the world will be broken. But let us not
trust too much to paper guarantees.
Let us, ourselves, make no agree
ments we cannot keep, and observe every
agreement into which we enter. In addi-
tion, let us, as a matter of permanent
policy, keep our strength prepared for
our own defense. In order to do this,
let us insist that every right enjoyed
shall carry with il the obligation to per-
form the corresponding duty Inas-
much as the first duty of nation is self
defense, let us insist that, in our democ-
racies universal suffrage shall 90 hand
in hand with universal service, and there
fore with obligatory universal training
of our young men in time of peace 80
that they may be fit and ready to defend
the hearthstones Of the nation in time of
war.
Colonel Roosevelt declared that what
had been accomplished by the Canadians
and by their sister colonies was without |
a parallel in history
"You and they" he said, shave sent |
your stalwart sons in hundreds of thous- |
ands across the vast ocean to fight on |
fields of ancient fame which their deeds /
have rendered still more famous. 1t has
been a proof of the vision, of the power
to look ahead and to sacrifice present |
ease for large future interests, which is
only by peoples that are
mighty of soul You have made your
bodies the servants of your souls de-.
sire.
81 did not accept any invitation to
'peak formally in Canada until the entry
If my own beloved country into the war
gave me the right to come here with
bride, as an equal speaking to equals;
or now, friends, your countrymen and
nine have common duty and the same
Jingle purpose. The duty incumbent on
10Th of our nations is to fight this war
through to a finish, no matter how long
t takes and at no matter what cost of
life and treasure, until we win the peace
# overwhelming victory. Our common
purpose is to break the offensive strength
# the Prussian Germany of the Hohen
ollerns, so as TO redeem Belgium and
nd secure ample atonement for her
wrongs, so as to restore to France what
Germany took from her, so as to free
very people now tyrannized over by
Germany or by her vassal allies, Austria.
turkey and Bulgaria. When the world
! safe for orderly freedom for all the
rec peoples great or small who live Just
? under the governments of their choice,
hen, and not until then, our purpose
this war will have been achieved. Then.
hen peace comes, we must endeavor to
lake 1t lasting; and in order that we
lay be even measurably successful in
his endeavor, we must show both sincere
esire to realize an ideal and also sound
lmmon sense in the course we follow TO
rat end"