Bisbee daily review., 1917-03-21
Union League Club Urges Whole Nation To Lay Aside All and Speed Up Work on Defenses.
U. s. UNPREPAREDNESS
 DECLARED PITIFUL
Not a Coast Defense, No
 Army, While Navies Alone Stand Betwesn U. s. And
 Disaster, Says Report.
(By Review Leased Wire)

NEW YORK. Mar. 20. - With a warning that the United States. is un- prepared for war with any first class power, a committee of the Union League Club, headed by Robert Bac- on. presented at a special meeting to- night report calling upon the coun- try to get ready for action. Charles E. Hughes presided.
 Leaning on Allies
 If We go to war with Germany" said the report, "our only real pro- lection will be the ships of the French and British navies and our own navy which is undermanned.
 Defenseless America
 "We have no coast defenses
 which could prevent the landing
 of troops on our shores. We have
 no defense which would prevent
 the complete and immediate cap
 ture of our coast cities and ann
 munition factories in the coast
 states of New Jersey and Connec-
 ticut, as we'll as every one Of our
 navy yards, The facility with
 which a hostile power could land
 troops on our shores has been re-
 peated and authoritatiVely stated.
 No Weapons of War
 "Our regular organizations lack
 many things which are vitalIy essential in modern war. We lack
 grenades and bombs. We are
 without trench mortars of the
 type in use in Europe. We are without various kinds of field sig
 nal apparatus. We are short of
 modern field wireless. We are without any of the modern types of heavy mobile artillery such as is in general use in Europe.
 I've are short of reserve rifles and all field artillery. We have
 not a field gun for volunteers. Our supplies of reserve ammuni- ton are ridiculously small"
 Root Blames Germany war upon the United States. Technically, there may not be a war" he said, because it may be that it takes two to produce that, but Ger many is making war upon us and we are waiting to see whether we are to take it lying down It is either war pr it is submission to oppression.
 Tell Wilson What to Dol
 My diagnosis of the situation is that the President wants to hear the people of the United States want him to go on and act. He nas said so many times. Let us an swer him and tell him that the Am erioan people do not want him to dis cuss, to plan, or to talk about what IS going to be done, but to act"
 Japanese Menace
 MT Root said the multiplying mil ylions of the Orient were seeking an outlet for national evolution and that he only territory left open to them was that from Terra del Fuego to the Caribbean Sea, protected by nothing put the Monroe Doctrine.
 That is what We have to face af- ter this war is over." he said, and where is our Monroe Dostrine? What s it worth without force behind il? And the Monroe Doctrine fails. if it IS ignored with a German naval sta ion in the Carribean and an Asiatic naval station in Lower California, the Panama canal is as worthless to us for strategic purposes as the Darda- lelles to Russia today"
 MT. Root said the letter of Foreign Zimmerman of Germany to Mexico proposing an alliance of Mex GO and Japan for the dismember- nent of the United States. revealed a subtle purpose which has been thought out and is being worked out, md which will continue to be worked put until this country stands alone md defenseless against immediate and contiguous superior military pow ar"
 Let Voices Be Heard
 Now, if our voice can be heard" he declared in closing. If we can do anything. to make our gov feel that the free and loyal people of America want it to assert he principles of American liberty, freedom and to assert them with pow er of its great power, for Gods sake cts do il"
 Resolutions which were adopted de-
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