Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-02

the country to supply the materials of
war and serve the incidental needs of
the nation in the most abundant, and
yet the most economical and efficient
way possible. 1t will involve the imme-
diate full equipment of the navy in
all respects but particularly in sup
plying it with the best means of deal
ing with the enemys submarines.
Need 100000 Men
1T will involve the immediate ad-
dition to the armed forces of the
United States already provided for by
law in case of war, at least SOC, 900
men, who should, in my opinion, be
chosen upon the principle of universal
liability to service, and also the au-
thorization of subsequent additional
increments of equal force SO soon as
they may be needed and can be
handled in training.
To Lend Allies Money
1T will involve also, of course, the
granting of adequate credits to the
government, sustained, L hope. so far
as they can equitably be sustained by
the present generation, by well con-
| ceived taxation. / say sustained so
! far as may be equitable ty taxation
| because 1t seems to me that it would
| be most unwise to base the credits
on money borrowed. 1t is our duty.
l most respectfully urge, to protect
our people so far as we may against
the very serious hardships and evils
which would be likely to arise out of
the initiation which would be pro-
duced by vast loans.
Aid For Entente
I'm carrying out the measures by
which these things are to be ac-
complished we should keep constantly
| in mind thewisdom of interfering as
| little as possible in our own prepara-
ton and in the equipment of our own
military forces with the duty-for it
will be very practical duty-of sup
plying the nations already at war with
! Germany with the materials which
they can obtain only from us or by our
I assistance. They are in the field and
we should help them in every way to
| be effective there.
II shall take the liberty of suggest
ing, through the several executive de-
partments of the government for the
| consideration of your committees,
measures for the accomplishment of
| the several objects | aforementioned. /
hope thatit 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.
| For Cause of Peace
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 habitual and
/ normal course by the unhappy events
| of the last two months, and l do not
believe that the thought of the nation
! has been altered or clouded. | have
| exactly the same things in mind now,
| that ! had in mind when | addressed,
| the Senate on the 22d of January last;
the same that 1 had in mind when
| addressed the Congress on the Sd of
| February and on the 26th of Feb
ruary. Our object now, as then. is to
vindicate the principles of peace and
the justice in the life of the world as
against selfish and autocratic power
and to set up amongst the really free
and self-governed peoples of the
world such a concert of purpose and
of action as will henceforth insure the
observance of those principles.
Beginning New Age
Neutrality is no longer feasible or
desirable where the peace of the world
is involved and the freedom of its
peoples, and the menace to that peace
and freedom lies in the existence of
autocratic governments backed by or
ganized 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 1t will be insisted that the
same standard of conduct and of re-
sponsibility for wrong done shall be
observed among nations and their gov
ernments thatare observed among the
individual citizens of civilized states.
Sympathy for German People
1--WE have no quarrel with the Ger
man people. We have no feeling to-
wards them but one of sympathy and
friendship. 1t was not upon their inn
pulse that their government acted in
entering the war. 1t was not with
their previous knowledge or approval
1T was a war determined upon as
wars used to be determined upon in
the old, unhappy days when peoples
were nowhere consulted by their
rulers and wars were provoked and
waged in the interest of dynasties or
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