Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-04-06

ply the materials Of war and serve
the incidental needs Of the nation IL
the most abundant, and yet the mos
economical and efficient way pos
sible.
Wants 5000 Men.
1T will involve the immediate full
equipment Of the navy in all respects
but particularly in supplying it with
the best means of dealing with the
enemy's submarines. It will involve
the immediate addition to the armed
forces of the United States already
provided for in case of war, at least
100000 men, who should, in my
opinion, 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.
ut will involve also, of course, the
granting of adequate credits to the
government, sustained, hope, SO far
as they can equitably be sustained,
by the present generation by we'll
conceived taxation. l say sustained,
SO far as may be equitable by taxa
ton because it seems to me that it
would be most unwise to base the
credits which will now be necessary
entirely on money borrowed. It is
our duty, I most respectfully urge, to
protect our people as far as we may
against the very serious hardships
and evils which would be likely to
arise out of the imitation which
would be produced by vast loans.
I'm carrying out the measures by
which these things are to be accom-
plished. We should keep constantly
in mind the wisdom of interfering as
little as possible in our own prepa-
ration and in the equipment of our
forces with the duty-for 1t
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 assistance. They are in
the field and we should help them In |
every way to be effective there.
To Suggest Measures.
II shall take the liberty of sug-
costing, through the several execu-
two dona rfmoutc ~ <ha uoyo,c-n~<
for the consideration of your COM
measures for the accom-
plishment of the several objects
have mentioned. 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 respon-
sibility of conducting the war and
the nation will most d.
rectly fall.
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 its habitual and
normal course by the unhappy events
Of the last two months. and do not
believe that the thought Of the ma
ton has been altered or clouded by
them.
II have exactly the same things in
mind now that I had in mind when
addressed the senate on the 22nd
day Of January last; the same that
had in mind when I addressed the
congress on the 3rd of February and
on the 26th of February.
"Our object now, as then, Is to
the principles Of peace and
justice in the life Of the world ~
against selfish and autocratic power
and to set up amongst the really FREQ
and self-gOverned peoples Of the
world such q concert of purpose and
Of action as will henceforth insure
the Observance Of those principles.
No Quarrel With People.
-NCuN AMY 10 AAO AOn8OV AOesSlU1OI
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 exist.
once of autOcratic government backed
by organized force which is con-
trOlled wholly by their will, not by
The will Of their people. We have
seen the last of neutrality in such
/
1--WE are at the beginning of an
age in which it will be insisted that
he same standards Of conduct and
If responsibility for wrong done
shall be observed among nations and
heir governments that are observed
among the individual citizens of civ
liked states. :,
eve have no quarrel with the
German people. We have no feeling
owards them but one Of sympathy
Ind friendship. 1t was not upon
heir impulse that their government
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