Show ASKS ADEQUATE DEFENSE FOR U so president witson wilson pleads for or preparedness pa redness against foes abroad and within MESSAGE ir READ TO CONGRESS la larger ger army and navy U urs rg 4 tra traced citizenry the nation nations greatest defense disloyal act acts of foreign born catl jlena scored no fear of war washington dec T bat at a joint session alon 9 lon at 0 this tb house hause and senate tile president today delivered his annual lie ila bald aid tn in part pirt as ax follow follows since I 1 last had die the privilege of at ad dressing you on the he state of or the union the war of at asit nations ions on the other side of the meet which had then only begun to atis cloae clone if ito portentous proportion has if its threatening and sinister minister scope until it has wept swept within its flame some portion of every quarter of the globe lobe not excepting our hax flax altered the whole what face oc of affairs and now pree 1 prospect of reorganization and reconstruction auch much as statesmen anil and pe papier Aples have nestr been called epou to attempt before we have doud studiously neutral it was our manifest duty to do ao so in the uy day of and recuperation a ear earnestly neAtly isope and believe that we can be of infinite service M in thia this neutrality to which i they were bidden not only bYi by their heir separate life awl am their habitual from the poll pull tic of 0 europe but al abo alo o ty ly a clear perception oc at international duty the elates states of or america have become cr cawlo ie of a new now and mere more vital community ot at eat and moral partnership tn in affairs more inure learly conscious of the many common sympathies and anti interests teresta tn and duties which bid them aland stand together ve we have ben beva put to the teat test in the case of mexico and we have stood the test whether we have benefited boner Ucil mexico by tho th courne course we have pursued remains to be ien eien e her fortunes are in her own hands dut but we have at leant least proved t that a t we will not labe advantage of her in her tier distress and undertake to impose upon her an and government of our own choosing choos lne V a will aid and befriend mexico but we will not coerce her and our course with rard regard to her ought to be sufficient proof to all america that we seek no political or selfish control not hostile rival rivals the moral in that the states of at america are not hostile rivals but cooper co oper abing friends and that their growing ense sense of community oc ot merest interest alike in mattera I and in matters oLo ic to a likely to give them a new signify ca n ce an fac factories toris in international affairs and in the poll thal history of the world it presents the in A very deep and true sense tl unit in world affairs spiritual partners standing together because together toe ether quick with common and cimmon ideals separated d they are subject to nil all the cross current currents of the confused politics of a world of host hoelly ll rival lei lea untied united in spirit and purpose thy they cannot be disappointed of their pea peaceful reful destiny T his Ls ian ilan americanism it has none at of the spirit of at empire in it it Is in the embodiment bodini ent the effectual embodiment cf tha the oc of law and independence and liberty and mutual service ebore alre Is I 1 venture to point out an especial lit significance just now attaching to thia this whole matter of drawing the amer icam together eother to in bonds ot a honorable partnership iner ship and mutual advantage because of the cono ono irlo irto readjustments readjust menta which the tile must 1 inevitably witness within the tile next generation when allen peace shall ha hae e at aaa last resumed n ita its healthful tasks in the performance of these tasks I 1 believe the americas to be bo destined to play their parr parin to together gather I 1 am interested to fix your attention on an this prospect now be cause unless you yet take it within your view and arid permit the full significance of it to command your thought I 1 and the right light in which to st set forth the particular matter that ilea at the ile ery front of ny air whole thought as I 1 address you today I 1 mean national do defense might to maintain right out of such thoughts grow row all our poll clan 1 we regard war merely as a means of asserting the rights of a pt people ople against aggression salon and we are as fiercely ller cely jealous of coercive or dictatorial power our own nation as of or aggression from without we will not maintain a standing army except for uses which are as necessary in times of peace as in fit times of war and we shall always moo to it that our military peace isis anent Is no vo longer than in 1 actually and ly needed for the uses tines of day days in which no enemies nune moa against us aut we 40 10 lo believe belleve la in a body of at free citizens ready send nd to 0 o take care of themselves and of the governments which they have set up to serve them n our constitutions themselves we ha tune e commanded that I 1 fie tle right of the ilia people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed and our coil conn jence ham been that our safety in times time of danger would lie ile in the rising of the lie nation to take cart of itself as the farmers rose at t lexington but 1 war haa never been a mere matter of or mei mea ind nd guns it in 1 a thing of lliel elined might if it our citizen citizens are ever eor to right effectively upon a saddian they must know how modern fighting is fa done don and what to do when the summons minone su co in 0 to render immediately available and bely effective affective and the covern government ment must be their ervant in this matter mils must supply them with the tile ta they need to take care of ahm alln 1 so and of it the M arm of their government which they will not alow allow to direct them they may tro properly perly use to to serre merve them and make thuir independence becu re and not their own irn merely evely but the rights also of how those with whom have made mada common cause hould they also be put in jeopardy they must be fitted to 0 play the great role vote tn in the world and arid particularly in ihl this hemisphere for which they are quail V onby principle and by chastened ambition to ra it U 6 atit 1 I tle these beala la in mind that the plane piano of the department of war for more adequate national detente defense were conceived which will be laid before you and which 1 I MS urge you to sa sanction and pit into of feet fact as oon soon ai as tiler can bo be properly property scrutinized and they peem to via bi tv 01 essential ferrit steps tep and they eem seem to me for the sufficient they contempt ai an increase of at the standing force of the regular army from if its present strength of 0 officer officers and enlisted men of all services to a strength of and enlisted men or all told all ices leoa rank and rio by the addition of 5 companie companies of coast artillery artiller IS 13 oil dantee of engineers em ten regiments resl ment of in antry fantry four regiments of flem field artillery tillery tir and four aero squad rones beside besides W 4 om cere cers required for a great variety of extra service especially tatt th alt all important duty of training the citizen force of which I 1 hall presently speak non tonial boned officers for in ariu recruiting and the like and anti tie necessary quota of enlisted men for the quartermaster corps the tile hospital corpa corps the ordnance department and other aux illar services these are the additions necessary to render the tile army armr adequate for he its present duties duties which it haa has to perform not only upon our own continental chasta and borders and at our interior army posts but also ulso in the philippines ip in the IIa Ila wallar islands at the isthmus limus and in porto alf itt 0 force of tr ned citizens ily by way ay of making the country ready to assert some part of ite its real poa power e r promptly and upon a larger scale should occasion arise the plan also contemplates the army by a force of COO di disciplined I elined pl ined citizens raised in increments of 1000 a year throughout a period of three years thia this it ie Is proposed ta to do by a process of enlistment under which the serl ceable men ct of the coun kiy would be amdal to bind themselves to me sere with the colors for purposes of training for short p pt lods throughout three 1 ears and to come to the colors at call at any lima time throughout an additional I 1 furlough period of three years tills force of men would be provided with personal accoutrements an fast as an ent enlisted and their equipment for the field made ready to be supplied led at any time they would be assembly I 1 for training at stated intervals interval at conw convenient nien places in association with suitable uniti of the arny their period of annual training would not ex aeed two to months in the year it would depend ajon the tile patriotic freling of the tile younger men of the country 1 whether hether they responded to such a cill call c ill to service or not it would depend upon the patriotic spirit of the ilia emp employers loers of the country whether ili ether they made it lle ble for the tile younger men mete in their employ to respond under conditions or not 1 I for one do not doubt the tile patriotic dartlon either ot of our young men or ft of those who give them employ ment those tor for whose benefit and protection they would in fact enlist program tor for the navy the secretary of the navy Is asking also for the immediate addition to the personnel of the navy of 7 SM sailors 2 2600 apprent apprentice ire seamen and JAW 1 marinec 1 1 his increase would be sufficient to care for the hips ships which are to be com completed plated within the fical fi cal year HIT 1917 and alao also tor for the number of men inen which must be put in training to man the ships which will be completed early in 1918 it Is also necessary that the number of 0 midshipmen at the tile naval academy at annapolis should be inc Ince eased aeed by at rit least SOO in order that the force of officers choul I 1 be more ra rapidly P added to and authority Is asked to appoint for engineering duties only approved graduate of engineering colleges and anti for service in the aviation corps a certain number ol 01 men taken from lifo it if this full program should be bm carried out we should have built or guilding tuil t ding in aei accordi according ncr to the estimates of survival I 1 and darda of classification followed by the genera general board of the department an effective navy consisting of 27 battleships of the first line six battle cruisers 25 battleships of the second line ten armored cruisers 13 scour scout cruisers five first class cruisers thre second class cruisers ten third clasa class cruisers de broyers tr IS 18 fleet submarines coast sub marines six monitors 20 gunboats gun boats four supply ships IS 15 fuel ships four transports three enters to torpedo vessels eight vessels n of special types and two ammunition ships thia this would be a navy fitted to our needs and worth of 0 our traditions trade and shipping dut but armies and instruments of war are only part of at what has to be considered if it we are to consider the supreme matter of nat nathionel ionel rl sufficiency belt salt and security in all ita its aspects there are other great matters which will be thrust upon our attention whether we will or not there Is for example a acry ery pressing question of trade and shipping involved in this great problem of national adequacy it ta in necessary tor for many weighty reasons of national efficiency and development that we should have a great merchant merc nant ilant ma rine ahe great merchant fleet w we e once usel to make us rich t that hat great b body ody of at sturdy sailors who used to carry our dig flig into every sea and aho bivito vho were the tile pride and often the bulwark of nf the nation we ve have almost driven out of exist nes by inexcusable neglect and indifference nee and by a hopel hopelessly valy blind and provincial policy of so no ailed econ orric protection it Is high title tit ie we re repaire I 1 our mistake arc resumed ati ct t commercial independence jn in the seas for it Is ft a question of independence cr if it other nations go to war or seek tro hamper each others commerce commer our merchants it seems are at their mercy to do with as they please we must use their ships and use them aa as 1 they hey deter mine we have rate not ships enough oc of our own we cannot handle our own commerce on thi th i seas our independence Is provincial and Is only oi out land and with in our own border borders we are not likely to be permitted to use even the ships of other nations in rivalry of their own trade and are tire without meana to extend e X ten d our c amerce even here phere he the doors door are aro wid wide open and our i desired such a situation lb I 1 not to be endured it Is a of or capital importance Import tajes aice not riot only that the I 1 cited states sho lid ild 1 W its own carrier on the beas end and e ajay the economic in dependence which oily wily an adequate ade quite mer met chant marine would auld rive it but also that the th american gemial here as aa a whole should enjoy a like independence and an d self sufficiency suRl clency if it lii its not to be drawn dran into the tile tangle of european affairs without uch such independence the whole question of our political unity prid self determination Ls aa very seriously clouded and complicated indeed Store moreover over we can develop so no true or effective american policy volley without hips ships of ur our ships of war but ships of at peace carrying roads and carrying much more creating friendships ind and rendering indispensable services ta to 11 all II in interests terestA on this side of at the water they must move constantly back and forth ortha between wen the america americas they are the only that can weave the delicate fabric ot of sympathy Bym pathy comprehension confidence and mutual dependence in which we a clothe our or of ameika for americana americans ship ships are needed the ask task of building up an a al equate mer chait marine for or america private capital munt must ultimately undertake and acair ve ii as it has undertaken and achl ved very ery other like task amongst us in the past pant with admirable enterprise enter prUe and vigor igor and it seems to me a n dictate of wisdom thit va we e should promptly remote every legal ob bacle tivit ma land stand in the way of orthis this much to LC le desire d sire I 1 revival of our old independence and anti should facilitate in every por possible sible w wiy ty the building purchase and arid american merican registration of ships hut but rap cap list annot accomplish this great task of t sudden it must pint ark upon it by de tie green grees as tie II 11 r opportunities of trade develop something limit be done at once done to ojen 01 en routes and develop where here the are aa eta bet et eloped done to open the arteries of trad trade where the current curren tm lave lae not yet learned to rvin bet between veen the two to american continents where here the are hingul tri enough et to be Cica Cirit teil ted and quickened and it is 1 evident that only the tile emment eminent can undertake suh such beginning ant an 1 assume the til lilal financial risks I 1 hen the risk haa has parsed passed and private capital begins to find ita its wa a in sufficient abundance into there these new ne channels the government may withdraw Ith dra hut it cannot omit to begin it should take the first rat steps and ond take them at once our gooda goods must not lie its p led UP P at R fin ow ports and stored upon sl letric 31 in freight care cats which are art dally daily 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