Show President Outlines Plans S. S for Jot U. U S. S National Defense 1 From rom President Wilsons Wilson's m in message to congress today No one who really eallY e Ily comprehends the spirit spirit- of the great people for whom we are appointed to speak can fail fall to perceive that their passion is for peace their genius best displayed in the practice of the arts of ot peace 1 Great democracies are not belligerent nt They do not seek seck or desire I war Their thought Is of Individual liberty and of the free labor that supports life and the uncensored thought that quickens It Conquest and dominion are not in our reckoning or agreeable to our our principles But Just because we demand unmolested development and the undisturbed undisturbed undisturbed government of ot our own lives upon our own principles of right and liberty we resent from whatever quarter It may come the aggression we ourselves will not practice We Ve insist upon security in prosecuting our self chosen lines of national development We Ve do more than that We Ve demand It ft also for tor others We do not confine our enthusiasm for tor individual liberty and free tree i national development to the incidents and movements of affairs which affect only ourselves We Ve feel It wherever there is is a people that tries to walk in these difficult paths of independence and right From the first we have made common cause with all partisans of liberty on this side the sea and have deemed it as as important that our neighbors should be free from all all' outside domination as that we ourselves should be have set America aside as a whole for the uses of ot independent nations and political freemen Out of ot such thoughts grow all our policies We regard war merely asa asa as asa a means of ot asserting the rights of ot ota a people against aggression And we weare weare are as fiercely Jealous of coercive or dictatorial power within our own nation as of ot aggression from without We will not maintain a standing army except for tor uses which are as aa necessary in times of peace as in times of war and we shall always see to it that our military peace establishment establishment establish establish- ment is no larger than Is actually and continuously needed for the uses of ot days in which no no enemies move against us But we do 10 lo believe In a body take of themselves and of the of ot free citizens ready and sufficient to care I governments which they have set up to serve them In our constitutions themselves we have commanded that the right of the people to keep and bear shall not be infringed and our confidence confidence confidence con con- has been that our safety in times of ot danger would He lie in the rising of ot the nation to take care of Itself as the farmers rose at Lexington But war has never been a n. mere matter of men and guns It Is a a athing athing thing of disciplined might If our citizens are ever to fight effectively upon a sudden summons they must know now modern fighting is done and what to do when the summons comes to render themselves Immediately Immediately Immediately Immedi Immedi- available and immediately ef et ef- And the government must be their servant i In this matter must supply them with the training they need heed to take care tare of themselves and of It The military arm of ot their g government government gov gov- v- v which they will not allow to direct them they may properly use to serve them and make their independence independence independence inde inde- secure and secure and not their own Independence merely but the rights also of those with whom they h hive have ve made common cause should they also be put in jeopardy They must be befitted befitted fitted to tb play the great role in the world and particularly in this hemisphere hemisphere hemisphere hem hem- for which they are qualified by principle and by chastened ambition ambition ambi ambi- tion to play It is with these ideals in mind that the plans of the de department of w war r for more adequate national defense were conceived which will be laid be before before before be- be fore you ou and which I urge you to sanction and put into effect as soon as they can be properly scrutinized and nd discussed They seem to me the essential first steps and they seem to me for forthe the present sufficient They contemplate an increase of the standing force of the tile regular arm army r from Its present strength of officers and enlisted men of all services to a strength of officers and enlisted men or all told all services rank and file by the addition of 52 companies companies com corn of coast artillery 15 companies of engineers 10 regIments of Infantry 4 regiments of field artillery and 4 aero squadrons besides officers required d for a great variety of or extra service especially the all important duty of training the citizen force of which I shall presently speak 7 72 2 noncommissioned officers for service in drill recruiting and the like and the necessary quota of enlisted men for the quartermaster corps the hospital hospital hos boa pital pita corps the ordnance dep department and other similar auxiliary services These are the additions necessary to render the army adequate for its present present pres pres- ent eat duties duties which it has to perform perform per per- form torm not only upon our own continental tal coasts and borders and at our in interior in in- tenor army posts but also in the Philippines In the Hawaiian islands at the Isthmus and In Porto Porte Rico By By way of maKing the country ready to assert some part of it its Ita real power promptly and upon a larger scale should occasion arise the plan also contemplates supplementing the army by-a by force torce of disciplined citizens raised In increments of a year throughout a period of three years This it Is proposed to do by a proCess process pro pro- cess of enlistment under which the serviceable men of the country would be asked to bind themselves to serve with the colors for purposes of trainIng train train- ing for tor short periods throughout three years and to come to the colors at call at any time throughout an addi furlough period of three years This force of or men would be provided with personal accoutrements accoutrements ments as fast as enlisted and their equipment for or the field made ready to be supplied at any time They would I k G 5 CLAUDE KITCHIN New majority lea leader er In house who will oppose preparedness program but nevertheless believes it will go through b assembled for training at stated Intervals Intervals intervals In- In at convenient places in association asso asso- lation with suitable units of the regular army Their per period od of annual training would not necessarily exceed two m months in the year It would depend upon the patriotic feeling of the younger men of the country whether they responded to such a call to service or not It would depend upon the patriotic spirit of the employers of the country whether they made it possible for the younger men In their employ to re respond respond respond re- re spond under favorable conditions or not I for one do not doubt the patriotic patriotic patriotic pa pa- devotion either of or our young men inca or of those who give them employment em em- those those for whose benefit and protection they would in fact en en- en list I would look forward to the success success suc sue cess of such an experiment with en entire entire en- en tire Ure confidence S i dJ FITZGERALD DP Hell He'll oPp oppose le budget plan I |