| Show TAFT PLEADS FOR FO Need of Immediately Increasing Army and Navy Is Point Pointed d Out Preside tb by President Ex-President nt at Bonneville Bonne- Bonne vine ville C Club Luncheon The fIte absolute ne need dof of immediate st steps ps for increasing g g the the ci de de- of the thc United States were forc forcefully fully and startlingly pointed out by William Howard Tri Taft t fn iii his s address to the bc members of the e Bonneville Club of Utah at luncheon at-a-luncheon a a luncheon in the N hotel this noon I J. J 4 We are up against it declared the former president and secretary of war slew Weve got got- gotto to to- meet this this crisis and it is your duty as cit citizens ens zens to impress 1 upon your p ur representatives in ill congress congress b that you will hold them responsible for taking this matter in m In hand handas I as soon soon as congress convenes next ext fall some ome statesmen nave have sald sala ICY could raise ralso an army la irr twenty four hours Well VeIl they never tried it t and the they are not ot likely to to because pe be be cause the people will n not t men men with 1 such Ideas w with th the task of Handling the defenses t Wants Larger Navy We must hayo bayo a a. navy equal in size alze to any n navy II in th the world ex that of ot England 1 I except England because in iii the first place and inthe In Inthe we ue cannot equal England the he second place we have become r accustomed to settling dis disputes utes England In the be last jast hundred years yean I 1 by arbitration I 1 have havo ev every r confidence that tha t these necessities will permeate th the b capitol and that there will be a strong m movement fo perfect plans plan s for tor a national defense But that Is Isto Isto i ito s to be delicate a a operation lith With all al aU 1 deference to chairmen of ot congressional committees and I t have known know n many of or them we ought to lo tell lell our r representatives representatives- to procure tho the ser services services cr vices of at the tho greatest authorities and d experts and then give them a large e fund to expend with reasonable supervision su su- pen pen-Islon by the executive officers as they see fit tit in building up ou our r deen defenses es When this is done we ca can n nf take ako our place in the front rank of ot o othe f the great rent nations of ot the civilized civilize d wort world and md command the tho respect w we ct e c ou t l t to have File fife main dining room Of bt th the it e Newhouse hotel botel was crowded to capacity ca ca- pacify with the Uie leading business s r men of ot the city and state when tho the thoun luncheon un heon began at 11 1145 45 At the speakers speakers' table tabla were United States Senator James Hamilton Lewis of or Illinois United States State Sen Sen- Reed Smoot and G George George Sutherland Sutherland erland of Utah former United States tes Senator J J. J R. R Thornton of ot Louisiana L of at JHana the supreme Emilio fist cl Toro Toro- J justice ce court of ot Porto Rico Frank Norcross justice of the tho su su- premo preme premo court of N Nevada vada Gov Wilna Wil- Wil na DeMar tram liam Spry Mayor Samuel O. O Park Smith of Philadelphia a. a Stephen H. H Love Samuel Newhouse H J wj Herbert R. R nA i MacMillan Ma pr president of the Utah State Bar association Dr T. T B. B BeaU Beatty LeRoy Eccles PaU 0 Ogden Clarence E E. Groesbeck George Gcorge O. O HeIr pr president ot of tine tile Bonneville club Senator Simon Bamberger toastmaster and the tho guest of f honor JUdge Taft Tatt President Senator Bamberger in a few well wen ch chosen sen words wards in which he expressed the appreciation or of the members that Judge raft Taft had honored them b by Ills his TI presence pr sence and announcing that Harold Bell Ben Wright the novelist would be the speaker er ln in September r. r Bamberger Ba er S Speaks ks I Senator Bamberger was In fn a particularly par par- happy frame of mind and d c caused sed a hearty laugh from tho the genial f guest of ot honor when hen he said that last March In New York he had harl heard Judge Taft Tart speak an and to the hospital lt l for nor ty o tl o mouth Immediately afterward He No said fife Continued on pago page 3 I TAFT PLEADS Continued from Crom page 1 speech kept ringing In his head until the they opened his head and anti that It had not bothered him since In responding Taft said he lie hoped the hospitals of Salt SaIl Lake could accommodate a sufficient number to take talc care of what might happen as the result of his hiB speech here today The rile speakers speaker's first remarks were to congratulate Utah on Its representation representation representation in congress He said that it Il had been heen rout l the best policy to return good men to congress because because be cause length of or service counted much for tor influence Those states which find goodmen good goodmen goodmen men to them and then I keep them them them-In in congress have their full measure of ot Influence in formIng forming form form- Ing lag the legislation of the nation advised Taft The Tho scheme of ot passing pass ing the tho offices around is wron wrong Senator Smoot has as wide a know knowl knowledge edge of ot affairs as any man in congress congress con I gress and Senator Sutherland is the thc greatest greate t lawyer in congress today World War Mad This is the year 1915 said laid the former president It is a sad gloomy year ear when a great war Involves In most of ot tho the nations of Europe and here C we have the Mexican situation on our out hands Nature seems to take part through volcanic disturbances and I severe setre storms Then too internally there seems to be some flome lack of ot ap appreciation ap- ap 5 predation of ot the need of ot law and I order tho the basis of ot Justice without which we cannot ha have hae e the happiness I and prosperity guaranteed us b by tho the constitution I 1 wish m my tIme on this globe Iobe had I been arranged so 50 as not to include such a terrible war But it isn't for forus us to lie He down and dodge our re re- re I I Wo We must meet these S I If f exigencies an and It Is h concerning them S 'S SI i 1 want to talk talle to you ou today We re are learning le lessons sons One lesBon lesson les les- les- les son Bon Is that this war Is not so us as we thought It would be With S Increased equipment tho deadliness I of ot th tIle the engines of warfare and the speed with which armies can be transferred red from place to place the maintenance of ot neutrality is js growing to be more and more moro difficult and anti embarrassing New rights must be he established Discusses Mexico There Thera Is the tho Mexican situation To me it seems that we have hav tale taken n a S course that is a mistake In not recognizing recognizing rec rec- rec- rec Tuerta or at least in not withholding the announcement that we would never novel recognize him It waa WIlB wrong for us ua to thrust ourselves into I Ia a Il thing with which we never had anything to do to lift the embargo I Ion on arms and thereby help hell Carranza antI and Villa who surely Burch were no nt I I stronger strong r or ur better than Huerta to tr occupy Vera era Cruz Crux without good goot rea rca so son But this Is our problem now and unu I we mUl must t stan stand by y the administration nt no matter what criticisms we have ha I to tu make nor what nor what we ma may think We c ma may be called calle into war and we weare weare C Care are fools If It we dont don't prepare to meet L the tile obligations that may come to m us To aa say that we can rely on the equity equit of other nations when we ar are helpless is like saying Haring Just what the anarchist says saya about no government go that that if It there was no government o everybody would automatically re re- re I strain themselves and there would b be S no need of government Vo Wo ought to put ourselves In s a I position to defend our homes Tho Thc I time has hns arrived to view this condition con con- as no remote one We c need defenses only onh because because- we WO are arA needS not S going onto land grabbing r offensives but simp simply want to defend ourselves our our- selves selve and maintain our rights I I Advantage Chimerical We Va seem to have a a. great an ad ta tage tago Just now in furnishing sup sup- pIles and ammunition to Europe and some ome sit smugly back and believe w w we are well off oft That Is js a n most unsound view Wo Vo cannot have Europe de destroyed tie tie- with profit to us It Is goIng go- go going Ing to disturb our finances and capita capital capi capi- ta tal will be he withdrawn from us Wo We need not feel smug until we have hayo taken steps to prepare for the slot that may follow tallow this war The number of mc men n lost In Europe in a single da day of ot fighting exceeds all the thc men we have for fighting Th The Tha tremendous activities there seem to us lesson tesson like dreams But the they present a a. and a n warning to tu us to do what we can And Ancl what do we need First w wo need a nay navy as S large as any but England Germany is sec see ond and We started out to keep up with Germany but we wo have fallen falIe behind The sloth of ot I prosperity and anti smugness has made us careless of ot our need needs We Ve have ha been een following fads and wasting public mone money on plans not beneficial We Vc have got to economize Battleships Needed We started in to tu build two battleships battle battlo I ships a year car We Te then fell to one and wo wn need four a n year ri right ht now Germany has twelve first class clas' bat bat- we we have eight Germany ha has hase s several e battle cruisers cruisers we we have hav se e nine And the Germans of ut course courso e have more submarInes and other othe r equipment We Ve have got to make mak re e our equipment ent equal to that of ot German Ger Ger- man many The navy is our first line lino of ot forti forU A good navy means a grea great t obstruction to Invasion despite th the e alarmist articles being written about abou t the tIle possibility of ot a foreign enem enemy y landing an arm army of to 0 men on our shores No well conducted conducted conducted con con- ducted government would expose suc such h forces to troop ships unarmed to th the e perils of or submarine attack as long JonS as a es s our na navy was wag In the tho sea sell and efficient t. t Coast Const defenses are arc not for tor the purpose purpose purpose pur pur- pose of or lining our om shores with cannon cannon can can- cannon non but to protect great cities clUes an and d harbors from the fleets of or enemies s who could sail Kail In and demand heDV heavy y ransoms and surrender Coast de do defenses defenses de- de tenses enable the nn navy to go out an d l s seek ck troop ships and the navy nay of ot tn tho o belligerents The navy and c coast ast de tie defenses de- de then are arc th the first line Our coast defenses are the finest fines t too Wo Yo haven't Inch sixteen gune guis e but hut our twelve inch guns can be ex extended ex- ex tended so the they will fire yards yard s. s os as far tar as it Is practicably to reach h. h ht The lack Jack of or sixteen Inch guns gung needn't t keep you awake nights The grea great ts t navy that went Into the Dardanelle Dardanelles s had sixteen inch guns but they the y ye finally had hall to land men to take th the e fortifications you ou will note But It j is not so flO with our mobile mobil e arm army If It we sent the men needed neede d Ito to insular possessions we we would woul d hn have 0 only onh 2000 regular soldiers i In n our mobile arm army exclusive of ot th the ne e coast defense force torce of course Thais That Tha Thatis t is In on only double the police force torce o of ot f Now New York Anti And we are arc a n nation o of f people Increase Army Experts sa say we need meto mento me men mento n to meet an invasion There are about abou t tt 12 men in the militia We Ye ought ough t to increase the mobile arm army to and with those needed for tor In Insular In- In sular Bular possessions that would give us s regulars With the militia this thi s would give sive us a force of ot men me meIn n. n In the time that these could men re resist re- re slAt the Invasion In with the tho assistance e of a 11 strong fire line of ot navy an and d coast defenses es we would train 0 more men But we would have to have oUt cers We Ve nee need experts and should d have more schools throughout th the e country like Vest West Point We Ve should d give more mor young men military educations educations and ami then place them on re reserve reserve reserve re- re serve lists We Ve are arc not going to cast our haIn hat ha hatIn hatIn t In tho the ring and light fight everybody buwe but bu t tf we have to have some weight with wit th h other nations There Is a n great di difference difference dif dif- f- f ference between promises and per per per- We are In a bad wa way y financially We have got to economize economize economize mize to m meet et the expenses of building g up a n defense Taxes have got to b be e Increased and the people have g got gotto gotto ot to bo ho rou roused ed to such lIch a realization of or orthe the need that they will bras bear ar the bu buden burden burden bur bur- r- r den willingly It was wac then that Taft concluded b by y expressing the belief helie that the tho ad administration administration ad- ad ministration was awake to the situation situation situa sItus tion and would take proper steps t to o build up the defenses at once so th that at the United States might command comman d proper respect from other oilier nations atthe of at the world A partial list o of tho those c present follows follows' s D. D q S Spencer S. S H. H Love Iove Clifford E E. I young oung Ross Hols W. W J J. J Russel Hussel I L. L Trac Tracy George Georgo W W. Heintz T 1 Ii H. H B Beatty atty Charles L. L Smith H. H N. N Byrne Henry I. I Moore J. J O. O Lyle F. F W. W Horning V W. lL IL Pugh lugh J J. J J. J Nevill Neville e W V. V I R H. Tyndall E E. M. M Garnett W. W E. E Ware Vare John W. W Christy W. W W. W Riter r IL C. C Goodrich Fred Stauffer John C. C D D. D Clark S. S A A. Bailey A. A C C. Miller B. B H Roberts Joy II H. J Johnson Francis D D. D Rutherford John Mitchell C. C E. E Groe Groesbeck Groes- Groes s- s b beck ck Harold P. P 1 Fabian n. A. A N Not McKay McKa y Louis Cohn Harold A A. Lafount F. F L. L Bascom T. T W V Na lor E E. O. O Loc Lee Sam Sar a- a r I I I tie uel C. C Park J I L. L C. C C.- C. Miller J. J T. T King Kings Kings- s- s bury hury G. G E. E Forrester C. C W. W Morse R. R S. S Allison Frank A A. A Fisher Benjamin Benjam BenjaminI in I L. L Rich M M. S. S Ritchie K D. D I Hardy Hard y Fred E. E Smith Preston D. D Richards E. E J I L. L Carpenter Will ill III C G. G Farrell Charles Charl es Tyng M. M M. M Kaighn IL W. W Rowe J J. W WI VI Knight C. C E. E Carter Frank Evans Evan s Robert It R. Hampton II H C C. C EWing T T. D D. Lewis Lowi E. E A. A J J. J H. H Brown Brow n J. J E E. Jennings lI H H. H W. W r. Doscher H. H L. L Beach C C. L. L Rood RoO l. l C C. B. B Stewart Ro Roert Robert Robert Rob Rob- b- b ert H. H S. S J Hosmer L. L B. B Swaner W W. J J. J Putnam P P. P. P H. H s John Cain Glen Miller H. H O. O d Sam It R. Ned Neel Harold HaroM R. R Smoot W. W J. J Cannon E. E H H. Catheter R R. C. C Gemme Gemmell ll J. J C. C Lynch S 5 S. S A. A Whitney Jam James es Hogel Hiram E. E Booth Lewis T. T Ca Canon Cannon Can Can- n- n non P. P I. I L. L Williams C A. A J. J 1 P P. Gardner C. C A. A Badger W g- g ton John C. C Cutler B. B O. O Leatherwoo gd d p. p W. W o 0 G. G Max M M. Well Weil P. P T T Farns- Farns s- s worth Jr r S. S M. M Ta Taylor Walter Waiter I Lewis Lewi s R R. W W. Salisbury Maroni Maron M. M 1 H F. F J. J Westcott C. C F F. Adams Adam F. F A. A Druehl i A. A D D. Pierson E. E O. O Howard B B. B Seigel el H. H W. W v Sturges r J L. L X N. Harding Prest |
