Emery County Progress | 1915-10-16 | Page 2 | Preparedness Urged by Borah

PREPAREDNESS URGED BY BORAH Nation Can Only Hold Respect of People by Protecting Lives. Boston. "Preparedness reasonable and essential" was advocated by Senator W. E. Borah of Idaho, before be-fore an audience in the Braves' field baseball park Sunday. "No nation can hold the respect of even its own people," he said, "if the government fails to protect the lives and property of its citizens. In the present European, war, how could it have been expected that American lives and property would be protected when the nation of 90,000,000 could not extend our protection even across the border into Mexico to stop the murder of our citizens?'' Senator Borah warned his audience . that the United SUites also must prepare pre-pare .for a "great industrial war," which he declared, would follow the present European conflict.