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Show PREACHING PEACE AND BUILD-ING BUILD-ING VESSEL OF WAR More battleships' What an astounding astound-ing request to come from President Wilson who has Bryan on the road preaching disarmament and peac! But President Wilson as a theorist and President Wilson as a practical ' man are two different persons. Before Woodrow Wilson was othr than a pedagogue, he was in favor of peace at any price Now that he has had a peep Into world affairs from that higher elevation of tho presiden j cy, he has discovered that a nation endangers its own safety by failing to be prepared for war Were we to deal with Europe alono. there might be no need for a mightv Fleet of warships, but there is the I great Asiatic peril that grow more iormidable each year The Asiatics j have been oppressed by the white ra-, ces during centuries and it is but natural that, as they come to feel j their strength, they should desire to reverse that condition by gaining a master) In world affairs Japan at I present has high expectations In th direction of dominancy in the Pacific and the brown men are building larger lar-ger and better dreadnoughts and, by a secret, naval program, are aiming to overcome the present preponder ance of our ocean armament. Were Japan to pass America In naval con stmction. the temptation to attack ui might prove too great. Then ther-would ther-would be regrets on our part that we failed to enforce peace by making war impossible President Wilson has been made to see the necessity of more warships and his three-battleship program ; should receive the endorsement of his cabinet. |