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Show FORMER PRESIDENT SOUNDS A WARNING. Former President Wm. H. Taft is one of the great men of the nation who fully realizes that a crisis is upon tho country and quick action must be taken. He is quoted by one said, In his speech before the Bonneville Bon-neville club at the capital last night, that the United States is in a state where it may be called into war at any time "and we are fools if we do not make preparations to meet the condition." "He said that the United States must not remain In its helpless help-less condition and that this nation must have an army and navy strong enough so that its protests will have the necessary backing and force to make them effective. Former President Taft told his listeners lis-teners that the nation was up against a serious problem. Ho wanted tie people of the United States to know that a crisis was at hand, and urged them to use their Jnfluence with their representatives in nnnoa that the first thing done when the national legislature convenes again is to provide for an increase in the army and navy. He said that the United States should have a mobile army of at least 100,000 men, this number not to include the coast artillery corps, and with this number he pointed out there would be only 75,000 mobile troops in continental United States after establishing the proper forces in the Panama canal zone and other possessions where troops are required. Mr. Taft also advocated a naval program of four battleships a year with f the necessary cruisers, submarines subma-rines and torpedo boats. He put tho navy first in the line of defense with the coast artillery next, and said that People need not have grave fears of the nation being invaded by a foreign Power if there were an adequate navy upon tne seas and a proper system of coast defenses at Important cities cit-ies and harbors. He pointed out, however, that the United States must have a mobile army to repulse the invading army of a foreign nation which might succeed evading the point not protected with coast de-ense de-ense fortifications. He advocated an n' darr d navy th p" rtv Tact L T aDd not for n. sive action against the other nations ol the world with the viqw of exian Bion of territorial possesses ; The office m command oPono of . I our coast fortifications lately informed inform-ed an Ogden man, who was being shown tho big guns, that there are but two places within American control protected with guns, of sufficient strength to resist dreadnaughts and thoy are Now York and Panama. The guns at San Francisco are said to fall short four miles of the range of tho large guns on the most modern battleships. bat-tleships. There is not one point on tho Pacific Pa-cific coast that coudl not be invadod. |