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Show NOT DIRECTED AGAINST ANY ONE NATION. German papers see in the prepared- . ness tour of President Wilson a campaign cam-paign intended to serve notice on Germany that the United States is getting ready to back up its demands in connection with the Lusltania affair af-fair Our Teutonic friends should guard against pre-judging the President Our opinion Is the head of the American government is free from bias and seeks as much to be prepared to gain respect from Great" Britain as from Germany This country is woefully deficient In the implements of war. ThiB weakness, weak-ness, in a period of world strain and stress, places the United States In a most awkward position. We are attempting at-tempting to uphold the dignity of this nation, though back of our notes to foreign powers there stands an army and navy wholly incapable of enforcing enforc-ing respect and far too weak even to successfully resist invasion. First, the demand for preparedness is notice to the European powers that the United States eventually will be capable of protecting the rights of American citizens abroad, guarantee ing life, liberty and property. Second, preparedness is serving notice no-tice that, if any foreign nation, at the end of the war, has a grudge to gratify, grati-fy, the United States fearlessly can bid the aggressor do his worsL |