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Show TAFT FOR WAR WITH GERMAN! Speaks in Eleven Cities and Nine States and Urges Preparedness. PEOPLE ARE READY Food Supplies, Money and Credits With Navy Should Aid War Inevitable. NEW YORK, April 2. William Howard Taft, returning to New York today after what he said was the longest long-est and most strenuous journey he has taken since he left the White House, asserted that the people of t the South and Southwest are ready for war, and that the United States must enter tho conflict "whole-heart, edly." Mr. Taft spoke In elevon cities in J nine states, from Virginia to Missouri, Mis-souri, in behalf of the program of tho League to Enforce Poace, and urged the necessity of preparation for war. Unless the war continues a year longer, an American army cannot be placed in the trenches of Europe, the former president said, but the government govern-ment can aid with food supplies, money mon-ey and credit, and with the navy in suppressing submarines. South and Southwest for War. "The South and Southwest is ready for tho conflict with Germany," he said. "This great section of the coun- J try, part of which was deeded to j Mexico by Foreign Secretary ZImmer. ! mann, has not an ounce of anti-war i spirit Neither is there any rampant jingoism. The people of the South ' and Southwest feel that war Is inevi-1 table and they are willing to go into J it to demand our rights. In fact, i they don't want to stay out anyjonger and- theyfeel that "their- battles aro , being fought by somebody else." oo |