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Show PLOTTERS IN US. ARE I SCORED BY PRESIDENT 1 Message to Congress Treats H of Necessity for National mj Preparedness, H SYNOPSIS OK MESSAGE. IH Reaffirms Monroe doctrine. WM Will aid Mexico, but not coerce her. M Proclaims doctrine of pan-Americanism on the basis of HI full partnership of the nations of the western hemisphere 9K in world affairs. H Urges comprehensive program of national defense. Ifl Favors standing army of 141,000 men. H Favors reserve force of -100,000 comprising citizen sol- U titers. H Army and nnvy to be used merely to protect national II rights ngnlnst aggression. B Outlines five-year naval program, Including ten battle- H ships, six battle cruisers and many vessels of various gH types. HH Urges merchant marine nnd purchasing or construction H of ships by congress. E Urges fulfillment of promises to island possessions. ' To meet anticipated deficit of $235,000,000 in treasury H by June, 1917, recommends internal taxation, increasing HH suitax nnd income tax and by taxing various other items. HI Denounces attempts of Individuals to violate the ncu- M trality of the United States. H ttt0tttmmmtm,tttmttmmmtttttmt M WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. President Wilson in hifl annual ad- H dress to congress today, dealing mninly with nattonnl defense, pro- M claimed an advanced pan-AincrlcnniHm growing from thegunr- lH diaiiHliip of thu Monroe doctrine to tho full and honornblo nssocin- 'H tlon of all tho Americas. tH Tho predominating nolo wns the necessity of u policy of mill- H tary tircparcdncss to meet readjustments of tho next generation tB as they will affect the American continent. Ho emphasized this H point by saying: M "Unless you tako it within your view nnd permit the full nig- H nifiennco of it to commnnd your thought, I can not find the right iH light in which to set forth tho particular mntter that lies nt the H very front of my whole thought as I address you today. I mean M nntlonal defense." IS The point was not overshadowed when tho president, in the Bfl most unmeasured terms he ever hns employed before congress, B denounced naturalized Americans who by their sympathies for tho European belligerents hnve endangered American neutrality. WtU While congress cheered him loudly ho referred to them as linving flH "poured the poison of disloyalty into tho very arteries of our na- M tlonnl life" and as those who "would turn in malign reaction H against the government nnd the people who hnd welcomed and WM nurtured them." The president took up pnn-Amcricnnisin nt tho mM very outset of his message. Hi "All tho governments of America," said he, "stand so far as we rKaH are concerned, upon a footing of genuine equality nnd unqucatlon- Wfli cd independence. We retain unabated tho spirit which wns so MWM frankly put Into words by President Monroe. We still mean to !JH make a common causo of nationnl independence nnd of political 8H liberty in America, but that purpose is now better understood so Wm far as it concerns ourselves." fl Great democracies, the president Bald, nro peaceful, not seeking SH wnr and without thought of conquest of dominion. iHafl "But just becnuse we demand unmolested development and the tH undisturbed government of our lives upon our own principles of 'tm right nnd liberty," he declnred, "wo resent from whatever quarter S3 it may come tho nggression wo ourselves will not practice. We 11 insist upon security in prosecuting our self chosen lines of national 'KaH development. We do more than that. We demand it also for iHK others. From the first wo have made common causo with all par- liH tisans of liberty on this aide of the sea and have deemed it as im- IjH portnnt that our neighbors should be free from all outside domina- lk tion ns'that we ourselves should be; hnve set America aside as a ' whole for the uses of independent nations nnd political freedom." WM From that point the president emphnsized the need of a nation- ilB id training for defense in harmony with American ideals and in- il Btitutions, nnd then referred briefly to the plans outlined for the army nnd nnvy, which he urged congress to snncti6n and put into lH effect "as soon as they can bo properly scrutinized nnd discussed." WM But chief attention centered about the delineation of the plans JH for national defense, the proclamation of pan-Americanism, and ''MPi the virility of the president's attack on Americans who, ho nnld, iSSS had brought the good name of the government into contempt. ijlH "There arc citizens of the United States, I blush to admit' he 'fl declared, "born under other flags, but welcomed under our gen- 'iiB Continued on page eight tijgnjl PLOTTERS IN U. S. ARE ; SCORED BY PRESIDENT i ges ' ''lOUl ig ' Continued from page one. i- do - pR crous nnturnlizution Inwa to the full freedom nnd opportunity of m Amerlcn, who linvo poured the poison of disloyalty into the very IJ,,', arteries of our nntionnl life; who hnve sought to bring the nuthor- ity nnd good name of our government into contempt, to destroy ,tn our industries wherever they thought it effectivo for their vin- dictivo purposes, to strike nt them nnd to debnse our politics to the i oa uses of foreign intrigue. No federal lnws exist to meet this situa- tlon, because such n thing would linvo been Incredible in tho past. rki Such Ventures of passion, disloyalty nnd nnnrchy must be crushed - m out. Thoy are not mnny, but they arc infinitely malignant, and ;r, the hnnd of our power should close over them" at once." - ni Keen Interest in the president's address wna shown by the for- .ef elgn rcpresentntives in the diplomatic galleries, where every em ' bassy nntl legntion wns represented. All appeared pleased with the w, message, nnd tho Latln-Americnns expressed special grntificntton ( i over tho reference to pan-Americanism. In the executive gallery, as tho president spoke, was his fi- 1 K ancee, Mrs. Norman Gait, whose first appearance at tho cnpitol ,ro since tho announcement of the president's engagement, attracted t ru marked attention from tho crowds. ' r The address was practically tho only business of the day in ' both houses. Each adjourned until Friday to give timo for com- f , pletlng tho organization of working committees. In the brief time r a the senate wits in session more than fifteen hundred bills nnd '"; reso'"flons were offered. Measures dealing with preparedness, ;,; prohibition, suffrage nnd prevention of snle of wnr munitions to belligerent nations predominated. ' u. " IPS rVViftAftV,AAAftA'AVkPLSLSLLSLSLLSLSL mil |