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President Commet Campaign Fo United States Has No Aggi Before Manhattan Club 1 be Ready for S( New York, Nov. 5.?President Wilson opened the administration campaign for its national defense program in a comprehensive and carefully prepared address delivered liert last night at the Manhattan Club banquet, lie declared solemnly that the United States had no aggressive purposes, but must be prepared to defend itself in order to assume "full liberty and self development." Significantly, he said that "with ourselves in this great matter we associate all the peoples of our own hemisphere." adding that "we wish not only for the United States but for them the fullest freedom of independent growth and action." HEARERS ENTHUSED. The President was received with enthusiastic applause as he entered the banquet hall and during his address. The hall was decorated with American flags and filled even to the galleries with Democrats happy over their victory on Tuesday in New York city. When the President arose to speak every one got up and applauded until he was forced to signal for quiet. "Within a year." said the President, "we have witnessed what we did not think possible, a great European conflict involving many of the greatest nations of the world. The influences of the great war are everywhere in the air. All Europe is In' battle. Force everywhere speaks out and from one end of our own country to the other men are asking one another what our own force is. how far we are prepared to maintain ourselves against any interference with our national action or development." The President called upon "men of all shades of political opinion" to rally to the support of the program. He said it represented "the best professional and expert opinion of the country" and gave warning that "if men differ with me In this vital matter I shall ask them to make it clear how far and in what way they are interested in making the permanent interests of the country safe against disturbances." There is no need for the country to feel panic stricken the President declared, because it stands in friendly relations with the world. Tie spoke of tho United States as a "nation too hip and generous to he exacting, but yet courageous enough to defend its rights." Outlining the defense program, the President said it incluuded an increase in the standing army, the training within the next three years of 400,000 citizen soldiers to he raised In annual forces of 1.13,000, and the strengthening of the national guard. He laid particular emphasis on the need of ample equipment. A GREATER NAVY. The President declared that the navy already is "a very great and efficient force, hut that in order to bring to a point of "extraordinary force and efficiency" a definite policy must be adopted. Just before the dinner the President shook hands with all the guests, including Charles P. Murphy. "Mr. Toastmaster and Gentlemen: "I warmly felicitate the club upon tbe completion of 50 years of successful and interesting life. Club life may be made to mean a great deal tc those who know how to use it. 1 have no doubt that to a great many of you has come genuine stlmulatioi in the association of this place an< that as the years have multiplied yoi have seen more and more the usefu ends which may be served by organ Izations of this sort. "But I have, not come to speal wholly of that, for there are other of your own members who can speal of the club with a knowledge and ai intelligence which no one can hav who has not been intimately associal ed with It. Men band themselves tc gether for the sake of the associatio no doubt, but also for somethin greater and deeper than that?b< cause they are conscious of commo interests lying outside their buslnei occupations, because they are men bars of the same community and i frequent intercourses find mutu: vmulatlon and : real naxlmu n vitality and power. I shall asaun that here around the dinner table < this memorable occasion our ta should properly turn to the wide ai common interests which are most our thoughts, whether they be tl Interests of the community or of tl nation. "A year and a half ago o thought would have been almost { I T ices His ir National Defence ressive Policy, He Declared Thursday Night, But Must * If Protection. together of great domestic questions. ' They are many and of vital consequence. We must and shall address mrselves to their solution with dill ;enee. firmness and self-possession, 1 notwithstanding we find ourselves in the midst of a world disturbed by {treat disaster and ablaze with terrible war: but our thought is now inevitably of new things about which formerly we gave ourselves little oncern. We are thinking now chiefly of our relations with the rest of the world not our commercial relations ?ahout those we have thought and planned always?but about our political relations, our duties as an individual and independent force in the world to ourselves, our neighbors and the world itself. NOT IMPERIALISTIC. "Our principles are well known. It is not necessary to avow them again. We believe in political liberty and founded our great government to obtain it, the liberty of men and of peoples?of men to choose their own lives and of peoples to choose their own allegiance. Our ambition, also, all the world has knowledge of. It is not only to be free and prosperous ourselves, but also to be the friend and thoughtful partisan of those who are free or who desire freedom the world over. If we have had aggressive purpose and covetous ambitions, they were the fruit of our thoughtless youth as a nation and we have put them aside. We shall, I confidently believe, never again take another foot of territory by conquest. We shall never in any circumstances seek to make an independent people subject to our dominion; because wel believe, we passionately believe, in the right of every peonle to clinnsc their own allegiance and be free of musters altogether. For ourselves we wish nothing but the full liberty of s lf-developnient, and with ourselves in this great matter we associate all the peoples of our own hemisphere. We wish not only for the United States but for them the fullest freedom of independent growth and of action, for we know that throughout I this hemisphere the same aspirations I are everywhere being worked out, 1 under diverse conditions but with the same impulse and ultimate object. "All this is very clear to us and will. 1 confidently predict, beconn ! more and more clear to the whoh world as the great processes of the future unfold themselves, it is with a lull consciousness of such principles and such ambitions that we are ask ing ourselves at the present time what our duty is with regard to the armed force of the nation. Within a year we have witnessed what we did I not believe possible, a great Euro! pean conflict involving many of the greatest nations of the world. The i influences of a great war are everywhere in the air. All Europe is em, battled. Force everywhere speaks out with a loud .and imperious voice I in a titanic struggle of governments, i illlH t'rftnt r\ * ? o n ? ? /I ~ ....... ....t rim u> uur uwu uear country to the other men are asking one another what our own force ia, how far we are prepared to maintain ourselves against any interference with our national action or development. ', [ "In no man's mind, I am sure, if r there even raised the question of tht , wilful use of force on our part againsi 1 any nation or any people. No mattei i what military or naval force th< 1 I'nited States might develop, states . men throughout the whole worl< might rest assured that we were gath k ering that force, not for attack in an; s quarter, not for aggression of an k kind, not for the satisfaction of an; n political or international ambition e hut merely to make sure of our owi i- security. We have it in mind to b >. prepared, not for war, hut onl n for defense, and with the though g constantly in our minds that the prlr 5- clplee we hold most dear can b n achieved by the slow processes c is history only In the kindly and wholt i- some atmosphere of peace, and not b in 1 the use of hostile force. The missto si of America In the world Is assent fall of i a mission of peace and goodWt no . among men. Bhe has become th >nj home and asylum of men of all creed lk'and races. Within her hospttabl id borders they hare found homes an in congenial associations and freedoi tie and they have become part of th tie hone and Alnew and spirit of Amerlc itself. America has heen made t ur of the nations of the world and il the friend of the nations of the worli THE LANCASTER NEW? "'Rut we feel justified In preparing ourselves to vindicate our right to inlependent and unmolested action by ' making the force that is in us ready .'or assertion. "And we know that we can do this 11 a way that will be itself an illusration of the American spirit. In acordance with our American tradiions we want and shall work for only m army adequate to the constant and 'egitimate uses of times of international peace. Rut we do want to feel 'hat there is a great body of citizens \ho have received at least the most rudimentary and necessary forms of military training; that they will be ready to form themselves into a lighting force at the call of the nation; and that the nation has the munitions and supplies with which to equip them without delay should it be necessary to call them into action. We wish to supply them with the i training they need, and we think we can do so without calling them at any time too long away from their civilian pu rsuits. "It is with this idea, with this conception, in mind that the plans have been made which it will be my privilege to lay before the Congress at its! next session. That plan calls for only such an increase in the regular army of the United States as experience has proved to be required for the performance of the necessary duties of the army in the Philippines, in Hawaii, in Puerto Rico, upon the borders of the United States, at the coast fortifications, and at the military! posts of the interior. For the rest, it calls for the training within the next three years of a force of 400,000 citizen soldiers to be raised in annual contingents of 133,000, who would be asked to enlist for three years with I the colors and three years on fur-j lough, but who during their three years of enlistment with the colors would not be organized as a standing force hut would be expected merely to undergo intensive training for a very brief period each year. Their training would take place in immediate association with the organized units of tlie regular army. It would have no touch of the amateur about, it, neither would it exact of the vol-1 unteers more than they could give in any one year from their civilian pursuits. "And none of this would he done In such a way as in the slightest degree to supercede or subordinate our pres-| cut serviceable and efficient National Guard. On the contrary, the National Guard itself would be used as part of the instrumentality by which training would he iriven the citizens who nr. listed under tho new conditions, and I should hopo and expect that the the Nevt Itrvi Thing to the I'iue Forest for Colds Is >r. lu ll's l'ine-Tar-Honey which goes 0 tho very root of cold troubles. It dears the throat and gives relief 'roin that clogged and stuffed feeling. The pi: es have ever been the friend if man in driving away colds. More>ver. the pine-honey qualities are peculiarly effective in fighting chil1 ren's colds. Remember that a cold broken at the start greatly removes the possibility of complications. -6 c. 1 | -j 'i 1 ? s TUST now we are having J of the new guaranteed li 1 crack, buckle, curl or peel. made from a wool base an y vass linoleum or cheap tar i, RINGWALT'S LINOL t and soft, and is not affected e absolutely guaranteed to gi y preserve its freshness and a it like new. i * This is the linoleum w >f over every dny in front s any amount of hardahip. y 1 I tramped over it without ? public tests in New York, C II * te Come in the store durir Is over fhe beautiful patterns, le it would coot to cover yo d floor. J. F. T> a. I ^ * NOVEMBER 9, 1915. legislation by which all this would be accomplished would put the National Guard itself upon a better and more permanent footing than It has ever been before, giving it not only the recognition which it deserves, but a more definite support from the national government and a more definite conception with the military organization of the nation. FORCES OF NATION A FART. "What wo all wish to accomplish is that the forces of the nation should indeed be part of the nation and not a separate professional force, and the chief cost of the system would not be in the enlistment or in the training of the men. but in the providing of ample equipment in case it should be necessary to call all forces into the field. "Moreover, it has been American policy titne out of mind to look to the navy as the first and chief line of defense. The navy of the United States is already a very great and efficient force. Not rapidly, but slowly, with careful attention, our naval force has been developed until the navy of the United States stands recognized as cue of the most efficient and notable of the modern time. "All that is needed in order to bring, it to a point of extraordinary forc e and efficiency as compared I with the other navies of the worl I j is that we should hasten our pace in , the policy we have long been pursu- 1 ing. and that chief of all we should have a definite policy of development, not made from year to year, but looking well into the future and planning for a definite consummation. We can and should profit in all that we do by the experience and example that have been made obvious to us by the military and naval events of the actual present. It is not merely a matter of building battleships and cruisers and submarines, but also a matter of making sure that we shall have the adequate equipment of men and munitions and supplies for t!i" vessels we build and intend to build. 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