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i I ? we spending it in the wrong direc k tk>n? We spend 100,000,000 a year for the , maintenance of our army against I $170,000,000 that Germany spends for hers. And who would dare question me when I say that Germany's army is ten times $70,000,000 greater than the small army of the United States? We spend $140,000,000 a year for our navy. We have spent five hundred! millions more in the last fifteen years | than <:as Germany, and who would dare question me when I say that our navy is not as good as Germany's. And my good, people, we also spend B $300,000,000 a year in pensions?more A than that of the combined expenditure for our army and our navy. There w are people?Dr. David Siarr Jordan? for example, who believe in the brotherhood of man. They tell us that our j pension money should be charge to military expenses but I tell you that ti:is $300,000,000 should be charged to ftihe personal accounts of the David Starr Jordans, for the bigger part of it is due to lack of common sense pre. pared n ess. I Some day this country is going to] fight. And when we have to fight, 11 want my country to be ready! I do' not know, for I am not a war-prophet, il would rather be a peace-prophet. But I have always agreed somewhat with those people wfao fcave told us that some day we would have to lick Japan. And since the Japanese nation has shown what manner of coun} try it is, by having taken advantage of thft nresftnt. "Elironean striies-lp and shave pounced upon China with insolent demands?seeking, I say to take ^ charge of that nation?to rob fcer of i M ber independence and integrity?I be-1 W Sieve that if we are not ready?if we allow our army and onr navy to be neglected for the next ten years as it Iis Demg neglected xoaay?some oav Japan is going to pounce upon us and j take the Phillipines^?and then threaten our Pacific coast. And, may I be pardoned for being so radical as to enquire of those American people who clap their hands and stomp their feet and cry hurrah wfaen the British claim to drive hack true Germans ten feet? may I ask if you believe that it is fair end rigfot to let our mills work without cessation to make bullets and powder to shoot down a people?brothers and cousins of those who have come to . this country and have helped to make i .America what it is today?may I ask I you who believe tfrat this is right, and I at tJbe same time, for this country to * stand back and give England practically a free hand in trying to starve out the innocent women and children of one of the most cultured nations r v.u cifcrui?m&y i ctbii. /i>a wuwre io ff England going to stand if Japan / J Chewii everC # Ik J pounces upon America? If there was an alliance between Japan and England so strong that England could call upon Japan to go over and take that small Eastern possession from Germany, when Japan had no outward grudge against Germany, I ask you in | all calmness, cannot it be reasonably expected that Japan can demand help from England wl:en she gets ready to try her ftand at warfare with America? What will those people who call i the Germans barbarians, what will you i say in that day when American made ' guns are turned upon American soldiers by that nation which money| loving American manufacturers are working night and day for? I Are you willing that Japan, that England, tl~at Russia, that Austria, tftat Germany or any other foreign power shall set the heel of oppression nn tnio rwintrv9 iro vnn tltillirto- i VIA V V UUVi V J VU ?? tV submit to a condition that would make America do the bidding of other nations?are you willing that we should continue to be a vassal of England? Xo! you cry, No! But what can I, do? I am not a soldier. I am not a j fighter. I am not in authority at | (Washington. This is what you dan I do. ; i I Sixty per cent of the blajne for our ( present policy as regards preparedness lies at tfee feet of congress, and I the other forty per cent, lies at the feet of the people of this country who are not awake to the present conditions of things. You can tell your i congressman that this country is not going to stand for the present pork barrel policy. You can tell him tibat V/111 /!/"? n/\+ Irnjvm tt?Vi o + ir. or Vvii + j j \s\JL V4.V UVU IX1AXS rt n uat AO M 1 UI15, LfUW j that there is something radically I wrong?and it is up to him to find out i wThat is the matter with the army and | the navy. You can tell him that if we are not spending money enough for our army and our navy, that you will dig down in your pockets in order to spend enough money in efficient preparations, and you will not scratch his name at the next election because national taxes are a little hieh because of this preparedness. I believe that the question of efficient preparedness is going to be one of the issues of the next national campaign, and that the man who gets on the stump and says that he won't vote for a bigger, army or a bigger and better navy isn't going to get to "Washington. As I have said before this country is not a military nation and can not be made a military nation. We will not submit to conscription, but with efficient and economical management of our military affairs, the regiments would be full, and they -would have guns to shoot. There would at all times be an efficient fleet, properly manned, and there would be no scarc\ / 1CW1Ca31 ig Gum hewed j L ity of ammunition while at the present time we are told that there is not enough ammunition in tt:e United States navy to last a half hour in battle. \ "This kind of preparedness would not be militarism. It would not prepare us to take part in a world-war. It would not be telling otoer nations that we have a big navy and a good army, and we would like to try them out? come over and give us a fight. But it would enable us to effectually resist sudden assault long enough for war measures to be put into force. Mr. Garrison made a modest request for the improvement of the army. Others have made similar requests as rpo-ariis thp naw. and thev have all * ^ w y ? * ~r~ been turned down b ycongress. Yet tl:e present congress has already made one war, and made a mess of it. It is said that wise men learn by experience of others, fools learn only by their own. W-iat shall we say of those?this nation, if you please,?who refused to learn by its own experience? Shall the boys of some future years go off to war as did th& boys of 1898? Shall t):ey go almost in bare feet, without military equipment, without food, without medical atten-1 tion? Or shall they, when the fearful day comes, like tfne great German . hosts, every man be to his 'place, be assigned to a new uniform and go forth to war and to glory for the honor of the Stars and Stripes? What a sigl:t it must have been when the German army entered Brussels! Neutral correspondents tell us that it was like a triumphant entry of a king. Every man was clad as if on dress parade. The steel of his bayonet glistened in the sun. On rnis feet were boots made to stand many days' marches and at the same time made for comfort. At the side of each firey, prancing steed there were strapped an extra pair of horse shoes, so that per chance if anything should happen along the route of march, the foorse should be shod in a few minutes. Everything bore the ensignia of the kaiser, from a gun to the field kitchen. And, how wonderful was their equipment of actual battle! You know the story. You know tfae result of the sirk am/? wounded TTava almost all of the German wounded and tfne German sick died from a result of their wounds or of their illness, as was the case with American boys in 1898? No. Statistics show that 75 per cent of the German wounded recover and get back to the firing line. The German surgical and medical branch is one of the main features of the great military machine. And did it all come by chance, or by preparedness. I do not know wfcetlber or not my country will call me to defend it. I do j a&?SB&BSf?+. * i net know if it will ever call my son who is now but a babe. But when it does it will find me or him Teady. And in that day I expect my country I to be ready. Yes, I am ready to leave 1 my business today to become proficient in military service, if my country says that it is right that I should, j I shall insist that my boy ibave a ' military training of some kind. And j I am ready to give my life; if need be, not because I love a fight?not because I am hungry for war?not because I hold a grudge against a na; tion or against a people?but because, above all else, I love America. America first, says our great and noble pres! ident. America first, so say we all. T -X 1 _ JL/?i us, uv our iiui unite sa) lu uiusc in authority that America shall not only be first in liberty, in the pursuit | of happiness, in peace, in the arts ! and industries and in commerce, but : that America shall be first in preparedness?first in bringing-about means , to protect the one hundred millions of souls over which floats the Stars and the Stripes. I thank you. Edw. B. 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