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PRESIDENT WILSON'S MESSAGE National Preparedness Main Theme of Head of Nation. Submits Definite Plan to In crease Present Standinu Force of Regulars and For Four Hun dred Thousand Citizen Soldiers Raised In Increments of One Hundred and Thirty-three Thousand. Following in the message ?f President Wilson delivered III it joint serttdon of the seilU te and lioilHi* ill I In* begin III UK of tlK* Xlxty-fourih coligreHH ; <>cntleincu of the < 'ongreHS--8lnce I last liui) lli? privilege of addre?.dug you <>n tin* Ktnte of the Union t lie* war of nations on l lit* oilier Hide of ttio spiv, which had (lu?n only begun to disclose itw iM>rieni??iiH proportions. in eMcml ed 1 1 m threatening and sinister Scope until it liitw ?;wept wltUlii It h tlaine some portion of every quarter of ' the globe, not excepting our own hem I sphere, lias altered the whole face of )t)t?rnationul affairs, nud now presents ii prospcct of reorganization and re construction such an statesmen and peoples have never been called upon to utteinpl before The president tell* how this country practiced neutrality and dec In res that he hope* thai when the. time cornea for readjustment and recuperation thin country will be of In Unite service Re ferring to Central and South American problems, tin* president declares that we should retain unabated the spirit which has inspired Us throughout the whole life of our government and which was so frankly put Into word* by president Monroe. Wo have beeu put to the test In the case of Mexico, and we have stood the test. Whether we have benefited Alex leo by the course we have pursued re mains to he seen. Her fortunes ure In her own hands Hut we have at least proved that we will not take advan tage of her In her distress and under take to Impose upon her an order uud government of our own choosing. Lib erty Is often a tierce and Intractable thing, to Which no bounds cnu he not and to which no bounds of a few men's choosing ought ever to be set. 10 very American who has drunk at the true fountains of principle and tra dition. must subscribe without reserva tlon to the high doctrine of the Vir ginia Mil of rights, which in the great days In which our government was set up was everywhere among us accept ed as the creed of free men. That doc trine Is. "That government is or ought to he Instituted for tin? common bine fit. protection and security of the jh-o pie. nation or community;" that "of all tlu' various modes and forms of government, that is the best which Is ! capable oi producing the greatest do j glee of happiness #and safety ami Is I i. lost cH'cvi nally seen led against the ] danger of maladmiuist ration, and thai j when any government shall he found j luailetpiat.e or rontrnry lo these pur poses a -majority of the community ' i hath an I nil 11 1 lit able, inalienable and tndef^mib!e Tight to reform^ alter or | abolish it In such manner as shall be indeed most -conducive to (lie public weal " We have unhesitatingly ap plied that heroic principle to the. ease of Mexico and now hopefully await the rebirth of the troubled republic, which had so much of which to purge Itself and so linlu sympathy from any outside (punter in the radical hut nec essary process We will aid and be friend Mexico, but we will not coerce her. and our course with regard to her ought to be sufficient proof to all Amer ica thai we seek no political suzerainty or selfish control. PAN-AMERICANISM HAS NONE OF EMPIRE'S SPIRIT. Economic Adjustments Inevitable With in the Next Generation. The moral is (hat the stutes of Amer ica are nut hostile rivals, but ro-op crating friends. and that their grow ing sense or community of interest, alike In matters political and lit mat ters economic. Is likely to give them a new significance as factors In* interna tlonal affairs and in the political his tory of the world. It presents them as in n very deep and true sense a unit in world affairs, spiritual partners, standing together, because thinking to gether. quick with common sympathies und common ideals. Separated, they are subject to all the cross (Currents of the confused politics of a world of hos tile rivalries; united in spirit and pur I>ose. they cannot be disappointed of their i>oaceful destiny This is pan-Americanism. It has none -of the spirit of empire in it. It Is the embodiment, the effectual embodiment, of the spirit of law and Independence and lll>er?y and mtitunl service. The president calls attention to the meeting In Washington recently of representatives of the pan-American republics nnd says that economic ad justment Is Inevitable In the next gen eration. No one who renll.v comprehends the spirit of the urent people for whom we are appointed to speak can fall to per reive that their passion Is for peace., their irenius best displayed In the prae i tlce of the arts of peae*t CJreat demoev racles are not belligerent. They do not week or desire war Their thought Is Photo by American Pr?e? Association PRESIDENT WILSON'S LATC6T PICTURE. (From snapshot taken on Nov. 2(Sj of Individual liberty and of the free labor i liuj supports lift' and the uu censored thought that quicken* It Conquest and dotnlnlou are not iu our reckoning or t agreeable to our princi plea. IJut Just because we dehinud un molested development and the undis turbed government of our ??wu lives upon our own principles of right und liberty, we resent, from whatever quarter It may couie. the aggression we ourselves will not practice. Wo Insist upon security In prosecuting our self chosen lines of national development We do more than that. We demaud It also for others. We do not con Hue our enthusiasm for Individual liberty and free natloual development to the Incl dents and movements of affairs which affect only ourselves. We feel It wher ever there Is a people that tries to walk In these difficult paths of independence and right. From the first we have made common cause with al ^partisans of liberty on tills side the sea and have deemed It us Important that our uelgh l>ors should he free from all outside domination as that we ourselves should l>e; have set America asldo as a whole for the uses of Independent nations and political freemen. ! Out of such thoughts grow all out policies. We regard war merely as ? means of asserting tlie rights of a |mm> pie against aggression. And we ari as fiercely Jealous of coercive or dicta tonal power within our own nation as of aggression from without. We will not maintain a standing army ex <ept for Uses which are as neeessary in times of peace as in times of war. SUGGESTS BROAD PLAN FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE. Incrcaso Standing Regular Force ? Four Hundred Thousand Citizen Soldiers. lint war has never boon a mere mat tor of aioii and gun's. It is a tiling of disciplined might. If our citizens are evor to ti^ht effectively ilpon a sudden summons, they must know how modern fighting is done, and what to do when the summons comes to render themselves immediately avail able and immediately effective. And the government must be their servant in this matter, must supply them with the training they nerd to take care of themselves and of it. The military arm of their government, which they will not allow to direct them, theynmriy" properly use to serve tliem mid make their Independence secure, and not ?their own independence merely, but the rights also of those with whom they have made common cause, should they also lie put In Jeopardy. They must l?e fitted to play the great role in the world, and particularly in this hemisphere, for which they are quail (led by principle and by chastened am bition to play. It is with these Ideals In mind that the plans of the department of war for more adequate national defense were conceived which will be laid before you. and which I urgo you to sanction and put into effect as soon as they can be properly scrutinized and discussed They seem to me the essential first steps, and they seem to me for the present sufficient. They contemplate an Increase of the standing force of the regular army from its present strength of 5.023 offi cers and 102,085 enlisted men of all services to n strength of 7.130 officers and 134.707 enlisted men. oi4 141.843 all told, all services, rank and file, by | the addition of fifty-two companies of coast artillery, fifteen companies of en gineers. ten regiments of Infantry, four regiments of field artillery and four aero squadrons, besides 7TO officers re qnired for a great variety of extra service, especially the all Important doty Of training the citizen force of which I shaft presently speak, 702 non commissioned officers for service In drill, recruiting and the like and the j necessary quota of enlisted men for the quartermaster corps, the hospital corps, the ordnance department and other similar auxiliary services. These Declares That if Full Navy Pro gram Is Carried Out We Will Have a Fleet For Defense That Will Be "Fitted to Our Needs and Worthy of Our Traditions/' ^.Greatest Dangcfr to Co^try Comes From Within Our Bor ders. tire i he additions necessary to render the urmy adequate for its# present du ties, duties which it has to |>erform not only upon oui- own eontlnental coasts and horde in und at our interior army posts. kit also in the Philippine*, in the Hawaiian Islands, at the Isth inns and in Porto Hico liy way of making the country ready to assert some part of Its real power promptly and upon a larger Hcale should occasion arise the plun also contemplates supplementing the army hy a force of 400,000 disciplined cltl y.ens, raised In Increments of 13J1.000 a year throughout n period of three ?years. Tills it Is proposed to do by a process of enlistment under which the serviceable men of the country would be asUed to Idnd themselves to nerve with the colors for purposes of train lug for tfhorjf periods throughout three yenrs ami t<? come to the colors ut call lit any time throughout an additional 'furlough" period of three years. This force of -100.000 men would be pro vlded with personal accouterments as fast as enlisted and their equipment for the Held made ready to be supplied at any time They would be assem bled for training at stated Intervals at convenient places In association with suitable units of the regular army/ Their period of aunual training would not necessarily exceed two months In the year The president ^ays It is up to the patriotic young men of the country to respond to this call. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR GREATER NAVY. Always Looked to It as Our First and Chief Line of Defenee. The program which will Ik? lakl, be fore you by the secretary of the navy , la similarly conceived. It involves only a shortening of the time within which plans long matured shall be carried , out, but It does make defluite and ex plicit a program which has heretofore been only implicit, held in the minds of the committees on naval affairs and disclosed In the debates of the two bouses, but nowhere formulated or for mally adopted. It seems to me very clear that it will be to the advantage of the country for the congress to adopt a comprehensive plan for putting the navy upon* a Dual footing of strength and efficiency and to press that plan to completion within the next five years. We have always looked to the navy of the country as our first -and chief line of defense:' we have always seen it to I >?.* our manifest course of prudence to he strong on the seas Year by. year we have been creating a navy which now ranks very high in deed among ihe navies of the maritime nations. \\ ?? should now definitely de termine how we shall complete what we have begun -and how soon. The 'program ti> be laid before yon contemplates the construction within five years of ten battleships, six battle cruisers, ten scout cruisers, fifty de stroyers. fifteen fleet submarines, eighty-five coast submarines, four gun boats, one hospital ship, two ammtjni tlon ships, two fuel oil ships and one repair ship. It Is proposed that of this number we shall the first year provide for the construction of two battleships, two battle cruisers, three scout cruisers, fifteen destroyers, five fleet submarines. twenty -fiv.e coast submarines, two gun boats and one hospital ship: the second year two battleships, one scout cruiser, ten destroyers, four fleet submarines, fifteen coast submarines, one gunboat and, one fuel oil ship: the third year two battleships, one battle cruiser, two scopt cruisers, five destroyers, two fleet suhronrlnes and fifteen coast subma rines: the fourth year two battleships, two battle cruisers, two scout cruisers, ten i. destroyers, two fleet submarines, fifteen coast submarines, one ammuni tion ship nnd one fuel oil ship, and the fifth year two battleships, one bat tie cruiser, two scout cruisers, ten de stroyers. two fleet submarines, fifteen const submarines, one gunboat, one am munition ship and one repair ship. The secretary of the nnvy is asking also for -the immediate addition to the personnel of the navy of 7.500 sailors. 2,fi00 apprentice seamen nnd l.DOO ma rine#,, This Increase would be sr'fi I clent to care for the ..ships which are to be completed within the fiscal year lftlT and also for the number of men which must be put Jn training to man the ships which will be completed early tn 1018. it is also necessary tlrtfl the number of mldslUpmen at the Na val academy at Annapolis should be Increased by at least 300 In order that the. force of officers should be more rapidly added to. nnd authority Is ask ed to appoint, for engineering duties only, approved grnduntes of engineer Ing colleges, and for service in the avl ntlon corps n certnln number of men tnken from civil life. If this full program should be carried out weabouid hnve built or building In 1021. according to th^ estimates of aur viral and standards of clarification followed by the general ? hoartl of the (Continued on next page) Southern Commercial Congress I at ? mm. CHARLESTON. S. C., DECEMBER I3-I7, 1915. VERY L0^| ROUND TRIP EXCURSION FARES ?Via? SOUTHERN RAILWAY $3.95 FROM CAMDEN $3.95 W on sale Noo^ l9l5 \Wth flnal liiriit to reach oHginal starting point prio, to midnight of December 22, 1916. . proportionately reduced fares from other points. GREAT NAVY PARADE SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS EVERY DAY Get details at Southern Railway Ticket Office. L. W. MANHEIM, Agent Camden, S. C Seaboard Air Line "The Progreaaive Railway of the South" SPECIAL LOW RATES ? -?-TO ? i '? . / ?*?. - ' ' ' ? v " ;/ v . X . , .< ???-, . V- ? ?; . { y^O'. Charleston, South Carolina DECEMBER 13TH-17TH, 1915 * ACCOUNT Southern Commercial Congress ? < Many attractions including Great Battleship Fleet, Mil itary Parade, Special Selected Carnival, Water and Ath letic Sports. Addresses by prominent speakers on Cotton, Rurfcl Credits and Commerce. .... ? ? t ? . ' .. .1 i ? ? "i ? ? ' Full information from nearest Seaboard Agent or-wr&e C. W. SMALL, Division Passenger Agent* SAVANNAH, GA, u. S. Battleship "South Carolina" " . GREAT CELEBRATION AT CHARLESTON DECEMBER 13TH TO 17TH, 1915 13th to iti'i!" Vi'h - win be held ut Charleston December ?ill ovor tiirt'u' m ! S is an A8so< latIon of Prominent business men froro an: ineetIURS n,? 1101(1 eat'h ^ar for the Purpose of l<axt venr tii . HH welfare, both of the manufacturer and of the farmer, nt Mobile Ti'ii ?nKros* was held at Oklahoma City and the year before t any men of /"? meCtIn? *?> be held at. Charleston and very rented invitations0'^?11 1>UsIne83? 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