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4 forces o f military |H>wer wlik-h are ex- hlbtted in Europe from laying bold upon the vast territory and practically > undefended wealth o f the new world? t ¡la ve n e still national ideal«'- Will anybody live for theui? Would any body die for them ? Dr are we all for ea e mid comfort anil wealth at any price? Confrontisi by such questions as these and the practical situations which give rise to thetu. Is the nmu try satis fimi to ttust Itself again tu the Vanda o f the Democratic party? Impotent Intc.'eronca In Mexico. The Unlleil States had rights and duties In Mexico. Moro than 40.000 o f mir citizens bad sought the r fortune« a: 1 made their homes there. A thou sand million« o f American capital had lieen luvested in that productive coon- Address as Tsmporary Chairman of try. But revolution hud come, and Now York Republican Convontion fa. tional w arfare was rife. Americans Points Out Sins of Democratic Com had been murdered. Amerlcuu proper mission and Omission— “ W i Have ly hud been wantonly destroyed, the Lost Infiuenco Because We Hava Hies and property o f all Americans in Been Bravo In Words and Irresolute Mexico were In danger. That was the situation when Mr. Wilsou became In Action.” president in March. 1013. Ills duty Ill hls address as temporary chair then was plain. It was. first, to use man o f tin* New York state Republican his powers as president to secure pro convention, delivered in Carnegie Hall. tection for the lives and property of Americans In Mexits» and to require New York, the liou. Elihu Knot said: That rules o f law and stipulations o f \Ye are entering u(ion u contest for treaties should be observed by Mexico the elevtiou o f a president and the con toward the Uuited Staten and its citi trol o f government uuder conditions zens. His duty was. second, as the essentially new in the experience o f head o f a foreign power to respect the our party and o f our country. The independence o f Mexico, to refrain forms and methods which we are : from all interference wttb her Internal about to follow are old and familiar, affairs, from all attempt at domina but the grounds for action, the demand tion except as be was Justified by the o f great events for decision upon na law of nations for the protection o f tional conduct, the moral forces urg v inerican rights. The president o f the ing to a solutiou o f vaguely outlin : Uuited States failed to observe either ed questions, the tremendous con ! o f those duties. H e deliberately aban- sequences o f Wisdom or folly in nation ; dotted them both and followed au en- al policy, all these are new to the great j tirely different and Inconsistent pur mass o f American voters now living. pose. H e Intervened In Mexico to aid Never since lStH has an election been one faction in civil strife against au n e undertook to pull down fraught with consequences so vital to t other, national life. All the ordinary consid Huerta and set Carranza up in his erations which play so great a part in place. Arms and munitions o f war our presidential campaigns are and were freely furnished to the northern ought to be dwarfed into insignificance. forces anil withheld from Huerta Finally the president sent our army Democratic Party to the Bar. and navy to Invade Mexico and cap For the first time In twenty years we ture its great senport. Vera Crux, and enter the field as the party o f opposi hold it and throttle Mexican commerce tion. and indeed it is a much longer time, for in 1S9U. in all respects save until Huerta fell. Americans Outraged In Mexico. the tariff, the real opposition to the The government o f the United States sturdy and patriotic course o f Presi dent Cleveland was to be found in the intervened In Mexico to control the in party that followed Mr. Bryan. It is ternal affairs o f that Independent conn- our duty as the opposition to bring the try and to enforce the will o f the Democratic (varty to the bar o f public American president Iti those affairs by judgment, to put it upon Its defense threat, by ecouoruic pressure and by so far as we see Just and substantial force o f arms. Upon what claim o f groitue. to criticise Its eondu-t and to right did this intervention proceed? ask the inters of the country to decide Not to secure respect for American whether lb.it party, organised as It is. tights, not to protect the lives or prop represented as It has been since it erty o f our citizens, not to assert the came into power. hit* shown Itself ! :ws of nations, not to compel observ comiieteut to govern the country as it ance of the law o f humanity. On the should be governed and whether its contrary. Huerta's was the only power spirit, its policies, and its performance in Mexico to which appeal could be arc the best that the American people made for protection of life or property. can do in the way o f popular self gov That was the only power which, in fact, did protect either American or ern merit. It was only In the field o f domestic affairs some European or Mexican facts relevant to these questions bad within the territory where Huerta ruled that comparative peace and or already been ascertained when in Au The territory over gust. '.014. the great European war der prevailed. began. During the year and a half of which the armed power o f Carranza Democratic control o f government in and Villa and their associates extended a peril d o f profound peace there had was the theater o f the most appalling been a steady decrease in American crimes. Bands o f robbers roved the production, in exports and In revenues country with unbridled license. Am er and a steady Increase in imiiurts and icans and Mexicans alike were at their expenditures. Enterprise had halted. mercy, and American men were mur The Democratic tariff had been framed dered and American women were out raged with impunity. Thousands were upon an avowed repudiation o f all pro reduced to poverty by the wanton de tectiou. however moderate and reason able, and because all protection was struction o f the Industries through repudiated practically all information which they lived. Yet the government from competent witnesses as to the e f o f the United States ignored, con fect new provisions would have upon doned. the murder o f American men business was rejected. It was with and the rape o f American women and Just cause that the enterprise o f the destruction o f American property and country halted, timid and irresolute, Insult to American officers and defile because it felt and feared the hostility ment o f the American flag and Joined Itself to the men who were guilty o f of government. all these things to pull down the pow Foreign Competition After War. The great war has not changed the er o f Huerta. W hy? The presifient lesson which we had already learned himself has told us. It was because w lien it began. It has but obscured he adjudged nuerta to be a usurper, further demonstration. It has enused because be deemed that the common an enormous demand for some things people o f Mexico ought to have great which the United States is able to pro er participation in government and duce hi large quantities, and in these share in the land, and he believed that lines o f production, while other indus ! i ’arronza and Villa would give them | these things. W e must all sympathize tries still languish, there have lieen e x | with these sentiments, but there is tensive employment o f labor, great ex nothing more dangerous than mis ports and a great influx of money ! placed sentiment. But this is temporary. It must soon When our army landed at Vera Cruz cease, and when the factories have j Carranza himself, who was to be the stopped and their laborers are no I chief beneficiary of the act. publicly longer employed we must deal with a protested against i t So strong was situation for which wise forethought the resentment that he could not have should make provision. More impor kept his followers otherwise. When tant still, the war has paralyzed the Huerta bad fallen the new government peaceful industries of all Europe and which for the day had succeeded to hns stopped that competitive foreign his place peremptorily demanded the production which in July. 1014. had al withdrawal of the American troops. ready entered American markets to The universal sentiment o f Mexicans supersede American products under required the peremptory demand, and the tariff law o f 1913. The war has j the troops were withdrawn. Still thus given to American products an worse than that, the taking of Vera immunity from competition far more Urna destroyed confidence in the sin effective than any possible protective cerity o f the American government In tariff Rut that is temporary, ami Mexico, because every intelligent man when the war is over, when foreign in Mexico believed that the avowed production begins again, the American reason for the act was not the real market rum pa red with impoverished reason. The avowed purpose was to Europe will be more than ever before compel a salute to the American flag tlie object o f desire and effort, and we Three hundred Mexicans were report shall liecome the dumping ground of ed killed; seventeen United States ma the world to the destruction of our rlnes were killed and many were own industries unless that is prevented wounded. A t that very time Mr. Bry by a wise and competent government an. with the president’s approval, was How C n W * Defend Ourselv*s7 signing treaties with half the world But it is not from domestic ques agreeing that if any controversy should tlons that the most difficult problems arise It should be submitted to a joint o f Ibis day arise. The events o f the commission and no action should tie last fe w years have taught us many taken until after a full year had claps lessons. W e have learned that civiliza ed. This controversy, slight as It was, tion Is but a veneer thinly covering the arose on the 9th o f April, and on the savage nature of man. H ow can this 21st o f the same month Vera Crnz nation, which lores peace and Intends was taken. W ith the occupation of Justice, avoid the cvrre o f militarism Vera Cruz the moral power o f the an 1 at the same time preserve It* In United States in Mexico ended. W e dependence. defend its territory, pro were then and we are now hated for tect the lives and liberty and proper what we did to Mexico, and we were ty of its citizens? H ow can w e pre then and we are now despised for our Tent the same principles o f action, the feeble and irresolute failure to protect same policies o f conduct (he same BLUNDERS OF THE ADMINISTRATION Wilson Has Failed In Foreign and Domestic Policies. ROOT SHOWS HIS ERRORS. THE FALLS CITY NEWS. the live« ami rights of our cltlaans. No ' steamer Fnluha was torpedoed by a weak against the aggression at the flag Is so dishonored anil so cltlzeuKhlp German aubniarlne amt an American strong. no little worth the ctulmlng In Mexico T o ibis people tbe Invailou o f Bel citizen wus killed, but nothing was ss ours. And that Is why we have don* On Ihe 2Mb o f April tiie Amer gium brought n shock o f suiazciuont fulled in Mexico. ican vessel ('uahltig wae attacked nud niul horror I f the public opinion e f (bo to ramalu silent upon that, Policy of 'Watchful Waiting.” ! crippled by a Gerrnun aeroplane. On world incredible as It seems. Huerta bad the 1st o f May the American vessel neutral upon that, then all talk about been turned out by the assistance of GullMgbt was torpedoed and sunk by a pea* «> and Justice amt InlernaMonnl law the American government without any | Gorman auhmnrinc anil tw o or more and tbe rlgbta o f man. the progress of guaranties from the tuen who were to Americana were killed, yet nothlug was humanity and the spread o f liberty le Idle |Mitter. mere weak seullmeutallty; be set up In Ids place, unil so the uiur doue. On the 7th o f May the Lusltn ilering uud burning and lavishing have uia was torpedoed uud «uuk by n Ger then opinion Is powerless and brute ¡roue on to this day. A fter Huerta man subuiHriiie and more than ilk) force rules and w ill rule tbe world. If no difference la recognized between hail fnllen end the Vera Orua expedi Americans nud 1,100 other noucoin tion had I wen withdrawn President bn units were drowued. The very thing right and wrong then there are no Wilson announce J thut uo one wua which our government had wurneil morel standards. There come limes In eutltled to Interfere In the affulrv o f Germany she must not do. Germany the lives o f natlong us o f men wheu to treat wrong ns If It were right Is ires Mexico: that she w-as entitled to settle did o f set purpose and In the moat con thetu herself. He ditcluluis all re temptuoua and shocking way. Then, son to the right sponsibllity for what hapi»eiia In Mex when all America was stirred to the The Wrong Done to Bolgium. ico and contents himself with a pel depths, our government addressed an The .Amerlran people were entitled Icy of watchful walling. Anil for the other note to Germany, it repeated not merely to fool, but to aimak con death and outrage, the suffering and Its ussertiou o f American rights und cerning tbe wrong done to Belgium ruiu o f our own brethren, the hatred roueweil Us hold declaration o f pur It wae not tike Interference In the In | and contempt for our country and the l*i>8e. It declared again (hat the Amer ternal affairs o f Mexico or any other j dishonor o f our unme In that land the ican government "must hold the Im nation, for this wae au International administration at Washington shares . portal German goverumeut to a strict wrong. Tbe law protortlng Belgium responsibility with the Inhuman brute« accountability for any infringement of which wae violated was oar law and with whom It made common cause. those rights. Intentional or Incidental.” j the law o f every other civilised coun When we turn to the admlulstra and It declared that It would not "omit . try. That law was the protection of tlou’s conduct o f foreign affairs inci any word or un.v act necessary to the | our i>eare and security. It was our dent to the great war In Europe wo performance o f Its snerod duty o f main safeguard against the necessity of cannot fall to perceive that there Is much dissatisfaction among Ameri taining the right v o f the Uuited States malnlalulng great armament* and cans. Dissatisfaction is not In Itself aud Its cltlxeus anil o f safeguarding wasting our substance In continual rciidlm*«» for tvur. Moreover, that law ground for condemnation. The situ their free exercise nud enjoyment.” Still nothing was douo aud a long was written Into a solemn and formal ation created by the war luis been dltti anil technical correspondence ensued, cult and trying. Much o f the corre convention, signed aud ratified by Ger spondence of the state department, haggling over [letty questions o f de many and Relglumand France and the especially since Mr. Pausing took tail. every American note growing less United States tn -whlcb those other charge, has been characterised by ac und less strong and iwrotnptory until countries agreed with ua that tbe law curate learning and skillful statement the Arabic was torpedoed and sunk should be observed. and more Americau lives were destroy o f specific American rights. There was no question here o f Inter ed. and sill) nothing wus done, and fering In the quarrels o f Europe. We Three Errors In European Policy. ibe correspondence continued uutll the had a right to l»e neutral, aud we were A study of the administration's pol allied defense against Germnn subma neutral a* to the quarrel between Ger Icy toward Eunits* since July. 1014. rine warfare made •» unprofitable and many and France, but when as an In reveals three fundamental errors: First, led to Its abandonment, and the cor cident to the prosecution of that the lack o f foresight to make timely respondence la apparently approaching quarrel Germany broke the law which provision for backing up American dl Its end w ithout securing even thut par we were entitled to have preserved plomacy by actual or assured military tlnl protectlou for the future which and which she bad agreed with Ua to and naval force; second, the forfei might be found In an admission that preserve we were entitled to be heard ture o f the world's respect for our as the destruction o f the Lusitania was , In (he assertion o f our own national sertion o f rights by pursuing the policy forbkltlen by law. The later eorre- right. o f making threats uud failing to make s|>ondene* hns been conducted by our them good; third, a 10s* o f the moral state department with dignity, but It j Neutral Between Right and Wrong! forces of the civilized world through Yet tbe American government ac- has been futile. Au admission of lia failure to truly interpret to the world bility for damages has been secured, quiesced In the treatment o f Belgium the spirit o f the American democracy but the time for real protection to and the destruction o f tlie law o f na in Us attitude toward the terrible American rights has loug since passed. tions. Without one word o f objection events which accompanied the early or dissent to the repudiation of law The brave words with which we be stages o f the war. gati the controversy hail produced no or the breach o f our treaty or the vio First, as to power: effect, because they were read In the ; lation o f Justh-e and humanity In tbo When the war in Europe began, free, light o f two extraordinary events. treatment o f Belgium our government peaceable little Switzerland instantly One was the report o f the Austrian enjoined upon the people o f Ibe United State.* an undlacrlmlnnllng and all em mobilized upon her frontier a great ambassador. Mr. Dumb«, to hls gov bracing neutrality, aud the president army o f trained citizen soldiers, stur ernment that when the American note admonished the people that they must dy little Holland did the ran:e, uud ( o f Feb. .10 was received he asked the lie neutral lu all respects In act and both have kept their territory and their secretary o f state. Mr. Bryan, whether word and thought and sentiment. We independence inviolate. It meant business and received au an j were to be not merely neutral as to the Great. |<eneeable America was further removed fr.n i the convict. but her swer which satisfied him that It did ■ quarrels o f Europe, but neutral as to not, but was Intended for effect at tbe treatment o f Belgium, neutral t*e- trade and her citizens traveled on ev tween right anil wrong, neutral be ery sea. Ordinary knovrlelge o f Eu home In America “ Tco Proud to Fight.” tween Justice and Injustice, neutral lie ropean affairs made it plain that tlr* The other event was the strange and | tween humanity and cruelty, neutral war was begun not by uceldent. but with purpose which would not soon be unfortunate declaration o f the presi- i between liberty and oppression. Our relinquished. Ordinary knowledge of dent In a public s(»eech In Philadelphia i government did more than acquiesce, military events made It plain from the the fourth day after the sinking o f j for In tbe first Lusitania note, with the moment when the tide o f German Inva the Lusitania that "a inan may he too j unspeakable horrors o f the conquest sion turned from the battle o f the proud to fight." Whatever the Aus- | o f Belgium still fresh In our minds, on Marne that the conflict was certain to trian ambassador was In fact told by tlie very Jay after the report of tbo be long and desperate. Ordinary knowl [ the secretary o f state, the Impression Bryce commission on Belgian atroci edge o f history—o f onr own history which he reported was supported by ties. It wrote these words to the gov during the Napoleonic wars—made It the events which followed. W hatever ' ernment o f Germany: Recalling the human* and enlightened plain that In that conflict neutral rights the president did mean, hls declaration, attitude hitherto assumed by the Imperial would be worthless unless |>ovrer/ullj made In public at that solemn time, German government In matters of Inter maintained. amid the horror and mourning of all national right and particularly with re The Democratic government at Wash our people over the murder of their gard to the freedom of the seas, having ington did not see it. Others saw it. children, was accepted the world over learned to recognise the German views and the German Influsnr* In the field of and their opinions found vclcp. Mr as presenting the attitude of the Amer International obligation as always engaged Gardner urged It. Mr. Lodge urged it. ican government toward the protection upon the elde of justice and humanltv, ei<- Mr. Stlmson urged It. Mr. Roosevelt o f the life and liberty o f American And so the government o f the United urged It. but their argument and ur citizens In the exercise o f their Just State* appeared as approving the treat gency were ascribed to political mo rights, and throughout the world the j ment o f Belgium. It misrepresented tives. and the president described (hem phrase “ too proud to fight" Ivecame a the people o f the United States In that byword o f derision and contempt for acquiescence and apparent approval. with a sneer as nervous and excited the government of the United States, j It was not necessary that tbe United Wilson Has Shifted Ground. I-ater, In another theater o f w ar—the j States should go to war In defense But the warning voices would not be stilled. The opinion that we ought no Mediterranean—Austria, and perhaps o f the violated law. A single official longer to remain defenseless became Turkey also, resumed the practice. , expression by the government of the public opinion. Its expression grew The Ancona and then the Persia were United States, a single sentence deny more general and insistent, and dually destroyed, and more Americans were j ing assent and recording disapproval W hy should they not resume o f what Germany did in Belgium, the president, not leading, but follow killed would have given to tbe people of ing. has shifted hls ground, has revers the practice? They had learned to be America that leadership to which they ed hls position and asks the country to lleve that, no matter how shocked the were entitled in tbelr earnest groping prepare against war. God grant that American government might be. Its for the ligh t It would have ranged resopjticn would expend itself In he be not too late. But the Democrat behind American leadership the con ic party has not shifted Us ground. A words. They had learned to believe science and morality o f the neutral large part o f Its members In congress that It was safe to kill Americans, and world. are endeavoring now to sidetrack the the world believed wttb them. It was not to be. Tbe American Shaking Fist and Finger. movement for national preparedness, government faked to rise to the de No man should draw a pistol who mands of tbe great occasion. Gone to muddle It by amendnumt and tum It Into channels which will produce the dares not shoot. The government that were the old lore o f Justice, the old least possible result In the Increase of shakes Its fist first and Its finger after passion for lllierty. the old sympathy national power o f defense. What ward falls Into contempt. Our diplo with the oppressed, the old Ideals of tense o f effectiveness in this effort eon macy has lost Its authority and Influ an Amortcn helping the world toward we gather from the presence o f Jose ence because we have been brave In a better future, and there remained tn phus Daniels at the most critical post words and Irresolute In action. Men tbe eyes o f mankind only solicitude for of all—the head of the navy depart j may say that the words o f our diplo trade and profit and prosperity. ment—when we see that where matic notes were Justified; men may Shrank From the Truth. preparation has !»een possible It has say that our Inaction was Justified, but The American government could not no man can say that both were wise not been made, when wp see that con really have approved the treatment of struction o f warships already author and creditable. Belgium, but under a mistaken policy I have said that this government lost ized has not been pressed and in some It shrank from speaking the truth. eases after long delay- has not even the moral forces o f the world by not Such policies as I hare described are truly Interpreting the spirit o f the i>een begun? doubly dangerous In their effect upon American democracy. I f an Increase o f our country’s power foreign nations and In their effect at The American democracy stands for to defend Itself against aggression Is home. It Is a matter o f universal ex something more than beef and cotton perience that a weak and apprehensive authorized by the present congress It and grain and manufactures; stands treatment o f foreign affairs invites en must be largely through Republican for something that cannot be measured croachments upon rights and leads to votes, because alt the traditions and by rates o f exchange and does not rise situations In which It Is difficult to convictions o f that party are for na or fall with the balance o f trade. The prevent war, while a firm and frank tlonal power and duty and honor. As to the policy o f threatening words American people, Informed by their policy at the ontset prevents difficult own experience that Is confirmed by situations from arising and tends moat »-Ithout deeds: their observation o f international life, strongly to preserve peace. On the When Germany gave notice o f her have come to see that the Independence other hand. If a government Is to he purpose to sink merchant vessels on o f nations, tbe liberty o f tbelr peoples. the high seas without safeguarding the Justice and humanity cannot be main strong In Its diplomacy Its own peo ple mast be ranged in Its support by i lives o f Innocent passengers our gov- tained upon the complaisance, tbe good leadership of opinion In a national | ernment on the 10th o f February one nature, the kindly feeling o f the strong canse worthy to awaken their patri year ago Informed Germany In nnmls- toward the weak; that real Independ j takable terms that In attacking and ence, real liberty, cannot rest upon suf otism and devotion. W e have not been following the path ' sinking vessels o f the United States ferance; that peace and.liberty can be and In destroying the lives o f American preserved only by the authority and of peace. We hare been blindly stum bling along tbe road that continued citizens law fully traveling upon mer observance of rules o f national con will lead to Inevitable war. chant vessels of other countries she duct founded upon the principle* of When our government failed to tell would act at her peril. They pledged justice and humanity; only by the es the truth about Belgium It lost the the power and courage o f America, tablishment o f law among nations, re opportunity for leadership o f the moral with her hundred million people and sponsive to the enlightened public opin sense o f the American people and It her vest wealth, lo the protection of ion o f mankind. To them liberty lost the power which a knowledge of her citizens, as during all her history means not liberty for themselves alone, that leadership and a sympathetic re through the days o f her youth and but for all who are oppressed. Justice sponse from the moral sense o f the weakness she had protected them. means not justice for themselves world woe Id have given to onr diploma On the 28tb o f March the passenger sione. bnt a shield for all who are cy. When our government failed to Hatutdny, April 8, 1910 make any provision whatever far da ft-ini tug Its rights In case they should Im trampled upon It lost the power which a 1 teller in !U readiness aud will In maintain Its rights would hava g iv en to Its diplomatic representation« When our government gars not lea to Germany that It would destroy Amer In n Uvea and American ships at Its peril our words, which would bava tmen potent If sustained by adequate preparation to make them good and by the prestige and authority o f the moral leadership of a great people In n great ciiuae, were treated with a contempt which should have lieen foreseen, and when our government failed to make those words good Its diplomacy was tiankrupt Upon tbe record o f performance which I have tried to describe will tbe American people say that tbe Demo cratic party Is an titled to be continued In power? Tbe defects o f tbe present adminis tration arise from tw o distinct e*u*»a. The first la tbe temperament and train ing o f the president. The second la tbe Incapacity o f the Democratic party aa It Is represented In Washington both In tbe legislative and In tha executive departments either to originate wise policies or to follow them wheu pro posed by other# or to administer them effectively If they are established. Tbe Democrats In congress are never con trolled except with a club, and gov crument with a club is alwaya spas modic and defective. W e must not deceive ourselves by aaeumlug that the critical period aris ing from the great war has passed. The real dangers and tbe real (eats o f the strength o f our Institutions lie be fore ua. The moat exacting demands upon the wladom, the spirit end the courage o f our country are still to be made. In this great conflict all forma o f government are on trial, democracy with the rest. The principles o f na tional morality are on trial. W e must play our part tn tbe universal trial whether we will or no, for upon Ibe re sult depends directly tbe question whether our republic can endure. Whet Are People to Eapeet? But what are the people to expect If (be Republican party la restored to (tower? This much we can say now: They may expect, with confldence. that tbelr government will meet the economic situation with which we must deal Immediately upon tbe close o f tbe war. wttb a policy o f moderate hut adequate protection to American Industry. They may expect that tbe govern ment will be administered with tbe honesty and efficiency which have marked Republican administrations In the peat They may expect that the beat possi ble course for the preservation of peace will be followed by a foreign pol icy which, with courtesy and frlendll ness to all nations. Is frank and fear less and honest tn Its assertion of American rights. They may expect that thrlr govern ment will stand fo r full and adequate preparation by tbe Americau (teopla for their own defense. The Republican party love« peace and hates war; It abhors and w ill never submit to mili tary domination; but It Is composed of men who love our country and who deem (bat the Independence, tbe liber ty, tbe honor and the opportunity of the American democracy are not mere ly to be talked about with weak and flabby sentiment, but are to be main tained and safeguarded by tbe prac tical power o f a virile and patriotic people. It la clearsighted enough to see lliat preparation for defense must have due relation to the possibilities o f attack, that under the conditions of modern warfare much preparation must be made beflnre a possible attack or all preparation will be Impossible after tbe attack. T b e Republican par ty stands for a citizenship made com petent by training to perform tbe free man's duty of "drft*n*e for hta country. It stands for a regular army no larger than la neres*a-y. but aa large as Is necessary to serve ss s first line, a nucleus, a sou rex o f Instruction and of administration fur the army of Am eri can citizens who may be called upon lo defend their country. And the Re publican party stands for the gospel o f patriotic service to our country by every citizen, according to hls ability In peace and In war. It stands for a reawakening c f Amerlran patriotism. It la not content that while the people o f other lands ore rendering tbe last fall measure o f devotion In sacrlflce and suffering and dying for their coun tries America shall remain alone dull to the call o f country and aatlafled In the comforts and pleasures of pros perity. Our Fewer For Peace. They may expect that assured readi ness for defense w ill give power to our diplomacy in the maintenance of peace. They may expect that the power and will o f a united people to defend their conntry w ill preveat tbe application to our peaceful and prosperous land of i he hateful doctrine that among na tions might makes rlpht regard'.csr of the rules o f Justice and humanity. They may expect that the manifest, potential strength and competency of the nation w ill maintain tbe effective ness and reality o f that great policy of national |gfety wftleh In tbe declara tion o f P rA ld en t Monroe forbade the deatrnettbn o f bnr\s4eurity by ther4a tehltsbment o f hostlM military powers tn our neighborhood. They mky expect that tbelr govern ment win not. forget; bnt w ill ever maintain, tbe -principles o f American freedom, tbe duties o f America to tbe peace and progress o f tbe world and those Ideals o f liberty and Justice for all mankind which above all else make tbe true greatness o f tbe American democracy.