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PRESIDENT ILS!
Members of the Senate a:
tively to the Outline <
gram?Urges Measure
Conditions Due to the
With Great Emphasu
He Began Discussion
ness for War?
(Hy A squ inted Prr.-s.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 88.?Prenidcn!
Wilson, In hin annuul uddress to con
gress today, coupled with ti defense
of the country's military preparedness
a word of assurance to business that
it would not be embarrassed by further
legislation. lie said the trust and
currency legislative program of his
administration virtually had been com
pleted und that there was u clear and
Arm road ahcud on which honest men
might travel with perfect confidence.
For passage at thin session, the
president urged measures to meet the
changed condition;: duo to the Eu
ropean war, particularly the govern
ment ship purchase bill; measures to
unlock resources of the national do
main and to uncourugo Improvement
of navigable waters for generation of
power, and the bill already passed by
the house to give "a larger measure of
self government to the people of the
Philippines."
When .he entered the house cham
ber where Vice President Marshall
and Speaker Clark presided over >
Joint session of the senate and house,
the president was greeted with an
uproarious ovation. Throughout his
address he frequently was interrupt
ed by applause, particularly from the
Democratic Bide, demonstrations of
approval reaching a climax whfh, re
ferring to recenl agitation over nation
al defense, he declared the adminis
tration had "not been negligent of
national defense," that the attitude of
the government would not be altered
"because some amongst us are ner
vous and excited." and that a policy
of defense could "easily and sensibly
be agreed upon."
In advocating the ship purchase
bill, the president said the war in
Europe had left foreign nations more
dependent upon the United States for
s/tpplles, and that the government
should provide ships that the nation's
goods might be carried "to the empty
markets."
/The Philippine bill, the president
?u?erten, "would nobly crown tho re
cord of.these two:years of memorable
labor."- *
Concerning rural credits legislation
he expressed regret that dlfllcultieK
of the subject seemed ,rto render it
impossible to complete a bill for pas
sage at this session."
Members of the senate and house
listened attentively to' the outline of
.-ILL. " 1 . .. . . . .. .
INSURE TOUR PROPERTY WITH
THE
ANDERSON COUNTY
MUTUAL FIRE INSUR
ANCE CO.
Who are carrying over a million
and a half dollars on Anderson coun
ty property.
The cost 1b only $5,oo per $1,000.
No annual dnes.
?and In last 5 years we have not
made more than one assessment per
year, , . . ?
For farther information Bee or
write?
J. J. SMITH, President
J. U. MAJOR, Sec-re lory.
nd House Listen Atten
of Chief Executive's Pro- !
?s to Meet the Changed
? European War?Speaks
i and Deliberation When|
of the Nation's Prepared- j
llw president's program as tliey did
also to his discussion of economy and
the assertion that "there should be a
systematic reorganization and reas
emblltig" of the parts of the govern
ment to secure greater flllcleiicy.
Mr. Wilson spoke with great em
phasis and deliberation when he be
gan discussion of the military situa
tion and was enthusiastically cheer
ed, the galleries joining In the ap
plause when be said:
"It Is said in some uuartcrs that
we are not prepared for war. What
is meant by being prepared? is it
meant that we are not ready upon '
brief notice to put a nation in the j
Held, a nation of men trained to arms?
Of course, we are not ready to do j
that, and we shall never be In time of i
peace, so long as we retain our present |
: political principles und institutions."
' Proclaiming the people arc the
"champions of peace and concord,"
the president emphatically opposed a
great standing army, and was again
cheered when he asserted that In time I
of nutional peril the country must do
pend "upon a citizenry trained and ac- |
customcd to arms."
'When the president had concluded j
he was surrounded by senators and
representatives who gathered in the
Speakern oftJce to extend their con-1
gratulntlons.
; The president's message follows:
i Gentlemen of the Congress:
j The session upon which you are
i now entering will be the closing ? es
slou of the Sixty-third congresp, a
congress, I venture to say, which
I will long be remembered for the great
j body of thoughtful and constructive
j work which It has done, In loyal re-j
! spouse to the thought and needs of
' tho country. I should like in this
address to review tho notable record
' und try to make adequate assessment
of it; but no doubt wo stand too near
tho work that bos been done and are
ourselves too much a part of it to play
; the part of historians toward iL
! Moreover, our thoughts are now
' more of the future than of tho past.
While wo have worked at our tasks of
I peace the circumstances of the whole
! age have been altered by war. What
i we liavQ done for our own land and
our own people wo did with the best
I that was in us, whether of character
j or of intelligence, with sober enthus
iasm and a confidence in the princi
ples upon which wo were acting
which sustained us nt every step of
tho dlflicult undertaking; but it is
: done. It has pnsscd from our hands.
, It Is now an established part of the
j legislation of the country. Its useful
ness, its effects will disclose them
j selves in experience. What, chiefly
j.strikes uh now, as wo look about us
during these closing days of a year
which will be forever memorable in
the history of tho world, is that Ae
face new tasks, have been facing
j them these six months, must face
I them in the months to come,?face
j them without partisan feeling, like
i men who have forgotten everything
J but a common duty and the fact that
! we are representatives of a great pen
j pie whose thought Is not of us but of
i what America owes to herself and to
! nil mankind in such circumstance^ as
! these upon which wo look umnzed
j and anxious.
War has interrupted the means of
trndo not only but also the process
of production. In Europe It is de
1 Btroylng men and resources wholesale
Do It Now !
Make a small deposit each week
in this Financial Stronghold, and
by adding a little each week to
your Bank Account you'll be sur
prised at the rapidity with which
you can accumulate a snug sum?
Big Oaks from little Acorns
Grow." The same applies to our
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
WHEN REVERSES COME
1 Your worry will be reduced to a
. .minimum if you are In a position
' tO !"e6^ nil nklibAHnnk wStik ?
?
on
and upon a ?cale unprecedented and
appalling. There Is reason to fear
that tho time fs near, if it be not al
ready at band, when several of the
countries of Europe will lind it diili
cull to do for their people what they
have hitherto been always eusily able
lo do, -many essential and fundamen
tal things. At unv rate, tliey will nee*'
our help and our manifold services
as they have never needed them he
fore; and we should be ready, mon;
lit and ready than we have ever been.
H is (tf <M|ual consequence that the
nations whom Klimpe has usually
supplied with Innumerable articles of
manufacture and commerce of which
I hey are lu constant need ami with
out which their economic develop
ment halts and stuiidn still can now
get only a small part of what they
formerly imported and oagerlj look
to us to supply their all hut empty
markets. Tills Is particularly true of
our own neighbors, tho States, great
and small, of Central and South
America. Their lines of trude have
hitherto run chiefly athwart the seas,
not lo our ports but to tho ports of
(?rent Hrilain and of the older conti
nent of Europe. I do not slop to in
riuirn why, or to make any comment,
on probable causes. What Interests
us just now is not tbo explanation but
the fact, and our duty and opportun
ity in the presence of It. Here are
markets which wo must supply, and
we must find the means of action. Tho
I'lilted Stales, tliis great people for
whom we speak and act, should be
ready, as never before, td servo itself
and to serve mankind; ready with its
resources, its energies, its forces of
production, and 1 s means of distri
bution.
It is a very practical matter, a mat
ter of ways and means. We have the
resources, but arc we fully ready to
use them'.' And! if wo can make ready
what wo have, have we tho means at
hand to distribute it? We are not
fully ready: neither have w<* the
means of distribution. We are will
ing, hut we tire not fully able. We
have the wish to serve and to servo
greatly, generously; but wo are not
prepared as we should be. We are not
ready to mobilize our resources at
once. We are not prepared to use
them immediately uml at their best,
without delay and without waste.
To speak plainly, we have grossly
erred in the way In which we have
stunted and hindered the development
of our merchant marine. And now.
I when wo need ships, wo have not got
; them. We have year after year de
hated, without end or conclusion, the
j best policy to pursue with regard to
! the use of the ores and forest and
I water powers of our national domain
' in the rich States of the West, when
we should have acted* and they are
! still locked up. The key Is still turn
ed upon them, the door shut fast at
! which thousands of vigorous men, fall
I of initiative, knock clamorously for
I admittance. The water power of our
j navigable streams outside tho na
; lional domain also, even in the eas
I tern States, where wo have worked
' and planned for generations, la Btill
i not used as It might be, because we
I will and we won't; because the laws
j we have made do not Intelligently bul
I ahco encouragement ugalnst restraint.
We withhold 'by regulation.
I I havo como to usk you to remedy
; and correct these mistakes and omis
sions, even at this short session of a
congress which would certainly seem
to have done all the work that could
reasonably be expected of it. The time
and the circumstances are extraordi
nary, and so must,our efforts he also.
Fortunately, two great measures,
finely conceived, the ono to unlock,
with proper safeguards, the resources
of the national domain, the other to
encourage tho use of tho navigable
waters outside that domain for the j
generation of power, have already
passed the house of representatives
and are ready for immediate consider
ation and notion by the senate."With
tho deepest earnestness I urge their
I prompt passage. In them both we
j turn our hacks upon hesitation and
makeshift and formulate a genuine
policy of use and, conservation. In the
best sense of Those words. We owe
the ono measure not only to the peo
plo of that great*- wVstorn country for
whoso free and systematic develop
ment, as it seems to me, our legisla
tion has done' "*o little, but also to
'the people of the nation as a whole;
(and we as clearly owe the other In
fulfillment of our repeated promises
that the water power of the country
should In fact as well as in name be
put at tho disposal of great industries
which can make economical and pro*
fltable use of it, the rights of the pub
lice being adequately guarded the
while ,and monopoly in the uso pre
vented. To have begun such measures
nnd not completed them would indeed
mar the record of this great congress
very seriously. I- hope and confidently
believe that thoy will be completed.
And there is' another great piece
of legislation which awaits and should'
receive the sanction of the sen ate: I
mean the bill which gives a larger
measure of self-government to the
people of the Philippines. How bet
ter. In this time of anxious question
ing and perplexed policy, could' we
show our confidence in the principles
of liberty, as the .source as well as
the expression of life, bow better,
could wo demonstrate our own self
possession and. steadfastness In tho
courses, of justice and disinterested
ness than by thus going calmly, for
ward to fulfill our promises to a de
pendent people, who will now look,
more anxiously than ever to see
whether we have Indeed the liberal
ity, the unselfishness, the courage, the
faith we havo boasted and professed.
I can not hell ovo that the senate will
lot this great measure of construc
tive justlco await the,action o? an
other congress. * Its pas sa go would
nobly crown the record of these two.
yearB of memorable labor.
But i thtnk that you will agree with
me that this does' not compieto the
toll of our duty. HoW are Wo to carry,
our goods to the empty markets , of
Which ? have spekeh It we have, not
tie ehlpsT How are we to build up
a groat trade If we have of tho cer
tain and constant means of transpor
tation upon which alt profitable and
|ttsefdl commerce depends? And.bow
A Nervous Wreck
^ Had No
ptel^So Says
^^?)?-yy Mrn- Prank
*F&S&J%r .JStrot-lx?, R. P.
^Z^^^ Wls. Her Letter
Ju: "l began using Poruu
months ago when my health and
Hlrcng'.ti wore all <;'>ne, and 1 waa
>::,'.'ik 11 .11 :i nervous wreck. Could
ritu ' >oi?, eat or rest properly, and
felt no .'of! re to live.
"Ti.i'.'.* bottle;; of PenniT. made
ma ! ok nt lifo In a different light,
an ! I :;ah to regain my lost
strength. While my Tccovery took
nearly f"-.ir mon tin, at the end of
that time I was better than i ever .
bad bee*i before. I had a splendid 1
ilor : :id never weighed1 more In my I
life.
"I certainly llilnl; Pcruna is with
out a rival as .a tonic and strength
builder, and It has my endorsement."
Mr. Cbar?e3 Rrown. It. R. I. Box 79,
per?ville. Tonn.-, writes: ' ! have '
tried many different remedies, but I 1
luve f?und t'iat Pcruna Is the great
:il? n;i earth, and a perfect sys- | i
t
t
are we to get the shipB if we wait !
for the trade to develop without them? 1
To correct the main mistakes by which '
wo have discouruge dand all but do- '
stroyed the merchant marine of the
country, to retrace the steps by which i
we have, it seems almost deliberately,
withdrawn our flag from the seas, ex- I
cept where, here and there, a ship i>f 11
war is bidden carry It or some wan
dering yacht displays It, would take 11
a long time and involve mauy detail
ed items of legislation, and the trade 11
which we ought Immediately to han
dle would -lisappear or ,flnd other I
channels wlillo we debated the items. 11
The case is not .unlike that which
confronted us when our own continent
was to be opened up to settlement
and industry, and we needed long
lines of railway, extended means' of j1
transportation prepared beforehand,
if development was not to lag intol
erably and wait interminably. We
lavishly subsidized the building of !:
transcontinental railroads. We look [
back- upon that with regret now, be
cause the subsidies led to many
scandals of which/ wp are ashamed;
but we knew that, the railroads had 11
to bo built, and if wo had it to do f
over again we should of course build
them, but in another way. Therefore
1 propose another way of providing
the menns of transportation,' which
must precede, not tardily follow, the
development of .our trade with our
neighbor States of America. It may
seem a reversal of the natural order
of things, but it is true, that the
routes of trade must be actually open
ed?by many ships and regular sail
ings and moderate charges?before
streams of merchandise will flow free
ly and profitably through them.
Hence the pending shipping bill, I
discussed at the last session but as |
yet passed by neither house. In my
judgment such legislation is impera
tively needed nnd can not wisely be
postponed. The government must
open these gates of trade, and open
them wide; open thfem before It Ib al
together profitable to open them, or
altogether reasonable^ to ask private
capital to open them "at a venture. Tt
Is not a question of the government
monopolizing the field. It should take
action to make It certain that trans
portation at reasonable rates will be !
; promptly provided, even where, the]
! carriage is not at first profitable;
and then, when the carriage has be
come sufficiently profitable to attract]
and engage private. capital, and en
gage it In-abundance, the government,
ought to withdraw. . t. very earnestly
hope that the congress will be of this]
opinion, and that both houses will
adopt this exceedingly Important' bill.
The great subject of rural credits
still remains to be dealt with, and it
is a matter of deep, regret that the
difficulties of the subject have seem
ed to render it impossible to complete
a bill for passage at this session. But
it can not be perfected yet, and there
fore there are. no other constructive
measures the necessity for which I
will at this time call'your attention1
to; but I would be negligent of a very
manifest duty were I not to call the
attention of the senate to the fact that
the proposed convention for safety at
sea a waits its confirmation and- that
the limit fixed in.the convention it
self-for Its acceptance ia the last day
of the present month..The conference
in which' this-convention originated
was-called by the United States; the
representatives of the United - States
played a very influential part indeed
in framing the' provisions of the pro
posed convention;V and those provis
ions are in: themselver for the most
part ndmirnblo.. It would hardly be
consistent with the part we have
played In the whole matter to let it
drop and go ?>y tu? ?o?'r? a? ?? for
gotten and neglected; It waa ratified
in May last by the German govern
ment and In August by tho parlia
ment of Great Britain, it marks a
most hopeful and decided advance in
International civilisation.We should
Show our earnest "good faith in a great j
matter by adding oar own acceptance
of it
There is another matter of which
I cost mako special mention, if I am
to ovchargo ray conscience, lest it
should escape your attention* It: may
Seem o. very-Email thing. It affects
only a Hingis .item^ oft appropriation.
Bpt many human lives and many]
great cnter^^s hang upon it It is j
lie matter of making adequate pro-i
Islon for the survey und charting otL
ur coasts. It in Immediately press-J
ig and exigent in connection with I
lie immense coast line of Alaska, a
oast line greater than that of the
Inited States themselves,, though it
; also very important indeed with
?gard to the older coasts of the con
fient. We can not* use our great I
Llaskan domain, shl/i will not ply
hither, if those coasts und their many I
idden dangers are not thoroughly
urveycd and charted. The work isj
nc?mplcte ut almost ?very point, 1
ihipH und lives have been lost in
breading what were supposed to he
/el-known main channels. We have
lot provided adequate vessels or ade-I
luatu machinery for the survey and I
hurting. We have usad old vessels
hat were not big enough or strong
noagh und which were so nearly un
.ca worthy that our inspectors would I
lot have allowed private owners to '
end them to sea. This is a matter j
vhich, as I have said, scorns small,
>ut is in reality very great. Its lm
lortance has only to be looked into
0 be appreciated. I
llefore 1 close may I say a few I
vords upon two topics, much discuss- Ij
d out of doors, upon which it Is high- i
y Important that our judgments
diould he clear, doflnite, and stead- |
ast?
One of these is economy In govern
nent expenditures. The duty of
economy is not debatable. It is mnn-j
fest and imperative. In the appro-1
iriations we pass we are spending
lie money of the great people whose |
servants we are.?not our own. Wo I (
ire trustees and responsible stew- I
irds in the spending. The only thing j
lebatahlo and upon which we should
je careful to make our thought and !
Durpose clear is the kind of economy !
lemanded of us. T assert with the I
?reatest confidence that the people of
he United States are not jealous of I
he amount their government costs If
hey are sure that they get what they
leed and desire for the outlay, that
he money Is being applied with good
jusiness sense and management.
Governments grow, piecemeal, both I
in their tasks and in the means by
.vliich those tasks are to bo perform
'd, and very few governments are or- I
tanized, I venture to sny, us wise and
?xperienced business men would or- j
?anize them if they had a clean sheet
Df paper to write upon. Certainly the I
government of the United States is I
not. I think that it is generally I
igreed that there .should be a syste-1
matlc reorganization and reassembl- j
Ing of its parts so as to secure great- I
sr elliclency and effect considerable I
savings in expense. But the amount
jf money saved in that way would. I j
believe, though no doubt considerable
in itself, running, it may be. into tho
millions, bo relatively small,?small,
1 mean, in proportion to the total I
necessary outlays of the government, j
It would,be thoroughly worth effect-J
ing, as every saving would, great of I
small. Our duty is not altered by tho I
scale of the saving. But my point is
i hiit. the people of the United States?!
ilo not wish Jo curtail the activities I
of this government; they wish, rath- j
er, to enlarge them; and with every!
enlargement, with the mere growth, J
Indeed, of the country itself, there!
must come of course, the inevitable J
ifiorease of expense. The sort of
economy we ought to practice may be j
effected, und ought to be effected, by J
a careful study and assessment of the
tasks to be performed ; and the money
spent ought to be made to yield the j
best possible returns in efficiency
and achievement. And, like the good J
stewards. We should so account fort
every dollar of oun appropriations as J
to make it perfectly evident what it
was spent for and In what way it
was spent. - I
It is not expenditure but extravn-1
gance that we should fear being
criticized for; not paying for the le
gitimate enterprises and undertakings
of a great government whose people
command what it should do, but add
ing what will benefit only a few or
pouring money out for what need not,
have, been undertaken at all or might
havo been postponed -or better and
more economically-.conceived and car
ried out. Tho nation-Is not niggard
ly; it is very generous,, It will chide
us only if we forget .fpr-whom we pay
money out and. whose, money It Is we
pay. TheBe are largo- and general
standards, but they are not very diffi
cult of application to - particular
cases. ' .
The-other topic I shall take leave
to mention goes deeper into-the prin
ciples of our national life and policy.
It is the subject of national defense.
- It can not be discussed without
first answering some very searching'
questions. It is said In .some quart
ers that we are not prepared.for war.'
What Is meant by being prepared? It
is meant that we are not ready upon
brief notice to put a nation in tho
field, a nation of. men trained to
arms? Of course, we are not ready
to do that; and we shall never be in
time of peaco so long as we retain!
our present'political principles and
Institutions. And what is It that it Is
suggested we should ho prepared to
do? To defend ourselves against at
tack? We have always found mean's
to do that, and shall find them when
ever It Is'nocessary without calling
our people away from "their "necessary
tasks to renedr compulsory military
service in times of peace.
Allow me to speak - With great
plainness and directness upon this
great matter and tb avow my con
victions With deep car???tneSs. : ' T
have tried to know what^Am?rtcavi8.'
what her people i?i?nk, w?i?i ihey-are,
what they most cherltfb and hold
dear. I hope that sonie 6V tneie finer
passions ore in my own heart,?
come of the great conceptions nnd
desires which gave birth to this 'gdv
ernment and Which. have made - the",
voice of this people invoice Of priace
and hope and liberty among the peo
ples of the world, and that, -speaking
ttty own tb oughts, Ir shall, at l eakt m
part, speak theirs alaoV'-bowever faint
ly and inadequately npnh this vital
matter. ,
We are at peace with all the world.
No ohe who speak* counsel baBed on
fact or drawn from ** Just and candid
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that there is reason to fear that from
any quarter our independence or tnej
integrity of our territory is threaten
ed; Dread of the power of any other
nation we are incapable of. We ore
tot jealous of rivalry in the fields of
commerce or of any other peaceful
achievement. Wo mean to live our
own lives aB we will; but wo mean
also to let live. We are, indeed, a
true friend to all the nations of the
world, because we threaten none,
covet the possessions of none, de
sire the overthrow of none. Our
friendship can be accepted and is ac
cepted without reservation, because
it is offered in a spirit and for a pur
pose which no one need ever ques
tion or suspect. Therein lies our
greatness. We are the champions of
peace and of concord. And we should
be very jealous of tili? listlnctlon
which we have Bought to earn. Just
now we should be particularly jealous
of; it, because it is our Ow ^t pres
ent hope that this character .uid rep
utation may presently, in God's provi
dence, bring us an opportunity such
as has seldom been vouchsafed any
nation, the opportunity 10 cosasel and
obtain peace in the world and .recon
ciliation and a healing settlement of
many a matter that has cooled and
interrupted the friendship of nations.
This is the time above all others
when we should wish and resolve to
keep.our strength by self-possession,
our influence by preserving our an
cient principles of action.
From the first we have had a clear
and settled policy with -regard to
military establishments. Wo never
had, and while ' wo retain our pres
ent principles and ideals we never
shall have, a large standing army. If
asked. Are you ready to defend your
selves? we reply, Most assuredly, to
the.utmost; and yet we shall not turn
America Into a military camp. We
will not aek our young men to spend
the best years of their lives making
soldiers of themselves. There is an
other sort of'eL-irgy in us. It will
know, how to de*'are itself, and make
Itself effective r lid occasion arise.
And especially wtsn half the world is
on fire wo shall be careful to make
our moral insurance against the
spread of the conflagration very def
inite and certafti and adequate in
deed. V
' liet us remind ourselves, therefore,
of . the only thing we can do or will
do. We must depend ,iu every time of
national peril, ia the future as in the
past, not upon a standing army, nor
yet upon , a reserve army, but upon a
citizenry trained and accustomed to
arms, it will be right enough*, right
American policy, based- upon our ac
customed principles and practices, to
provide a system, by which every cit
izen who will volunteer tor the train
ing may *ho made familiar with the
use of modern arms, the rudiments of
drill and maneuver, ond tho mainten
ance t>aunation of camps. Wo
should encourag? such training and
make it a means of disciplin? which
our, young men will learn to value. Jt
is right that wo should provide It not
only, but that we should make it* as
attractive as possible, ami so induce
our young men to undergo'it at such
times as they'can : command a little
freedom and can seek the physical de
velopment they need for mere health's
sake, if for nothing' .more. Every
means by which such things can be
stimulated Is legitimate, and such a
method smacks of true American
ideas. It Is right, too, that the National
Guard of the States should be develop
ed and strengthened by every means
which Is not inconsistent with our
obligations to our own people or With
tho established policy of our govern
?i?it Au Or iura," mlou, nui because u
should be pur constant policy to make
these provisions for our national
pe?e? and safety.
More than this carries with it n re
versal of the whcK history and char
acter of our?poHty. More than this,
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aay. would mean merely that we had
loHt our self-possession, that we lmd
with which we have nothing to do,
heen thrown off our balance by a war
whose causes can not tpueh u?, whoso
very existence affords us opportuni
ties of friendship and disinterested
service which should make us asham
ed of any thought of hostility or fear
ful preparatlo ntor trouble. This Is
assuredly the opportunity for which a
people and a government Ilk", ours
were raised up, the opportunity not
only to speak but, nctuallv to embody
and exemplify tho counsel* cf peace
end amity .-.nd Hie lasting concord
which is based on justice and fair and
generous dealing.
A powerful navy we have always
regarded as our proper and natural
means of defense; and it has always ,,
been of defense that we have thought
never of aggression or of conquest.
But who shall tell us -now what sort
of navy to build? .Wo shall \ take
leave to be strong upon the se?s, in
the future as In" the past;; and Jhero
will be no thought of offense ..pr of
provocation In that. Our ships arc
our natural bulwarks. When Will the
exports tell us just what kind we
should construct?and then will they
be right for ten years together. If the
relative efficiency of craft 01 different
kinds and uses continu?s.to ?.hange as
we have seen it change under bur very
eyes in these last few months?
But I turn away from the subject.
It Is not new. There ? no new need
to discuss It We ahull not alter our
attitude toward It because seme
among us are nervous and excited. -
We shall easily and sensibly agree
upon A policy ol defense. The ques
tion has "not c'nangi'd Us aspects be
cause the it mos are not normal. Our
policy will not be for an occasion. It
will be conceived as a permanent and
settled thing, which we will pursue at
all seasons, without haste and after
a fashion perfectly consistent with
the peace of the world, the abiding
friendship of States, and the unham
pered freedom of all with whom we
deal. Let, there, be no misconception. .
The country has been misinformed.
We have not been negligent of nation--?-t
al defense. Wo are not unmindful of ?
the great responsibility resting upon
us. We shall learn and profit by iho
lesson of every experience and ever y
new circumstance; and what is need
ed1 wili be adequately dene.
I j close, as I began, by reminding (
you of the great, tasks and duties of, f
peace which challenge- bur best pow- ' jj
ers; and Invite us to build what will j
last, the tasks to which wo can ad- i
dress ourselves now and at all times
with free-hearted zest and with all the
finest gifts of constructive wisdom we. ,..
possess. To.develop our life and our
resources; to supply our own people,.
and the people of th? 'world as their,
need arises, from the abundant plenty
of our Cc-Idrt and our marts of trade;
to enrich the eomancrc^ of bur own
States and .of the world ,.wltat?e'p.ro
ducts of our mines, apr farms, and
our factories, with the creations of -
our ^thought and the fruits of our
charactor,?this Is what will hold bur
attention and our enthusiasm steadi
ly, now and In the years to come; as
we strive to show in bur life as a na
tion what liberty and th? inspirations
of an emancipated spirit may do lor .
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