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the hallett herald
ASKS ADEQUATE
DEFENSE FOR U, S.
President Wilson Pleads for Pre-
paredness Against Foes
Abroad and Within.
MESSAGE READ 10 CONGRESS
Larger Army and Navy Urged—
Trained Citizenry the Nation's
Greatest Defense — Disloyal
Acts of Foreign-Born Citi-
zens Scored—No Fear
of War.
Washington, Dec. 7.-At a Joint session
of the house and senate the president to-
day delivered his annual message. Hs
•aid in part as follows:
Since I last had the privilege of ad-
dressing you on the state of the Union
the war of nations on the other side or
the Bea, which had then only begun to
disclose Its portentous proportions, has
extended its threatening and sinister scope
until It has swept within its ltame some
portion of every quarter of the globe, not
excepting our hemisphere, has altered the
whole face of international affairs, and
now presents a prospect of reorganisa-
tion and reconstruction such as sta|«s"
men and peoples have never been called
upon to attempt before.
We have stood apart, studiously neutral.
It was our manifest duty to do so. In
the day of readjustment and recupera-
tion we earnestly hope and believe that
we can be of Infinite service.
In this neutrality, to which they were
bidden not only by their separate life and
their habitual detachment from the poli-
tics of Europe but also by a clear per-
ception of international duty, the Btates
of America have become conscious of a
new and more vital community of inter-
est and moral partnership In affairs, moie
clearly conscious of the many common
sympathies and interests and duties which
bid them stand together.
We have been put to the test In the case
of Mexico, and we have stood the test.
Whether wo have benefited Mexico by
the course we have pursued remains to
be seen. Her fortunes are In her own
hands. But we have at least proved that
we will not take advantage of her In her
distress and undertake to impose upon
her an order and government of our own
choosing.
We will aid and befriend Mexico, but
we will not coerce her; and our course
with regard to her outfht to be sufficient
proof to all America that we seek no po-
litical suzerainty or selfish control.
Not Hostile Rivals.
The moral Is, that the states of Amer-
ica are not hostile rivals, hut co-oper-
attng friends, and that their growing
sense of community of Interest, alike In
matters political and In matters econom-
ic, is likely to give them a new signifi-
cance as factors in international affairs
and in the political history of the world.
It presents them as in a very deep and
true sense a unit In world affairs, spir-
itual partners, standing together because
thinking together, quick with common
sympathies and common Ideals. Beparat-
ed, they are subject to all the croBS cur-
rents of the confused politics of a world
of hostile rivalries; united In spirit and
purpose they cannot be disappointed of
their peaceful destiny.
This Is Pan-Amerlcanlsm. It has none
of the spirit of empire In It. It Is the em-
bodiment, the effectual embodiment, of
the spirit of law and Independence and
liberty and mutual service.
There Is, I venture to point out, an espe-
cial significance Just now attaching to
this whole matter of drawing the Amer-
icas together in bonds of honorable part-
nership and mutual advantage because of
the economic readjustments which the
world must inevitably witness within the
next generation, when peace shall have
at laat resumed Its healthful tasks, in
the performance of these tasks I believe
the Americas to be destined to play their
parts together. I am Interested to fix
your attention on this prospect now be-
cause unless you take It within your
view and permit the full significance of
It to command your thought I cannot
find the right light In which to set forth
the particular matter that lies at the
very front of my whole thought as I ad-
dress you today. I mean national de-
fense.
Might to Maintain Right.
Out of such thoughts grow all our poli-
cies. We regard war merely as a means
of asserting the rights of a people against
aggression. And we are as fiercely Jeal-
ous of coercive or dictatorial power with-
in our own nation as of aggression from
Without We will not maintain a stand-
ing army except for uses which are as
necessary In times of peace as in time*
of war; and we shall always Bee to it
that our military peace establishment is
r.o longer than Is actually and continuous-
ly needed for the uses of days In which
no enemies move against us. But we
do believe In a body of free citizens ready
and sufficient to take care of themselves
and of the governments which they have
set up to serve them. In our constitutions
themselves we have commanded that "the
right of the people to keep and bear
arms shall not be Infringed." and our
confidence has been that our safety In
times of danger would He In the rising of
the nation to take care of Itself, as the
farmers rose at lexington.
But war has never been a mere matter
of men and guns. It Is a thing of disci-
plined might. If our citizens ar«> ever to
light effectively upon a sudden summons,
they must know how modern fighting 1b
done, and what to do when the summons
comes to render themselves Immediately
available and Immediately effective. And
the government must be their servant in
this matter, must supply them with the
training thev need to take care of them-
selves and of It. The military arm of their
government, which they will not allow to
direct them, they may properly use to
serve them and 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 be put In Jeopardy.
They must be fitted to play the great
role In the world, snd particularly In this
hemisphere, for which they are quali-
fied by principle and by chastened ambi-
tion to play.
It Is with these Ideals In mind thst the
plans of the department of war for more
adequate national defense were conceived
which will be laid before you, and which
I urge you to sanction and put Into ef-
fect as soon as they can be properly scru-
tinised and discussed. They seem to me
the essential first steps, and they eem
to me for the present sufficient.
They contemplate an Increase of tne
standing force of the regular army from
Its present strength of 6.023 officers and
102.985 enlisted men of all services to a
strength of 7,136 officers and 134, i(J7 en-
listed men, or 141.843. all told, all serv-
ices. rank and file, by the addition of 5.
companies of coast artillery. 15 com-
panies of engineers, ten regiments of In-
fantry, four regiments of field artillery,
and four aero squadrons, besides 750 offi-
cers required for a great variety of extra
service, especially the all-Important duty
of training the citlsen force of which I
shall presently speak. 792 noo-commls-
sloned officers for service In drill, recruit
Ing and the like, and the necessary quota
of enlisted men for the quartermaster
corps, the hospital corps, the ordnance
department and other similar auxiliary
services These are the additions neces-
sary to render the army adequate for Its
present duties, duties which It has to
perform not only upon our own conti-
nental coasts and borders and at our In-
terior army posts, but also in the Phil
Ipplnes, In the Hawaiian Islands,
Isthmus, and In Porto Rico.
Force of Trained Citizens
By way of making the country ready
to assert some part of Its real P°we'
promptly and upon a larger scale, should
occasion arise, the plan also contemplates
supplementing the army by a force of
400 000 disciplined citizens, raised In lncre
ments of 133,000 a year throughout a p©^
rlod of three years. This It is proposed
to do by a process of enlistment under
which the serviceable men of the coun
try would he asked to bind themselves to
serve with the colors for purposes of
training for short periods throughout
three years, and to come to the c0'"1"8
at call at any time throughout an addl
tlnnal "furlough" period of three years
This force of 400,000 men would be pro-
vided with personal accoutrements aa fast
as enlisted and their equipment for the
field made ready to be supplied at any
time They would be assembled for train-
Ing at stated Intervals at convenient
places In association with suitable units
rocntiur flrmv. Their period of
at the
of the regular army. Their period
annual training would not necessarily ex-
ceed two months In the year.
It would depend upon the patriotic feel-
ing of the younger men of the country
whether they responded to such a call
to service or not. It would depend upon
the patriotic spirit of the employers of
the country whether they made it possi-
ble for the younger men in their em-
ploy to respond under favorable condi-
tions or not. I, for one, do not doubt
the patriotic devotion either of our young
men or of those who give them employ-
ment-those for whose benefit and protec-
tion they would In fact enlist.
Program for the Navy.
The secretary of the navy Is asking
also for the Immediate addition to the
personnel of the navy of 7.500 sailors.
2,500 apprentice seamen, and 1.500 marines.
This increase would be sufficient to care
for the ships which are to be completed
within the fiscal year 1917 and also for
the number of men which must be put in
training to man the ships which will be
completed early In 1918. It Is also neces-
sary that the number of midshipmen at
the naval academy at Annapolis should
he Increased by at least 300 In order that
the force of officers should be more rap-
Idly added to; and authority Is asked to
appoint for engineering duties only, ap-
proved graduates of engineering colleges,
and for service In the aviation corps a
certain number of men taken from civil
life.
If this full program should be carried
out we should have built or building In
1921 according to the estlmateB of surviv-
al and standards of classification followed
by the general board of the department,
an effective navy consisting of 27 battle-
ships of the first line, six battle cruisers,
25 battleships of the second line, ten ar-
mored cruisers. 13 scout cruisers, five
first-class cruisers, three second-class
cruisers, ten third-class cruisers. 108 de-
troyers, 18 fleet submarines. 157 coast sub-
marines, six monitors, 20 gunboats, four
supply ships. 15 fuel ships, four trans-
ports. three tenders to torpedo vessels,
eight vessels of special types, and two
ammunition ships. This would be a navy
fitted to our needs and worthy of our
traditions.
Trade and 8hlpplng.
But armies and Instruments of war are
only part of what has to be considered
if we are to consider the supreme matter
of national self-sufficiency and security
in all Its aspects. There are other great
matters which will be thrust upon our at-
tention whether we will or not. There
is for example, a very pressing question
of trade and shipping Involved In this
great problem of national adequacy. It
Is necessary for many weighty reasons of
national efficiency and development that
we should have a great merchant ma-
rine The great merchant fleet we once
used to make us rich, that great body of
sturdy sailors who used to carry our flag
into every sea. and who were the pride
and often the bulwark of the nation, we
have almost driven out of existence by
Inexcusable neglect and Indifference and
by a hoj'-elesslv blind and provincial pol-
icy of so-called economic protection. It
Is high time we repaired our mistake and
resumed our commercial Independence on
the seas.
For It Is a question of Independence.
If other nations go to war or seek to
hamper each other's commerce, our mer-
chants, It seems, are at their mercy,
to do with as they please. We must use
their ships, and use them as they deter-
mine. We have not ships enough of our
own. We cannot handle our own com-
merce on the seas. Our Independence Is
provincial, and Is only on land and with-
in our own borders. We are not likely
to he permitted to use even the ships of
other nations In rivalry of their own
trade, and are without means to extend
our commerce even where the doors are
wide open and our goods desired. Such
a situation Is not to be endured. Jt Is
of capital Importsnce not only that the
United States should be Its own farrier
on the seas and enjoy the economic In-
dependence which only an adequate mer-
chant marine would give It, but also that
the American hemisphere as a whole
should enjoy a like Independence and self-
sufficient. if It Is not to be drawn Into
the tangle of European affairs. Without
such independence the whole question of
our political unity and self-determination
Is very seriously clouded and complicated
Indeed.
Moreover, we can develop no true or er-
fectlve American policy without ships of
our own-not ships of war, but ships of
peace, carrying goods and carrying much
more: creating friendships and render-
ing Indispensable services to all Interests
on this Bide of the water. They must
move constantly back and forth between
the Americas. They are the only shuttles
that can weave the delicate fabric of
sympathy, comprehension, confidence and
mutual dependence In which we clothe
our policy of America for Americans.
Ships Are Needed.
The task of building up an adequate
merchant marine for America private
capital must ultimately undertake and
achieve, as It has undertaken and
achieved every other like task amongst
us In the paat, with admirable enterprise,
Intelligence and vigor; and it seems to
me a manifest dictate of wisdom that we
should promptly remove every legal ob-
stacle that may stand In the way of this
much to be desired revival of our old In-
dependence and should facilitate In every
possible way the building, purchase and
American registration of ships. But cap-
ital cannot accomplish this great task of
a sudden, ft must einbark upon It by de-
grees. as the opportunities of trade de-
velop. Something must be done at once;
done to open routes and develop oppor-
tunities where they are as yet undevel-
oped; done to open the arteries of trade
where the currents have not yet learned
to run—especially between the two Ameri-
can continents, where they are, singularly
enough, yet to be created and quickened;
snd It Is evident that only the govern-
ment can undertake such beginnings and
assume the Initial financial risks. When
the risk has passed and private capital
begins to find its way In sufficient abund-
ance Into these new channels, the gov-
ernment may withdraw. But It cannot
omit to begin. It should take the first
steps and should take them at once. Our
goods must not lie piled up at our Po^s
and stored upon sidetracks In freight
cars which are dally needed on the roads;
must not be left without means of
transport to any foreign quarter. We
must not await the permission of foreign
ship owners and foreign governments to
send them where we will.
With a view to meeting these pressing
necessities of our commerce and availing
ourselves at the earliest possible moment
of the present unparalleled opportunity of
linking the two Americas together In
bonds of mutual Interest and service, an
opportunity which may never return
again If we miss It now, proposals will
be made to the present congress for the
purchase or construction of shlpB to be
owned and directed by the government
Bimilar to those made to the last con-
gress. but modified In some essential par-
ticulars. I recommend these proposals
to you for your prompt acceptance with
the more confidence because every month
that has elapsed since the former pro-
posals were made has made the necessity
for such action more and more mani-
festly Imperative.
Question of Finance.
The plans for the armed forces of the
nation which I have outlined, and for
the general policy of adequate prepara-
tion for mobilization and defense, in-
volve of course very large additional ex-
penditures of money-expenditures which
will considerably exceed the estimated
revenues of the government. It is made
my duty by law, whenever the estimates
of expenditure exceed the estimates of
revenue to call the attention of the con-
gress to the fact and suggest any means
of meeting the deficiency that It may be
wise or possible for me to suggest.
On the thirtieth of June last there was
an available balance In the general fund
of the treasury of $104,170,105.78. The to-
tal estimated receipts for the year 1916.
on the assumption that the emergency
revenue measure passed by the last con-
gress will not be extended beyond Its
present limit, the thirty-first of Decem-
ber 1915. and that the present duty of
one cent per pound on sugar will be dis-
continued after the first of May, 1916,
will be 1670,365.500. The balance of June
last and these estimated revenues come,
therefore, to a grand total of $774,535,605.78.
The total estimated disbursements for the
present fiscal year. Including $25,000,000
for the Panama canal, $12,000,000 for prob-
able deficiency appropriations and $50,-
000 for miscellaneous debt redemptions,
will be $753,891,000; and the balance in the
general fund of the treasury will be re-
duced to $20,644,606.78. The emergency
revenue act, if continued beyond Its pres-
ent time limitation, would produce, dur-
ing the half year then remaining, about
forty-one millions. The duty of one cent
per pound on sugar, ff continued, would
produce during the two months of the
fiscal year remaining after the first of
May, about fifteen millions. These two
sums, amounting together to $56,000,000,
If added to the revenues of the second
half of the fiscal year, would yield the
treasury at the end of the year an avail-
able balance of $76,644,605.78.
The additional revenues required to
carry out the program of military snd
naval preparation of which I have spok-
en would, as at present estimated, be
for the fiscal year 1917. $93,800,000. Those
figures, taken with the figures for the
present fiscal year which I have already
given, disclose our financial problem for
the year 1917.
How shall we obtain the new revenue?
clear dictate of pru-
and frank finance
I hope, about
aratlon of the nation to care /or *
own security and to make sure of entire
freedom to play the ImpartlaJroleln thta
hemisphere and In the world
all believe to have been ProvldenUally
aliened to It I have had In mind no
thought of any immediate or
danger arising out of our "lat'°"" ^
other nations. We are at P®ace with aU
the nations of the world, and thare ts
reason to hope that no question in oon
troversy between this and oth®f ® h
ments will lead to any serious breac* of
amicable relations, grave as some diner
ences of attitude and policy hsve J£en
and may yet turn out to be. I *n> wnry
to say that the gravest
our national peace and safety have been
uttered within our own borders There are
citizens of the United States. «
admit, born under other flags but welcomed
under our generous naturalisation laws
to the full freedom and °PPortu™* ®{
America, who have poured the poison of
disloyalty into the very arteries of our
national life; who have sought to bring
the authority and good name of our gov-
ernment Into contempt, to destroy our In
dustries wherever they thought It ettec
tlve for their vindictive purposes to strike
at them, and to debase our PO*"lc* | J
uses of foreign Intrigue. Their number
Is not great as compared with the whole
number of those sturdy hosts by which
our nation has been enriched In
generations out of virile foreign stocks,
but it is great enough to have brought
deep disgrace upon us and to have mad
It necessary that we should
make use o< processes of law hy whlch
we may be purged of their corrupt
Temp.™ America n.v.r aW;
thlm Ilk. this before. It never ^earned
It possible that men sworn Into Its own
citizenship, men drawn out of great free
stocks such as supplied some of the best
and strongest elements of that ""Je. bot
how heroic, nation that In a high day of o«d
staked Its very life to free lu^f fr°"l
every entanglement that had darkened
the fortunes of the older nations and set
up a new standard here—that men of *s c
origins and such free choices of allegi-
ance would ever turn In malign reaction
against the government and people who
had welcomed and nurtured them and
seek to make this proud country once
more a hotbed of European P*88'™; A
little while ago such a thing would have
seemed Incredible. Because It was in-
credible we made no preparation for it.
We would have been almost ashamed to
prepare for It, as If we were suspicious
of ourselves, our own comrades and
neighbors! But the ugly and lncred ble
has actually come about and we are with-
out adequate federal laws to deal with
It. I urge you to enact such laws at
the earliest possible moment and feel that
in so doing I am urging you to do noth-
ing less than save the honor and self-
respect of the nation.
Must Be Crushed Out.
Such creatures of passion, disloyalty
and anarchy must be crushed out. They
are not many, but they are Infinitely ma-
lignant, and the hand of our power should
close over them at once. They have
formed plots to destroy property, they
have entered Into conspiracies against the
neutrality of the government, they have
sought to pry Into every confidential
transaction of the government In order
to serve interests allen to our own. It is
possible to deal with these things very
effectually. I need not suggest the terms
In which they may be dealt with.
I wish that It could be said that only a
few men. misled by mistaken sentiments
of allegiance to the governments under
which they wc.e born, had been guilty of
disturbing the self-possession and misrep-
resenting the temper and principles of
the country during these days of terrible
war, when it would seem that every man
who was truly an American would In-
stinctively make It his duty and his pride
to keep the scales of Judgment even and
prove himself a partisan of no nation but
his own. But It cannot. There are some
men among us. and many resident abroad
who, though born and bred In the Unit-
ed 8tates and calling themselves Amer-
icans, have so forgotten themselves and
their honor as citizens as to put their
passionate sympathy with one or the oth-
er side In the great European conflict
above their regard for the peace and dig-
nity of the United States. They also
preach and practice disloyalty. No laws,
I suppose, can reach corruptions of the
mind and heart; but I should not speak
of others without also speaking of these
and expressing the even deeper humilia-
tion and scorn which every self-possessed
and thoughtfully patriotic American must
feel when he thinks of them and of the
discredit they are dally bringing upon us
Many conditions about which we have
repeatedly legislated are being altered
from decade to decade, it la evident, un-
der our very eyes, and are likely to change
even more rapidly and more radically In
the days Immediately ahead of us, when
peace has returned to the world and na-
tions of Europe once more take up their
tasks of commerce and Industry with the
energy of those who must bestir them-
selves to build anew. Just what these
l"
JURY DECLARES U. 8. LAWS VIO-
LATED IN SUCCORING TEU-
TONIC WARSHIPS,
IN EARLY DAYS OF THE WAR
Three Are High Officials of the Ham-
burg-American Steamship Line.
—All Four Will Take
Appeal.
New York.—Three high officials and
_ subordinate officer of the Hamburg-
American line were found guilty in
the federal district court of having
violated the laws of the United States
in sending coal and other supplies to
German cruisers in the South Atlantic
in the first few months of the Euro-
pean war. The jury returned a ver-
dict of guilty on each of two indict-
ments.
The specific charge against the de-
fendants was conspiracy to deceive
and defraud the United States. The
maximum penalty for each indictment
is two years' imprisonment and $10,00C
fine. Sentence was not imposed.
An appeal will be made to the fed-
eral court of appeals and in case the
verdict is upheld, to the supreme court
of the United States. In the meantime
the defendants probably will remain
at liberty under $5,000 bail each as it
is the present intention of the govern-
ment not to ask that the bond be in-
creased.
The four defendants affected by the
verdict are Dr. Karl Buenz. managing
director of the Hamburg-American
line in New York City; former Ger-
man consul general here, former Ger-
man minister to Mexico and German
commissioner in the Venezuelan arbi-
tration proceedings before The Hague
tribunal; George Hotter, general su-
perintendent of the line; Adolph Hach-
meister, general purchasing agent;
and Joseph Poppinghaus, a 'former
officer in the German navy and at
present a second officer of the Ham-
burg-American line. A fifth defend-
ant, Felix Seffner, super-cargo on one
of the neutral steamers, sent to sup-
ply the German fleet, was not brought
to trial. He was captured tfy the
British while on his errand of relief
and is at present a prisoner in a Can-
adian detention camp.
FORD IS PERSONA NON GRATA
His Peace Jitney Not Sanctioned By
State Department.
Washington—Several European na-
tions, neutrals as well as belligerents,
have inquired of the United States
concerning the status of the peace
party, which is to sail in vessels char-
tered by Henry Ford. To each Secre-
tary Lansing has replied that the
American government has not only no
concerning the status of the peace
sumes no responsibility for any activ-
ities or negotiations on the part of
those engaged in the movement. Sec-
retary Lansing has explained that the
party would carry no credentials from
the state department and did not differ
from any other body of Americans
traveling in Europe.
Passports have been granted for
travel in neutral countries only. Sev-
enty-five were issued. Officials class
the members of the party as tourists.
It seems to me
dent statesmanship
that In what we are now
to undertake we should pay as we go.
To what sources, then, shall we turn?
We would be following an almost uni-
versal example of modern governments
If we were to draw the greater part or
even the whole of the revenues we need
from the Income taxes. By somewhat
lowering the present limits of exemption
and the figure at which the surtax shall
begin to be Imposed, and by increasing,
step by step throughout the present grad-
uation. the surtax itself, the Income taxes
as at present apportioned would yield
sums sufficient to balance the books of
the treasury at the end of the fiscal year
1017 without anywhere making the bur-
den unreasonably or oppressively heavy.
The precise reckonings are fully and ac-
curntely set out In the report of the sec-
retary of the treaBury. which will be Im-
mediately laid before you.
And there are many additional sources
of revenue which can Justly be resorted
to without hampering the Industries of
the country or putting any too great
charge upon Individual expenditure. A
one per cent tax per gallon on gasoline
and naptha would yield, st the present
estimated production, $10,000,000; a tax of
K0 cents per horsepower on au'"^bJ^B
and Internal explosion engines, $16,000,000,
a stamp tax on bank checks, prohablv
$18 000 000; a tax of 26 cents per ton on
pig Iron. $10,000,000; a tax of 60 cents per
ton on fabricated Iron and steel, proba-
bly $10,000,000. In a country of great In-
dustry like this It ought to be essy to
distribute the burdens of taxation with-
out making them anywhere bear too
heavily or too exclusively upon any one
set of persons or undertakings. AN hat Is
clear is, that the Industry of this gener-
ation should pay the bills of this genera-
U°n' The Danger Within.
1 have spoken to you today, gentlemen,
udou a single theme, the thorough prep-
ship.
changes will be no one can certainly fore- . . grjtj8jj embassy It was indi-
Pn"diub.. .rm.'„7. " cat.d that without pa,.port In prop-
the problem. The most we can do Is to er form no one would be permitted to
make certain that we have the necessary . d jQ Qreat Britain from the Ford
Instrumentalities of Information constant- |
ly st our service so that we may be sure
that we know exactly what we are deal-
ing with when we come to act. If It
should be necessary to act at all. We
must first certainly know what It Is that
we are seeking to adapt ourselves to. I
mav ask the privilege of addressing you
more at length on this Important matter
a little later In your session.
Transportation Problem.
The transportation problem Is an ex-
ceedingly serious and pressing one In this
country. There has from time to time
of late been reason to fear that our rail-
BRITISH MONKEY WITH BUZZ-SAW
Taking Unwarranted Liberties With
American Vessels.
Washington.—Official announcement
that the American steamship Hocking
had been reuisitioned by the British
u government without the formality of
roads'wouid not much longer be able to I prjZP COurt proceedings was received
cope with it successfully as at P"«ent . g(ate department in a dispatch
equipped snd co-ordinated. I suggest
that It would be wise to provide for a
commission of inquiry to ascertain by a
thorough canvass of the whole question
whether our laws as at present framed
and administered are as serviceable
from Consul General Young at Hali-
fax, where the ship has been detained
since she was seized by a British war-
ship while on the way from New York
they might be In the solution of the prob- | to Norfolk.
lem. It Ib obviously a problem that lies The prorP(Juro will bo vigorously
Si 'Ch'"a eontwM by th. Cnltod St..™ Kov.rn-
draw out every circumstance and opinion I ment, who had been moro or less skep-
worth considering and we need to know recognized rights undfr interna-
« i ■*"„ "J™"" 01 ,h? «* ?«■
tion nent, who had been more or less skep-
For what we are seeking now, what In t|cai regarding unofficial reports of
my mind Is the single fought of this h ln(pn(lons of (jreat Britain, ex-
message, s national efficiency and se- . ... _
curlty We serve a great nation. We pressed frank amazement when they
should serve it In the spirit of ita peculiar ]parned that the Hocking actually had
genius it la the genius of «ommon men ^ requl8lt|oned. The United Slates,
X/iSfST.T'wi .bo M to u'tliu It wa. Mid. will demand that th. .hip
It lacks no Instrument, no facility or vigor be retained in prize court on the
of Isw. to make it sufficient to play its charg0 ^at 0he is partly German
h|.^«Vr pV"rM-™"b?. owned, and that th. prl« court act
heralds snd prophets of a new age. I promptly in the case.
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