March 1. 1916.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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The government cannot compel Americans to build ships. 

 The government can only tempt and coax them. The cheap- 

 est encouragement it can offer is to permit them to com- 

 pete on an even keel with the shipowners of the world. If 

 to do this involves subsidies, then the government must 

 equalize conditions or it'^ witliout the ships. 



The Rev. W. Warren Giles, 

 of East Orange, New Jersey, 

 who has the well earned repu- 

 tation of being one of the most 

 entertaining after-dinner speak- 

 ers in the country, followed Mr. 

 Estabrook with an address full 

 of rare wit and humor inter- 

 mingled with serious and 

 thoughtful appeals for ade- 

 quate preparedness. Refer- 

 ring to this subject, he said : 



It is fortign invasion that I 

 am afraid of, and I do not 

 know of anj'thing to prevent 

 it, that I have seen on this 

 side of the ocean, as j'et. Cer- 

 tainly not an army of fifty 

 thousand men, certainly not 

 know a quick-firing gun from 



millions of men who do 



a ton of coal. We have some good soldiers, we have had some 

 good soldiers sometimes, but they are not good soldiers to- 

 night. 



The thing that burdens me more than anything else today 

 is our loss of chivalry. As a nation we have no national 

 ideals. Over in Germany they are all Germans; in France, 

 all French; if you go into Canada tonight you won't find a 

 thing but Canadians; and less than nine millions are able to 

 raise an army of five hundred thousand men; and you may 

 be assured they are good soldiers. 



But in this country tonight we have Anglo-Americans, and 

 German-. \mericans. and we have French-Americans, and 



Italian-.Americans, and every 



one of them has a point of 

 view of his own. If we are 

 going to face the future with a 

 spirit of preparation that is ef- 

 fective, we have to unite on 

 -America for Americans. 



JKJ.V. 1I.\RRV M. DAUGIIERTV 



OX COMMERCI.\L PRE- 



P.XREDXESS. 



The Hon. Harry M. Daugh- 

 erty, of Columbus, Ohio, was 

 introduced by Ex-President 

 Hodgman as standing for 

 "bread, butter and business ; 

 also for peace, protection anrl 

 prosperity." Mr. Daughertv 

 called attention to the fact that 

 during recent years envy. 

 avarice and suspicion had 

 grown throughout the world. 

 -\iter a broad review of the political situation, he said: 



Coming from Ohio and seeing here tonight men who come 

 from my proud state, I can say to you that Ohio is in favor 

 of an ample preparedness, of the establishment of a mer- 

 chant marine, and in lending governmental aid and assistance 

 to the construction of utilities upon the oceans that will 

 carry American trade to every market in the world. 



We are in favor of enacting such laws as will take care 

 of the situation in this country industrially when this war 

 is over, of protecting America and American capital and 

 American labor. 



I do not tonight have any fear of an attack upon us, yet 

 to avoid any attack I believe in preparedness, but when this 

 war is over, the invasion that we had better look after is 

 the industrial invasion. Every soldier on the battlefield 



and in the trenches in this war, when he returns to his de- 

 vastated country, will go into the mills and shops and work 

 for wages lower than he ever worked for before and the 

 foreign manufacturer will be willing to sell cheaper than he 

 ever sold before, and ours, excepting his own home market, 

 will be the greatest market in the world. We will have the 

 money, and this is the market they will invade. 



M.WOR MITCIIEL IS FOR A CITIZEN" RESERVE. 



John Purroy Mitchel, mayor of New York City, the next 

 speaker, pointed out that regardless of how high the devotion 

 of a people for peace or how high a nation stands for justice, 

 that it is a fundamental duty 

 of every citizen to take such 

 steps as will secure peace and 

 perpetuate the institutions that 

 iiavc been built up. He then 

 made a strong plea for pre- 

 paredness, in which he said in 

 part : 



We want defenses. We 

 want an adequate navy, and an 

 ( ffective citizen reserve out of 

 wliich we can constitute a 

 mobile army not to make war, 

 I Hit to prevent war. We want 

 •i make ourselves so potentially 

 irmidable to any nation and 

 ' all nations that no nation 

 ill seek a quarrel with us. 

 With the seaboard that we 

 ive to defend, with the com- 

 ncrcial interests that are now 

 lust growing, with the commer- 

 cial relations that will exist 

 when the war in Europe is 

 when that commercial 



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John Purroy 



warfare comes that is inevitable, we should have as a means of 

 defending American interests at home and abroad a navy that 

 be second to that of no other nation. 



However good our 

 fenses. every 



C.vrr.M.N- ERXiisT E. 



BUCKLETON. 



however effective our coast de- 

 expert will tell you that we 

 il out of which an effective 

 mobile army can he made with- 

 in a reasonably short period 

 (.f time. That material does 

 nut exist today. We have the 

 barest nucleus of a standing 

 army. We have at the utmost, 

 w ith standing army and militia 

 combined, not more than ninety 

 thousand effective troops who 

 iinild be put in the field today, 

 and behind that today there is 

 no citizen reserve. We ought 

 to have federal control over 

 the national guard. 



We ought to have a citizen 

 reserve made up of all the 

 male citizens of the United 

 States, within reasonable age 

 limits, trained to the use of 

 arms. That means neither 

 militarism nor a great stand- 

 ing army, but the realization of 

 the .American ideal of a citizen- 

 ship capable of bearing arms in 

 case of need. 



CAPT.MN IJIXKI-ETOX ON THE BET.r.I.VX CONTRIBUTION. 



Captain Ernest E. Buckleton, president of the Northwestern 

 Rubber Co.. Liverpool, England, who was relieved from service 

 at the front when injured by the explosion of a mine, was asked 

 liy the toastmaster to speak. Referring to the contribution made 

 last year by the Rubber Club for the Belgian refugees, he said : 



I would like to take this opportunity first of expressing 

 to you the thanks of the Belgian refugees in Liverpool for 

 the magnificent gift which the members of this Club, col- 

 lectively and individually, sent to me last year to be used 

 on their behalf. 



There are a great many of you perhaps that do not know 



