OPENING OF UNITED STATES CONGRESS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2329, 10 December 1914, Page 5

OPENING OF UNITED STATES CONGRESS

NATION'S WAR RESOURCES ; PRESIDENT COUNSEIS MODERATION Washington, December 8. President Wilson has opened Congress. In his speech he asserted, that the United States would never k time of peace be ready to put into the field a nation of men trained to arms. Mr. Wilson objeotod entirely to compulsory military service, declaring it unnecessary. The Domocrats cheered. Proceeding, Mr. Wilson referred to how the United States .had stunted,and hindered the growth of her mercantile marine. Government shipping eervices to Central and South America were imperative, The Administration's programme regarding legislation-of business, was virtually completed and the road was now clear before every honest business man. Mr. Wilson declared, in conclusion, that vrnen. half the world was afire the United States should be careful to make moral insurance agpinst the spread "of .tne conflagration defined, certain _ and adequate. Although some Americans were nervous and~ excited, there was no need to turn the country, into a military camp. NON-PARTY SECURITY LEAGUE. New York, December 8. 'Eightyrfour leading' Americans have inaugurated a Non-party Security League to impress upon the President and Congress the immediate necessity for investigating the country's defences. President Wilson announces that Lβ is opposed to the idea of Congress investigating tho national defences, as it would create an unfavourable impression. / ■ GERMAN-AMERICAN FEELING . ROUSED. w London, December 8. The "Times's" New York correspondent writes that both the Nav-y and Army Leagues of America have opened fire on the pacificists for arguing that bloated armaments are the chief cause of the present war. The Navy League's pamphlet has aroused the deep Ire of the GermanAmericans for denouncing Germany as tho instigator of tho war and pointing out that tba weakness of Belgium and Luxembourg provoked Gormany's attack.—"Times', and Sydney "Sun" services.