TAFT ON WAR SCARE
Taft on War Scare THERE has been a good deal of talk in the papers, and some reference in Congress, to the supposed helpless condition of this country in the event of a foreign invasion. I venture...
...It would be useful to prevent the coming of an invading army across the seas...
...The people of this country will never consent to the maintenance of a standing army which military experts would pronounce sufficiently large to cope in battle with the standing armies of Europe, should they get by our Navy, avoid our harbor defenses, and descend upon our coast...
...We have a very good Navy, and with the opening of the Panama Canal it will be a much more effective one...
...If this leaves us in a position of helplessness, then so be it, for those who understand the popular will in this country know that it can, not be otherwise.—Speech in Washington, December 17,1910...
...I venture to think that much more has been made of this than the facts, calmly considered, would justify...
Vol. 3 • February 1911 • No. 8
