It is distinctly worthwhile to remind the public not only that many great industrial enterprises are based upon the technical and mechanical requirements of the Army and Navy but also that many inventions and new processes of the greatest value to mankind are the outgrowth of researches undertaken in behalf of these national establishments
Message to a Dinner of the American Institute.
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The time has come when we should cut through the brush and adopt some broad and definite method of reducing the overwhelming burden of armament which now lies upon the toilers of the world.
Our Army, including the National Guard and all other reserves, has already been reduced much below the European standard 'police component.'
Any study of many of these public works provisions will indicate plainly their pork-barrel characteristics.
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