The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-22
Roosevelt Wants Uncle Sam
Considered Worth Kicking.
Says Man Afraid to Fight Is Not
Fit to Vote.
WOULD TRAIN BOYS FOR WAR
Colonel Urges Army and Navy
Adequate for Defense.
Former President Draws APP
plause With Frisco Speeches.

San Francisco Cal, July 22.-
Theodore Roosevelt delivered two ad-
dresses yesterday at the Panama-Pa-
cific exposition, one on military pre-
paredneSs the other personal talk
to the "men on the line, sailors ana
soldiers at the Enlisted Mems CLUB.
He held both Willingness and abil-
itv to be soldiers desirable attributes
of good citizens. He told the enlisted
men "a man afraid to fight is not III
to VOTE and "a mother who is not
willing to raise her boy to be a soldier
is not fit for citizenship" Before the
address at the clubhouse he planted
poplar tree
war and Peace was the topic of
Mr. Rooseve1t's main address A large
audience gathered III the Court OF the
Universe to hear him.
Presidential Salute for i. r..
Mr.. Roosevelt was escorted from a
hotel to the two places Wnere ne
spoke by a squadron of the First cav
airy and by military and public OIL
Gals. He was given presidential sa-
lutte of twcnty-one guns by the war
ships in the harbor. He was intro
duced by Gov. Hiram Johnson, his
running mate for the presidency on
the Progressive ticket in 1917.
For more than an hour and man,
amid constant applause, Roosevelt de-
cried the theory or peace at any price
and urged an army and navy ade-
0ua3e for defense of the nation De-
filming his own stand, Mr.. Roosevelt
said:
II am not for war. I want peace
But L don't want peace to Uncle sam
because outsiders don't think him
worth kicking"
Universal Military Service.
'.I firmly believe that there should
be universal military service for our
Young men on the Swiss model, SAID
the former president, at one point in
his speech.
At another referring to the price
which Belgium had paid because OF
her unpreparedness, he said:
Some day or other it may well be
that we shall have to pay OH a ten
fold greater scale the same price for
exactly the same reasons; and, II such
should be the case, remember, my rel
low countrymen, that whereas the
case of the Belgians excited warm
sympathy, our misfortunes would eX-
cite nothing but scOrn and contempt:
for a rich. powerful, boastful people
invites the ridicule of all mankind
if whether from sheer Stiffness anu
short sightedness. or from sort tlnlo-
itv or from gross and greedy deVo-
ton to the material benefits OF the
moment. it fails to prepare itself 20
defend its own rights with its own
strength
Colonel Roosevelt spoke derisively
of 'elocution as a substitute for ac-
tiOn:" and in his arraignmert OF those
who stood in the way of preparedness
for war, he said the professional pa
cifists the peace-at-any-prIce non
resistance universal arbitration people
are seeking to Chinafy this country -
to reduce it to the level of Importance
to which old China sank" The aver
age Chinaman, he said, had taken the
view that China was too proud to
fight" and 'in practice made evil
dent his hearty approval of that alb
ject pacifist song, L Didn't Raise My
Bow to Be a Soldier.
Scores Arbitration Pacts.
With all of his old-time vigor,
Colonel Roosevelt denounced the all
inclusive arbitration treaties. which
the United States had entered into
and said that in declining to apply
their principle in the case of the Lust
tania there had been evidence of ma
tional hypocrisy or else an utter reck-
Iessness of folly in making promises.
1t was necessary to repudiate the prin-
ciple IN the Lusitania case. the colonel
agreed, but "a shameful thing to have
put ourselves in such a position that
it had to be repudiated.'