The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-26
Stand by President If
He Stands by Natton---T.R
Chief Executive Is Open to Criticism Roosevelt Says
Scores High Sounding Words
Unbacked by Action"

action has struck no courage viii avail
unless there has been thorough training.
thorough preparation In advance.
The greatest need for this country is
a first class navy.
Next We need a thoroughly trained
regular or professional army of 100000
men II We have universal military SER
vice and OF at least 100000 men IL We
do not have such universal military SER
vice
But the professional navy and the
professional army are not enough. Free
ci' zens should oe able to do their own
fighting The professional paclfist Is
as much out place In u democracy as
is the potroon himself, and he is no
better citizen than the poltroon.
scores the Pacidcists.
probably 10 body Of citizens in the
United States during the last Ave years
has wrought so efficiently for national
deCadence and international degrada-
ton as the professional pacfsts. the
pace at any price men, who have tried
TO teach our people that silly all inclu-
sive arbitration treaties and the utter
ance of fatuous platitudes at peace con-
crosses are substitutes FOR adequate
military preparedness. These people are
seeking to Chinafy this country,
1T is an abhorrent thing 10 make a
wanton or an unjust war. II is an alb
horrent thing to trespass on the rights
OF the weak But II is an utterly con-
,emptlule thing to be unable and un-
willing to fight for ones own rights in
the frst place, and then, II possessed
Of sufficient loftiuess of soul. to fight
for the rights OF the weak who
are wronged
For thirteen months America has
played an ierobe part among the ma
tons. We have tamely submitted TO
seeing the weak. whom We had COW
, cnanted to protect, wronged We have
seen our men, women and children muir
dercd on the high seas without action
on our part. We have used elocution
, as a substitute for action.
! During this time our Government has
not taken the smallest step in the way
of preparedness to Il, fend our own rights
! Vet these thirteen months have made
/ evident the lamentahle fact that force
is more dominant now in the affairs OF
; the world than ever before. that the
4 most powerful of modern military ma
tons is utterly brutal and ruthless In
its disregard of INTERNATIONAL morality
and that righteousness divorced from
force - utterly futile, Reliance upon
nigh sounding words unhacked by deeds
Is proof of mind that dwels only in
/ the realm OF shadow and of sham
= "lrasmuch as We as q nation have
/ done nothing whatever for national de
fence during the past thirteen months
I the time when during all our history
. II was most necessary to prepare fol
self-defeucc, il is we'll that private indi'
viduals should have tried, however in,
sufficiently. 20 provide some kind of q
substitute for proper governmental aC
ton.
Camps like this are the best posslb.,
antldotes To hypheuated AmcriCanism
The worst tHing that could hefal thi'
country would he to have the Amer
can nation become a tanGle OF jangliui
natlol alitics, knot OF German Amevi
cans, Irish Americans. English Amer
cans and French Americans. II divide,
I'm such fashion we shall most certainly
fan. We can stand as nation only !
We are genuinely united
THE events of the past year have
shown us that In any crisis the hypheu
ated American is an active force
against America, an active force 70
wrongdoing. The effort to hoist two flag
on the same tIagpole always means tha
one flag is hosted underneath and tn
hyphenated American invariably hoist
the flag of the United States under
meath. We must all be Americans an,
nothing else,
Lands Some Germans
There exists no finer body OF Amer
lean citizens in this country than thos
citizens of German birth or descent VIII
are in good faith Americans and moth
q ing else We could create an entire ma
tonal administration. from the Presiden
down to the last Cabinet officer, ever
one OF whose members would be OF Ger
man blood and some of them of Gcrma
birth, but ali OF them Americans am
: nothing else. all of them Americans O
I such a type that the men who feel as
: do could heartily and without reserv
7 support them in all our International re
lations,
t '"rhe professional German America
, has shown himself within the last twelv
months to be AN enemy to this countr
2 as well as to humanity. The recent eN
. posures of the way in which these Gel
e man Americans have worked togethe
= with the emissaries of the German Coy
9 ernment--oftcn by direct corruption
o against the integrity Of American inst