Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-30
UNIVERSAL SYSTEM OF MILITARY
INSTRUCTION URGED IN Ap-
DRESS TO VETERANS.
MEMORIAL DAY SPEAKER
At KANSAS CITY, MO.
Tinted States In Danger Of Attack by
Foreign Power Unless Prepared to
ResisS-Predicts New Europe'at End
ef Present War and Says America
Must Be Prepared.

KANSAS S1ty, MAY oV.-oiNSeiSa sal
training based upon universal service
was urged upon the youth of the ma
ton by Theodore Roosevelt in a
Memorial Day address, delivered here
today as "a message to all Americans.
before civil war veterans Of the north
and the confederacy.
Appealing. he explained. to the
spirit OF the thI-ugolng AmericanlSm
in all our people" the former presi =
dent declared that those who assert
that there is no danger of the United
States ever being attacked are either
ignorant or forsetful Of the multitude
of examples which show how inter-
national conflicts arise, and that 1t Is
likely that If we are not strong enough
TO maintain our rights, including the
assertion of the Monroe doctrine the
United States will be subject to ae
gressions which it would be Obliged to
resent, or else abandon its national
greatness.
~The people must choose as their
executive and Legislative leaders AT
washington" Colonel Roosevelt sa d,
LINEN absolutely national In spirit:
men whose theory Of government is as
theory-and this, whether the pork
barrel be considered from personal
political or sectional standpoint: men
who look forward and not back: men
who face the facts as they actually
are.
New Europe After War.
AFTER this war we shall see ne"
Europe: a Europe theoretically de-
economic
means of meeting new problems.
.If. under these circumstances. We
-take refuge in formulae dug out from
The wreckage OF principles In the past,
instead OF developing these principles
so as to meet the future, we shall be
sas foolish as II we were TO arm our
taoidiers with 1lintlocks and send them
lagaanst an army possessing machine
ixuns, high power rifles and modern
Rrhllery.
+, .~Ths time for fiintlock theories OF
craftsmanship in this country Is
spast."
: Colonel Roosevelt said his address
tsras directed with equal emphasis to
hhe soul quantities OF the men who fol-
kowed Grant and OF the men who fol-
Nowad Lee. but that he made no ap-
meal ito the memory OF the copper
head pactfsts who put peace ABOVE
puty." -,
: --Ttns IS one Of the great years OF
HecisIon in our national history ne
said. The waytn which We now de-
eide will largely determine whether We
are to 20 forward in righteousness ana
mower or backward in degradation ana
weakness. We are face to face with
,elemental facts Of right and wrong. OF
iSorce or feebleness. According to the
Heuirit In which we face these racts
eand govern our actions. we snail oe
Her,ntne whether in the future we snail
en,oy a-growing national life or suner
Re lingering national decay"
/. Beware Of False Prophets.
t. Colonel Roosevelt urged the nation
No beware Of the false prophets
professional pacifcists who, ne de-
clared. do not serve high ideals. In
hctuaI practice" he said. "che profess
kional pacificist is merely the tool OF
khe sensual matertalist who has no
ideals. whose shriveled soul is wholly
snbsorbed in automobiles, and the
movies, and money making, and in the
hoIicies of the cash register and the
etock ticker, and the life Of fatteo
kase."
h Two wears ago false prophe salo
khere would never be another war the
holonei said adding: LET US not De
knisled again" Even should peace
krorne in Europe tomorrow. ne declared