Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-05-19
ROOSEVELT FIRES HOT
SHOT At HENRY FORD
Rough Rider Visits Auto Makers Home City and Attacks
The Paci6dsn Of The Author Of the Oscar Il Voyage
to Beligaent Europe, Also Taking Rap at the Make
Believe Policy Of Woodrow Wilson Administration

Detroit, May ls.--Coionel Roose-
welt carried message Of warning to
Henry Ford's baiiiwick today. He
denounced Ford's pacificism. raked
the Wilson administration for make
believe preparedness" and announced
that only q policy Of staunch readi-
ness would keep the United States In
the forefront of the worlds affairs.
Roosevelt accused influential Ger
mans who reflect the views OF the
German government Of approving the
plans OF German American paflcists
lin the United States with the idea oi
keeping the United States unprepared
while maintaining Germany's readl-
mess.
The colonel said that for Ford per.
sonally he has mot merely friendli.
mess. but In many respects genuine
Admiration but he went on tc
classify the automobile with the
tories Of the war OF the American re.
volution and the copperheads OF the
sixties.
Ford supporters In the primaries
no said .'seemingly come from thres
classes workingmen, who believe
that he represents desire to dc
Justice to them; pacifcists. who think
that a policy OF helplessness in tbs
face OF other nations will inspire
our national safety; and German
Americans, some OF them In an hon
\ est and sincere mood OF protest and
Others under the influence OF tina,
portion OF the professional German
Americans who have permitted theil
devotion TO the mother country final.
Ily 10 make them antagonistic TO the
welfare OF the United States
"The -pacificists have made
their great showing" continued
Roosevelt. principally because there
has been no real opposition to them
The administration has done nothing
efficient to sustain our national
rights. II has stood for applied paci.
flcism so far as our needs are con-
cerned. Although our governmental
Representatives have been 90 per cent
feeble, the ultra-pacificis have de-
mandded clear 100 per cent OF
futility and feebleness.
I'm any serious crisis there are al
ways men who try to carry water on
both shoulders. II is true that in
ordinary political matters com
promise Is essential. But there
come great crises when compromise
is impossible or fatal. This is one
OF these crises.
There Is no use saying that we
will at ourselves TO defend ourselves
a little--but not much. Such posi-
tion Is equivalent to announcing
that, II necessary, we shall hit but
shall only hit softly. The only right
|principle is to avoid hitting, II II Is
possible to do so, but never, under
any circumstances to hit softly.
"There are two great issues be-
fore us which are inseparably bound
together. These are the issues oi
Amerlcanism and preparedness. AS
a people we have to decide whether
we are to be, In good faith, a people
able and ready to take care OF our
SELVES; or whether we doubt our ma
tional unity and fear to prepare, and
instead. to trust partly to mercifu
Providence and partly to elocutionar,
ability In high places. Those IN
power In Washington have taken ths
latter position"
| Roosevelt outlined HIS Views OF
preparedness and the administra
tlon's course In the German-Americar
submarine controversy and urged III,
necessity for competent men at tn,
head Of the navy, regular army o.
100000 men, with universal milltar,
training, industrial preparedness ant
the abolition OF the hyphen.' He de-
plored the establishment Of govern