Evening journal., 1916-07-05
READY WITH SONS
FOR WAR, SAYS T.R.
Announces Intention OF Or
ganizing Troops for Pos
Sible Mexican Campaign
OYSTER BAY
CHEERS THE NEWS

OYSTER BAY. n. Y. July 5.-Col-
onel Roosevelt yesterday, from the
platform where he had come to re-
view the Fourth of July celebration
and parade. made his first speech
since the pre-convention days, declar-
ing his intention OF organizing
force for a possible campaign in Mex
leo and saying that he and his sons
were going He promised place to |
any unmarried young man in Oyster |
Bay who wished and was prepared to !
accompany him. but married men !
would not be taken. More than 5000 !
persons who heard him, including
force Of sailors from the L. S. steam
ship Baltimore at anchor in the har-
Dor, broke into wild applause.
Colonel Roosevelt in his speech
said
you listened to the reading of the
Declaration of independence. but II
the men who wrote and signed that
document. and after promulgating it,
had gone home and let It execute it.
self, we should not be here today.
The Declaration of Independence was
not worth the paper it was written on
except so far as it was made good
by the sword of Washington and the
swords of the men who fought with
him through the six years of the war.
Lincolns great speech at Gettysburg
and his two inaugural addresses
would have been remembered
only as matters of scorn and
dersion if the hundreds of thousands
the men of the North, had not
sprung forward to prove the truth by
their endeavor, and so It is with US
here today
IF you only come to Fourth Of July
celebrations to applaud the fine sentit
ments and say how glad you are that
in the past the people did not put
safety first ahead of the nations
honor and interest, you might just as
we'll 20 home. Go home if you are
only concerned about your rights and
not about duties. No nation is either
fit to be free or will permanently be
permitted to be free unless it is able
10 protect all of it's own rights with
all its own power.
1T is with a nation as with an In
dividual You mothers and fathers
here. if you bring up your children to
think that all you ought to be con-
cerned with is a good time in life, you
will make them unfit to be fellow
citizens or self respecting people. The
father or mother who brings up a
boy or girl. feeling that nothing else
counts except the movies and enjoy
ing themselves. the boy and the girl
won't be fit TO be men and women.
Must Have a Sense of Duty.
"You all know that it is just tn
same thing in the life of a nation. /
we bring M ourselves or our sons to fee
that all we have to do is to sit back an
saw how smart our Yankee nation
and how fortunate we are to be on thu
side of the ocean and have no sense o
duty. the nation won't last long, be
cause IL doesn't deserve TO last long.
"The way to begin to be a decent cit
zen is not by going out applauding FIN
sentiments or by going to church an
resisting the impression made upon I'M
bv the preacher. His business. in tn
first place is to do his duty by his VIII
and children. to support them and the
be middling pleasant citizen inside h
own home.
"You ladies enthusiastically ap
plauded that. II applies to you also
The duties are just as much tn
woman's as they are the mans. Som
time or other I shall speak to my ow
people in this town and say to ther
with all my heart how believe in uni
versal military training in time
peace and universal service intime
war.
Ability Only to Count.
81 believe in the democratic trainin
where the multi-millionaire and III
son of the bricklayer will live in u
same dog tent, and then have the be-
one of the bunch, whether the mutt
millionaire or the bricklayer's so
made the officer.
"Mr. Coudert said that it is possib
we may be involved in something
Mexico. say involved in somethin
for if what has happened in the la
three years in Mexico is peace,
should prefer war as more peacefl
If there is war | shall go, and
there are any unmarried men D
tween the ages of 20 and 30 OF Oyst
Bay who are prepared to do the
duty. they shall CO. too. ! won't ia
any married ludh WIN q AohiAis
pendent on him.
at really is an outrage that such
system should be permitted. 'Und
this system, illustrated by the NOV
ment of the National Guard TO
Mexican border. a man whose W
and children are dependent or him,
Obliged to go down and leave his ia
ily behind. The system is radica
wrong.
you have known me for gr
many wears have never said a.
thing in my life that ] didn't try
make good and If we have q
trouble such as Mr.. Coudert
spoken Of 7 will give the young n
of Oyster Bay and Nassau county
chance 10 make good, and VIC
ask them 10 do anything that l Z
my sons won't do
To the sailors while they we're
his home Colonel Roosevelt made
brief allusi0n to Mexico.
Peace il now raging with viole
in Mexico" he said "You Will,
called on. acquit yourselves with
lantry 7 yielC to no man in my
miration for the character, cour
and intelligence Of the officers
enlisted men in the American nj
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