The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-05-04
WARNS NATION
TO Be PREPARED
AssAILs PAcIFlsTs IN ADDRESS
TO LAWYERS AT CHICAGO.
POINTS OUT ROAD TO SAFETY
Colonel Demands Universal Service
in the Army-Asserts Monroe Doc
trne Is No Stronger Than
U. S. Navy.

Chicago, May Col. Theodore
Roosevelt brought $500 Illinois and
Chicago lawyers to their feet in wild
cheering at the Illinois Bar associa-
ton banquet at the Hotel La Sale
when he demanded universal service
in the United States, modelled on the
Swiss and Australian systems.
The demonstration came after he
had been urging for an hour the gospel
of genuine Americanism" with no
hyphen.
When the demonstration, that last
ed a full minute, subsidized, he threw
his manuscript aside and with uncon-
cealed emotion he poured out his
thanks to the audience for such en-
thusiasm.
.EIated by Their Cheers.
"This means more to me than you
can imagine" said the colonel, ex-
tending his clasped hands in a ges-
ture of greeting. 1T shows that the
hearts of our people in the great DEM
ocratic middle West are right.
1T encourages me to go forth from
here with an uplifted heart and head
to continue the preaching of the
sound doctrine of adequate prepare
ton, not for war, but to defend our
selves as men against any war that
may be forced upon u.s."
Repeatedly Colonel Roosevelt was
interrupted with applause and cheer
ing as he shot his verbal shafts at
the administration for failure, as he
saw it, to make preparation of any
kind.
Wants Broad Preparation.
He declared for preparation among
the industrial and social forces of the
country as we'll as material prepare.
ton.
He asserted that nation that only
looked to the garnering of dollars in
its industries and paid no heed to the
preparation to defend itself did not
deserve to live and have a place
among the forces Of the world that
make for humanity's progress.
Another great demonstration fol-
lowed his declaration that if this ma.
ton was forced to back into war" by
the rulers at Washington, he and mis-
four sons would go to tho war, expect
ing to sacrifice their lives on the altar
of criminal unpreparedness by the rul-
GrS.
Points Road to Safety.
Applying his 'paCifist" doctrine, the
prevention of war by being prepared
to go into war If necessary, he said,
throwing his manuscript aside again:
IF in the first week of this war our
American navy had been brought to-
gether in the Atlantic ocean, set to
gun practice, and in other ways dis
playing it's power, do you suppose the
Lusitania ever would have been sunk?
Not much"
Again he lifted them almost to their
feet with this statement:
Lincoln said this country could not
endure half slave and half free | say
to you it cannot endure with a divided
allegiance. There can be no divided
loyalty in this country. The politico,
racial hyphen is the breeder of moral
treason"
Demands 100000 Army.
Tho colonel demanded a standing
army of 100000 men at once, not next
June, he said, but this very week, "
and declared that it would no more
smack of militarism than would the
Chicago police force.
Again they were on their feet when
he held up his hand and said, SOL
emily:
The Monroe doctrine will be no
stronger than the American navy"