Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-05-26
I. R. ATTACKS
Peace POLICY
Calls Its Advocates a Menace
70 the C0Caiej,
NAY Be- KEYNOTE SPEECH
Roosevelt Likens At. -tIde Of Paci sta
to That of Tories and Civil War
Copperheads.

to That of Tories and Ci3ll war
Copperheads.
Colonel Roosevelt un,i:nhered hi
guns and began ire upon Henry FIR
AID other pacifists who tea"a tie doc
line of peace without preparedness
n a speech which was the feature OF
American Day" in Ee,roi-, arranged
~ the chamber OF CONNER, e.
The speech was dcliverc at mass
Meeting in a theatre, and was cheer
:. by | crowd which filed @ye:y seat
'Ame:icanism and Pre-. arelne5S" was
,he subject Of his talk, and in it he
allied the paciGsts OF today the pr.
gotypes OF the CopperhCals Of 1864
aad the Tories OF the American rev2.
tGtion.
While primarily the speech was de-
iivered as blow at the Detroit apos-
tie OF peace propaganda, who sent an
ark and doves across the Atlantic
waters to stop the war in Eurore, the
colonel, during his talk of mcre than
an hour and a half succeeded in laying
Eefore his auditors fairly complete
confession CT faith" in the value of
he big stick" as applied in inter
national relations.
Re announced at tie beginning that
his talk was in no way to be cOnsld.
cred as political in nature, but many
persons in the large audience declared
it easily might be considered cam
paign keynote, platform or declara-
ton of principles such as any canli-
date might place before the public.
81 freely admit" Mr.. Roosevelt
said, that no man ought to ba' k me
or support the policies fer which ]
stand unless with the clear under
standing that these are straight-cu
American policies, not policies in the
interest of some other nation against
my own, and that our citizens do play
my game precisely to the extent that
they support such straight-out Ameri-
can policies"
The colonel expressed great admira-
tion for Mr.. Ford's character and his
treatment of his employees, and refer.
ring to these latter said philanthrcp;c
Belgian employees Of the Ford type be-
fore the war treated their workers
we'll and decried preparedness for war,
just as Mr. Ford has done. These
Belgian wcrkpeople today are in pow
erty; they cannot find work to do eX-
cept at the behest of the conqueror
and their employers fine theories have
resulted only in disaster and woe. Sim,
liar conditions exist in Korea, said
the speaker, on account of Japan's
conquest of that country. Japan, how
ever, he said, has treated Korea we'll,
whereas Belgium has suffered fright
fully under German domination.
"What have said" continued Cole.
mel Roosevelt, "can with truth be said
of many, perhaps of most of the TGrie2
of the revolutionary war AM Of many
or most of the pacifsts of the civil
war, the extremists among whom were
popularity known as CoppaTheads
Many of these Tories and civil war
pacifists were men of fine character
and upright purpose, who sic ra'y be
lieved in the cause they advocate
They included all the men who wer
pacifists Of their day.
"These pacifsts, who formel
large proportion of the old-timr
Tories and Copperheads, adncrred ar;
denounced the militarism of Washinc
ton in 1916 and OF lincoln in 1Sc
They were against all war aIl al pr,
paredness for war. II the reVo utiCl
ary contest they insisted tha. Wa!
ington was the embodiment OF ana
chic militarism."
Like Mr.. Ford, said Cclcnel RCos'
velt, these pacifsts proposed to g
the boys" Of BunFer Hi! and Vale
Forge and the bays CT TIC arm.
the Potomac out 20: the .reAches" b
Christmas. "If these p2;i.s.s Of t.
revolution and the civil war Lad q
their way" the speaker de: are
"they would have PIT an ilneGia {
stop to much suffering and much los
of life. They would have cured tn.
applause of every peat -a,-any-p";ct
man at home and abroad. And unW.t
tingly they woula have utterly RUNE
this nation. They would have prevon.
ed it's being a nation.
Mr.. Roosevelt declared thee ar
only two great iss1es-Ame"icanism
and Preparedn "As a Deo~le" he
said, 1--WE have to decide whe he w
are to be in good faith people ant
able and ready to take care Of our
selves: or whether we doubt CIR ma
tional unity and fear to prena"e, and
intend instead to trust party to q
merciful Providence and partly to
elocutionary ability in high places.
Those in power at washington have
taken the latter position. The fo
lowers of Mr.. Ford in the Republican
primaries have taken what is in Cel!i.
ty the same position. Why should the
people change their government if,
they are merely to change slightly the
degree of unpreparedness?