Arizona republican., 1916-05-31

day at the 250th anniversary of the city's founding:
 Convention Hall Address
 The address of Colonel Roosevelt at Convention hall follows in full:
 1 come to Kansas City, here in the great west, to speak on Memorial day to the farmers and merchants and wage workers and manufacturers who dwell west of the Mississippi What I have to say to you is exactly what l should say to your fellows who dwell on the Atlantic coast, or the Pacific slope, or beside the Great Lakes, or on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico. My message is a message to all Americans. My appeal is to the spirit of thorough going Americanism in all our people | in whatever portion of the land they dwell In thanking all the organiZa- ] tions-business, political and social whose invitation l have accepted, in- cluding my comrades of the Spanish war, 1 know that none of you will ob- 1 ject to my putting first the Grand Army of the Republic and the Con- federate Veterans. 1 come here tC speak on behalf of the spirit which, 1T the early sixties, burned in the heart! of the men who wore the blue an6 of the men who wore the gray, IT what 1 have to say l shall appeal witt equal emphasis to the soul qualities of the men who followed Grant and o the men who followed Lee; of all who in the great crisis, proved their trutl by their endeavor and showed them selves willing to sacrifice everythin for the right, as God gave them to SC the right. But 1 make no appeal t the spirit of the peace t-any pric men of '61 to 65. I ask that we i this generation prove ourselves tn spiritual heirs of the men wh , wore the blue and of the me who wore the gray. But l make n D appeal to the memory of the copperhea I pacifists who put peace above dut. |, who put love of ease and love ( money getting before devotion [ :, country. and whose convictions wei too weak to stir to action their tepi Q souls
 A Year of Decision
 :, This is one of the great years of dt a cision in our national history. The wa
 in which we now decide will large a determine whether we are to go fo h ward in righteousness and power a backward in degradation and weaknes o We are face to face with element
 facts of right and wrong, of force o feebleness. According to the spirit
 which we face these facts and gove o our actions, we shall determine wheth s in the future we shall enjoy a growil national life or suffer a lingering n
 tional decay.
 T., First and foremost friends, l a ,t you to beware of the false prophe "a both the prophets of sordid materia
 ism, and the prophets of that si
 sentimentalism which refuses to To
 unpleasant We cannot meet the is ture either by mere gross materials or by mere silly sentimentalism; abo 70 all we cannot meet it if we attem
 to balance gross materialism in acti " by silly sentimentalism in words.
 actual practice the professional pa U fists do not serve good. They ser is evil. They do not serve high idea " It is not righteous to fail to fight
 behalf of assailed righteousness. Su " a course probably means sheer cowal o II ice, and certainly means moral sl render. The men who are the tol ee carriers of world civilization are tho
 and only those, who acknowledge
 supreme duty of protecting sacl
 spiritual things when attacked.
 actual practice the professional pa fist is merely the tool of the sens materialist who has no ideals, wh s- shriveled soul is wholly absorbed U automobiles, and the movies, 6
 money making, and in the policies
 the cash register and the stock tick
 and the life of fatted ease.
 PurbIind Prophets
 Two years ago any number of D III sons were assuring us that the day
 great wars had passed; that it V
 impossible that there ever should - great wars again; that preparedn
 brought on war; that we did not n