Weekly journal-miner., 1916-09-06

LEWISTON, Me, Aug. Sl.-Col onel Roosevelt delivered his first cam paign speech in behalf of Hughes here tonight. He was enthusiastically greeted. He devoted his address to an attack on the administration and criticism of hyphenism and asserted 1t would be a grave misfortune" to re-elect Wilson. His address follows:
 I come here to Maine to advocate the election of Charles E. Hughes as president of the United States, and the election of a senate and house oi representative to support him, and to give some of the reasons why in my judgment it would be grave mis- fortune for the people of the United States to re-clect Mr. Wilson.
 I make no merely partison appeal. l ask the support of all good citizens for our cause. I ask the support of all good Americans And not merely ask, but demand as matter of right, that every citizen voting this year shall consider the question at issue from the standpoint of America, and not from the standpoint of any other nation.
 Attacks Hyphenated Americanism
 The root idea of American citizen ship, the necessary prerequisite for patriotic service at home, and for ser vice to mankind at large, is that there shall be in our citizenship no dual allegiance. There must be no divided loyalty between this country and the country from which any of our citizens, or the ancestors of any of our citizens, have come. The pol icy of Se United States must be shaped with a view to two conditions only: first, with view to the honor and interest of the United States, and second, with view to its interest Of the world as a whole It is therefore our high and solemn duty, both to prepare our own strength so as to guarantee our own safety, and also to treat every foreign nation, in any given crisis, as its conduct in that crisis demands. The citizen who does o,I ,,-1,A 41 shape Americas policy in the intcres, of the country from which he or his ancestors have sprung is no true American, and has no moral right to citizenship in this country. Any at tempt to organize American citizens along politico-racial lines is a foul and evil thing. Any organization ot American citizens which acts in the interest of foreign power is guilty of moral treason to the republic. II is because of such action that l con dcmn those professional German Americans who in our politics act as servants and allies of Germany, not as Americans interested solely in the honor and welfare of America: and | would condemn just as quickly En- glish-Americans or Frcnch-American or Irish-Americans who acted in such manner.
 Universal Military Training.
 As the world now is, our great free democracy must understand that un less it can protect itself by its own strength - and its strength is not strength at all unless it is carefully trained in advancc-it will sooner or later suffer the fate that China is suff- oring before our eyes. Thanks to the fact that President Wilson has some times led us wrong, and sometimes not led Us at all, and that at the best he has merely followed afar of when convinced that it was politically safe to do so, we are at this moment no more prepared 10 defend ourselves than we were two years ago when the world war broke out At last we have begun the work Of restoring our navy 10 the position it formerly held: but ii will take years to undo the harm done when in 1910 the Democratic party gained control of the house and stopped upbuilding the navy: and it is entirely impossible to make th- navy what it should be made as long as we have a president who appoints and retains at its head public official of the type of Mir Daniels. Our reg ular army should be increased to a quarter of million men, with a short service term of enlistment: this would give us . mobile army Of l25, GOO men, enough to patrol the Mexican border without help from the national guard, when Mir Wilson halts between feeble peace and feeble war. But this is not enough. The events of the past two .l,