The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-30
THE GREAT AMERICAN.

One might think tnat eVerylhihS
which Colonel Roosevelt might have
to say on Americanism and industrial
and military prearedness for the days
of peace as we'll as those of war was
embodied in the wonderful speech he
delivered at Detroit little while ago
But such, of course, is not the case.
There appear to be no limits to the
resourcefulness of Theodore Roosevelt
Instead of his speech at Kansas City
this afternoon being a revised version
of his Detroit address, a mere repeu-
ton of :, hat he said so forcefully at
the home of Mr.. Ford, the leading
pacifist of the country, it is practically
a new declaration on the same subject
He uses his speech of today to am
plify some of the matters he touched
on at Detroit. He clinehes some of the
big arguments he then presented with
new points. corroborative testimoney,
as it were.
He rivets down these arguments
with such strength that they cannot be
dislodged.
They not only appear convincing.
They are convincing.
The slogan of Americanism that
Roosevelt is sounding these days in
such an emphatic fashion. and with
such originality and force, has begun
to reverberate through the great mass
of the thinking people from one end
of the country to the other
1t has caught their fancy.
1t has fired their imagination as no
other utterances or preachments of
men in public life have done since the
days of Lincoln; since the days of his
debates with Douglas, and his subse-
auent pronouncements in the presi-
Dental office.
And there can be only one reason
for this.
The propaganda that Roosevelt is
spreading before the minds of the peo-
pie today is sound, absolutely sound.
1t is based on reason and reason
alone.
The logic is as irrefutable as it is
simple.
This is what makes it's appeal so
compelling.
This is what is winning so many
new adherents to it daily.
Theodore Roosevelt is picturing to-
day the only course that these United
States of America can follow from
now on, if this great nation is to full
fill its destiny; if it is to maintain the
place that belongs to it by right
among the nations of the world; if it
is also to carve out a future for its
own people to which its resources and
their genius entitle them.
Theodore Roosevelt has been a
commanding figure in American life
for many years; a commanding fig
ure, in fact, in the whole world of
men.
But at no time in his remarkable
career has he shone forth in such re-
fulgent greatness as he does today.
The proportions of his patriotism
are enormous.
The service he is doing to his fellow
citizens in placing before their eyes
in such a clear and unmistakable
manner the necessities of their nation
is of BILE value.
And that they appreciate it, is evil
denced on all sides by the manner in
which they are declaring for him fer
the presidency
The wave of public sentiment for
Roosevelt for president that was of
considerable size month ago has
now assumed tidal proportions and it
is growing in volume hourly.
Will the Republican national con-
vention fail to take advantage of its
opportunities to nominate for the
presidency the one man who is show
ing by his speech of today that he is
alive to the ills from which the body
polite is suffering; the one man who
has a cogent and coherent program to
lead the American nation from the
morass into which it has wallowed,
and the one man whom not only the
people of this country but the people
of the entire world know as a man
who acts as we'll as he talks?
1t is inconceivable that the Repub-
lican national convention will so fail
in it's duty not only to it's party, but
also to its country.
CT