Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-23

cept 1t absolutely in the spirit which
you have taken It. You are for me
because you regard me as represent
ing and embodying the aggressive
movement for thorough-going Amer
icanism and thorougn-going pre-
paredness. Your devotion is to the
cause and to the man only insofar
as he for the time being embodies the
cause. This is precisely the attitude
l took in my Trinidad statement 1
now hold and shall continue to hold
this great time of crisis in our coun-
try's history because it is a great
crisis in the history of the world. IF
we are unprepared, if we are split and
sundered by rivalries of creed, of sec
tion and national origin; ir our coun-
try's action Is to be conditioned by
helplessness without and the hyphe-
nate within, the career of the United
States as great factor in the world
civilization is at an end.
There is no use of being for half
measures of Americanism and pre-
paredness. Still less is it of any use
for any public man to announce him
self in vague general terms as in
favor of Americanism and prepared
ness unless his whole course of action
in public life has made it evident and
now makes it evident that he means
just exactly what he says; unless If
he is in office or has been in office his
career has been such as in fullest
measure to warrant the belief that
he is man of deeds and not of words
in this matter and unless in every
crisis whether he be in or out of
office he frankly and fully takes
position on the concrete facts which
are up for decision and applies the
abstract statement directly to these
concrete facts.
worthless unless in the first place the
man making them is ready to i'm
mediately apply them to every con-
crete case as 1t actually arises and
unless in the second place when he
has the opportunity he at once turns
his words into deeds.
Il am fightin" for these principles.
They are the principles you are organ
izing to support, and with all my heart
l welcome such support, accepting it
, as given primarily to the principles
and only secondarily for myself
Amy man at this time of crisis who
is not aggressively, openly and specifi-
them, and every patriotic man should
treat our public servants on this
basis"
The committee was made up as fol-
lows:
Dewey, former County clerk of Brook
lyn' NatnanleI ElSDerg, FORMER New
York State Senator; Alexander NJ.
! White, former treasurer New York
State Republican Committee; Eugene
Maxwell Moore, Chauncey j. Hamlin,
Maunsell van Rensselaer,. Edgar VIII
Hanson, editor of New Jersey Amer
lean Labor.
Oyster Bay was represented by a
committee of leading citizens. includ-
ing H. d. Marsh, DR.. Arthur Shoulder.
Judge Robert Duval, II. L. Vail and
]. l.. Raynor.
/ Pcruvians Contemptuous of Us
Professor Hiram Bingham, of Yale
/ University, told Mr.. Roosevelt how he
was arrested in Peru, where he was
engaged in archaeological research. He
was arrested, he said. for stealing gold
and treated very badly. the Peruvians
/ refusing to take his word and saying
+ that an Americans word had no
standing In that country. He said that
/ he returned to this country and heard
/ Mr.. Roosevelt's statement on Amer
icanism and that decided him to come
out for him.
"As much as love dear old Bill
Taft" he said. II had to come out
for you
Yes" replied MIR. Roosevelt, that
lis just what my old friend, Edmund