New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-20
Must Surrender Our
Rights or Be Ready
to Defend Them.
HYPHENS IN SAME
PERIL AS NATIVES
No Nation Will Attack Uni
fed and Prepared Amer
lea, Asserts T. r.

full text Of Theodore Roosevelts
speech on preparedness at the Ameri-
can Day celebration here to-day;
have been very reluctant 70 make
speeches during these weeks immedi-
ately preceding the national nominal
ing conventions, because II is very dim
cult 10 make people understand that
speeches at such time are not OF the
ordinary political type made in the IN
terest Of some particular individuals
candidacy. But l finally determined
that I would come here TO Michigan TO
say certain things which believe
should be said at this time.
What have TO say TO you will not De
in the interest Of any man, and least OF
all Of myself II will not refer TO the
candidacy Of any individual. 1t will
not refer 20 the policy of any party,
save as such party policy may, and
ought TO, vitality concern the welfare
Of the nation. Ny speech will be de-
voted exclusively to certain great prin-
ciples which should be fundamental in
this giant democratic commonwealth OF
ours.
Whenever I touch on an individual
il will be because l cannot make. my
meaning clear save by speaking OF IN
dividuals who embody or typify certain
movements.
I come here 20 Michigan because in
the primary for the selection of dele
gates to the Republican National Con-
vention Mr. Ford was victorious, and
following on his victory here he
showed a marked popular strength In
Nebraska and Pennsylvania. The effect
Of this showing has been Immediately
visible upon many of the politicians
within and without Congress.
What Ford's Success Means.
One Of the leading anti-preparedness,
or peace-at-any-price, papers in New
York recently commented with great
satisfaction upon the defeat in the
lower house Of Congress of the pro-
posal to increase our regular army
10 100000 men. This paper stated
that originally the proposal was de-
feated by only % votes, but when the
vote came UP again, ten days ago II
was defeated by rs votes. .o.
II continues II condense): "Of these
: 221 negative votes, 81 were cast by ne,
publicans. ~ being from the Central
West. what has come TO be known as
the Henry Ford territory. These IN
cluded 6 OF the IL from Michigan
notable change since 1t was proposed
in the House. Since then MI + OIu
large votes in Michigan and Neoras ka
boye heen recorded. All three Repub-
Tcan Congressman from Nebraska were
opposed. If this is not q pretty clear
indication as TO prevailing anu-mlh-
tarist temper in the Middle West, what
can be9 IL Is as we'll refreshing PROOF
that there will be strong forces IN
both party conventions 70 throw their
inAnence against the militarist planks
of Mr.. Roosevelt"
This situation makes IL advisable to
sneak with courtesy but with entire
frankness Of what the success OF MI;
Ford means and is taken 10 mean, ah9
of the forces that have given MT OIu
his strength. 1t is in Michigan, MI
Ford's own state, where the FORD move
ment began, that l wish 70 say "ha'
have TO say on the subject
Much in Ford To Be Admired.
For Mr.. Ford personally. ! feel not
us,sIv frIendliness, but IN many re-
meets very genuine admiration.
there 4, much In the methods and very
nuch In the purposes with when ne
bas conducted his business, notably IN
- relations TO his working people,
that commands my hearty sympathy
and respect. Moreover, there IS al
wavs something attractive to an Amer
ican In the career Of man VINO mas
raised himself from the industrial
ranks. until he Is one of the captains
Of industry. -,
Rut all that / have thus said. can
with truth be said Of many perhaps
OF most. Of the Tories OF the heVolu.
tionary War and Of many or most OF
the pacifsts Of the Civil War, the eX-
nh
known as Copperheads. Many OF the
Tories and Civil War pacifsts were
men of fine character and upright pur-
nose. who sincerely believed in the
cause they advocated. They included
all the men who were the pacihsts OF
their day.
These pacifsts who formed so large
nroportion Of the old-time Tories
and Commercials abhorred and de-
nounced the militarism Of Washington
in 1875 and of Lincoln in 1861. They
we're against all war and all prepared
ness for war In the Revolutionary
contest they insisted that Washington
was the embodiment OF anarchie mill
tarism. Their purpose was TO get the
boys" of Bunker Hill and valley
Forge tout of the trenches" and bring
them back back to their homes and
make them quit fighting.
Lincoln Denounced by Paciists.
In 1864 they denounced Lincoln as
military dictator. They praised
peace as the greatest of all earthly
blessings. They demanded that the
war should cease, and they wished TO
get the "boys" Of the Army of the
Potomac out "of the trenches" before
Christmas and bring them back 70 the
farm, the shop. and the counting house.
IL these pacifists of the Revolution
airy and Civil War had had their way,
thew would have put an immediate stop
IN much suffering and much loss of
life. They would have secured imme-
date peace. They would have averted
some years of war. They would have
turned men away from military train
ing into the paths of ordinary civil oc--
cupation. They would have secured
the applause Of every peace-at-any-
price man at home and abroad.
And unwittingly they would have
utterly ruined this nation. They would
have prevented its being nation
They would have made the countTymen
Of Washington and the countrymen OF
Lincoln objects Of scorn and derlslon'
and they would have made OF this great
Republic a kissing and byword among
the nations Of the earth.
They would have purchased peace at
the moment by ignoble submission TO
wrong, by ignoble cowardiee. Ihey
would have rendered IL certain IN eacn
case that for the one war they averted