Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-19
Roosevelt / WARS.
on HENRY ! FORD
Colonel Carries Prepared
ness Battle Into State Of
Michigan.
SCORES POLICIES
OF ADMINISTRATION
aeitsratss Opposition 70 All kinds Of
Hyphsnassd Amsrieanism and Advo-
X catss Universal Military Service a.
Benefit to lndlvidua, . Well = Ma
tion- u nitsd statss Accused Of To-
norinp lessons Of European War.

tion-unitsd Statss Accused OF To-
norins lessons Of European War.
Detroit Mich, May 1s.-Hundreds OF
school children waving American fags
were among the throng which greeted
Theodore Roosevelt at the railway sta
tion when he arrived here to be the
4 guest Of honor ct the American day
celebration.
Before Colonel Roosevelt was driven
to the Detroit Athletic Club at the head
'of an, automobile parade. he made .
shcrt address to the Boy Scouts at the
station. He told them he believed In
their organization, because It taught
them to fght for the truth and not to
be mollycoddles
After luncheon Colonel Roosevelt
spent nearly two hours IN privacy be
fore going to local opera house 70
and Preparedness for Peace 2
This afternoon Colonel Roosevelt was
to make q short address to q mass
meeting in Grand Circus park, In the
s heart Of the business district Before
! he returns to New York late this after
nooo he Is to make an automobile trip
sOf the city.
1t was announced he expects to spend
4 . few minutss visiting Henry Ford at
the latter,s automobile factory.
Y Detroit, Mich, May 1s.-CoI. Theo-
j dore Roosevelt In an address here to-
day. reiterated his opposition ITO all
Z kinds Of hyphenated Americanish1.'' =
{ advocated universal military service
based on universal training. and de-
!, e3ared that We must aboliah pork
y Aar1sk Dsthods in our national De-
/ tense stop tnlkt1ag AHd 4 - DOWN tQ
xines actual bustness OF ItRofo prepaTed-
meas IL We are ITO make this NATION
I 4. stronE IL are its eonvfcfions III ref
Brsnc9 TO right and wrong.
Colonel Roosevelt prefaced his
: speech by announcing that he had
sconneT here TO Michigan because In
the primary for the selection OF dele
gAtes to the republican national con-
yention. NE. Ford was victorious. and
1 1Ollowing on his Jvictory here. he
showed marked popular strength in
\ Nebraska and Pennsylvania The ef-
! feet of this showing has been im-
mediAteIy visible upon many Of the
politicians within and without con-
gress.
Lssssns ls.sersd.
we, thru our representatives at
/ Washington, said Colonel Roosevelt,
& have absolutely refused in the small
4 est degree to prepare during these
twenty-two months Of world cata-
smallest part Of the lesson being writ
ten on the scroll OF torment in Europe.
We have fatuously refused to take the
smallest step. either to do our duty to
ourselves or to do our duty to others.
We have endeavored to deceive our
selves by announcing that in this
policy OF supine inaction and of fall
L ure to perform duty, we are actnated
by the loftiest motives. ! doubt
whether we have really deceived our
q selves, and most certainly we have
not deceived others There is not a
nation in the world which believes that
our course OF conduct has been die
tated by anything save timidity, nm
worthy Shrinking from effort and re-
sponsibility, and cold and selfish love
OF money making and ofsoft ease.
.In any serious crisis there are al
WAYS men who try to carry water on
both shoulders. These men try. to
escape the hard necessity of choice
between two necessarily opposite
! alternatives, by trying to work up
some compromise. In actual practice,
this compromise usually proves to
combine with exquisite nicely all the
defects and none Of the advantages OF
both courses. II Is true that in ordi-
nary political matters compromise is
essential. It Is true that In ordinary
times It ID essential. But there come
great Srises when compromise is either
impossible or fatal. This is one OF
those crises. THERE'S no use In saying
that we will ft ourselves to defend
ourselves littles but not much. Such
position Is equivalent to ANNOUNCING
that. II necessary. 1--WE shall hit, but
that We shall only hit soft The only
right principle isSto prepare thorough
Y cipie ii, to avoid hitting il It is pos
sibIe to do so. but never under. any
z circumstances TO hit soft. TO go to
war little, but not much, is the one
absolutely certain way to ensure dis-
aster TO prepare q little but not
much. stands on a par with a city
developing fire department which,
after a hre occurs, can put 1t out a
little. but not much.
Raps Wilson PeIiciss.
Colonel Roosevelt declared that the
Wilson administration has taken no
step for preparedness, and has done
nothing efficient TO sustain our ma
tfonal rights Because, he said, the
administration had at intervals, wen
tured feebly to speak I'm nicontradiction