La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1916-11-04

o"It. shoNihG the nigh lights Of the III,
MR.. ROOSEVELT wish 10 say
mat am pleased indeed to appear on
the same platform with Mary Antin
Anc Mrs. Raymond Robins-both be.
cause oil what they are and the cause
OF what they symbolic. Now you
know-that is. hope YOU know
daughter that | don't give a snap of
my finger for the finest words unless
they are backed by deeds tapplauseJ
have grown to have positive nor.
for OF elocution because 1t is so often
treated by those in high places. not as
IN Indictment 10, but as n substitute
for ACTION prolonged applause).
When | speak of Americanism, |
don't admit OF any Americanism OF
the fifty'fifty brand great applause).
You don't need to be told from that
! stand for straight United States
Now, when i
VOICE FROM THE GALLERY:
Hurrah for Wilson,
THE CROWD-Put him out,
MR.. ROOSEVELT paused, and ges.
tculated upwards. Don't put him out.
Don't put him out; he entertains me,
The closest friend I've had in polit.
ical life during the last sixteen years
has been a man both OF whose parents
were born in Germany-but he is no
more Germsn.American than am
DutchAmerican. He lie Just
STRAIGHT AMERlCAN-and that is
all AND THAT'S ENOUGH pro.
longed APPLAUSE.
II the man is in good faith an Amer,
lean, that Is all ask-but ! ASK ALL
OF THAT, applause There isn't
any such thing as a divided allegiance
the minute man has a divided al
legiance between this country and
some other. you can guarantee IL is an
undivided allegiance TO the other
country. II this country Is 20 be
polyglot boarding house. then il isn't
worth while that II should continue
10 exist, and It won't exist. that you
can guarantee.
We praise-we speak OF Washington
and tapplausei Fine APP
plaud them tapplause continues but
live up 10 their principles In the praise
tapplauseb. Washington and Lincoln
were Americans-iust plain Amerl'
cans-that war all, and that was
enough-and what they were. We must
be, or We shall perish AZ nation
from the face OF the earth.
And. friends, In everything ! say
tonight. will ask you to test the
worth AZ what | say by what ! have
done.
Every now and then some man rises
10 say, You mustn't criticiso the Pres
iden,-'' Well. have been Presiden:
applause and II there was any form
Of criticism that | escaped have
forgotten II daughter and applauscl
Il is as Andrew Jackson said, in q
message to Congress in the year 1884
THE people OF the United States have
not only the right but the duty indi
yidually and collectively, In any way
they desire. 10 critiCise and call 10 aC
count the public actions Of the Pfcsi
dent. subject only 10 the restraints o'
truth and justice" In other words
friends. IL Is an Infamous thing
Voice, "Hurrah for wilson Hurrah
for Wilson!'1
ROOSEVELT aside. Little Incl
dents of the evening" in other words
friends. ~ Is nm Infamous thing 10 say
what II untrue. false. malicious or un
- ~ 4.
man. but leas than any other man In
the country. has the President the
right TO eschp. fair and truthful cit
icism for anything he does (applausel
and oriticise Mr. Wilson as he crit
iolsed me-and he's stopped t.
tchucklesl tnpplausei. Now II there
is anything say Of him that isn't II
accordance with the facts. viii b.
glad TO have him point II out n thef'
Il anything he wishes TO say abou
me or any question he wishes TO pu
10 me. will be glad TO have him pu
1T will answer him n, once AM
PUT HIM A DOZEN QUESTIONS Is
RETURN tprolonged applause).
II IL mere folly TO say that we shal
never be engaged In war Two year
and u quarter ago Il must choose m
words carefully nice. woll.meanini
men OF the pacifist type 80 MEN
WHOM. vol. I might say they wer'
tchueklinsl early Victorian maldc'
aunts ,laugh,er) who believed tina
by eioeution you could stop WAR
that 1, Was against human experience
TO suppose such thing. II 'hi
country continues It's national exist
snce long enough. come time again
n will have % face The test Of war