New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-20
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and concrete example, so that there will
be n definite issue if they dare to
make the issue
Raps Mexican Policy.
Once the Colonel left his prepared
speech to hit at Wilson's Mexican pol
ICY at would take only little time, >
he said, "to land an army Of 2OO,OOC
men on our shores from across either
the Atlantic or the Pacific. And after
weeks and months We have only been
able to scrape up 10000 men on tho
Mexican border"
There were loud cheers few min
utes later. He declared:
~ was President seven and half
years, and in all that time not an
American was injured by the repre-
srntatives Of any other government. /
let il be understood that Uncle Sam
couldn't be kicked with impunity. and
il was | who got the Nobel Peace
Prize. I'd never have got it If I'd been
for peace at any price, and I'd never
have got it if I'd been planning TO
get it,"
On his way up from the station
some mice foolish" women had given
the Colonel a pacifst handful. the bur
den of which was, what is Uncle Sam
afraid of"
The Colonel told the audience about
il. six years ago" he said, "a promi-
nent Belgian manufacturer used exactly
those words to me about his country.
That man is now an exile, and his wife
and children are living in dire want"
Colonel Roosevelt faced and won an
entirely different audience at the
luncheon at the Detroit Athletic Club.
Here were the business men of the city,
to the number of about eight hundred.
To them he defined Americanism as
meaning a unity which knows nothing
Of the lands from which our fathers
came, Of creeds or of sectionalism, and
which should make the country worth
fighting for by making 1t worth liv-
ing in.
He preached 10 them. and with warm
response, his doctrines Of social JUS
tice, and evoked the longest applause
of the day when, in telling OF the SER
vice men Of different bloods had given,
he came 20 the commanders in Cuba,
and as an aside remarked: by the
way, when | had TO intervene there |
interviewed"
The afternoon speech before thou
the Brotherhood Of Railway Trainmen
was triumph OF another sort. Here
were Canadians as we'll as men from
this country, and he talked neither pre-
paredness nor Americanism. He talked
social justice again, this time putting
the emphasis on the workman's duties,
and was heartily cheered. Here, also,
he found ffty-two Spanish War Vet
Grams who crowded forward TO shake
hands with him.
II guess those boys show there'd be
no question about our fellows" one
officer said. and they're for getting
ready now, too.
There's nothing in this talk that the
big unions are against preparedness
OF course, there are always some fools,
but we've got less than most in the
union"
Ten Thousand Defy Rain.
The GROWING testimony TO the Roose-
welt unity came in the rainstorm which
blew up just as the time came for the
big open air meeting which was to give
the city as a whole a chance TO see MN.
Two hours before there had been
twenty thousand persons gathered IN
the park. But even in the driving
downpour ten thousand stayed, ana
when the reception began in the hotel
lobby the crowds broke through the
solid lines of police, swept away the
ropes, and so overwhelmed Roosevelt
with their vocferous support and
physical congratulations that a flying
wedge had to be formed to get him
away at last.
Colonel Roosevelt did not meet Henry
Ford, although early in the day IT was
said the Colonel planned 20 visit Mr.
Ford at the latter's factory.