Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-09-28
COLONEL SEARS
POMPADOURB0B
AND PAC|F|STS
''They Are LARS" He Yells
While Great Crowd
Cheers.
CHICAGO AUDIENCE
DENOUNCES SOLON


Chicago, Sept. 27.-Col. Theodore
Roosevelt, in one of the great speeches
of his life in Dexter pavilion at the
stock yards last night demanded
henceforth in this country zone Ian
guage and one devotion"
81 stand" he said. for one flag, one
allegiance, and one language-the Ian
guage of the Declaration Of Independ
ence, of Washington's farewell ad
dress. and of Lincoln's Gettysburg ad
Dress
Addressing himself to German-Amer
leans, he asked them to stand "shoul
der to shoulder for this country and
against the bloody tyranny Of Prus
sianized autocracy."
He pilloried the German language
newspapers. The pacifists were scath'
| ingly denounced as human towards.
He mentioned David Starr Jordan and
classed him with the "old women, shall
l say, of both sexes"
CALLS PAcIFIsTs LIARS.
Raising his clenched fist and looking
into the 10000 faces, he shouted
"Liar!' at the pacifists and others who
characterized this rich mans war.
"They lie and they know they lie!"
roared Roosevelt, while the great audi
ence yelled frantically.
He assailed the Illinois Staats-Zei-
tung, which paper, he said, had been
trying to make it's readers Germans
and not Americans.
Senator Robert NJ Lafollette, he de-
clarcd. he considered the most sinister
foe of democracy in this country at the
present moment Roosevelt threw
aside all restraint at this point and
went after Lafollette in sensational
language.
LAFoLLETTE is Scared.
He lambasted him as potential aid
of Germany, and likened him to Val
landingham and other copperheads of
the civil war. He recalled that Lincoln
Sent Vallandingham into the camp of
the Unions enemy and suggested that
Lafollette's appropriate place is not in
the United States senate but in the
German reichstag.
Reaching the climax OF this soaring
invective, amid great outburst OF wild
cheering, Roosevelt said:
Robert Lafollette's presence in the
United States senate is a cause for
shame and humiliation to every worthy
American"
Sweeping the entire line of peace
propagandists, in connection with La
toilette, he added:
"The pacifist has not one quality
that entities him to the admiration Of
one honorable man.
FOR UNIVERSAL TRAINING.
Col. Roosevelt demanded that after
the war this country establish univer-
sal obligatory military training as a
fixed policy of the nation, in order that
it never again shall be caught unpre-
pared if assailed by autocracy from the
outside.
He criticised the failure of the ad-
ministration to start the preparation
three years ago, but saw in the present
situation the making of nation that
Is to be the strong, self-defending ma
ton the self-respecting and decent
citizens want 1t to be.
At the close Of Roosevelt's speech
resolutions we're adopted by the meet
ing denouncing Senator Lafollette as
an enemy of the nation and an aid of
Germany.
The resolutions were read by Bishop
Samuel Fallows, who was member OF
the Wisconsin Iron Brigade in the civil
war. He expressed his sorrow that
such resolutions are necessary since to
him personally it meant the severance
of classroom ties and q long friendship
with Lafollette.
Jacob M. Dickinson, former secre.
tary of war, seconded the resolutions
UPRoAR OF PATRIOTISM.
Five minutes after the general ad.
mission doors were thrown open the
pavilion was packed to capacity. About
100 intrepid youths Skinned up the
lofty Orders and gave the police some
down again.
The big explosion came as the col
onel mounted the speakers platform
and, In response to cheers. waved his
black sombrero and clicked his teeth
in the proverbial way.
CROWD SINGS "AMERIcA."
After ten minutes OF noise and beat.
ing of drums, H. H. Merrick, president
of the National Security league, under
whose auspices the demonstration was
held, raped for order. He presented
H. M. Byllesby as chairman.
The audience sang America" and
the Rev E. J. valtman OF Winnetka Of
fered the invocation.
Col Roosevelt began speaking at 8
o'clock His first sentence-that he
stood only for pure Americanism-elic-
tied tremendous cheer.
HOPED FOR WAR DUTY.
Referring to his hope that he might
have gone to France, he turned to
Father Valtman and said he would
have selected him as his chaplain. He
said he did not belong to the same
church-Catholic-b that he tried to
live the best life he knew how, and
that he would fight as foe of right
eousness any man who would oppose
Father Valtman because of his re-
ligion.
The big crowd laughed when T. r.
said he desired to talk of himself for
about two minutes. He kept them
laughing as he told how many nation
alities were represented in the blood in /!
his veins. He said that even the |
Opaker in him was tho rigth branch of |