The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-05
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LANGUAGE PRESS
Roosevelt Would Prohibit
the Publication of Papers
in Enemy Tongues
TAKES A WHACK
ATPROFITEERS
Says Man Who Makes Huge Profits Out
Of the War is an Enemy of His Coun-
try-Likewise Man Who Refuses to
Do Good Work for Good Wages.


CHATHAM, n. v, Sept 5.-Theo
dorc Roosevelt, in a speech here today
at the Columbia County Fair on Amer
lea S part in the war, urged enactment
by Congress of legislation which would
prohibit publication of newspapers
printed in the tongue of any nation
with which the United States is at war.
We must have one language-the
language of the Declaration of hide
pcndence, of Washington S Farewell
Address and Lincoln S great speeches, =
the former President said in part. ''The
leading German papers of this country
have been scandalously disloyal to the
United States and to humanity.
The obscene cruelty and brutality
Of the German armies under the eSplic-
it direction of the German government
has been Of such unspeaka,ble foulness
that il is a crime against this nation
and against all mankind directly or in
directly to uphold Germany; and all
who do not heartily back the United
States, and the allies of the United
States, against Germany are guilty of
this crime, and are disloyal to this coun-
try.
." Above all, any man, and especially
any Senator or Congressman or editor
who seeks to exempt Americans of Ger.
man descent from service in the army
against Germany is a traitor pure and
simple; he should be proceeded against
under the law, if possible, and if that
is not possible the law should be amend
ed SO as to make his offensc a crime. -
The Colonel said ''the highest honor
at this time should be paid to the Amer
lean III whole or in part of German
blood whose loyalty to the United Statet
in this crisis has been hearted
! and without reserve.
! Besides insisting upon undivided
| AmcIfcmism, Colonel Roosevelt said
the farmer and the wage Garner mus
receive Justice. BY direct action of thu
state. the farmer should be secured from
| exploitation, he declared, and produce
and consumer brought together "with
out paving toll to those middlemen VIII,
do not serve a useful purpose.
''The man who makes a huge prof
out of the war, the Colonel continued
sis an enemy Of his country; and al
organization like the Industrial Work
crs of the World, which is playing tn,
German game in this country, and who's
preaching and practice spell destruc
tlon to civilization, is as much an enem,
TO this country as a hostile army.
The INSCRIPTIONS profteers and tn
wOrkmcn who refuse to do first elias
work for a tirst-class wage are really tn
allies of our enemies; and of course tn
Pro-Germans, the professional pacifsts
the men who wish an inconclusive peac
or a peace without victory, the In
dustrial Workers of the World, the Sc
cialist machine, are not merely allie
Of our enemies. but are themselves on
enemies.
eve should work in the spirit o
tho body Of men representing the Raj
road Brotherhoods whom | addresse
not long ago; whose chairman in intro
ducing mo said that the one purpos,
now that the country was at war, wa
TO help the country in every possib
way, not only by making it matter
). pride to do their work with the utmo.
! efficiency; and pending the war to insi'
4 on nothing in their own interest unle
1 il was primarily in the interest of Il
country as q whole.
Colonel Roosevelt warned again
Governmental restriction of profits
the extent that would reduce produ
\ ton, urging caution against "unre
> sonably low prices. especially as I
= CARDS what the Government itself use
: aud as regards exports. He adv
! Gated heavily graduated inheritan
y and income taxes, which he assert
should follow the English and Germ
models Regarding American war {
tivities in general the former Preside
said:
II = We are fighting for humanity; i
primarily we are fighting for our o,
country, for safety of America in t
world. We are fighting on the otl