New Britain herald., 1917-09-05
I. R. SMASHES AT
 HYPHENATE PRESS
Would Forbid Publication of Newspapers in German Language

Chatham, N. Y, Sept. 5.-Theodore
 Roosevelt, in a speech here today at
 the Colum bia County Fair on Amer
 ica's part in the war, urged enactment
 by congress of legislation which
 would prohibit publication of news
 papers printed in the tongue of any
 nation with which the United States
 is at war.
 I've must have one language-tne
 language of the Declaration of Inde-
 pendence. 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 dis
 loyal to the United States and to hu-
 manity.
 ''The obscene cruelty and brutality of the German armies under the eX- plicit direction of the German govern ment has been of such unspeakable foulness that 1t is a crime against this nation and against all mankind di- rectly or indirectly to uphold Ger many; and all who do not heartily back the United States, and the al- lies of the United States, against Ger many are guilty of this crime, and are disloyal to this country
 Above all. any man, and especially any senator Or congressman or ed- itor, who seeks to exempt Americans of German 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 amended so as to make his OffenSa a crime'
 The colonel said the higher honor at this time should be paid to the American in whole or in part of Ger man blood whose loyalty to the Unit ed States in this crisis has been whole-hearted and without reserve"
 Besides insisting upon undivided Am ericanism, Colonel Roosevelt said, the farmer and the wage-earner must receive justice By direct action of the state, the farmer should be se- cured from exploitation, he declared. and producer and consumer brought together without paying toll to those who do not serve useful purpose. I
 I. W. w. Enemy to Country.
 The man who makes a huge profit out of the war; the colonel con- tinued, ''is an enemy to his country, and an organization like the Indus- trial Workers of the World, which is playing the German game in this country, and whose preaching and practice spell destruction to civiliza- tion is as much an enemy to this as a hostile army.
 The interruptions profiteers and the workingmen who refuse to do 6rst-class work for a frst-class wage are really the allies of our enemies; and of course the pro-Germans, the professional pacifists, the men who wish an fnconclusive peace or a peace without a victory, the Industrial Workers of the World, the Socialist machine. are not merely allies of our enemies, but are themselves our en- emies.
 We should work in the spirit of the body of men representing the Railroad Brotherhoods whom I ad- dressed not long ago; whose chairman in introducing me said that the one purpose, now that the country was at war; was to help the country in every possible way, not only by mak- ing it a matter of pride to do their work with the utmost efficiency; and
 
 in their own interest unless it was try as a whole''
 Colonel Roosevelt warned against restriction of profits to ton. urging caution against "unrea- sonably low prices. especially as re- gards what the government itself EJo advocated "heavily graduated inher- itance and income taxes" which he asserted should follow the English and German models. Regarding American war activities in general the former president said:
 We are fighting for humanity; but we are fighting for our own country, for safety of America in the world. We are fighting on the other side of the water so that we may not have to fight on this side of the water.
 Autocracy Must Be Overthrow.
 "Only the overthrow of the brutal and unscrupulous miltarism of the Prussianized Germany of the Hohen- zollerns will make this world safe either for the United States or for democracy.
 Let us bend out whole energies to- wards this end. Let us resolve that if all our allies should slip away from us we would nevertheless continue the war single-handed until the end is attained. Let us heartily back up the government in every wise step it takes for the speedy achievement of this end; but let us. as patriots, not less clearly emphasize the fact that we demand from our government wis dom. energy and a spirit of broad Americanism and patriotic absence of partisanship in thus prosecuting the war.
 Let us furthermore each as in-