The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-09-06
7. = WANTS NO
L.'<<esApEpc
NLh~ LhO
IN GERMAN
Declares Some Publications
Are Disloyal
WANTS ONE LANGUAGE
Former President Declares All Who
Do Not Support the Government
: In War Are DisIoyal.

Chatham, Sept 5.-Theodore Roos-
evelt in a speech here today at the
Columbia County fair on Americas
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.
The Colonel arrived in Chatham on
the 1880 train from New York and
was met at the union station by re-
oeption committee headed by former
Assemblyman John B. Sinclair. In
Lonuis f. Payn's car he was driven to
Mr.. Payn's home, where a hurried
luncheon was served after which, ac-
companied by the committee in TWEEN
ty,five automobiles, gaily decorated
with the national colors, they pro-
ceeded to the fair grounds.
"We must have one language-the
language of the Declaration of lnde-
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 scandalous-
ly disloyal to the United States and
to humanity.
Germany will not permit paper
to be publishe in English in fiat
country q we. should.n permit a
= paper to be published in the German
language in the United States.
1--WE are told we should draw a dis
tinction between the German govern
ment and the German people, ! will
draw such a distinction when they
draw 1t themselves. So long as they
stand behind the German govern
ment, | am against them
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 it is crime against
this nation and against all mankind
directly or indirectly to uphold Ger
many; and all who do not heartily
back the United States, and the Allies
of the United States. against Ger
many are guilty of this crime, and are
disloyal to this country.
above all, any man, and especial
ly any senator or member of congress
or editor, who seeks to exempt Amer
leans of German descent from service
in the army against Germany is {
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 t
make his offense a crime"
The Colonel said "The highes
honor at this time should be paid I,
the American in whole or in part o
German blood whose loyalty to tn
United States in this crisis has bee
wholehearted and without reserve" D."
Besides insisting upon undivide
Americanism, Colonel Roosevelt salt
the farmer and the wageearner mus
receive justice. BY direct action
the state, the farmer should be secu
ed from exploitation, he declared. an
producer and consumer brought Z
gether without paying toll to thos
middlemen who do not serve usefl
purpose
"The man who makes a huge prot
out of the war;" the Colonel continue
'is an enemy of his country; and a
organization like the lndustrii
Workers OF the world, which is pla
ing the German game in this countr
and whose preaching and practit
spell destruction to civilization. is
much an enemy to this country as
hostile army.
"The unscrupulous protiteers az
the workingmen who refuses to
first class work for first class wae
are really the allies of our enemie
and of course the pro-Germans, 4
professional pacihsts, the men W
wish an inconclusive peace or pea
without victory, the lndustr
Workers of the World, the Social
machine, are not merely allies of O
enemies, but are themselves our ei
mics.
I'VE should work in the spirit of {
body of men representing the rS
road brotherhoods whom ! address
not long ago: whose chairman in
Producing me said that the one p
pose was to help the country by mi
ing II matter of pride to do tn
work with the utmost efficiency a
pending the war to insist on moth
in their own interest unless Il v
primarily in the interest Of the co