Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-01
ROOSEVELT FLAYS
SHADOW HUNS
U. S. Must Punish German
Aggressors For Crimes
in War

Johnstown, Pa, Oct. /. - Shadow
Huns" men who sit in our national
legislature and serve the Kaiser, and
"the Huns within our gates" received
another denunciation yesterday from
former President Theodore Roosevelt
in an address at the Workingmen's s
Red Cross Sunday celebration. De-
parting from his set address. Colonel
Roosevelt brought to the several thou
sand workingmen in his audience the
need of true Americanism and the
duty devolving upon every citizen of
the United States in standing behind
the young men who have enlisted or
have been made parts of the National
Army for the purpose of cutting the
German cancer clean out of the world
body"
"Send Him Back to Germany"
Reviewing the remarks attributed
to Senator LaFollette in some of the
Senator's recent addresses, Roosevelt
You don't find any shadow Huns
in Germany. If in Germany any man
acted as LaFollette. in this country,
trenches. l would send him as a gift
to the Kaiser. bet the shadow Huns
go back to their country"
Until the German cancer is cut
clean out of the world body" said Mr..
Roosevelt. this great war for the VIC
torious peace of justice must go on.
Germany has reduced savagery to a
science
There are official records of more
than 10000 separate atrocities COM
mitted by the German armies, not
s}PSoTadtealIy but as Pert Of the de-
horror, upon which the German Gov
ernment has counted"
Quoting from the recent statement
of the. Rev. Newell Dwight Hills. of
Brooklyn, concerning German out
RACES, Colonel Roosevelt added:
The conditions thus authoritative
ly described by an unimpeachablc wit
ness should wake every man and wo-
to help the tortured people of Belgium
and France. Your committees here in
Johnstown should get in touch with
DR.. Hills and follow his advice as to
how to proceed. and you should, of
course, back up the Red Cross in
every way.
Are Fighting Our Battle
France and Belgium, together with
England. have been fighting our bat
tie as surely as they have been fight
ing their own. The Prussianized Ger
many of the Hohenzollerns is seeking
world dominion 1t has shown ruth
less treachery and brutality. Its
course for three years has proved that
it wants only the opportunity to
not able by military force to resist its
attacks. In trying to save themselves.
France and England and poor little
Belgium have saved us, for this
wealthy and unprepared nation would
have been an easy and most desirable
victim for Germany If it had not been
for the allied fleets and armies which
for three years have stood between us
and ruin. During these years of ease
our wealth has. grown, and all of us
should give what we can to help the
wretched victims who have suffered
such intolerable wrongs in France and
Belgium.
But this is not enough. Merely to
help the sorely stricken does not
meet the situation. We must punish
the aggressor in such fashion that
never again will there be a repetition
of wrongdoing such as Germany has
committed in this war. Never again
must we be put in such an ignoble
position as to owe our safety only to
others. Next time it may not pay
other nations to save us from the eff
fects of our folly. Uncle Sam must
hereafter prepare his strength so that
he himself can guarantee his own
safety against any foreign foe.
I'VE have gone to war because Ger
many had during two years committed
upon us outrages to which no self
respecting or manly nation could en-
dure. We shall fight in Europe so as
the necessity of fighting on our own
continent against alien conquerors.
We are also fighting the battle of
liberty loving, self-respecting. de-
Gently nations of mankind.
We must back up the Red Cross and
all similar organizations in every way
possible"