The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-07
ROOSEVELT IN
ADDRESS SAYS
MUST W|NWAR
Must Treat Every Incite-
ment to Civil War as
Treason, He Advises.
SPEAKS TO NEW
RUSSIAN MINISTER
Extends Hearty Sympathy
and Hope for Mighty
New Russia.
BIZ ASSOCIATED PRESS.


New York, July g.. Win the war,
treat every Indictment to Civil War
as treason to humanity; and bend
of the German armies, was the adj
vice of Theodore Roosevelt given to
Ambassador Boris A. Bakhmetiefe
and the other members of the Rus
sian War Commission in an address
which he delivered in Carnegie Hall
tonight on the occasion of New York
City's official welcome to the COM
mission. The meeting was held un-
der the auspices of the American
Friends of New Russia acting in con-
junction with the mayors committee
of welcome. Mr.. Roosevelt said:
81 am sure that | express the feel
ings of my fellow countrymen when
| say that it is a matter of heart
felt rejoicing among all the people
of the United States to greet and to
welcome this deputation from the
new Russia, the great Russian de-
mocracy. AS a nation we have for
many years felt peculiar sympathy
with and admiration for the mighty
Slav people of the forest and the
steppe, for the young giant among
nations, which as vet has half de-
veloped its tremendous strength.
"In the past ardent sympathy
with and hope for the Russian peo-
pie in America has had to struggle
with a shocked disbelief in auto
cracy and with the whole policy of
reaction and obscurantism.
ave held as our ideal the hope
that ultimately the mighty Russian
empire might stand as here we at
least try to stand, so that Jew and
Catholic and Protestant might feel
their consciences as free as the con-
science of the orthodox, and a self
governing Finland or the Caucasus
or Armenia enjoy within the empire
the liberty that New York and Texas
enjoy within this Union.
Therefore, we hail you, man and
women of the new Russia, with heart
felt rejoicing. Now at last we can
wish all success to Russia without
any misgiving or mental reserva-
tons. Now we feel that the Mighty
Slav republic has blazed the trail of
freedom and has won in legitimate
fashion the right to stand in the
forefront of the onward movement
of mankind. Now we have the right
to expect that you will grant the
men of other races and other creeds
the rights to governmental, intellec-
tual and religious liberty which you
so justly demand for yourselves.
Congratulates Russia.
''In congratulating you and earn.
estly wishing you God speed on the
path of national greatness, | do not
underestimate the grave dangers
that rise before and besides you.
"No liberty can be permanently
secure unless it rests on a founda,
ton of order. No people can per
manently escape control from with,
out unless they pracice control from
within, and civil strife within a ma
tion invites and ultimately ensures ag
Self control is the surest safeguard
we Americans so deeply desire the
permanent triumph of democracy il
Russia that with all our hearts W.
hope for moderation in the use oil
your victory.
"All of us who love Russia ar
thankful beyond measure for the re
fusal of the Russian people to aveng'
past wrongs by the commission d
present wrongs; we honor them TO
the steadfast turning away from
that course of action which woulc
stain the hands of liberty witt
blood. We must earnestly hope tina
Russia has by daring and courag
achieved she will now preserve b,
Cool-headed wisdom, by moderation
and by practical recognition Of tn
| fact that liberty without order ma
prove as great a curse as order with
out liberty"