Douglas Island news., 1917-06-22
TEDDY TALKS
 TO NEBRASKANS
Former President Makes Patriotic Address in Home Town of
 w. J. Bryan

Lincoln, Neb., June 14.-The im- portancc of the American Red Cross is second only to the army as a fac tor in winning the war, Theodore Roosevelt declared here today in an appeal Co tho nation to contribute generously to the S1OO,OOO,OOO war fund of the society, whose nation wide campaign begins Monday.
 "Tho war council of the Amcri- can Red Cross tells us that a fund of $lOO,OOO,OOO muGt be raised at once in order to meet even the most urgent needs" Colonel Roosevelt said. Here, indeed, is a summons Co every American We should be thankful to be permitted Co join in this great service to all mankind. Our people have yet to learn the true meaning of sacrifice. We have been SO far away from the scene of battle. we have been lulled into such drowsy indifference to duty by our ease and prosperity that we could not feel with any intensity the mean ing to us of this awful conflict.
 "We little realize what is before us. Our own sons and brothers will soon be going into battle 5000 miles from home, in land already wasted by war, desolated by famine and smittcn by disease When our own men are wounded they surely will be in great numbers are We going to let them suffer yet more because we fail to provide those things which can most mitigate dis trcss?
 Surely not. We must contribute toward the Red Cross fund, and let next week of sacrifice and generous ity not be spent in vain. Equip the Red Cross from the beginning and for the carrying through of as sa- cred mission as was ever under taken in behalf of suffering man. kind"
 Scores Pacifist Propaganda
 "rho honor welfare, usefulness and the very life of the republic have been threatened by the pacifist and pro-German agitation of the last three years" Colonel Roosevelt said. "It would be impossible to establish the damage done to the moral fiber Of the country by the peace-at-any- price propaganda. At last thank heaven, we came to our senses. We have entered the war for the future of civilization, and it bohooyes us Co bear ourselves like men. We are utterly unprcpared, but we must fight without preparation and pre- pare as we'll as we can at this late date.
 "Thcre must be no division among our ranks" Roosevelt said, referring Co Gcrman-Amcricans. Any citizen of this country who uses his citizen ship in the interest of some other country is a traitor, and it is not our right, but our duty Co insist upon this fact. want to make it clear that | stand for the American who is i'm whole or i'm part of Ger man blood precisely as | do for every other American. no matter what his blood. have German blood in me.
 "In this country we must have but one rag-the American; but one lan- guage. the English, and above all, but one loyalty loyalty to the United States, with no looking back to the various old world countries from which our ancestors came.
 But through political pressure the paciflsts prevented us from propar- ing. They cared nothing for human ity. our national honor or interest. An they asked was a peace that would permit us to get all our four feet in the trough while we strove to distract attention from tho squalid baseness of our materialism by the shrill clamor of a sham sentimental ity.
 Now. when the fire is licking our walls, instead of being able Co put it out, we are scrambling into our .L---