The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-04
PLEADING FOR A SINGLE
STANDARD OF PATRIOTISM
TEDDY SAYS THOSE WHO FAVOR GERMANY AGAINST
AMERICA ARE MORAL TRAITORS
ASSOCIATED Press)

ing that those in America who cham
pion Germany's cause against the
cause of America are guilty of moral
treason, and are in fact, although not
in law, moral traitors, Colonel Roose-
velt, in a fourth of July address here
today, pleaded for single standard
of patriotism and loyalty.
"We are now at war with Ger
many" said Colonel Roosevelt. "For
over two years Germany has heaped
insult upon insult, injury upon injury,
on our people. We did not even dare
to prepare so as to be able effectively
to resent wrongs in the future. Our
supine inaction was partly due to the
folly engendered in our people by the
professional pacifsts. But an even
more important factor was the dread
many of our politicians felt, not
merely of the German army abroad,
but of German votes at home. The
selfshness and shortsightedness of
the American politicians were inde-
fensible, and they were due to the
fact that the men who took the lead
in the German-American movement
sought entirely to subordinate the ac-
tions of the country of which they
were nominally citizens, the United
States, to the needs of the country
fer which they cared, Germany.
"Now we are at war with Ger
many, yet many of these persons sup
ported, of course, by professional
pacifsts, continue to champion Ger
many's cause as against the cause for
which we are fighting. This is moral
treason to the republic, and all who
engage in it are in fact, although not
in law, traitors who have no right
longer to be treated as American citi-
ems. The time has come to insist
that they drop their dual allegiance,
and in good faith become outright
Germans or outright Americans. They
cannot be both, and those who pre-
tend to be both are merely Germans
who hypocritically pretend to be Am,
elicans in order to serve Germany and
damage America. At this moment
the vital thing to remember about
those half-hidden traitors is that to
attack Americas allies, while we are
at death grips with a peculiarly ruth
less and brutal foe, or to champion
that foe as against our allies, or to
apologize for that foes infamous
wrongdoing, is to be false to the cause
of liberty and to the United States.
"There can be no half and half at
titude in this war, and no honorable
man can afford to take such an atti-
tude. We are bound by every consid-
Grafton of loyalty and good faith to
our allies, and any opposition to them,
or any aid given to their and our en-
emy, is basely dishonorable as regards
our allies, and reasonable as regards
our own country"
Colonel Roosevelt said that the
claim that it was natural for Amerf-
can citizens of German origin to
favor Germany was nonsense, and
criminal nonsense to boot" and add
/ ed, "either man is an American and
nothing else, or he is not an Ameri-
can at ALL We are akin by blood and
descent to most of the nations of
Europe, but we are separate from all
of them. We are new and distinct
nation, and we are bound always to
give our whole-hearted and individual
loyalty to our flag, and in any inter-
national crisis to treat every foreign
nation purely according to its con-
duct in that crisis. 1t is both weak
and wicked to permit any of our citi-
zens to hold dual or divided alleg-
lance, and it is just as mischievous,
just as un-American, to discriminate
against any good American because
of his birthplace, creed or parentage."
Celebrating on that point and pro-
testing against the plan to exclude
from American Red Cross units Am
ericans of German or Austrian par
entage, Colonel Roosevelt said that if
he had been permitted to raise mil
itary force for service in France many
of his officers would have been chosen
from among men of German parent
age who were undoubted Americans.
Colonel Roosevelt severely arraign-
ed those who SEX to excuse the acts
of Germany "our embittered and en-
venomed foe," by saying @We would
behave in like manner if we had the
opportunity" and reviewed the his
tory of the civil war in support of his