Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-09-28
Former President Likens 0p-
ponentS of War to VaIIand-
ingham's Propaganda Dur
ing Civil War;
ENEMY LANGUAGE IS
DANGEROUS TO NATION
DiSIoyaI Newspapers Should
Be Suppressed as a War
Measure; Government Far
Too Lenient,
: MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL leAeso w'ss'

inr MoRhiRo JOURNAL SPECIAL LEAeso w'ssl
Racine, Wis, Sept. 27.--"Neo-cop-
perheads, Huns within the gates OF
America" who are preaching disloy-
atty to the country's cause and Ger
man newspapers which continue
their anti-American propaganda were
denounced by Theodore Roosevelt in
an address he delivered tonight at the
annual meeting Of the League of Wis
consin municipalities.
THE time has come" decla red Col
onel Roosevelt, when we should insist
that any man in this country who be-
lieves in 'Germanism' or any other
nations ism, except straightout una
dulterated Americanism, is a foe of
America and should be bundled
straight out of the country to any 9TH
er country that is willing TO receive
him. There isn't room any longer
here for a $3.50 allegiance"
Hun Within Our Gates.
Describing the Hun within our
gates" as the one from whom we have
the most to fear, because he is the
tool and ally of the Hun without"
Colonel Roosevelt asserted:
those who do most mischief are the
men who hold office and the men who
edit newspapers. These neo-cop-
perheads stand toward the loyal Amer
leans Of today exactly as the old cop
perheads over half century ago
stood toward Abraham Lincoln.
Men like Senators La Toilette and
Stone, and Congressman MacLemore,
occupy substantially the position
Nallandingham occupied in 1868. They
denounce this war as Fallandingham
aided the cause of secession. They
use the same high sounding words
than Vallandingham used. They de-
mand peace, as he demanded II. They
now slur over or defend the hideous
iniquity of German, as he IN his
day slurred over or defended the iniq-
ity of slavery. They try to excite class
hatred exactly as Vallandingham and
his fellows reused the New York mob
against the draft.
Should Go to Germany.
Abraham Lincoln sent Vallanding-
ham into the hostile lines. wish
that we could send to Germany the
neo-copperheads of today, and espe-
cially those congressional and editorial
copperheads who have taken the lead
in directing or Indirectly preaching
disloyalty to our country's cause while
at war, and giving aid and comfort in
this crisis TO the public enemy"
Asserting that this country should
rot permit, during the war, any paper
to be printed in German. Colonel
Roosevelt added that there are plen-
t. Of papers printed in English whose
utterances are at least as bad as those
of the worst German American papers
Government Too Lcnient.
"Our government" he said. "has
been recreant in not dealing with all
necessary severity with the strongest
and most influential of these papers"
Quoting n German-American paper
as asserting "the problem of the Ger
man press is to save the Germanism
in the United States" Colonel Roose-
welt said:
This shows that the men max
ing it and the men defending it are
not Americans and have no business
longer to remain in America. They
are Germans, they are aliens here and
perilously near traitors. The time has
come to make short shrift of such
men,