The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-06-14
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trality between Germany anc Belgium
They denounced war In language
which reflected as heavily on the
fathers who were defending their
wives and daughters from outrage as
upon the aggressors who systemat
ically practiced rape and torture. By
their failure to protest against the
inhuman torture OF the poisonous gas
they made it necessary hereafter tc
accept this as an ordinary instrument
of warfare; just as. by our failure tt
take immediate action with the muir
der Of innocent non-combatants by
submarines, we committed an offense
against humanity, the effects of which
cannot be completely eradicated by
any subsequent action on our part
"kept Us Out Of War.
"All the meanness and abandonment
of duty was championed by the profes.
sional pacifists on the plea that there
by we should be kept out Of war
And by their political pressure. they
prevented us from preparing. and kept
us utterly unprepared, on the ground
that preparedness invited war; their
motto was safety first not duty first
They cared nothing for righteous
ness. They cared nothing for hui
mainly They cared nothing for our
national honor or interest All they
asked was peace that would permit
us TO get all four feet in the trough
while we strove to distract attention
from the squalid baseness of our ma.
terialism by the shrill clamor of a
sham-sentimentality.
And nevertheless we have not been
kept out Of war. Our avoidment OF
duty simply invited such cumulative
repetition Of insult and injury that
finally war was forced on us. 1t mere.
ly resulted In our drifting into war
stern foremost, In condition of such
complete unreadiness that We owe an
ignoble safety exclusively to the pro.
j lection of the exhausted nations to
whose help we have now announced
that we intend to come
"Undivided AmerIcanlsn."
From this time on let us insist on
en- absolute and undivided American.
ism in this land. untempered by any
self-allegiance to the countries from
which our ancestors have sprung, and
untainted by. any unworthy national
animosity towards any other country
s i%St pEOEoAO OuAoCAVNS oP1A1IuA1iy
economically. and in all military and
naval MISUNDERSTANDING as a perma-
nent policy the policy OF universal
military training and service-so that
never again shall we be utterly un-
ready, as we now are, to meet a great
crisis
Finally. in the present war, war
for liberty and democracy against the
ruthless militaristic tyranny of the
Prussianized Germany of the Hohen-
zollerns. let US as speedily as possible
train our giant. our soft and unready
strength, so that we may use our
hardened might to bring the slaughter
to a real and final end in the only way
honorably possible by securing for our
selves and our allies the peace OF JUS
tice based on overwhelming victory
In his appeal for support for the
Red Cross, Colonel Roosevelt said:
1.-THE most important thing is to send
abroad at the earliest possible moment
a great fighting army. Second only to
the army in the work Of winning this
war comes our Red Cross. Indeed the
Importance Of this work is SO great
that the President Of the United States
has set apart next week-from June
ls-25-as period for sacrifice and un.
selfish generosity, . week in which
tie whole American people win be