Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-15
ASSERTS Clergyman Should
Put Flag Above Church,
mr. Else Close Church.
STIRRING TALK
TO GREAT CROWD
rrous Farmers of Nebraska to Invest
IN Liberty Loan, Declaring They
Should not slump Ono Wall
Street For So Doing.

Lincoln, Neb., June 14.-Col. Theo
dore Roosevelt, addressing severa
thousand persons on the capita
grounds, on the last day of the semi
centennial celebration, today strove to
drive home the doctrine of American,
ism.
One of his digressions was to flay
German language papers.
aThese newspapers printed in Ger.
man are fit subject for the censor
he said. 81 think the English, since
il is our language, does pretty well
without the assistance of German OF
sny other tongue. l might have beer
Jealous Of my language, but would
never have been president if l had
spoken only Dutch, the language of
inv ancestors"
Colonel Roosevelt asserted that "the
elergynen who does not put the flag
above the church had better close the
church and keep it closed"
He urged farmers to buy Liberty
loan bonds and said:
IF you don't invest in the Liberty
loan, don't jump on Wall street when
Wall street does"
Wanted Prompt Action.
Colonel Roosevelt criticised the ma
ional policy of the United States for
failure to urotest promptly against
German ruthlessness and brutality, de-
nlored national failure to prepare for
BE war, pleaded for undivided 10y
aHy to the American flag, denounced
The pacifists, and asked for generous
support and for the use of the Red
Cross in caring for American troops on
European battlefields.
I'VE permitted our national policy
be said, "to be swayed by the national
devotions and national antipathies of
men who exercised the rights of Am
erican citizens but showed themselves
traitors to America by the war in
(which they prostituted our citizenship
70 the interest of Germany Or to their
hatred of England.
1T would be impossible to overstate
the damage done to the morale fibre
|of our country by the professional pa
cnlsts propaganda, the peace-at-any-
price propaganda. The professional
paeifists during the first two and a
malt years of the war, have occupied
precisely the position of the copper
neads during the time of Abraham
Lincoln.
Insist on Americanism.
From this time on let US insist on
an absolute and undivided American
ISM in this land, untempered by any
sen allegiance to the countries from
winch our ancestors may severally
nave sprung, and untained by any un-
worthy national animosity towards any
otner country. Let us prepare our
seNes spiritually, economically, and
an military and naval matters-in-
sllalng as a permanent policy the
polcy Of universal military training
ana service-so that never again shall
We be utterly unready, as we now
se, 10 meet a great crisis. Finally
!ne present war, a war for liberty
sac democracy against the ruthless
aAitarlstic tyranny of the Prussian-
aeo German of the Hohenzollerns, let
!: as speedily as possible train ou1
sIant, but our soft and unready
ssuasngth, so that we may use oul
aaoened might to bring the slaughter
real and final and in the only way
aunolably possible by securing fol
- and our allies the peace Of
!ustice based on overwhelming vic
Appeals for Red Cross.
d. ms appeal for support for the
Ae en- Cross, Colonel Roosevelt said:
inc most important thing is t.
spo abroad at the earliest possible
syanent great fighting army. Sec
ny u, only to the army in the work Of
in%a nlng this war comes our Red Cross
, y the Importance of this work il
II,;s.a lsat that the President of tn
s%.ea States has set apart next weel
,, as4m June 18-25-as a period TO
rs sIIlce and unselfish generosity, ,
ns ss1 IN which the whole American
H. will be asked to join in rails
- FUNDS to enable our Red Cross t.
dst; ;uim It's vast and indispensable
uu as in this war.
II s Inc president has also commission
81 t several of the abelst business mel
Ri = country as a war council of tn
d Iioss, to administer this servic
uenaf of stricken world. Thi
siafn c council tells us that a fund o
,--vVoo'OOo must be raised at ono