Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-09-29
OhiectOrS Paid Agents,

MlunedpOllS, OcpI. -o'-A Ae iouuSoe so-called "conscientiOus obje ctors" in this country today are the paid agents of the German government, Theodore Roosevelt declared here to- night in a speech before the Labor Loyalty league. He asserted that the majority of these men are not actuat- ed by conscience at all, and that the ."bulk are slackers, pure and simple, or else traitorous ipro-Germans.
 Describing the various kinds of pa cifists in this country, he said that some of the leading apostles of ap- piled pacifism are not timid men, but, on the contrary, "they are brutal, vi- olent men, who are perfectly willing to fight, but only for themselves and not for the nation. These roughneck pacifists," he said, "have always been tn, potent allies of the parlor or milk and-water pacifists. The parlor pa cifist, the white-handed or sissy type of pacifist, represents decadence, rep resants the rotting out of the vlrlle virtues among people who typlfy the unlovely senile side of civilization. The rough-neck pacifist, on the contrary, IS a mere belated savage, who has not been educated to the virtues of na- tional patriotism and of willingness to fight for the national flag and the national ideal"
 MT. Roosevelt continued: eff a man does not wish to take life, but does wish to serve his country, let him serve on board mine-sweeper or Tn some other position where the danger is to his own life and not to the life of anyone else. But if he will take no useful or efficient part Tn helplngs in this war, in running hls snare or the comman risk and doing hls part of the common duty, then treat hlm as having forfeited his right to vote' his right to render at the polls any de- cision which in thee long run can only be made good in the face if brutal and hostile men by the ability and wiling ness of good citizens to back right with might"
 Such a man be inisted, who claims citizenship but is not willing to per form the necessary duties, is not en- titled to any of the rights of citizen ship, saying: "Service to the nation Tn war stands precisely on a footing With any other service. If man will not perform it, let him lose all the bene- fits of war; and at least let him lose the political rights which free coun- try can keep only if it's free citizens are willing to fight for them:
 We stand against all privilege not based on the full performance of duty and there is no more contemplate form of privilege than the privilege lof existing in snug, self-righ hteous neaceful safety because other, braver more self-sacrificing men give ,u!l safety and go to war to preserve the nation. If a man is too conscientious to fight, then the rest of us ought tt be too conscientious to let him vot' in a democratic land which can per manently exist only if the average man is willing in the last resort t' fight for it and die for it."
 MT. Roosevelt said that any work ingman today, whether he be on tn farm or in the shop, who support Germany, ''is not only playing tn part of traitor to the United State but is playing the part of traitor t the whole spirit of democracy thru out the civilized world. The speake asserted that the Socialist party an the I. w. w. organization in thl country had been the tools of Gel man autocracy and the enemies of lib erty. .,.. o,,;
 A plea for universal military e,ol, obl, gation was made by MT. Roosevelt who said the selective draft system wrong, "because it chooses out on '1 man to make the sacrifice and do tn work of two or three other men wh
 are allowed to stay at home and max ,,,orev while the first man risks hl life for their common country.
 The officers training camps Wer also criticised because, he said, the have been so conducted that only me
 of some means could go go thithes tha1, r.0 Q done admirable work, but this fea ture ought to be remedied so "ever
 man who is a respectable man an
 who has sons of the right type, woul feel that those sons had an equa
 chance to become officers with an
 man in the land."