Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-07-05
Those Who Champion Ger many's Cause Are Guilty
 of Treason, He Says.
COMPARES RAIDERS
 WITH THE ALABAMA
Admiral SemmeS Never Sunk a NeS- sel Without FirSt PIhyiding For Safety of Passengers and Grew,
 Says Roosevelt, in Address.

Forest Hills, Long Island, N. Y., July 4.-Declaring that those in America who champion Germany's cause against the cause of America are guilty of moral treason, and are in fact, although not in law, moral traitors, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, in Fourth of July address here to- day, pleaded for single standard of patriotism and loyalty.
 "We are now at war with Germany said Colonel Rooseven. 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 wrong in the future. Our supine inaction was partly due to the folly engendered in our people by the professional pacifists. 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 ar home. The selfishness 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-America 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 for which they cared, Germany.
 Now we are at war with Germany, yet many of these persons supported, of course, by professional pacifists, continue to champion Germany's cause as against the cause for which we are fighting. This is a 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 citizens. The time has come to insist that they drop faith become outright Germans or out right Americans. They cannot be both, and those who pretend to be both are merely Germans who hypocritically pretend to be Americans in order to serve Germany and damage America. At this moment the vital thing to re- member about these half-hidden trait T Ors is that to attack Americas allies, while we are at death grips with a peculiarly ruthless 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 nff %o %oly of titude. We are bound by every con- sideration of loyalty and good faith to our allies, and any opposition to them, or any aid given to their and our enemy, is basely dishonorable as re- gards our allies, and reasonable as regards our own country
 Colonel Roosevelt said that the claim that it was natural for Ameri- can citizens of German origin to favor Germany was nonsense, and crimi- nal nonsense to boot" and added, "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 dis tinct nation, and we are bound al- ways to give our whole-hearted and undivided loyalty to our flag, and in any international crisis to treat every foreign nation purely according to it's conduct in that crisis. It is both weak and wicked to permit any of our | citizens to hold dual or divided al- | legiance, and it is just as mischiev- ous, just as un-American, to discrimi- nate against any good American be- cause of his birthplace, creed or. parentage."
 Elaborating on that point and pro- testing against the plan to exclude from American Red Cross units Americans of German or Austrian percentage or descent, Colonel Roose- welt said that if he had been permit ted to raise military-force for ser vice in France many of his officers would have been chosen from among men of German percentage who were undoubted Americans.
 Not Like Civil War.
 I Colonel Roosevelt severely arraign- ed those who seek to excuse the acts of Germany "our embittered and en- venomed foe," by saying Eve would behave in like manner if we had the opportunity" and reviewed the history of the Civil war in support of his con- tention that the utterance was "in- (ContInued on page four.)