The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-28
Fighting Teddy in Chicago
With Message to the West.
Fifty Thousand Persons Lined
Route on Arrival.
UNIVERSAL SERVICE At ONCE
Then Send ExpeditiOnary Force
in Next Few Weeks.
EXpel Stacker BridegrOOms
From Country.

Chicago, April 2S.-Teddy came to
Chicago today to tell the middle west
to lick the kaiser-and to do it quick
Theodore Roosevelt is always Teddy
to Chicago.
Fifty thousand cheering westeruers
lined the route over which the visitor
was escorted thru the loop and greet
ed him with we're with you, Teddy"
And besides his pungent comments
about the kaiser, T. R. had a few 9TH
er little items to get off his mind. Cen
eral Joffre'S contemplated visit to Chi
cago, the recent Stacker bridegroom
rush." his offer to go to Flanders. all
came in for their share.
Il wouldn't want to indulge in per-
SonaEtIeS, said the colonel when in
formed of the disagreement between
Mayor Thompson and the council over
extending an invitation to the French
nero to visit Chicago, but | sincerely
hope that the invitation is extended
and that General Joffre comes
Il came to Chicago to make this
speech because Chicago has always
been the storm corner of my past.
Americans-and Others.
There are two classes of people in
Chicago-the Americans and others
The sooner the others get out, the bet
ter. 1 don't care what nationality or
from what country a man comes, as
long as he is a straight American.
II L am permitted to raise my di-
vision I hope to get a larger per-
or part German, 1 am part German
myself. But they must come in as
Americans or not at all. We are
lighting with France for civilization
ana humanity and every American
worthy of the name will join in the
struggle"
When asked his opinion of the
Stacker bridegrooms,' more than five
thousand of whom rushed the license
clerks office here in the early days of
ed.
We'll --'' he said, I'm for any
man who marries as a preparation
for war, but those who hide behind
SKIRTS TO avoid military obligations
should be expelled from the country"
Crowd to Hear Speech
Fully 1900 persons crowded the
banquet chamber at the hotel La Sale
at noon to hear Roosevelt make his
first speech. Governor Lowden ex-
tended the citys welcome and short
addresses We're made by Major Gen
Judson, president of the University of
Chicago, and Edmund j. James of
the State university.
Face Food Shortage
Il believe with all my heart in the
men and women of the west Roose-
welt stated; the world is facing L
shortage of food. Soon we in this
country shall face a shortage of food :.
let us use all the grain we have for
food and not for intoxicants; let the
government help the farmer by mo-
bilizing labor if necessary and tell our
young men that it is a case of farm
and arm,
ffDnriDo the 4uo n
half of peace we have been foolish
enough to prepare for war: now that
we are at war, let US avoid the further
folly of failure TO prepare for the
great tasks of peace, the tasks with
which we will have to deal now while
we are at war, and which will be of
overwhelming Importance as soon as
the war is over We need thoro-going
military preparedness. 1t must ac-
company and represent and be based
on thoro-going economic prepared
ness.
81 come to Chicago to say, substan-
TALLY what I said to you in this city
a year ago, when I spoke for Ameri-
canism and preparedness; the only diff
ference is that some of what I then
said as prophecy can now be repeated
as history. L know no politics, no di-
vision of creed, national origin or Sec
ton, when the nation is at war with a
foreign foe.
People Not Awake.
"As yet our people are not walked
up to the vital significance of this
war. This is because at the moment
we are safe behind the fleet. 1 do
not believe Germany will be able to
make her submarine warfare a sue
cess but this is always a possibility
and if she did succeed it would mean
that we would be helpless victims to
Germany, for the matter of that, to
any other great military power We
cannot afford to owe an ignoble safe
ty to the British fleet.
Three Great Needs.
II appeal primarily for the instant
meeting by this nation of the three
great military needs of the situation:
"(1)-We should Immediately insti-
tute, not only for this war but 8 n11r