New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-02
T. r., Heckled, Tells of His
Sons Now Fighting in France

The big crowd at the Garden gasped
last night when Theodore Roosevelt
was stopped at one Of his climaXes by
a Socialist auditor, who rose IN MS
seat and addressed 20 the Colonel a
sneering taunt concerning his failure
to be fri .ingiin France at this time
The Colonel was pleading for "lOO
per cent loyalty to the United States
and scoring the American paciiist as
the great ally of the German mllltarlst'
"We send our boys 70 fight across
the seas so that they won't have 70
fight here" he declared. "lf we don't
continue the war TO q successful con-
cIusion-if we let il be & draw tell
YOU with all the conviction ! have that
YOUR children and my children will have
10 fight il out here In this country
beside their ruined hearthstones, TO
defend themselves"
"Why don't you 60 over, then, and
fight" shouted the man from the gal
lery. "You go ahead over"
"He wanted TO 60" yelled the crowd
"They wouldn't let him"
Gust a minute-just minute; let
me answer" said Roosevelt.
"Yes; let him ahswer!" shouted the
Hillquitter.
you want to know why I'm not over
there" inquired Roosevelt. mis- lip
ouivering. "Well, you'll have to ask
somebody else"
Then, as the crowd roared its ap-
proval. he added: 81 did my level best,
but | found that as far as ] was con-
cerned this was a very exclusive war.
I was blackballed by the committee on
admissions.
"But I'll tell you--you creature over
there. | have sent over my four sons
And YOU and those like you dare stay
here and ask an American father what
he means by sending them. Now, men,
give the answer TO that kind OF man
TO the man who sneers-give the an
swer by electing Mitchell Mayor"
Colonel Roosevelt denounced the
Huns within" as even more dangerous
than the "Huns without" He added:
an the long run, even worse than the
Hun within is the man who cringes
before him. The American paciist has
been the great ally of the German mill
itarist.
"Now, friends, during the last three
years we have all Of us gone through a
period Of education, and above all, on
the two questions of Americanism and
preparedness. John Mitchell doesn't
have 10 be questioned on either mat
ter. II you think TO yourselves Of the
typical American figures OF this coun-
try, you think at present OF the young
fighting Mayor Of New York City" (Ap-
plause); "and in this country II we are
TO be q real nation we have got TO make
up our minds that there can't be per-
mitted any ffty-ffty loyalty.
1.-THE man who loves another country
as much as he loves this doesn't love
this at all. IL is with patriotism just
about as it is in domestic life. II a
man is Of such an afectionatc nature
that he has ffty-hfty loyalty between
his wife and some other lady laugh
ter)--if his wife il wroth anything she
will repudiste her fifty side.
at IL just the same thing in this
country. II any man says that he is 4
good American. but he is IA good some
othor-countrian also send him back IN
the other country. He IL out Of place
in this.
"Now, IN that list there, where Judge
Hylan's name appears with black ar
row pointing toward II Indicating re.
production Of lettcrhead Of Friends Of
Peace), there Bre some men who love
another country more than they love
the United States, and some men OF an
even less worthy type who hate another
country more than they love the United
States. The men Of neither type are Gt
for citizenship in this land"
Charles T.. Hughes oflieiated as