The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-16
Traitor in Disguise Does Dirty
Work Under Allegiance Oath.
Root Mission Tells of Similar
German Plots in Russia.
OUGHT TO Be SHOT At SUNRISE
editors in N. Y. Who Deserve
To Be Executed for Treason"
Stir Up Anarchy in Russia
Quoting a q. S. Senator.

New York, Aug. ia blow at the
pro-German press and the pro-Cer-
man agitator was struck here today as
the speech of Elihu Root, returned
commissioner to Russia, became pub
lie
Addressing a throng at the Union
League club, Root said:
There are men walking the streets
of this city tonight who ought to be
taken out at sunrise tomorrow md
shot for treason. They are doing
their work under false pretense, they
are pretending to be for their coun-
try and they are lying in every lay
and in every word. They are covering
themselves with the cloak of pretend
ed Americanism: and if we are to be
competent and fit for our liberty, we
will find them out and get at them.
There are some newspapers pub
lished in this city every day the edi-
tors of which deserve conviction and
execution for treason. And sooner or
later they will get it,
The crowd cheered as Root finished
his ringing denunciation. Following
him, Charles Edward Russell, another
member of the mission, attacked the
members of congress who have at
tempted to get statements of war
aims in the senate.
'Disloyal American that disgraces
the congress of the United States
he cried. Traitor in disguise that
| has taken the oath of allegiance and
goes to the senate of the United States
to do the dirty work of the kaiser
Oh, if 1 could have taken you by the
throat and dragged you to Petrograd
and put you up there in the field OF
Mars on a Sunday afternoon and lei
| you see the result of your work Fol
you would have seen those misera BILE
fawning, Shiny creatures that take the
/ nf
! you have seen them, disloyal sen.
| ator, going from crowd to crowd and
repeating your words of treason, quot
| ing what you say IN the senate OF
! the United States when you introduce
resolution demanding that the allie:
state their peace terms"
Il. w. w. Aids Germany''-T r.
Expressing confidence in the sound.
! ness of the character of the Russian
people for self-government, Elihl
| Root, head of the special diplomat,
mission to Russia. in two addresse:
/ here Wednesday at this city's officia
reception to the mission, denounced
the part played in that country dur.
ing its time of peril by 'men CORE
spending to the 1. W. W. here, the ex.
treme Socialists and anarchists with
whom the German agents made com.
mon cause"
Col Theodore Roosevelt, who ais,
! cPchO at tAiC hlCCtiiiSS, llSI DIT C1ll
hall and then at the Chamber of Com
merce. likewise declared that "organi
cations like the 1. w. w. are criminal,
aiding German propaganda in thi.
country" adding:
Let us make those who impos,
obstacles to the success of the wal
/ feel that they are unhung traitors
Put Five Million on Front.
/ He further said that until tn,
United States has placed 5,000,0O'
men in the fighting line, we will hav,
no right to consider ourselves a.
standing level with Canada in thi
fight for democracy" and advocated
the putting of American soldiers ''il
masses on whichever front they ar,
most needed"