Arizona republican., 1917-09-25
WOULD BE ASHAMED TO SIT WITH LA TOILETTE
 IN SENATE SAYS TEDDY
Republican A. p. Leased Wirel

KANSAS CITY, Sept. 24.-'If 1 were member of the United States senate l would be ashamed to sit in that body until l found out some method of de- priving Senator La Toilette of his seat in that chamber which he now dis graces by his presence" Colonel Theo dore Roosevelt declared today al q luncheon given for Major General Leonard Wood and himself as part of the middle western old glory week festivities celebration of this city.
 Continuing his remarks concerning congress. Colonel Roosevelt asserted that if congress had taken the action three years ago that it has since the declaration of war. the war would have been over
 If we take heed of any peace ut terance Germany prepares we will show that we are not prepared yet to go out into the world without a guardian, the colonel added America must make good the words of President Wilson; make the world safe for democracy For this reason we should declare war against Austria and Turiley."
 Major General Leonard Wood, in a speech following the former president, said:
 
 can win the war in the air or with chemical devices: it can only be won with men and by sacrifice"
 After praising Major General Wood, Colonel Roosevelt said:
 Now that I have spoken to you of Americans who stand for and are rep resentatives of America, I now wish for a minute to spe.-, to you of an American who represents the worst of American cteristics-SenatOr La Toilette
 Senator La Toilette is at this mo- ment Loyalty and effic, eniiy serving one country-Germany. He is acting in such fashion as to make him one of the most potent enemies of this coun- try and a most sinister enemy of de- mocracy He claims. and it is the emptiest of all claims, to stand for de- mocracy He is doing everything in his power to enthrone autocracy under the German flag thr ughout the world by the attitude he is taking toward the war. He is showing himself the worst enemy democracy has.
 T read cauple of days ago of Sen ator La Follette's utterances before an organization ill Minneapolis and here after any organization that asks Sena- tor La Toilette to speak ought to be made to show conclusively why it should be considered patriotic organi- zation thereafter.
 The attitude of the German Ameri- can press and the German Alliance in this country ''in their hearty support of the German government and the attitude of the Germans at home to- ward their government shows that they are back Of it. Colonel Roosevelt said, in commenting on the theory that the United States Is fighting the German government but not the people. For no nation does Germany feel and express such bitter and con temptuous hostility as for the Cinted States" he said There is no nation on the face of the globe which they would be more delighted to ruin and i plunder Under such circumstances : the public men and newspapers en- ' gagged in defending Germany or assail- i ing England and our other allies or i in protesting against the war and de- ! manding an inconcluSiVe peace are guilty of moral treason to their coun- | try, and while the German American papers have achieved an evil prom nerce in this matter the professional anti English Irish papers are as bad and the purely sensational demagogiC and unsympathetic section of the American press is the worst of all. Germany embodies the principles o1 successful militaristic autocracy. Mucl has been said about our being against the German government but no against the German people The atti- tude of the German American pres: and the German Alliance in this coun- try in their hearty support of the Ger man government and the practically unanimous support of that govern ment heretofore by the Germans a home shows that at present the Ger mans are back of the German govern ment.
 They have enthusiastically sup ported its policy of brutal disregard o the rights of others Until they revers, themselves. until they cast off the yok of militaristic autocracy they identif, themselves with it and force us to b against them. It is for the German people themselves to differentiat themselves from their government Until they do this they force us to b against the German people as a nee essary incident of being against tn German government.
 The Germans govern from abov
 down. The people of this republic like the people of France, like the peo pie of England, believe in governmen from below up. In other words we be lieve in government by ourselves Tn Germans believe in being governed b an autocratic dynasty which rest
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