New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-27

! Anticipating the Stotesbury report
IL was the rankest outrage ever per-
mttod and perpetrated upon an Amer-
can audience on this particular occa-
sion. under the guise OF American pa
triotism. (Hissing and cries OF NO.
All right. gentlemen, you can hiss ana
Won can say no but ] have been m
vited on this platform TO have my say
And | hone somebody A voice: That
is an American Z am rock-rlbbed
American. Applause am an
American from choice; most OF you
couldn't help yourselves. And ! am
not even a German.
"No paid propagandists could possibly
have spoken more effectively for an Eng
lish propaganda than Senator Root did
here last night. Loud hisslngD
"Now. both Of the gentlemen yester-
dav touched very strongly upon the
crime that Germany had committed
upop Belgium. ] want 10 answer that.
aNinetv-6ve per cent Of the people in
America cannot possibly know any
thing Of European conditions except
what they read in the newspapers and
90 ncr cent OF all that you read IN the
newspapers is lies. Laughter and
cries Of MOI
Saws Newspapers Are Subsidized
"That is a courageous statement to
make on the platform in Washington,
know. and / will be derided, and know
that what | am saving here to-day VIII
not be reported by the newspapers, be-
cause the newspapers will not PRINT
bit of news that is favorable to Ger
3 MANY under any circumstances what
ever. Because if they do they VIII lose
their financial advertisements, and
every damn one of them is subsidized
by that institution. (IIissing and cries
OF MOI Excuse me the example was
set for me by somebody else, and have
only learned that in America"
At this point there was babel Of
Interruptions and an attempt to have
the speaker declared out of order, but
when quiet was restored Mr.. Nissen
concluded:
Senator Root and Judge Parker re-
ferred 10 Germany's action against Bel
gium as crime. (Cries Of 1T was.D
There was no crime, because there
never was a guarantee and there never
was an understanding But American
newspapers won't print the facts
Colonel ROOsevelt's Letter
I'm his letter TO Mr.. Menken Colonel
Roosevelt deplorcd the fact that II was
impossible for him TO attend the Con-
gress The movement for prepared
ness, he said. was at the moment the
one vital Cor the ultimate honor and
welfare OF this country. Continuing,
! he said:
"The things that will destroy Amer
lea are prosperity at any price, peace
az any price, safety first instead OF
duty first the love Of soft living and
the get rich quick theory of life.
Preparedness must be Of the soul
no less than Of the body. We must
keep lofty ideals steadily before us,
and must train ourselves in practical
fashion so that We may realize these
ideals. We must make Americanism
and AmericaniZation mean the same
thing 10 the native born and TO the for
cign born; TO the man and to the
woman; 20 the rich and to the poor;
TO the employer and to the wage
worker
No so so Citizenship"
Citizenship must mean an undivided
loyalty to America; there can be no
citizenship on the $3.50 basis; there
can be no loyalty half TO America and
half 10 @ rmany or England or France
or Ireland, or any other country. Our
citizens must be Americans, and moth
ing else, and if they try TO be some
/ thing else in addition, then they should
be sent out of this country and back
TO the other country to which in their
, hearts, they pay allegiance We must
81 have one American Language; the Ian
guage Of the Declaration of lndepen-
dence and the Constitution, of Lincoln S
{ Gettysburg speech and second inaugu-
! raj and Of Washington's farewell ad-
dress.
The American standard Of living
: conditions ard the American standard
Of working conditions both must be
high. We must insist upon them for
immigrants as we'll as for the native
born. We must insist that the people
who work here, live here; that they
are not mere birds OF passage from
abroad. We must insist upon indus
trial justice, and we cannot get il If
we let ignorance and need be preyed
upon either by vulpine cunning or by
wolhsh brutality. and if we do not
train the ignorant and the needy Up TO
I self-reliance and efficiency.
Preparedness does not mean merely
a man with 3 gun. II means that, too;
but IL means a great deal more. IL
means that in this country we must
secure conditions which will make the
/ farmer and the nottingham under
stand that 10 is in a special sense their
country; that the work of prepared
ness is entered into for the defence
of the country which belongs TO them.
/ to all Of US. and the government Of
which is administered in their interest,
in the interest Of all OF US.
Lloyd George an Example
at this moment Lloyd George is
able TO do more than any other man
in rallying the people of Great Britain
TO the defence Of that empire, because
the workingmen. the men who actually
do the manual labor, know that he has
their welfare az heart, that the ma
tional ideal for which he is fighting Is
that which will give them the best
chance for self-development, and for
that happiness which comes TO the man
who achieves his rights at the same
timef hat he performs his duties. lie
is fcLowcd by the people as whole