Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1917-09-29
CONSCIENTIOUS
DIRECTORS ARR:
GERMAN AGENTS
Colonel Roosevelt Declares
That Pacifists Are Paid or
Unpaid Helpers of German
Cause In This Country.
(By Review Leased wire.)

(By Review Leased Wire.)
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. rs. The
loudest so-caled conscientious objec
tors" in this country today are the
paid or unpaid agents OF the German
government, Theodore Roosevelt de
clared here tonight in a speech before
the Labor Loyalty league. He as
serted the majority of these men are
not actuated by conscience at all, and
that the bulk are slackers, pure and
simple, or else traitorous proGer-
mans"
Pacificists cataIogued
Describing the various kinds OF pa
cifcists in this country. Mr.. Roosevelt
said that some of the leading apostles
of applied pacifcism are not timia
men, but, on the contrary, they are
brutal, violent men, who are perfectly
willing to fight, but only for them
selves, and not for the nation. These
rough-neck pacificists," he said, have
always been the potent allies of the
parlor or milk-and-water pacificists.
The parlor pacifcist, the white-handed
Y or sissy type of pacificist, represents
decandence, represents the rotting out
fthe virile virtues among people
who typify the unlovely senile side
of civilization. The rough-neck pa
cifcist, on the contrary, is mere be-
lated savage, who has not been edu-
Gated TO the virtues of national patri-
otism and of willingness to fight for
the national flag and the national
ideal"
Mr.. Rooselevtl continued:
Duty of Citizen
''If a man does not wish to take
life, but does wish to serve his coun-
try, let him serve on board a mine
sweeper or in some other position
where the danger is to his own life
and not TO the life of any one else.
But if he will take no useful or eff-
cient part in helping in this war, in
running his share of the common risk
and doing his part OF the common
duty. then treat him as having for
feited his right to vote. his right TO
render at the polls any decision which
LIN the long run can only be made
good in the face of brutal and hostile
men by the ability and willingness of
good citizens to back right with
might"
Such a man, Mr.. Roosevelt insisted, |
who claims citizenship. but is not
willing TO perform the necessary du /
ties, is not entitled to any OF the |
fights of citizenship, saying:
Service 70 Nation
Service to the nation in war ST nds I
precisely on footing with any other .
service. If a man viii not perform it, Z
let him lose all the benefits of war;
and at least let him lose the political 4
rights which a free country can keep
only if its free citizens are willing TO 1
fight for them. We stand against all 4
privilege not based on the full per
Torrance of duty; and there is no
more contemplate form of privilege (
than the privilege of Snug, self-righte- .
drawer, more self-sacrifcing men give
/, up safety and 90 to war to preserve I
the nation. If a man is too cOnscien- /
tious to fight. then the rest of us /
ought to be too Conscientious to let
him vote in democratic land which
can permanently exist only when the .
average man is called in the last re-
sort to fight and die for it."
Supporting Germany
Roosevelt said that any workingman
today, whether he be on the farm or
in the shop, who supports Germany.
lis not only playing the part of
traitor to the United States, but is
playing the part of traitor 10 the
whole spirit of democracy throughout
the civilized world"
The speaker asserted that the so
cialist party and the l. w. W. organ
ization in this country had been the
tool of German autocracy and the en-
emies of liberty.
Draft System Wrong
A plea for universal military obli-
CATION was made by Mr.. Roosevelt,
who said the selectiye draft system
is wrong, because it chooses out .
one man to make the sacrifice and do
he work of two or tire other men
who are allowed 10 stay at home and
make money, while the first man risks
his life for their common country"