New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-16
Publishers Posing as Patriots
Among Enemies of y.
S., He Asserts
Senator Disloyal,
Russell Declares
Peace Resolution Used by
German Agents in Rus
sia, He Says

| Elihu Root, head of the American
mission to Russia, wound up the day
of welcome which New York City had
rendered him and his colleagues by
! launching a bitter attack last night
/ against the traitor within our gates
who is secretly playing Germany's
| game. He also predicted that the pub
/ fishers of certain New York papers
who are hindering our prosecution of
the war while pretending to be
patriots, would eventually be tried and
shot for treason.
The denunciatlon came forth during
his address at reception given in
/ honor of the returned commissioners
at the Union League Club. As Mr..
Root scored his points against the
private traitor and the publisher
traitor men stood on their chairs and
cheered. Wnen he predicted that
eventually both classes of pro- German
would be led out and shot there were
shouts of They will. We're with you"
Public Not Awake, Says Hughes
Mr.. Root was introduced by Charles
+. Hughes, who presided at the dinner.
He began by deploring the fact that
Americans in general had not appre-
cisted the menace of the pro-German
in this country.
There are men walking the streets
of this city tonight" he said impress
sively, who ought to be taken out at
sunrise tomorrow and shot. They are
doing their work under false pretences.
They are protesting to be for this
country and they are lying every day
and in every word.
They are covering themselves with
a cloak OF pretended Americanism, and
if we are competent and fit for our
liberty we will find them out and get
TO them"
Cheers interrupted him. When he
was able to make himself heard again,
he continued, even more gravely and
wrathfully:
There are some newspaper publish
ers in this city who every day deserve
conviction and execution for treason,
and sooner or later they will get it,"
These words touched an even more
moment hitherto grave men were al
most mob-like in their enthusiasm.
The unrestrained applause which fol-
lowed Mr.. Roots denunciation Of Amer
lean traitors was equaled few min
utes later when Charles Edward Rus
sell, Socialist member Of the mission
to Russia. referring to United States
Senator. whom he did not name. said:
Senator Is Denounced
"tisloyal American, that disgraces
the Congress of the United States,
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 | could
have taken you by the throat and
dragged you to Petrogrsd to put you
there in the Field of Mars and let you
see the result of your work!
"Disloyal senator. the creatures in
Russia who take the dirty money of
Germany repeat what you say in the
Senate of the United States when you
introduce a resolution demanding that
the Allies shall state their peace terms.
within three weeks your words
will be repeated by the agents of Ger
many looking toward your peace con-
ference. They say your words repre-
sent the voice of the people of the
United States
"That, disloyal Senator, is the result
of your work, and every word you utter
in the Senate of the United States in
behalf of peace or in behalf of treason
every one of them-is a poisoned
dagger plunged into the heart of your
country.
at is a terrible work that you are
doing, traitor, for upon your work
hangs the possibility of the loss Of
million American lives and twenty
billion dollars of American money"
Earlier in the day Mr.. Roots fierce
resentment toward the doublefaced
American fared up for moment. In
his address at City Hall, he said:
Here, as in Russia, are men who pro-
claim their patriotism and sell their
government Here, as there, the time
is at hand when the power of a democ-
racy, long suffering, asserts itself
against these men-and then let them
beware"
other neUs Of NeU York'S re-.
ception TO the Root mission on
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