Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-29
ROOSEVELT CLASSES THEM AS
EITHER RoUeHNEcks OR
SlsSIES IN PUBLIC SPEECH.
ALL EITHER PAID OR
UNPAID GERMAN AGENTS
Would Disfranchise All Men Who Re-
fuse to-D Do Part Of Work in War
Roosevelt Would Like to Send La
Toilette and His Class az Free Gift
to Kaiser.


So called conscientious DIRECTORS" in
this country today are the paid or I'M
paid agents of the German govern
ment, Theodore Roosevelt declared here
last night in speech before the Labor
Loyalty League. He asserted that the
majority of these men are not actuated
by conscience at all and that the bulk
are slackets pure and simple, or else
| traitorous pro- Germans"
Describing the various kinds of paci-
| fists in this country. Mr.. Roosevelt said
| that some of the leading apostles of
applied pacifism are not timid men, but
on the contrary they are brutal, vio-
lent men who are perfectly willing to
fight, but aonly for themselves and not
for the nation"
These roughneck pacifists." he said,
| have always been the potent allies of
the parlor or milk and water pacifsts.
The parlor pacifist, the white handed
or sissy type of pacifist, represents de-
cadence, represents the rotting out of
the virile virtues among people who
typify the unlovely senile side of civ
iliZation. The roughneck pacifst, on
the contrary, is mere belated savage
who has not been educated to the vir-
tues of national patriotism and of will
ingness to fight for the national flag
and the national ideal
Put Him on Mine Sweeper.
Mr.. Roosevelt continued: IF man
does not wish to take life, but does
wish to serve his country. let him serve
on hpa ri q nina in
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 efficient 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 forfeited
his right to vote. his right to render at
the polls any decision which in 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 man. Mr.. Roosevelt insisted,
who claims citizenship but is not will
ing to perform the necessary duties. is
not entitled to any of the rights of cit
izenship, saying: Service to the ma
ton in war stands precisely on foot
ing with any other service. If man
will not perform it let him lose all the
benefits of war, and at least let him
lose the political rights which free
country can keep only II its free citi-
zens are willing to fight for them.
Refuse Him the Ballot.
I'VE stand against all privileges not
based on the full performance of duty;
and there Is no more contemplate form
of privilege than the privilege OF exist
ing in SNUG, self righteous. peaceful
safety because other Drawer, more self
sacrificing men give up safety and go
to war to preserve the nation. II a man
is too conscientious to fight, then the
rest Of us ought to be too conscientious
to let him vote in democratic land,
which can permanently exist only if the
average man is willing in the last re-
sort to fight for it and die for it."
Mr. Roosevelt said that any working
man today. whether he be on the farm
or in the shop. who supports Germany
''is not only playing the part of trail
tor to the United States but is playing
the part Of traitor to the whole spirit of
democracy thruout the civilized world"
The speaker asserted that the socialist
party and the I. w. w. organization in
this country had been the tools of Ger
man autocracy and the enemies of lib
erty.
Wants Universal Training.
A plea for universal military obliga-
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Said the selective draft system is wrong
because it chooses out one man to
make the sacrifice and do the work of
two or three other men who are allowed
to stay at home and make money while
the first man risks his life for their
common country
The officers training camps We're also
criticized by Mr.. Roosevelt because,
he said, they have been so conducted
that only men of some means could go
thither or send their sons" He said
they have done admirable work, but
this feature ought to be remedied so
every man who is respectablerandw who
has sons of the right type would feel
that those sons had an equal chance to
become officers with any man in the
land"