The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
ONE FLAG. ONE TONGUE

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which makes promises and repudiates
them and says one thing at one time
and the directly opposite thing at
another time
Only once did the colonel mention
his great disappointment, the failure
of President Wilson to take advan-
tage of his offer to raise four divis-
ions of volunteers. This was in con-
nection with his remarks about weed
ing standardization out of Red
Cross units, when he said:
Concerning His Expedition"
IF I had been permitted to raise
the four divisions of troops for service
abroad which congress gave me per-
mission to raise, among the regular
officers whom I would have recon-
mended for command Of the divisions
and brigades would have been General
Kuhn and Colonel Frandholtz: and
1 would have counted myself happy
to have served under either"
Among other Incidental recommen-
dations made by the colonel in his
speech was that all pro-Germans and
professional pacifists be sent to Ger
many and that adj German language
newspapers in the United States be
compelled to publish in English every
word they publish in German.
He also denounced as enemies of
the allies these persons who say they
are LOT A1l6TlCd against germany DuI
for Germany against Engl"nd.
THE events of the last three years.
said Roosevelt. bring us face to face
with the question whether in the pres
ent century we are to continue as a
separate nation or whether we are to
become merely a huge polyglot board
ing house and counting house. in
which dollar hunters of twenty differ
ent nationalitieS scramble for gain,
while each really pays his soul alleg-
lance to some foreign power"
Raps Designing Politicians.
Turning to the pacifists and short
sighted politicians afraid of losing the
German-American vote, he said:
1.-The SelfiShneSS and short sighted
ness of these men were due to the fact
that the leaders of the professional
German-Americans' movement sought
to subordinate the actions of the coun-
try of which they were nominally citi-
zens, the United States. to the needs
of the country for which they really
cared, Germany.
Now we are at open war with Ger
many. She is now our bitter and en-
venomed foe.
Yet many of these persons, sup
continue to champion Germany's
cause as against the cause for which
we are fighting.
1t Is Moral Treason.
This is moral treason and all who
engage in it are in fact traitors who
have no right to longer be treated as
American citizens.
1.-The time has come to insist that
they become outright Americans or
outright Germans. They cannot be
both.
MANY of these German sympath-
izers including men of native origin,
fear openly to assail our country; and
therefore they serve our country's
enemies effectively by assailing Eng
land.
THE Tories of revolutionary days
who attempted to hinder the American
cause by reviving the old anti-French
animosities did no worse thar those
men who today seek to harm the
United States and help our bitter en-
envy by reviving the old anti-British
enmity.'
Concluding, Roosevelt said:
"At present our prime duty is to
fight effectively and to send con-
stantly increasing masses of fighting
men to the front at the earliest pos
sible moment"