The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1918-08-30
MAKE EVERY
MAN AMERICAN
100 Per cent Ameri-
can Is Demand of
the Day.
''SPEED UP THE
WAR" SAYS L. r.

Springfield, ILL.,, Aug. 26. Amer
lcanize the nation, speed up the war
prepare to defend ourselves after
ward and make ready to solve the
Industrial social problems which will
come with peace, were the demands
of Theodore Roosevelt made in an
address here today.
Col. Roosevelt, who spoke at a
celebration of the centenary of Hi
nois statehood, said:
The two great needs of the mo-
ment are to insist upon thorough
going >and absolute Americanism
throughout this land and to speed
up the war; and, secondly to these
needs come the need of beginning
even now to make ready, to prey ire
for the tasks that are to come after
the war, the task of preparing so
that never again shall war find US
helpless, and the task of preparing
for the social and industrial prob
lens which this earth-shaking con-
fiict of giants will leave in its ruin.
GUS wake.
ITO insist upon thorough-going,
lOO per cent. Americanism among
all our people is merely another way
OF saying that we insist upon being
nation proud of our national past
and confident Of our future as the
greatest OF the nations of mankind.
For if we permit our people to
be split into score of different ma
tionalists, each speaking a different
language and each paying it's real
soul homage to some national ideal
overseas, we shall not be a nation at
all, but merely polyglot boarding
house; and nobody feels much 10y
atty to a polyglot boarding house or
is proud to belong to it.
PLAYING GERMANY GAME.
I'VE are not internationalists. We
are American nationalists. We in.
n tend to do Justice to all other ma
g ltions. But in the last four years the
professed internationalists, like the
profound paciists, have played the
game of brutal German autocracy,
the game of the militaristic and cap
italistic tyranny which now asbo
lutely rules the Prussianized Ger
many of the Hohenzollerns.
American pacifism has been the
tool and ally Of German militarism
and has represented, and always will
represent deep disloyalty to our be
loved country.
For the moment the pacifists ant
internationalists and pro-German!
dare not be noisy. But let oul
people beware of them as soon a!
the peace negotiations begin, ant
from that time onward
"They have worked together in tn,
past, and they will work together il
the future, the pro-German furnish
ing the most powerful and most sin
lister element of the combination
EXPERIMENT WAS A FAILURE.
Let our people remember that 70
the two and half years before w
entered the war the pacifists clamol
ously insisted that if we kept unpre
pared we would avoid war Well, W
tried the experiment. We kept con
pletely unprepared. Even after W
broke off diplomatic relations wit
Germany we refused to make tn
slightest preparation. And never
theess we drifted into the war.
"Pacifism and unpreparednes
never keep nation out of war. The
invite war, and they insure that
war comes it shall be costly and lon
drawn out and bloody.
Let us remember this when tn
peace comes. Don't trust the pac
fists; they are the enemies of righ
eousness. Don't trust the intern;
tionalists they are the enemies of M
tionalism and Americanism.