New-York tribune., 1918-05-31
Must Win Victory.
"Cost What 1t May" +"
Says Roosevelt
Colonel, in Detroit, Warns
Nation Against Pro-Ger-
man Peace Talk
Especial Dispatch to The Tribune) J

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DETROIT, May 3O.-Invoking the
spirit of the men of 1861-'65 as an ex-
ample to the men of 1918, Colonel The
odore Roosevelt tonight called on the
nation to listen not to pro- German
peace talk, but to push the war
through to decisive finish, "cost what
it may"
The men whose memory we to-day
honor" said he, might have had an
early and inconclusive peace, had they
accepted. I might not tonight be
here, for this probably would be a
foreign country. But they were not the
kind that having put their hands to
the plough turned back. They pushed
on to Appomattox and lasting peace"
Colonel Roosevelt's attack on paci-
fism, in this, the one time home of
the cult, and an attack on rich men
who seek exemption for their sons on
the ground that they are needed to
run fathers business, were the
features of a busy day. The latter at
tack was made at luncheon given by
the Board Of Commerce, attended by
most Of Detroit's wealthy men, who
applauded it vigorously. Tc, many of
them it appeared that the Colonel was
hitting at Henry Ford, whose twenty
nlne-year-old son obtained exemption
from the draft on unusual grounds.
Receives Warm Welcome
Colonel Roosevelt's reception here
to-day is said to be the warmest ever
extended any person in private life or
In public office. On his arrival he was
taken through streets lined by cheer
ing thousands, his escort numbering
10000 members Of military and patri-
otic societies. In the lines were news
boys and veterans of the civil war,
smart bluejackets, whose recruiting the
| Colonel came here to boom, girls war
pipes and breezy kits.
"Our next President" was frequent
Colonel. When one enthusiast called
on "Teddy" to "give the Germans hell,''
he remarked, to Ensign D. j. D. Cole
man, his escort, "my reputation seems
to have preceded me-"
This afternoon when he took part in
the Memorial Day parade he received
of bluej ejackets with bayonets was neces-
sary to free way for him into Arcadia
Hall, the police being unable to han
die the crowd.
One Way to Prevent War
Pacifists came. in for denunciation as
the Kaiser's best friends almost from
the moment he arrived IN Detroit. They
were brought into the picture by one
of a delegation of women who met
him on his arrival at the Detroit Ath-
letic Club to ask his further support
for the Federal suffrage amendment.
"Do you not think that if women get
the vote they will prevent another
great war;" she asked.
women will not prevent war;" re-
piled the Colonel, "for, however pacific
We may be, that will not prevent an
other nation evilly disposed from at
tacking US. The. only thing women can
do to prevent future war is by helping
establish universal military training. #
we are so we'll prepared that attack on
us would mean disaster, we will not be
attacked.
Don't you think for a moment that
women can stop war by adopting reso-
lutions; you must not associate YOUR
selves with the insipid male idiots who
do not realize that Germany's strong
est ally is the pacifst in America"
Warns Against Boosting
Boosting of what the country is
about to do also came in for the
ColonePs denunciation at both meet
ings.
"Let us do things, and then tell of
them," said he, "instead of boasting of
what we are going to do. The Civil
war was not won by those editors who
cried 'On to Richmond!' 1t was won
by the men who went to Richmond"
The language question as handled by
the Colonel in Milwaukee and other
places also was we'll received. Detroit
mas large foreign speaking popula-
tion, which was we'll represented in to-
nights audience, but his declaration
for "one country, one flag, one Ian
guage," met with no apparent opposi-
tion.
The abandonment of all tongues
other than English, Colonel Roosevelt
insister, was necessary part of the
programme to unity thoroughly the
country and win the war.
Must Keep Prepared
| "And when we have won this war"
\ said he, I'VE must seriously take ac-
\ count of our shortcomings. We must
never again allow Uncle Sam to be
caught helpless and forced to depend
on his friends, through self-interest,
to protect him.
Next time it may not be to their
interest to protect him. Let Uncle
Sam, his soft, lazy strength developed,
be ready to protect himself"
During his stay here Colonel Roose-
velt declined to discuss politics, con-
fining himself entirely to discussing
ways and means of speeding up the
war and blocking up those who would
slow 1t up through talk of peace "made
ia Germany" The only other matter
discussed is conditions in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin is all right" he declared
| to questioners who wished to get the
benefit of his observations there.