Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-08-27
Although Speeding Up Is
First Duty Roosevelt Sees
Tasks Of Peace Time.
70 SHUN PACIFIST COUNSEL
Former President Says Their
Advice Is Not TO Be
Considered.
SOCIAL PROBLEMS ARE MANY
in Address at Springfield In
dustrial Questions Are
, Enumerated.
70 SHUN PAClFIST COUNSEL
SOCIAL PROBLEMS ARE MANY

SPRINGFIELD, III, Aug. &c
speed up the war, prepare to defend
@arpslvea afterwnrd ana make ready
ts solve the industrial social prob
lens which will come with peace,
were tho demands OF Theodore
Roosevelt. expressed in an address
he delivered here today
Colonel Roosevelt spoke at the
centennial celebration OF the admis-
sion 70 statehood.
The great needs OF the moment"
he said ARE 10 insist upon thorough
going and absolute Americanism
throughout this land. and TO speed
up the war: and secondarlly to these
needs come the needs OF beginning
d even now to make ready TO prepare
FOR the tasks that are TO come after
the war. the task Of preparing so
that never again shall war find ne
helpless, and the task of preparing
for the social and industrial prob.
lens which this earth shaking con
fliot will leave in its ruinous wake.
, Americn Not clearinghouse.
To insist upon thoroughgoing.
100 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 VI we permit our people TO be
>Aplit into n score OF different nation
alities--each speaking different
language and each paying lis real
soul homage TO some national ideal
overseas. VIC shall not be a nAuep at
all. but merely polyglot boarding
house: and nobody feels much loyal
~ 20 a polykiet boardlnghouso or Ia
proud 10 belong 10 H.
We are not internationallsts. We
are American nationalist. We in
tend to do justice TO all other ma
tions, But IN the last four years the
tho professed lnternationalists, like
tho profound pacifists. have played
the game of brutal German autoc-
rscy. the game OF the militaristic
and capitalistic tyranny which now
absolutely rules the Prussianized
Germany OF the HohenEollerns
American paciflsm has been the tool
and ally of German militarism and
has represented. and always viii.
rperesent. deep dlsloyalty 20 our be-
loved country.
Experiment Failed
Let our people remember that
for the two and a half years before
We eUtered the war the pacifists
Clamorously insisted that II we kept
unpreparcd We would avoid war
all gEIa 10
kept completely unprepared. Even
after we broke off diplomatic rela.
tons with Germany we refused TO
make the slightest preparation. And
nevertheless we drifted into the war.
Paciflsm and unpreparedness never
keep nation out OF war. They in
vito war. and they insure that II
war comes Il shall be costly and
long drawn out and bloody.
Let sus remember this when
peace comes. Don't trust tho pacif-
lists: they are the enemies OF right
eousness. Don't trust the interna-
tlonallsts: they are the enemies OF
nationalism and AmericRnism.
when peace comes let us accept
any reasonable proposal. whether
calling for a league OF nations or for
any other machinery which We can
in good fhltn act upon ana winch |
does really offer some chance OF
iessoning the number OF future wars
and diminishing their area.
Duty 10 Win War.
This In for the future. our i'm /
mediate duty is TO win the war, We
must speed up the war TO the limit |
We must try to finish Il at the ear.
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