The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-18
BRING
HUN TO
KNEES
OUR DUTY Then
ACCOMPLISHED
COLONEL SAYS
Roosevelt in Stirring Address
at Saratoga Today.
We Must Elect Republican
Congressman for Safety.
ONLY ONE KIND OF PEACE
Overthrow Germany and Re.
move Threat of Dominion.
Shoot German Spy and the
Enemy Alien at Home.
|bY next YEAR a MILLIONS
Americas Army Larger Than
EngIand-France Combined.
We Should Have Declared War
| ru~s-
Germany and Re-
move Threat of Dominion.
Shoot German Spy and the
Enemy Alien at Home.
BY next YEAR a MILLIONS
Americas Army Larger Than
England-France Combined.
We Should Have Declared War
on Turkey by This Time.

Saratoga, N Y, July 1s.-Ameri-
canism, the cry of Col. Theodore
Roosevelt for years, was his slogan
today as he addressed the New York
state Republicans in session here.
Prefacing his keynote talk with a
demand for full-fledged allegiance to
the American flag, with the assertion
that there can be no fifty-fifty
Americanism in this country" he
pointed out what the Republican party
has stood for since the war began and
what it will stand for in time to come.
This country needs" the colonel
declared, "a congress which will give
the administration this kind of vigor-
Gus support and yet will fearlessly SUI
pervise and when necessary investi-
gate what is being done. Since the
war began the Republicans in con-
gress have acted in a spirit of the
largest patriotism, and wholly without
regard to questions of politics. For
the administration measures designed
for efficiently carrying on the war
they have furnished a larger percent
age of support than have the Demo-
Gratis; and where the administration
was wrong, the bulk of the Republi-
cans ventured to Withstand Ii Ind
have stood by the country whereas the
bulk of the Democrats have not done
so, altho there have been some kind,
conspicuous and honorable exceptions.
Must Represent People.
"It is only by such conduct that we
can win the war and secure the right
kind of peace. The need in congress
is for loyal Americans, far-sighted.
strong-wi11ed. resolute, who shall
represent the people of this country
and who shall stand steadfastly by the
nation as a whole"
Peace Conditions
The right kind of peace. the peace
which America must insist upon.
Colonel Roosevelt said, was "a peace
conditioned upon the complete over
throw of Germany and the removal
of all threat of German world do
minion."
In fighting against disloyaity In
America; against all foreign racial
solidarity in this country, he declared,
I'VE must treat agitation for a. pre-
mature or inconclusive peace 50
treason to the republic"
Shoot Enemy Aliens.
The German spy, the alien enemy
here at home, and "the even fouler
ID more despicab1e native American
said, should be interned at hard
labor or if caught in a fragrant Of
fense should be shot.
Aliuding to "a most gallant Amerf-
can army" across the seas. and to ship
and airplane production. the colonel
said that 1--WE owe much of this
achievement to the work of the senate
committee on military affairs and we
owo even more to the success of the
German drive which began in March,"
Greatest Allied Army.
I'VE have played a poor part in the
early stages of the world war" the
colonel continued. Let US make the
| finishing of the war an American task
By is time next year we ought to
hhave overseas an army as great as
he combined armies of France and
neland. an arnv of between 3.oo0,-
900 and 100000 fighting soldiers
| on the various fighting fronts, and
| this, considering requirements and
ombatants means at least $780,
| 600 men. Congress should refuse as
sent to the war depa rtment's present
| 1olicy of procra Situation in the exten-
sion of tho age limit for the draft
and in ot3ar WAYS. Thera should be
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