American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-05-21
R0OSEyELT'S ADVICE is SEND
) MILLION MEN AND REPEAT 1T
"Since We're at War Let's Fight Says
Defense SOciety's Honorary Presl-
dent.

the Lusitania. Il want to see Amer
leans at the end of this war deserve
to be greeted in England and France
as the representatives of the armies
Of Great Britain and France are greet
ed here. We must not confine our
selves TO applauding others who fight
Ia a war that Is ours as much as theirs.
Three years ago the Lusitania was
sunk. When the Lusitania was sunk
we still failed to prepare, and the fact
that we thus failed, the fact that we
failed to act, showed that our unpre-
p%aredness was as profound in the soul
as in the body. We suffered from
spiritual nj less than from physical
unpreparedness. Thank, and humbly
thank God that at last our people have
waked-it was the eleventh hour, but
1t was not the twelfth-that at last
we walked. II we had o walked, if
VIC had not gone forward to do our
duty, never after the close of the war
would an American have been willing
to look the citizens of another free
nation in the face. Thank Heaven, we
have won the right to walk with heads
erect among the nations of mankind.
DO Your Fighting Now.
Now. Americans, fight and do 1t
now. Make our weight felt and make
Il felt at the earliest moment. Fol-
three years and thr~ee-quarters the
English and French armies-aye, and
the Italians and the Belgians and the
other allies-have battled in a quarrel
that was ours as much as theirs. They
have suffered heartrending losses.
Their leaders have stood as once it
was said of Governor Andrew of Mass
achusetts-their leaders have stood
az high priests between the horns of
the altar and poured out the life blood
of their best and their bravest. Their
sons have died that we might live in
safety. Now, let us fight and win so
that their death shall not have been
in vain.
mo American has the right to feel
satisfied until we have in France so
many million fighting men that the
strain will have been taken off the
French and the English armies and
transferred to us, for we deserve to
bear it. l hope to see immediate pro-
vision made for an army of five million
men and at the same time we must tell
the war departent that If they need
them, another five million men can be
had, too. And remember that under
the conditions of modern war not only
must men be trained but they must
be armed with the admirable and deli
cate mechanism of modern warfare.
Speed up the building OF the ships, of
guns and of aeroplanes.
I'VE have a gallant but a small army
on the other side. We have for the
last six weeks been sending troops
rapidly across. perhaps most of them
have as yet only been able to take the
places of the English troops that have
been sent to the front. That is not
enough.
Speed Urged.
Let us speed up the war work be-
hind the lines and at the front, speed
up the building of ships, the building
of guns. the building of aeroplanes;
work three eight-hour shifts out of
every t~wenty-four, and have it under
stood that any nan who makes an
improper profit out of this wal is a
traitor to this country. If there is a
single man of wealth, who at the end
of this war is not poorer than when
the war started, he will have much to
explain.
so much for the capitalists, and the
same thing applies to the wage work
er. See that the big man of means
gets no more profit out of the war
than is necessary in order that the
business shall be rum, and see that
the workingman does his work up to
the handle. If any riveter in a ship
yard drives only so rivets where he
could drive 100. he has driven go for
freedom, and he has left 60 undriven
for the sake of the Hohenzollern. If
any man works three days at high
wages and loafs the next three be-
cause of the high wages he has re-
ceived during the first three, he is an
enemy TO America, and an ally of the
kaiser. If any man. if any capitalist,
makes an undue profit, or if any work
man scants his job he is playing the
game of tyranny against liberty. and
he is false to his brothers in uniform
at the front.
This war drive may very possibly
be succeeded by a peace drive. and
a peace drive adroitly designed to
appeal to short sighted well-meaning
people. who properly and justly being
stunned and Mortified by the slaughter
and devastation of war, fail to see that
We must suffer anything now rather
than permit this condition to remain
such as to invite a repetition of this
war.
If Germany and her three vassal
states, Austria. Bulgaria and Turkey,
who are in matters economic. military
and administrative. merely part of the
German empire today; if Germany and
her three vassal states are permitted
at the end of this war to control the
Balkans. and control all the provinces
of western Russia. and through the
Turkish empire to dominate western
Asia, If that is done. We shall have
seen as the result Of the war, the up
building of the mightiest military
%despotism against which the civilized
world has had to contend in all time.
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