New-York tribune., 1918-06-06


hereafter understand that the paci-
fist never keeps you out of war. He
only keeps you utterly unfit to do any
thing when you go to war. Even a
pacitist will fight if you kick him long
enough
Waited Too Long
"The firing on Sumpter marked the
beginning of the Civil War. Now,
never forget that the sinking of the
/ Lusitana was the firing on Sumter in
this war. (Applause.) And then we
debateN for two years what we meant
to do. You think what would have
happened in the Civil War if President
Lincoln had debated for two years after
! Fort Sumter what he meant to do.
Germany went to war with us sixteen
months ago. And fourteen months ago,
after two months of irresolute medi
! tatjon, we driftcd stern foremost into
war with Germany. And now, after
fourteen months, we have hundreds
of thousands of men on the other side,
with what guns and airplanes the
French can give us. We have twenty
three airplanes of our own, think,
/ Mr.. Senator And the last time heard
| from abroad, we increased the number
! because we had had one gun and added
another After fourteen months of our
being at war we have to look on at the
great battle and pray that the English
and French may hold, for the armies
of this country are not yet in a condi-
tion to render them greater assistance
than Belgium can render them.
"Now, friends, you can try to smooth
that over by self -Aattery if you wish,
We may deceive ourselves; we do not
permanently deceive anybody else. We
have heard good deal about censor
ship in the past year, but I wish we
could censor the boasting until we
do some thing to warrant the boasting.
+ (Applause). And meanwhile the Boil
shevists on this side of the water, and
the newspapermen and politicians who
exploit Bolshevist feeling for their own
use, scream or mutter-scream if it is
safe, and mutter if it begins to be un-
safe-that this is a rich mans war.
Win War Just Duty
"Stand by the war. Put it through.
That is our first duty. And the &C
counting will come later. And we will
put the war through. Speed it up.
Stand by every public official, executive
or legislative, exactly to the degree in
which he stands by the country. Stand
by him, as President Lincoln said,
stand by him when he'is right, and as
long as he is right, and stand against
him when he is wrong, and to the eX-
tent to which he goes wrong. If you
don't do that, you are not a good Amer
lean.
"We were told by one of our rulers,
said it, that the war was three thou
sand miles away. We have got the
U-boats at our own coast to-day, and
they are there partly because two years
ago we had not the manliness to keep
the U-boat in October, 1916, off our
shores. Every schooner or passenger
vessel sunk now by Uboat ought
morally to have a right of re-
covery against every man who actively
or passlvely encouraged the U-boat
that came here in October, 1916. (Ap-
plause).
Asks About Bulgaria
eve are at war with Germany. We
thought about it two years and half
and went to war. We then thought
eight months more and went to war
with Austria, and we are still at peace
with Turkey and Bulgaria. The Bull
does his duty, is medium of COM
municaton Of all of our plans to his
allies in the war. If he is friendly to
us, he is a traitor to his own country
and to the allies of his own country.
And you cannot trust a traitor. Either
he is guilty of infamy in being the
Minister of Bulgaria, or he is hostile
to the United States and is engaged
in serving Bulgaria.
"Let US speed up the war in every
direction, and meanwhile-I just hap
pened to think of it, the other day the
President said, apparently in an allu-
sion to Mr. Taft and myself, that we
had asked that five million men should
be raised. That he asked that an in
! definite number should be raised. Now,
it is not Of any consequence what he
asks in Carnegie Hall or what l ask.
( The thing that counts is what is done.
don't ask only for five million men. If
the President wants ten million, let
him go on with my blessing. l will
back him. asked for at least five
million men. And we ought to have
started raising those five million
there is a little over two million now.
Let US raise three more million. Let
us start at once, and we can assure the
President that if he will start now
and raise that total number of our
troops up to five million men, the sec
ond he wants it we will give him the
ten million men or any other number
that he asks.
In introducing the first speaker Of
the evening, United States Senator
/ Wadsworth, Mr.. Sheffield hit at the
men in Washington who were responsi-
BILE for the shelving of Major General
Leonard Wood.
1--WE Republicans are behind the gov
ernment of the United States," said Mr..
Sheffield. "There is but one issue: 10y
atty to America, and one purpose: to
win the war. And all who do not sub
scribe to that shall be scourged from
our midst!"
"Good boy!" exclaimed the Colonel,
banging the table.
Then Mr.. Sheffield launched a glow
ing eulogy of Major General Wood.
"Had it not been for the vision and
foresight of that brave American Off
GER in founding the Plattsburg Train
ing Camp for Officers, an officers ar
tillery school at Yale, and an officers
training school at Harvard, long be-
fore April 7, 1917"-
1.-TWO years before we entered the
war" interrupted the Colonel.
Cheers for Woods Name
eyes, two years before we entered the
war;" went on Mr.. Sheffield, 1--WE would
not now have on the battlefields of
France 100000 fighting men, and our
efforts to avert the greatest tragedy
I Of Nh, aves would hava haop +or sIot.