The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-08-26
BRITISH EXTEND BATTLE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
COL. ROOSEVELT
SAYS HURRY WAR
WANTS FOUR MILLION AMER
1CANS IN EUROPE BY
EARLY SPRING.

the war, prepare to defend ourselves
afterward and make ready to solve the
industrial and social problems which
will come with peace, were the de
mands" Of Theodore Roosevelt expressed
in an address he delivered here today.
Colonel Roosevelt spoke at the Cen
tennial celebration of the admission Of
Illinois to statehood.
Two Great Needs.
THE two great needs of the moment" I"
he said, ARE to insist upon thorough
going and absolute Americanism
through this land, and to speed up the
war; and secondarily to these needs
come the needs OF beginning 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 us helpless, and the task of
preparing for the social and industrial
problems which this earth-shaking con-
fict of giants will leave in its ruinous
wake.
ITO Insist upon thorough.going one
hundred per cent Americanism among
all our people is merely another way of
saying that we insist upon being a ma
ton proud of our national past and
confident of our future as the greatest
Of the nations of mankind; for if we
permit our people to be split into a
score Of different nationalities-each
speaking a different language. and each
paying its real soul homage TO some ma
tional ideal overseas we shall not be
nation at all. but merely a polyglot
boarding house; and nobody feels much
loyalty to a poyglot boarding house,
or Is proud to belong to it.
Not InternatiOnalists.
I'VE are not internationalists. We
are American nationaists. We intend
to do justice to all other nations. But
In the last four years the professed in
ternationalists. like the profound paci-
fists, have played the game of brutal
German autocracy, the game of the
and capitalistic tyrant which
now absolutely rules the Prussianzed
Germany OF the Hohenzollerns. Amer
lean pacfism has been the tool and ally
of German militarism. and has repre-
sented, and always will represent, deep
disloyalty to our beloved country.
Let our people remember that for the
two and a half years before we enetred
the war the pacifists clamorously In
sisted that if we kept unprepared we
would avoid war. Well, We tried the
experiment. We kept completely unpre-
pared. Even after we broke off diplo.
matte relations with Germany. we re-
fused to make the slightest preparation.
Nevertheless we drifted into the war
Pacifism and unpreparedness never keep
a nation out Of war. They invite war;
and they insure that if war comes It
shall be costly and long drawn out and
bloody"
Two Classes Of Enemies.
Let us remember this when peace
comes. Don't trust the pacifists: they
are the enemeis of righteousness. Don't
trust the internationalists they are the
enemies of nationalism and American.
ism.
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 faith
act upon, and which does really offer
some chance of lessening the number
Of future wars and diminishing their
area.
This is for the future. Our immediate
nu'y Is 10 WIN the war. we must speed