New Britain herald., 1918-08-26
ROOSEVELT SEES
 PACIFIST MENACE
Don't Trust Them at Peace Table,
 His Plea in Illinois

Springfield, TIL, Aug. 26.--Speed up the war, prepare to defend ourselves afterWard and make ready to solve the industrial social problems which will come with peace, were the de- mands of Theodore Roosevelt ex- pressed in an address he delivered here today.
 Colonel Roosevelt spoke at the Cen tennial celebration of the admission of Illinois 10 statehood.
 'Thc two great needs of the mo- ment," he said, "are to insist upon thorough going and absolute Amer icanism throughout this land, and to speed up the war; and secondarily to these needs come the needs of begin ming even now to make ready, to pre- pare 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 prob lems which this earth-shaking con- f1ict of giants will leave in it's ruinous wake.
 '"To insist upon thorough going, 100 per cent. Americanism among all our people is merely another way of saying that we insist upon being a nation proud of our national past and confident of our future as the great est of the nations of manl1ind; for, if we permit our people to be split into a score of different nationalities, each speaking q different language and each paying it's real soul homage to some national ideal overseas, we shall not be nation at all, but merely a
 
 feels much loyalty to a polygot board ing house or is proud to belong to 1t.
 We are not internatonalists We are American nationalists. We in tend to do justice to all other na- tions. But in the last four years the professed internationalists like the profound pacifists have played the game Of brutal German autocracy. the game of the miltaristic and capital istic tyranny which now absolutely rules the Prussianized Germany of the Hohenzollerns. American pacif- ism has been the tool and ally of Ger man militarism, and has represented and always will represent, deep dis loyalty to our beloved country.
 For the moment the pacifsts and internationalists and pro-Germans dare not be noisy. But let our people beware of them as soon as the peace negotiations begin and from that time onward. They have worked together in the past and they will. work to- gether in the future, the pro-Germans furnishing the most powerful and most sinister element of the combin- ation while the pacif1sts and the in ternationalists prance in the fore ground and furnish the rhetoric.
 Let our people remember that for the two and a half years before we entered the war the pacifsts clan1or- ously insistd that if we kept unpre- pared we would avoid war. Well, we tried the experiment. We kept com pletely unprepared. Even after we broke off diplomatic relations with Germany we refused to make the slightest preparation. And neverthe- less we drifted into the war. Pacif- ism and unpreparedness never keep 8, nation out of war. They invite war; and they insure that if war comes it shall be costly and long drawn out and bloody.
 Don't Trust Pacifists.
 Let us remember this when the peace comes Don't trust the paci- fists; they are the enemies of righte- ousness. Don't trust the internation- alists; they are the enemies of nation alism and Americanism.
 'When peace comes let us accept any reasonable proposal, whether call- ing 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