The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-07-02
Roosevelt Wants To See Ameri-
cans Shoot the Way They
Shout-Urges Speed In Getting
Men In France To Take the
Strain OF Nations Who Have
Iona Been FIGHTING For Us As
p Well As For Themselves


Well As For Themselves
81 want to see America shoot the
way she shouts, said Colonel Theo
dore Roosevelt in response to pro
lohged applause which greeted him al
n Win the-WRr mass meeting held by
the American Rights League at Car
negie Hall to commemorate the sink
ing OF the Lusitania. ~ want to see
Americans at the end Of this war de
serve to be greeted in England and
France as the representatives Uf the
| armies Of Great Britain and France
are greeted here. We mnqt oot cnn.
fine ourselves to aPplauding others " no
light in war, that is ours as much
as theirs
'ThreC years ago the l.nsitania was
sunk. When the T.usitania 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
paredness was as profound in the soul
as in the body. We suffered from
spiritual no less than from physical
| unpreparedness. Thank, and humbly
u
have waked--it was the eleventh hour.
but II was not the twelfth-that at
last we walked. If we had not walked,
IT we had not gone forward to do our
duty, never after the close of this
war would an American have been viii
ling to loon the citizens Of another free
nation in the face. Thank Heaven. we
have won the right to walk with heads
erect among the NJ iOns of mankind.
DO Your Fighting Now
! Now. Americans. fight and do it
now. Make our weight felt and make
II felt at the earliest moment. For
three. years aud three quarters the Eng.
lish and French armies-aye. and the
Italians and the Belgians and the other
IAllies-have battled in a quarrel that
was ours as much as theirs. They
have suffered heartrendirg losses. Their
| leaders have stood as once il was said
OF Governor Andrew of Massachusetts
their leaders have stood Rs high
priests between the horns Of the altar
and poured, ont the life blooL Of their
best and their braSest Their sons
have died that we might live n safety.
Now, let us eight and win so that their
death shall pot have been in vain.
| "NO American has the right TO feel
satisfied until we have in France, 70
many million fighting men that tho
train win have been taken of the
| French and, the English armies and
| trBusferred TO US, for we deserve to
bear it. / hone to see immediate pro
vision made for an army of FIVE mil
lion men and at the same time we
must tell the war department that if
they need them, another five million
men cam be- had, too. And remember
1 that under the conditions of modern
war not only must men be trained hut
| they must he armed with the admir-
able and delicate mechanism of modern
whrfhrH. Speed up the building Of
4 the ships, Of guns, and of aeroplanes
| ave have Tallant but a small
army on the other side. We haye
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
sreed Urged
LET ps speed up the war work be.
hind the lines ana at the front, speed
IN the building Of ships. the building
Pof Puus, the building of a6roplnncs:
1 work three, eight-hOur shifts out Of
1 every twenty four. and have it under
stood that any man who makes an i'm
prOner profit ont of this war is n
traitor to this country. If there is
- single man of wealth. who at the
end of this war is not poorer than
L., Al l.
much to explain.
$50 much for the capitalists, and
the same thing applies to the wage
worker. 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. rnn, and see that the
workingman does his work up to tn"
handle. If any riveter in, a shipvnrl
drives only 90. ,rivats where he could
drive 100, be has driven 90 for free,
dom, and he has left, 60 undriven for
the sake, of the Hohepzollern. If any
man works three days at high wages
and loafs the next three because of
the high wages he has received during
the first three, heis an enemy to Amer
lea, and an ally Of the Kaiser If any
man. if any, capitalist. makes an undue
profit, or, if any workman ,scants his
job he is playing the game of tyranny
against liberty, aud be is false to his
brothers in uniform at the front.
! This war drive may very possibly
be sueceeded by,a peace drive, and
a. peace drive adroitly designed to ap,
peal to short. sighted wellsmeaniug PEG
pie, who properly and Justly being
4 stunned andshorrifed' by the slaughter
aud devastation Of war. Fair to see that
"a" must suffer anything now rather
than permit this condition to remain
such AS to invite u repetition of this
war ,.h.
"If Germany and her three vassal
states, Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey
who are in matters economic, military
Rnd administrative, merely part Of the
German Empire today ! If Germany and
her three vassal states are permitte cd
Mt the end of this war to control thr
Balkans, and control oil the province,
of Western Russia, and through the
Turkish Empire to, dominate Western
Asia, if that is DONE; we shall hay
seen as the result Of the war, the ny
building of the mightiest military DIES
potiSm against which the riviIlr
world has had to contend in all time
I" If we are sincere in our beliefs WI