New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
"Shoot All Spies,"
Demands Roosevelt

able to do justice within our own bor-
dcrs and to manage we'll the affairs
| or our own household Therefore it
pehooves us even now, while we are
bending all our energies to winning the
| great war, also to look to the future
and to begin to ponder the things that
we must do to bring greater happiness
and well-bcing and higher standard
OF conduct and character within our
| own borders when once the war is
through.
Demands Loftier Idealism
"Let us who are left behind in our
turn strive to make our lives little
nearer the right ideal. Let us intro
duce into the work of peace something
of the spirit that they have introduced
into the work of war. When these men
come home, or at least when those Of
them who escape death come home
believe that they will demand, and
know that they ought to demand, a
Juster type of life, socially and indus
trially, in this country. l believe, and
| hope, that they will demand a loftier
ldealism in both our public and private
affairs, and better and more common
sense methods of reducing our ideals to
practice and making them realizable.
believe that they will themselves show
! both idealism and also that common
sense the lack of which insures disaster
in peace as in war. l think they will
insist upon a liveier sense of brother
hood and yet will no less insist upon
the duty of recognizing leadership.
Let the difference Of reward be as
great as that between our generals and
admirals, such as Pershing and Sims,
and the warrant officers or senior nom
commissioned officers under them. But
let there be a better proportion than is
now the case in industrial life between
the service rendered and the reward
given.
Gradually I hope to see the wage
worker become in real sense a part
ner in the enterprise in which he
works; and to achieve this end he must
develop the power of self-control, the
power of recognizing the rights of
others no less than insisting upon his
own; he must develop common sense,
and that strength of character which,
cannot be conferred from without, and
the lack Of which renders everything
else of no avail. Above all, I wish to
see that farmers develop their strength
by cooperation, so that the elemental
work of the soil will resume it's ancient
Importance among US
GAS for the prohteer, if I could get
al him l would like to put him to dig
ging the front trenches. And | would
put DeSlue MIN MS DTOtHeT IN wrong
doing, the Stacker or loafer, the man
who limits the output when it is neces-
sary at this time that we should have
/ the greatest possible productions; and I
would do this whether he was acting
as an individual or an official or mem
ber of labor union. Pershng's men
are not limiting their output, and
shame and disgrace should be the por
! ton of any man who limits his output
here at home.
Bolshevism Bad as Kaiserism
In all things I would keep just as
far from Bolshevism as from Kaiser
ism. In this country the Germanized
Socialists have shown themselves in
their true light as the enemies of the
Republic; and"1 would permit no enc
while the Republic is at death gri ps
with foreign foe. am utterly against
every species of anarchy. and therefore
I am against Bolshevism in all it's
forms; but l am equally against the
gross industrial and social abuses
which tend to promote the growth of
anarchy and Bolshevism and Of Ger
manized socialism.
From the days when civilized man
first began to strive for self-govern-
mept and democracy success has de-
pended primarily upon the ability to
steer clear of extremes. For almost its
entire length the course lies between
Scylla and Charybdis; and the heated
extremists who insist upon avoiding
only one gulf of destruction invariably
land in the other-and then take ref
uge in the meagre consolation afforded
by dcnouncing as Inconsistent" the
pilot who strives to avoid both. Order
without liberty and liberty without
order are equally destructive; special
privilege for the few and special privi-
lege for the many are alike profoundly
antisocial; the fact that unlimited in
dividualsm is ruinous in no way alters
the fact that unlimited state socialism
spells ruin Of a different kind. All of
this ought to be trte to reasonably
intelligent people--even if they are
tice an endless insistence on these sim
pie fundamental truths is endlessly
necessary.
Duties After the War
"I believe that when this war is over
we should prepare for our self defence
against other nations, and I believe we
should prepare for our own inner de-
velopment. And in order to meet both
needs | believe in the principle of uni
versal service. Of this, military service
is but part. 1t is vital part and
under no circumstances can we neglect
1t. But it is only part.
universal suffrage can be justified
only by universal service, service in
peace and service in war. The man
who will not render this service has
no right to the vote. If he won't fight
tor the country in war and do his
duty by the country in peace, we ought
not to permit him to vote in the coun-
try. The conscientious objector, who
won't serve as soldier or won't pay
his taxes, has no place in a republic
like ours, and should be expelled from
it, for no man who won't pull his
weight in the boat has a right in the
boat. The Society of Friends have
come forward in this war just as gal
lantly as they came forward in the
Civil War, and all true believers in
peace will do we'll to follow their ex-
ample.
Saved by Our Allies
"We now have universal military
service. If four years ago we had had
universal military training, so that the
service would have been Immediately
efficient when called for the war would
have been over within ninety days
! from the time we entered it, and in
finite bloodshed and treasure would
have been spared. Next time we may
not have allies to DrOtect us And