New-York tribune., 1918-07-05
Larger Armies in France
and Russia Advocated
in Passaic Speech
Freedom Demanded
For Subject Nations
Restoration of Belgium
Necessary to Peace,
Roosevelt Says

French and British armies combined,
an allied army in Russia around
which the Russian people may rally
TO throw off the German yoke, and no
peace except democratic peace given
10 a Germany beaten to her knees
these are the three chief demands made
by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt in
speed up the war" drive here to-day
For the subject peoples now under
the domination of Germany and her
allies Colonel Roosevelt demanded
complete independence, the complete
restoration of Belgium and the return
20 that country and to France of ter
ritory taken before the world war
began.
The vital work before u.s." the Colo
mel declared in a formal statement
issued prior to his speech to 5000
people who jammed into the High
School auditorium, ''is to speed up the
war so as to fully exert the fully de-
veloped military power of this nation
with our utmost strength at the very
earliest day.
1--WE must not be contented until our
French and British armies combined,
for it has been France. England and
Italy that have been protecting us dur
ing our two and one-half years of neu-
trality and one and one-half years of
preparation. Moreover. we must at all
costs fight the war through until we
beat Germany to her knees. The vic
tory will not be complete unless the
subject races of Austro- Hungary and
of Turkey are made independent ma
tons.
"On the Western front Belgium must
be freed and indemnitied and Luxem-
burg returned to her, and Alsace
Lorraine restored to France.
But this is not enough. If Germany
IS allowed to keep her strangle hold on
Russia, and if Austria is permitted to
keep the Italian, Rumanan and b.
hemian and Southern Slav in subjec-
ton, and if Turkey is permitted to con-
tinue in Europe and allowed to rule
over the Armenian and Syrian Chris
;ians and the Jews of Palestine-if all
of this is permitted the peace will be
German victory, and Germany will have
made great stride toward world do
minion, and we ourselves or our chill
dren will have to fight the whole war
over again.
Freedom for Russia
Russia must be freed from the Ger
man. and to do this q peace commission
Is not enough We need an allied army
as a nucleus about which the Russians
can rally to build again the great Rus
sian army, sd as to restore Russia to
war against the Germans and against
All Russian traitors who helped the
Germans
POLAND must be separate and inde-
pendent commonwealth; the Czecho
Slovaks must be a separate and inde-
pendent com smonwealth; all the south
ern Slavs mast be made a Jugo-Slav or
Serbo-Croatian independent common
wealth; Italian Austria must go back to
Italy and Rumanlan Hungary to Ru
mania.
"The Turk must be driven from Eu-
rope; the Jew must have Palestine; the
Syrian and Assyrian Christians must be
freed; Armenia must become a separate
commonwealth, and probably, like AL
bania, must be put under guarantee
of the Allied powers"
This declaration the Colonel repeated
in the course of his address in the high
school, where he pleaded for 100 per
cent Americanism, for a common Ian
Americans, irrespective of their race,
origin or creed. His we'll known dec
laration against "fifty-fifty Americans"
the Colonel amplified by declaring
against the "99 to l American"
Absolute Americanism
fifty-ffty Americanism, there is no
room here for a ninety-nine to one
Americanism. Either a man is abso-
lutely an American and nothing else
or he is not an American at ALL"
For those not 100 per cent loyal the
Colonel advocated immediate expulsion
tr.y int
If said he, there are any such in
New Jersey, put them out of the coun-
try at the earliest possible moment.
It they are going to oppose our bows
at the front, let them do it openly in
the armies of the Kaiser where the
boys will have a chance to shoot at
them"
eve can have in this country but
one flag and ultimately but one lam
guage,' the Colonel continued, adding
that in the meantime there will be a
period of transition in which other
tongues will be used only for the
elders among the foreign born who
have not learned English.
The use of foreign language as
IN this case" said he, referring to a
local Catholic clergyman who had told
him he conducted services in Polish
Tor the benefit of the older members
of his congregation and in English for
the younger ones who wish none
other, SIS as transitional language
something to bridge over the period
during which English is being &C
CURED"
The teaching of English to all immi
grants should, the Colonel said, be
made compulsory.
Federal Night Schools
AS soon as this war is over" said
he,,"l sincerely hope we will remodel
QUE Immigration laws and treat every
the father of future American citizens.
Let US take them in on the theory that
we are to help make them self-respect-
ing, law-abiding American citizens.
The night school is so important in
this work of aiding the immigrant that
would put it under the Federal gov
crnment and have the Federal govern
ment see to it that every immigrant
has an opportunity to attend.
We're in this fight. Let US resolve
10 pat it through in our own interest
and the interest of other free nations.
Let US resolve to fight it through until
we win peace not negotiated by Ger
many but granted by us to Ger
many beaten to her knees, peace that
viii assure justice to every nation op-
dressed by Germany and guarantee the
defeat of her scheme to dominate the
world
Men of many nations made up the
narade OF 10000 which Colonel Roose-
Welt, Governor Edge, Mayor Sanger and