The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-08-26
ROOSEVELT URGES
SPEEDING UP OF VAR
Also Reiterates That Thorough Going
and Absolute Anericanism Ought
to Be Insisted on in This
Country.

Sprlngneld, ILL.,, aug. Zo.--Speed up the
war, prepare to defend ourselves after
war and make ready to solve the indus
trial problems which will come with
peace, were the demands of Theodore
Roosevelt expressed in an address he de-
lievered here to-day.
Colonel Roosevelt spoke at the cen
tennial celebration of the admission Of
Illinois to statehood.
"The two great needs Of the moment,
he said, are to insist upon thorough
going and absolute Americanism through
out 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 pre-
pairing so that never again shall war
find us helpless, and the task of prepar-
ing for the social and industrial prob
lens which this earth-s shaking conflict
of giants will leave in its ruinous wake.
ITO insist upon thorough-going, 100
per cent Americanism among all our peo-
pie is merely another way of saying that
we insist upon being nation 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 score of different ma
tionalities, each speaking different Ian
guage and each paying its real soul hom-
age to some national ideal overseas, we
shall not be nation at all, but merely
a polyglot boarding house; and nobody
feels much loyalty to polyglot board
ing house or is proud to belong TO it.
1--WE are not internationalists We
are American nationalists. 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 mill
taristic and capitalistie tyranny, which
now absolutely rules the Prussianized
Germany Of the Hohenzollern. Ameri-
can pacifsm has been the tool and ally
Of German militarism, and has repre-
sented, and always will represent, deep
disloyalty TO our beloved country
For the moment the pacifists and in
ternationalists and pro-CTermans dare
not be noisy. But let our people be-
ware Of them as soon as the peace me-
gotiations begin and from that time on
ward. They have worked together in
the past and they viii work together in
the future, the pro-Germans furnishing
the most powerful and most sinister ele-
ment of the combination while the pa
cifsts and the internationalists prance
in the foreground and furnish the rhetor-
ic.
let our people remember that for
two and half years before we entered
the war the pacifists DANGEROUSLY insist
ed that if we kept unprepared we would
avoid war Well, we tried the expert
ment. We kept completely unprepared.
Even after we broke off diplomatic re-
lations with Germany and refused to
make the slightest preparation. And
nevertheless we drifted into the war.
Pacifsm 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.
let us remember this when the peace
comes. Don't trust the pacifists; they
are the enemies 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
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.
But let us never forget that any prom
ise that such league or other piece of
machinery will definitely do away with
war is either sheer nonsense or rank
hypocrisy"