The sun., 1918-07-19
STATE CONVENTION TOPAIRIOC FERV(

that they shall come rome to a nation
which by our actions has been made a
nation which they can be proud to have
fought for or could be proud to have
died for. prolonged applause.1 That
part of my speech must be credited not
to me but to you, and especially to the
women among you, for I had not thought
of making 1t until I came here"
Trsnscends All Parsisanship.
"Americanism transcends every party
No man who II not 100
per cent. American Is entitled to the
support OF any party which Is itself
entitled to be considered an American
party.
I'VE should treat as disioyal any at
tempt to carry water on both shoulders.
to try to conciliate any half American
vote here Mt home. or to antagonist
any OF our allies. or to serve Germany
by seeking a peace without victory. or
a peace as favorable to her as to the
nations she has SO brutality and I'M
scrupulously wronged.
I'VE must set our faces like flint
against all foreign racial solidarity in
this country; we must treat the Hun
within our gates as the worst traitor ia
this republic, and we must treat agita-
ton for a premature or inconclusive
peace as treason to the republic. The
German spy. the allen enemy here al
home and the even fouler and more
despicable native American who serves
the allen should be interned at hard
labor-or II his offence be rank he
should be buried. The surest way to
stop the activities Of spies and plotters
is to shoot every one of them who Is
caught In a fragrant offence.
The bulk of American citizens in
whole or in part OF German blood (and
I am myself in part Of German bloody
are absolutely loyal. They have furnished
as large and as gallant a proportion OF
the fighting men OF our army and navy
as any other element and of course II Is
the hghting men who meet and furnish
the highest test OF sound American citi-
zenship at this time. Moreover, in civil
life they furnish their full proportion OF
the leaders In the movement to insist
upon unified. an unqualified and an
undivided American loyalty to our coun-
try.
we have across the sea a most gal
liant American army. The man is a poor
American whose veins do not thrill with
pride as he reads of the feats Of our
last we have begun to send over enough
soldiers to count for something real in
the struggle. We have begun to give
them some airplanes. As yet they only
have what cannon We can get from the
French. and we could get the army
across at all only by the lavish use OF
British ships.
But we have seemingly made a real
start in ship production and airplane
production at home. and we actually
have several hundred thousand soldiers
at the rghting front. We owe much OF
this achievement to the work OF the
Senate Committee on Military Affairs
and we owe even more to the success OF
the German drive which began in March
At that. time our fighting army at the
front was smaller than that of Bel
GUM and In spite OF its striking gal
lantry II could not play a great part
and this represented the sum OF our
military achievement after a year OF
war.
"A very small degree Of efficiency in
handling the War Department would
have meant that our army in France
on January 1 would have far surpassed
In size and equipment the army we
have over there now in July.
War Would Have Been over.
"In such event the German drive
would probably have been beaten back
at once: exactly as IL we had done ouI
duty since the sinking OF the Lusitania
(Which was the Firing OF Fort Sum
ter" Of this war;. and had prepared IL
advance. we would have put couple
OF million men in the field a year ago
in which event Russia, would nevei
have broken. and the war would un
questionably have been over before this
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in beins
wise in time.
TT Is too late to remedy the pa st
II Is case of spilled milk. But let u.
avoid spilling the milk in the sam,
fashion in the future Let US begin e
prepare now so that we shall not mex
year he again apologizing for a short
age Of troops. guns, ships and air
planes.
For four years the English ant
French. and for over three years tn,
Italians have fought our battles. anC
we have only just begun to fight To-
ourselves. This is not right We hav
larger population and greater lie
sources than Germany or than Franc.
and Great Britain taken together. w,
have played a poor part in the earl.
stages Of the world war
Let us make the finishing OF tn,
war an American task. BY this tim
next year we ought to have oversea
an army as great as the combine,
armies OF France and England al
army Of between three and four million
fighting soldiers on the various fight
ing fronts, and this. considering re
placements and non-combatants. mean
at least six million men.
Congress should refuse assent 4
the War Departments present policy o
procrastination in deferring the neces
sary extension OF the age limits for TIL
draft, and In othef ways. There shout,
be no further delay.
Urges War on Turkey
Besides enormously Strengthening
our army in France we should BY thl
tine have declar.i war on Tu'k key an
have sent a hundred thousand soldier
to aid our allies in western Asia W
have had to use English strips to fe-r
cur troops across the Atlantic, and w
could use Japanese ships 10 ferry ther
ACT css the Pacific.
There must be no peace until Ger
many is beaten to her knees To ltav
her with a strange hold on Russia
ard, through her vdssal allies. Austria
Bulgaria and Turkey. dominant in Cen
trail Europe and Asia Minor. W ,uid mea
that she had won the war AMI take
giant stride toward world dominion
Belgium must be reinstated and re
imbursed France must receive rae
Alsace and Lorraine; Turkey mus. b
driven from Europe, Armenia made fire..
the Syrian Christians protected and tn
Jews given Palestine Italian Austri
! must go 20 Italy and Roumanian Hun
gary TO Roumania.
Moreover, we must raise against tn
German menace the sleeping sword O
the Slavs of central Europe we mus
establish the great free commonwealth