New-York tribune., 1918-05-29
Denunciation of Native
Demagogues and Certain
Editors Bring Cheers
UrgesAll-EnglishP Press
Declares This Nation Cannot
Be Polyglot Boarding
House
Especial Dispatch to The Tribune)

MADISON, Wis, May 28.-Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt this afternoon
hoisted an American flag over the new
home of the Madison Club, which some
months ago expelled Senator La Fol-
lette from membership because of his
position on the war, and tonight, to
the evident pleasure of all who could
jam into the largest hall of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, denounced every
thing that Senator La Toilette has
stood for.
Not once, however, did he mention
the Senator's name. The nearest an
proach to it was when, in declaring all
newspapers must ultimately be pub
Vished in English, he said this would
not protect against "native American
demagogues, some editors and an oc-
casional statesman" a statement al
most as wildly cheered as the Colonel's
tribute to the State of Wisconsin for
her splendid efficiency and loyalty in
the fourteen months we have been at
war,
Must Finish Fight
The worst crime that could be COM
mitted would be to leave the fight half
finished. You," turning to a group of
Grand Army men, finished your fight,
and that is what we have got to do.
Now our people are waking up. If
three years ago the people had been as
awake as they now are ! believe the
war would have been over a year ago.
If fourteen months ago we were as
awake as we are, now we'd now have
100000 men on the firing line to meet
the great German drive, and we would
not be wondering how the Germans are
succeeding, for we'd be doing the driv-
ing
Il do hope our people have learned
from the experience Of the last three
years how much attention they can pay
to pacifists of either sex-that is to
say, so far as you can predicate the
sex of pacifsts.
The pacifists did not keep US out of
war. They merely succeeded in keeping
us unfit for war when finally we
boched into it stern foremost"
"The Civil War decided that we
should have one flag in this country
We are to decide in the war that we
are to have but one flag for every race
strain in this country. There is no
room here for a foreign flag or the
black flag or the red flag. We have
got to have one flag and one national
ideal, that the ideal of Washington
and Lincoln, and one language. and
that the language of the Declaration
of Independence, of Washington s
farewell address and Lincoln's Gettys-
burg address-English.
Not Polyglot Boarding House
"Ihis is nation, and not polyglot
boarding house.
ultimately every newspaper in this
land should be published in English
This will not be a guarantee against
reasonable utterances by some native
American editors, politicians and
statesmen. but it will be guarantee
that we will at least know what they
are saying and they won't be able to
fool US.
There is room in this country for
Americans and nothing else. We have
the right to require from every man
his absolutely undivided allegiance
and in turn guarantee him against any
discrimination because of race, origin
or creed. We must bend our every
energy to speeding up the war, pre-
pared to endure as long as it may be
necessary to putting it through until
ended by the peace of overwhelming
victory"
Colonel Roosevelt will leave in the
morning for Milwaukee, where he is
scheduled to make two addresses be-
fore leaving for Detroit