Arizona republican., 1918-03-29
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PORTLAND, Maine, March 2S.-De- viating from his prepared speech to- n,eht at the close of the republican state convention. Colonel Fheodor9 Roosevelt paid his respects to the Herman American Alliance.
 If congress does it's duty he said, fit will revoke the charter of that or ganization and make. a provision that membership in 1t constitutes treason against this country
 When he was introduced one of the Knox county delegates called for three cheers for the next president of the United States, which were given While the audience stood.
 What we read has happened on the other side during the past seven days has etched in all the deeper the need of preparedness and speeding up of the war" said the colonel. "The events in Europe have proclaimed in letters of blood the truth I am telling you to- night If we do not speed up to aid our allies, some day we shall find our sons and our sons sons fighting here at home without allies"
 Serve Only Their Country
 In discussing post bellum readjust- ments which he declared already have been shown essential to the well-being of the nation, he said:
 we cannot afford to tolerate flint lock methods of warfare in time of war or flint-lock methods of government for meeting the problems of industry in time of peace. We need new weap- ons, but we need the old spirit back of the new weapons. The simple gov ernmental processes which sufficed in the days of Washington and even in the days of Lincoln are as utterly in- adequate today in peace as the flint lock of Bunker Hill and the smooth | bore muskets of Bull Run would be in war"
 | Republicans in congress since the entry of the United States into the war ! have sought to serve their party only 1 by making it serve America" Colonel Roosevelt said in his early remarks. | There have been very grave faults and shortcomings and delays in gov ernmentaI work. But they were not due to the action of congress; and the action of the republicans in congress was consistently designed to correct them.
 "We are pledged to the hilt as a nation to put this war through without | flinching until we win the peace of overwhelming victory. We are pledged to secure for each well behaved nation the right to control it's own destinies and to live undominated and unharmed by others so long as it does not harm others.
 It Is Not the Presidents War
 This is the peoples war. It is not the presidents war. It is not congress
 war. It is the duty of the republican party to stand like a rock against inef- ficiency, incompetence, hesitation ant delay no less than against lukewarm-
 ness in serving the common cause O.
 ourselves and our allies. To support
 public servant who does wrong is a!
 profoundly unpatriotic as to oppose :
 public servant who does right.
 After enumerating German barbari
 ties in Belgium, and the cruelties o
 Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey, Ger
 many's ''vassal states" Colonel Roose welt said:
 Unless we war on Turkey precise ly as we war on Germany, we show that we are insincere when we sa, that we wish to make the world saf
 for democracy.
 , Preparations for three years wal the training of an army of five millio . men, preferably through universal mili , tary training, and the rushing of shi l construction were urged by the forme 5 president as most vital to the winnin :, of the war.
 . "All our other activities in makin , arms, ammunition, airplanes and othe ' war machines can be made to syn . chronize with this,' he said. ' The speaker sounded a warnin l. against professional pacifists," wh \ \ he said. as apostles of weakness ar 2 folly" would renew their activitit . :, when peace is won.
 , We Must Prepare for Peace I Friends" he said, it is not on . our duty to be prepared against wa s It is. if possible even more our dut
 to prepare for peace. And we are a F most as unprepared in one respect ; r. the other,
 . We cannot afford any longer e continue our present industrial al f social system, or rather no system, n every man for himself and the de, - take the hindmost.
 s Tt is our. business as a natit
 seriously toA face our industrial cond l. tions, to realize that we cannot witt y 1 SNS AOaiy PClullC tlltIu lO SO O1l LII n changed, and yet that we are wor 2. than fools, if we permit them to 70 changed for evil. Therefore we mu :, shun equally the bourbon reaction ~ aries who invite disaster by refusing
 grapple with the needs of the hot
 and the sinister demagogues and loo
 minded visionaries who preach a r
 folly that would bring us to even wor
 disaster.
 The great Russian commonweal
 offers a lamentable example of t
 effect of vibrating between the tyra
 ny of an autocracy and the tyranny
 mob. If we are wise we shall n
 permit ourselves to be withheld fro
 a forward movement by the Romanoi
 of our own social and industrial sy
 tenn and neither shall we permit ou 10 selves to be plunged into the abyss | fathomiess disaster into which
 would be plunged if we followed t | American "BolsheviIs,.