Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-19

can Congress is necessary the for /
mer President said, ito support the
administration at every point where |
| it acts vigorously in prosecuting the /
war, and to supply its deficiencies in
| the prosecutor of the war in the
| carrying out of a proper world pol |
ICY"
This country needs" the Colonel
I declared, "a Congress which will
give the administration this kind of
vigorous support. and yet will tear
lessly supervise and when necessary
| investigate what is being done.
Since the war began the Repub- /
licans in Congress have acted as 4 /
spirit of the largest patriotism, and !
wholly without regard to questions
of politics. For the administration /
| measures designed for efficiently /
carrying on the war they have fur |
niShed larger percentage of sup [
port than have the Democrats; and |
where the administration was wrong
the bulk of Republicans ventured |
TO withstand ii and have stood by |
the country, whereas the bulk of the |
Democrats have not done so; Al |
though there have been some con-
spicuous and honorable exceptions. /
1T is only by such conduct that
we can win the war and secure the I
right kind of peace. The need in
Congress is for loyal Americans, far |
sighted. strong -willed. resolute. who /
shall represent the people OF this
country, and who stall stand stead /
fastly by the nation as a whole"
Defines Right Kind of Peace
The right kind of peace, the peace |
which America must insist upon. |
Colonel Roosevelt said, was "a peace |
conditioned upon the complete /
overthrow of Germany and the re
moval of all threat of German world !
dominion" In fighting against dis
loyalty in America, against all for
eisn raciA solidarity in this country, |
he declared, we must treat agita-
ton for a premature or inconclusive !
peace as treason to the republic"
The German spy, the allen enemy
here at home" and the even fouler !
and more despicable native Amer
lean who serves the alien" the Colo |
mel said. should be interned at hard |
labor, or, il caught in fragrant Of |
fense. should be shot.
Abiding to "a most gallant Amer
lean army" across the seas, and to /
ship and airplane production, the /
Colonel SAID that we owe much of |
this achievement to the work OF the |
Senate committee on military af- !
fairs, and We owe even more to the |
success of the German drive which !
began in March.
we have played a poor part in |
the early stages of the world war
the Colonel continued. Let us make |
the finishing of the war an American
task. BY this time next year we
ought to have overseas an army as
great as the combined armies of
France and England. an army of
between 100000 and 1000, ,000l
fighting soldiers on the various fight !
fr,er F,-4Y 4 fIar Va
placements and noncombatants. .
means at least 100000 men.
Urges War on Turks
Congress should refuse assent to
the War Departments present poll |
cy of procrastination, in deferring /
the necessary extension of the age
limits for the draft, and in other
ways. There should be no further
delay. Besides enormously strength
ening our army in France we should
by this time have declared war on
Turkey and have sent 100000 SOL
diers to aid our Allies in Western
Asia. We have had to use English
ships TO ferry our troops across the
Atlantic and we could use Japanese
ships to ferry them across the Paci-
fic.
There must be no peace until Ger
many is beaten to her knees. TO
leave her with a strangle-hold on
Russia, and through her vassal allies,
Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey dom
inent in Central Europe and Asia
Minor, would mean that she had won
the war and taken a great stride
toward world dominion"
Belgium must be reinstated and
reimbursed France receive Alsace,
Turkey driven from Europe, rhe
Colonel said. Italian Austria must so
to Italy and Humankind Hungary TO
Russia, and Armenia must be free,
the Jews given Palestine and the
Syrian christians be protected, with
the Poles and other Slav races re-
leased from the menace of the Ger
man sword. Unless we do all this, -
he declared, we shall have failed
in making the liberty of well-behav-
ed civilized people secure. and we
shall have shown that our announce
ment about making the world safe
for democracy was an empty boast
Strong Men Necessary
These are the tasks set us as re-
CARDS winning the war and ending
the war" he continued. Therefore
the elected this fall shall not only
be absolutely loyal but possessed |
of broad vision, sound common
sense. high character and unyieldng
resolution; for they must grapple
with tremendous international Ques-
tions 4 timid man. a half-hearted |
pacifist or n foolish visionary may
do as incalculable harm as the de-
magogue or constituencies political
trackster. And of course no disloy-
al man and woman of merely luke
warm loyalty should be chosen, no
matter what the ticket on which lie
runs"
Looking forward to the giant
task of peace" Colonel Roosevelt
said there must be universal obliga-
tory military training. Such train
ing" he declared. would instill into
our people a fervent and intense |
Americanism which would forever
free us from the menace of Bolshe- /
vism and all it's American variety, |
from the frank homicidal march of |
the l. w. w. to the sinister anti |
Americanism of the Germanized CO. |
cialistic party"
Decries Government Ownership
While there will be peculiar need |
/ for supervision of big business after
the war, the Colonel said,. business |
men should be permitted to cooper |
ate and combine. and business should !
not be penalized merely because of
/ it's size. Government ownership |
should be avoided wherever possible. |
he declared. The Colonel concluded |
/ his address by discussing briefly his |
/ politics urging Federal suffrage for |
women, better conditions for labor