New-York tribune., 1918-07-19
R.UrgesAmericaniisrr
And Justice for Labor
Roosevelt Demands Partnership of Workers in Business
Enterprises, Profit Sharing and Sickness Old
Age and Unemployment Insurance

P~~"~"" o'Uto SOhteHttcn w COt-
oneI Roosevelt, }YiN II. Hays, choir
man Of the Republican National
Committee, and Ellhu Root, folloaU
Colonel Roosevelt said:
THE two prime purposes OF the
American people at this time, having
precedence Of all others, are: first to
insist upon the absolute and thorough
going Amcricanization of our entire
citizenship; and. second, to win the
war, to win it speedily as possible !;
and to end 1t by the peace of over
whelming victory, peace which shall
guarantee TO US and to our allies and
TO all the well-behaved nations of the
civilized world lasting relief from the
threat and horror of German world do
minion.
''As regards Americanism, we must
insist that there be in this country but
one nationality. the American nation
allty. There must be no perpetuation
IN this country of separate national
groups, with their separate languages
and special loyalties to alien overseas
flags. There can be no ffty-ffty
Americanism in this country. There is
room here only for 100 per cent Ameri-
canism, for those who are Americans
and nothing else. We must have 10y
atty to one flag only, the American
flag; and it is disloyal to the American
flag to try to be loyal to any other,
whether that other is foreign flag or
the black and red flags which Symbolic
either anarchy or else treacherous hos
tIllty to all for which this nation stands.
But One Language
There is room in this country for
but one language, the language of the
Declaration of independence, of Wash
ington's Farewell Address and of Lin
coins Gettysburg Speech and Second
inaugural English language Amer
icansm transcends every party consid-
Grafton. No man who is not 100 per
cent American is entitled to the support
of any party which is itself entitled to
be considered an American party. We
should treat as dlsloyal any attempt to
carry water on both shoulders, to try
to concillate any alfAmerican vote
here at home, or to antagonize any of
our allies, or to serve Germany by seek
ing peace without victory, or a peace
as favorable to her as to the nations
she has so brutally and unscrupulously
wronged.
1--WE 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 to
this Republic; and we must treat agita-
tlon for a premature or inconclusive
peace as treason to the Republic. The
German spy, the alien enemy here at
home, and the even fouler and more
despicable native American who serves
the alien, should be interned at hard
labor; or, # ms offence be rank, he
should be buried. The surest way to
stop the activities OF spies and plot
ters is TO shoot every one OF them who
caught IN a fragrant offence
Hany Loyal foreign Born
This IS one side of Amerlcansm.
The other and equally important side OF
20 insist that every man who shows
himself TO uo a 100 per cent American,
wholehearted and single minded in his
loyalty TO tins country. no matter what
his birthplace national origin or creed,
bc treated as ON a full and exact equal
ity with every other good American.
"The bulk Of American citizens in
hole or IN part of German blood (and
am myself in part OF German blood }
are absolutely loyal. They have fur
uished ts large and az gallant pro
portion of tho lighting mon OF our army
and navy "a any other element; and of
course j, is the lighting men who meet
aud furnish the highest test OF sound
American citi1enship at this time More
over, IN civl life they furnish their
fuR proportion of the lenders in the
movement TO luslst upon - unified. an
unqualified and i'm undivided American
LOYALTY 60 our country
"lhcso mon are nt 10 iu every civil
and military position in tins country.
rom tho very hIghest down II is not
only An ouirnge. but it ls deeply un-
patriotic and uu American. to discrimi-
nate against them in any Shape or way.
We are al Americans together. and We
must neither permit amy divided allie
glance tu our clti1cpahip. nor any at
Tempt to DIVIDE oar citizenship along
lines Of old Va orld nationality. nor any
attempt TO discriminate between or
agHinat good Americans hocpuHe of
fheir national origin.
Win War. Win II Now ."
'Nmoricanitm means that wo arc n
uation. hut 10 is no use To be "a nation
if the nation cNnnut defend itself {
IT'S SONS can not and VIII not light for
fta cNiftcnc, Tia, enr task 80 Which at
this time We must all of va devote all
our encrpiee l. sp Win tlis wan and 20
wtn N nov. We must p,yd up the war
We must INSIST upnn absolute efficiency
fu our war activities W must insist
upon peace conditioned upon the com
plete overthrow of Germany and the
removal 81 all threat oi German world
dominion.
w WhNf N'iNnr iilf H'hH "a most gal
ltnt American army The man Is q POOR
American whntc VEINS do not thrill with
lride na h' read. of the fcats of ouf
lighting men n France Moreover. at
last ~ have heEun 10 send over enough
soldieis To count for something real IN
tho struggle Va have begun to give
them some Mrplanca. As yet they have
only what cannon We can get from the
rcuch. and N" could vet the army
across at all only los thc nvish Use OF
British ships
Hut We have seemingly made real
.iHtt n hip production and airplane
product on a home. and wc actually
have several hundred thousand soldiers
at the ufhtug front We owe much
oi TINS reinforcement 30 the woto of thc
senate Committee oa Military Affairs;
Ard We oNc even more TO the success Of
Tho German drive which began .n
AHrch. At that time cur fighting army
the front Nae SMALLER than that OF
Ee.Etum and IN spite OF IT'S striking
s"i' 'antry i' could net play a great
parD. mud tbi rcprcsentcd the sum OF
uur military acb 'vsemeui n}tcr "a war
of war
"A very small degree Of efficiency i'm
handling the Wan Department would
rave meant that our army In France on
January ! would have far surpassed I'm
si7e and equipment the army We have
over there now iu July In such event
the German drivc would probably have
been beaten back at once, exactly as
Z we had done our duty. since the sink