Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-09
against the publication Of papers in
any except the English language. ]

against the publication Of papers in
any except the English language. !
say that knowing we'll that some pa
pers published in English are just as
| bad as they can be. II we read anti
American newspapers, then we are to
blame. We should see that we have
laws which will force all foreign Ian
guage papers to be printed in Eng
| lish. II we do not read and think
the same thoughts, we will turn our
country into Balkan peninsula where
there are many conflicting languages.
As to Pacihsts.
"In the past many men of high
ideals were pacihsts who believed that
BY passing resolutions they could
make the meek men live unharmed
by strong and cruel men. We must
know that as the world is now. we
can only win respect when we show
that we are in the right. don't
care for good man who is good be-
cause he is an anaemic; it is the same
with a nation. II l could have my
advice needed, ! would have nation
govern its conduct the same as a
high-minded man would govern his
conduct. / will not subscribe to the
doctrine that there is one type Of
morality for nation and another for
man. When ! was president ] tried
to live up to. that doctrine. I hate
a nation that is bully. My feeling
is. don't fight ii you can help it. but
| il you have to fight, then fight. To
young man ] would say, Don't hit
| II you can help 1t, but don't hit softly
Nobody is grateful for being hit soft
ly. If you do hit him put him to
sleep!
1--WE are in the war. II Is Is months
since Germany went to war with US
and IA months since we went to war
with Germany. For two months we
were in the twilight. Our troops
are fighting abroad with the allies so
that they won't have to fight at home
without these allies.
This Wars, Sumpter.
"The sinking OF the Lusitania was
the firing on Fort Sumter in our
case. We not only have our own
grievances, but il there was ever
war demanded by every principle Of
justice, It was this war. 1t took US
months to realize the hideous horror
OF Germany and its vassal states.
II we allow Germany to escape with
out punishment for its misdceds. we
shall place premium on internation-
al wrongdoing in the future. A more
wanton outrage than the Invasion OF
Belgium was never committed and
the massacre of the Armenians was
with German connivance.
u speak literally when ! say life
would not be worth living, for any
man who had to bow the neck to
German conquest. Let us be on our
guard in this country lest we say that
Germany can not hurt us. We can
not have peace that will be an ac-
ceptablc peace to all parties in this
case. Any man who tells you that
he wishes to preserve the feelings of
Germany as we'll as OF Belgium, is
preaching the gospel OF the devils.
We must fight this war through; we
have no alternative. We must make
sacrifices.
Must Put War Through.
IF, when this war first broke, we
had begun to prepare our strength
or even when the Lusitania was sunk
Russia would not have broken and
the war would have been over by
this time and an era of peace dawned
for man.sind. We must now insist
that we put this war through.
Il don't approve Of all that the cen
sor has done but ! would like to see
him censor the boosters. Let US not
boast until we have something to
boast Of. II the Gettysburg speech
had been delivered year in advance,
II would have meant much. Let US
quit boasting. An engineer over in
France wrote to me that the United
States boasted last year that this
country would have 10000 airplanes
over by spring.
Il hope we will now---not after the
war-put ourselves beyond the pale
of being surprised as we were this
time. The experiences of the last