Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-09
TEDDY MAKES IT
PLAIN WHY US.
ENTERED WAR
tContlnue0 rrom Pare One,

ferent one for individuals" he ex-.
planned. Don't fight unless you have
to fight, but II you have to--FIGHTl
Let's not boast---let's turn the trick"
"Evcrywoman" began to see a
giimmer Of light!
"A nation which didn't 60 to war
after the sinking of the Lusitania pre-
sents the same light as man who
looks on while his wife's face is
slapped by stranger and, then. in
stead Of preventing the repetition. en-
cages in conversation about IT,"
Anyone who can speak of rea.
sonable peace with the memory OF
German atrocities perpetrated on
Belgium and in Armenia by the
Turks is like man who would spare
the feelings of, instead Of furnishing.
biackhander or white SLAYER who
had stolen his child" liss a'l
Then "Everywoman" remembered
hearing a lot OF pacifists remark it
would be all right If we waged a war
for defense but there was no excuse
for sending our men to France to
fight
''Why are our soldiers fighting
abroad with the allies!" they asked.
$50 we won't have to fight at home
later without allies" Teddy explained
simply--and every woman under
stoodl i
Colonel Roosevelt minced no words
on the German American who claims
he is loyal to this country but cannot
help loving the Fatherland too.
"That man should be believed as
readily as the man who tells you
that he loves his wife--yes, but he
loves other women as well as his
life" said Teddy.
Which was simile the point OF
which no Daughter OF Eve could miss
Ino matter how little her comprchen-
sion OF war terms.
Teddy" found place in the hearts
OF all the women who heard-and
gave him the attention they give few
political speakers. Here was a pa
triot, pleading the cause Of the"
countryLtheirs as we'll as his. That
his words came straight from his
heart, q little service flag OF FIVE stars
gave silent testimony. No woman
could think Of the four sons and son.
lin-law on French battlehelds--one of
them wounded and lying on hos
pital cot, without needing his words.
When Rev. Titus Lowe in his in
vocation prayed for the speaker Of
the evening to be granted the vision
not only to see the right but the
strength and energy to execute the
right, those nearest Roosevelt saw
him shake his head vigorously in as
sent and his lips moved seemingly
in prayer for the same hope,
Plainly clothed in a gray business
suit, there was nothing savoring of
the celebrity about him, nothing ora
torical, for he stood In the same po-
sition and only his expressive face
was a constant play Of emotions.
|. Among the things Omaha liked
about Teddy was his utter willingness
10 admit his own delusions and mis-
conceptions in the early days of the
war.
Il was among those deluded by the
German-American Alliance" he ad-
mitted and that some Of his presum-
ably best friends before the war had
shown themselves disloyal, that is,
loyal to Germany. 1t took months
to realize this, he said, but his strong
sense of fairness would not permit
him to stop on mincing no words on
the treatment of German-Americans
For the American of German origin,
he, admonished the audience to treat
with the greatest favor on pain of
themselves forteiting the right to
claim true American citizenship.
After he had laid down these sim
| pie principles OF Americanism--one
nation, one language--he told in SIM
pie words why the war was being
fought and the need for men, first of
all to fight, he called on the young
fineni in the audience to join the colors.
If you have an unwise female rel
ative who doesn't want you to, don't
listen to her." he advised them.
And when with a return of the old
| Rooseveltian FIRE, he offered to leave
the decision for continuing to prose
! cute the war to the mothers Of the
land-after they knew the facts as he
knew thern--there wasn't mother in
the audience who wasn't ready to
! help win the war by making the big
gest sacrihce--the offer of her boyl
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