Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-29
Speed victory,
SAY! ROOSEVELT
IN LOAN SPEECl
Profiteer and Stacker Should
Be Treated Alike, While
All Should Get Behind
the War.

Baltimore, Nd, Sept. 28.-Ex-
pressing the hope that the war would
result in better social conditions
with improved relations between
capital and labor; denouncing boil
shkvism and German-inspired So
cialism ip this country; declaring
that psefteers and slackers should
be <meted alike and urging the
Ay~opesan people to unite in con-
hfenA strenuous and harmonious
efforts to bring the war to a speedy
and victorious close, Theodore
Roosevelt opened the Fourth Llber-
~ loan campaign here today with a
speech which stirred thousands to
tumultuous applause.
Loans Are Supported. "a
1T is our business to give the gov
eminent all the money it demands,
whether in taxes or in loans. 1t is
our business to back up every Of
fetal, wholly without regard to
party, so long as he does his duty
\ efficiently in speeding up the, war,
so that we may secure the peace OF
overwhelming victory. 1t is also our
business to see that every official
actually does his duty and that Of
the money appropriated. everv dol
lar spent represents 100 cents worth
of service to the army and the public.
II is the duty of the executive of
ficials of the government to demand
al the money that is necessary in
order to render the great service
that is necessary. 1t is the duty
of the congressman to give this
money freely. to back up the rem
dering OF the service. and to
insist that it be rendered; and it is
also their duty to see that we get the
proper return for the money spent.
! don't care how heavy the taxes or
how big the loans, | will not only
stand for them all but insist upon
them all, and | believe our people
will stand for them all, right up to
the bed rock dollar OF the nation if
it is necessary i'll order to put this
war through, until Germany is
brought to her knees. But | believe
speak for the nation. and | know !
speak for myself. when saw that we
intend to see that the money pro-
duces the results. Therefore it is our
clear duty to send to congress men
who will take this attitude. There
must be no skimping, no niggardli-
ness when the nations honor and
vital interests are at stake. Our rep
resentatives must give the executive
officers all the assistance, all the
money that is necessary. But it is
= their clear duty to investigate and
supervise and see that the money
is we'll and wisely spent by these ex-
ecutive officials, and that from now
on our men who fight at the front
avf backed with the airplanes and
field cannons and the tanks and
machine guns for which we have
800 A Victorious Peace.
ut is no less our duty and the duty
Of our governmental representatives
both to hurry up the war so that it
may be finished as speedily as posi-
bic and also to show such foresight
in preparedness that we shall be
ready with overwhelming forces to
light it through. no matter how long
Il takes, We must be content with
no peace except peace dictated by
the victorious allies, peace which
will leave Germany and her vassal
states powerless to repeat the hide
GUS wrongdoing which for over four
years has plunged the world into a
sea of slaughter. We do not intend
that Germany shall be oppressed,
but neither do we intend she shall be
able to Cypress US. She must be pun
ished, il the dreadful wrongs she has
inflicted on France and Belgium are
really to be righted. Therefore, the
Turk must be driven from Europe
and the races subject to him be CIV
en- their freedom. Therefore. the
Austrian empire must be broken up
and the German stranglehold re-
moved from Russia. All Roumanians
and all Italians must be united to
Roumania and Italy. The Jugo-slavs,
the Czecho-Slovaks and the Poles
must be made into independent com.
monwealths; Finland, the Baltic
provinces and the Ukraine must be
made free not merely of Russia, but
of Germany also. As for poor Rus
STA herself, we earnestly wish we
could help her. We will help her
when she allows US to. She fought
valiantly and suffered terribly dur
ing the early years of the war, while
this nation was still neutral and was
making a profit out of the awful
struggle. But under the bolshevists
Russia has become an aliv- of Ger
many-an enemy OF the free peoples
"Let US who are left behind in our
turn strive to make Our lives a little
nearer the right ideal. Let US intro
duce into the work OF peace some
thing of the spirit that they have
introduced into the work of war
When these men come home, or al
least when those OF them who
escape death come home, believe
that they will demand and | know
! that they ought to demand justei
type of life. socially and industrially
in this cuntry.
Gradually I hope to see the wage
worker become in real sense q