The evening leader., 1918-08-26
SPEED UP THE WAR AND PRE-
PARE TO DEFEND OURSELVES"
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onward. They have worked together
in the past and they will work togeth-
er in the future, the pro-German fur
nishing the most powerful and most
sinister element of the combination,
while the pacifsts and the interna-
tionalists prance in the foreground
and furnish the rhetoric.
Let our people remember that for
the two and a half years before we
entered the war the pacifists clamor-
ously insisted that if we kept unpre-
pared we would avoid war. Well, we
tried the experiment. We kept COM
pletely unprepared. Even after we
broke off diplomatic relations with
German we refused to make the
slightest preparation. And neverthe-
less we drifted into the war. Pacifism
and unpreparedness never keep a ma
tion out of war. They invite war;
and they insure that if war comes it
shall be costly and long drawn out
and bloody.
LET US remember this when peace
comes. Don't trust the pacifsts; they
are the enemies of Righteousness.
Don't trust the internationalists; they
are the enemies of nationalism and
When peace comes let US accept
any reasonable proposal, whether call
ing for league of nations or for any
other machinery, which we can in
good faith act upon, and which does
really offer some chance of lessening
the number of future wars and dimin-
ishing area. But let US never forget
that any promise that such a league
or other piece of machinery will def
n'tely do away with war is either
sheer nonsense OF rank hypocrisy.
"Let us rest our strength upon an
army which shall consist not of spe-
cial caste, but of the people them
selves; on an army produced by the
obligatory training of all
our young men sometime between the
ages of 10 and 21.
"This is for the future. Our imme-
date duty is to win the war; We
must speed up the war to the limit.
We must try to finish it at the earliest
possible moment, but be resolved to
finish it, no matter how long it takes.
We must insist on the peace of COM
plete and overwhelming victory. We
must remember that huge army put
in the field at one time will accomplish
what the same number of men put in
to the field in driblets can never ac-
compl;sh. We have a much larger
population ard much greater natural
resources than Germany or than
France and Eng and combined.
Therefore b. next spring we should
have thousands cf our own field guns,
and scores of thousands of our own
airplanes at the front, and an cnor-
nous ship tonnage in which to ferry
across the ocean so many troops that
by April we may have four million
trained fighting men at the front, not
counting noncombatants and reserves.
The age limits for the draft should be
greatly increased and The exemptions
greatly diminished"
Colonel Roosevelt enumerated some
of the indu 5trial problems that must
be solved. He advocated cooperation
among individuals and control by the
government to help business men suc-
ceed, but demanded fair division of
profits among all concerned. Work
ngmen, he said, should have their
light insured to collective action, in
,luding collective bargaining. In a
very real sense, he said, they should
De made partners in the business with
A share in the profits and, at least
along certain lines, a share in the con-