Bisbee daily review., 1918-03-29
ROOSEVELT STATES
.PRUSSIAN PEOPLE
MUST BE CRUSHED
Must Beat Germany to Knees,
Declares Colonel in Talk to
Republicans on Peace; Hits
at Bolsheviki.


PORTLAND. Maine, March Is
There is but one way to get a right
eaus and lasting peace and that is to
beat Germany to her knees, Colonel
Roosevelt declared here today IN a
keystone address" which he deliver
ed before the Maine republican state
convention. Colonel Roosevelt laud-
ed as "whOle-hearted" support which
he declared the republican members
OF congress had given to the admin
istration in Washington. He denied
"mismanagement at Washington" and
urged a policy OF permanent pre-
paredness" after the war.
War is won by brains and steel,
not by kid gloves and fine phrases,
said the former president in his ar
raignment OF some of the most i'm
portant divisions of the government
which he said were almost chemical
ly pure of efficient organization.
In discussing post bellum readjust-
ments which he declared already have
been shown essential to the well being
of the nation. he said;
New New Weapons.
I'VE cannot afford to tolerate flint
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war or flintlock methods of govern
ment for meeting the problems of in
dustry in time OF peace We need
new weapons, but we need the old
spirit back of the new weapons. The
simple governmental processes which
sufficed in the days of Washington
and even in the days of Lincoln, are as
utterly inadequate today in peace as
the flint-lock of Bunker Hill and the
smooth bore muskets of Bull Run
would be in war
Republicans in congress since the
entry of the United States into the
war have sought to serve their party
only by making it serve America"
Colonel Roosevelt said in his intro
tuctory remarks.
There have been very grave faults
and shortcomings and delays In gov
ernmental work But they were not
due to the action of congress; and
the action of the republicans in con-
gress was consistently designed to
correct them.
I'VE are pledged to the hilt as ma
ton to put this war through without
flinching until We win the peace OF
over W NlNAOlN- W dlt
to secure for each well behaved ma
ton the right to control its own des-
TIMES and to live undominated by
others so Ions as it does not harm
others
This is the peoples war. 1t is not
the presidents war. II is not con-
gress' war. 1t is the duty of the re-
publican party to stand like a rock
against inefficiency, incompetence.
hesitation and delay no less than
against lukewarmness in serving the
common cause of ourselves and our
allies. To support a public servant
who does wrong is as profoundly I'M
patriotic as to oppose a public serv-
ant who does right"
After enumerating German barbbar
tiles in Belgium and the cruelties OF
Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey, Ger
many's "vassal states Colonel ROOse-
welt said:
UNLESS We war on Turkey, precise
ly as we war on Germany. We show
that we are insincere when we say
that we wish to make the world safe
for democracy"
Preparations for a three years war.
the training of any army of five mil
lion men, preferably through universal
military training and the rushing Of
ship construction were urged by the
former president as most vital TO the
winning of the war
"All our other activities in making
arms, ammunition, airplanes and other
war machines can be made to synchrO-
nize with this" he said The speaker
sounded a warming against ''profes-
sional pacifists' who he said. as
apostles ow weakness and folly
would renew their activities when
peace is won.
Friends" he said. lit is not only
cur duty to be prepared against war
1t is. if possible. even more our duty
to prepare for peace. And we are al
most as unprepared in one respect as
the other
I'VE cannot afford any longer to
continue our present industrial and
social system. or rather no system,
Of every man for himself and the
devil take the hindmost.
1T is out business as a nation. seri-
ously. to face our industrial conditions
to realize that we cannot without folly
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vet that we are worse than fools if
we permit them To be changed for
evil. Therefore we must shun equally I
the bourbon reactionaries who invite
disaster by refusing to grapple with
the needs of the hour, and the SIMS
ter demagOgues and loose minded Wis
ionaries who preach a red fOllOy that .
wouldb ring us to even worse disas-
ter.
Must Watch Bolsheviki.
The great Russian commonwealth .
Ofefrs a lamentable example of the ef-
feet of vibrating between the tyranny
of an autocracy and the tyranny OF
mob Ii we are wise We hsall not
permit ourselves to be withheld from
a forward movement by the ROmanOffs
of our own social and industrial sys-
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