Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-27
BEWARE OF PAC|F|STS,
ROOSEVELT WARNS
Under Cover Now, Their Shrieks
for Peace Will Soon be Heard,
He Says.

Springfield, Ill, Aug. 27.-Speed up
the war. prepare to defend ourselves
afterward and make ready to solvr the
industrial social problems which will
come with peace, were the demands of
Theodore Roosevelt expressed in an adj
dress he delivered here yesterday at the
centennial celebration Of the admission
of Illinois to statehood.
THE two great needs of the moment,
said the Colonel, "arc to insist upon
thorough-going and absolute Americanism
throughout this land and to speed up the
war; and secondanly to these needs
como the needs of beginning even now
to make ready, to prepare for the tasks
that are to come after the war, the task
of preparing so that never again shall
war find us helpless, and the task OF
preparing for the social and industrial
problems which this earthing conflict
of giants will leave in its ruinous wake.
ITO insist upon thorough-golng, 100
per cent. Americanism among all our
PEOPLE is merely another way of saying
that we insist upon being a nation proud
of our national past and confident oi
our future as the greatest of the nations
of mankind; for If we permit our people
to be split into score of different ma
tionalities, each speaking q different
language and each paying it's real soul
homage to some national ideal overseas.
We shall not be a nation at ALL but
merely a polyglot boarding house, and
nobody feels much loyalty to polyglot
boarding house or is proud to belong to it.
AMERICAN rACFIsM DIsLoYAL-
Eve are not internationalists. We are
American nationalists We intend to do
Justice to all other nations. But IN the
last four years the protessed nterna-
tionalists, like the profound pacIiists,
have played the game Of brutal German
autocracy. the game of the mlitarlstlc
and capitalistic tyranny which now alb
eolutely dulles the PrIssanized Germany
of the Hohcnzollerns, American pacIfism
has been the tool and ally of German
militarism and has represented, and
always will represent, deep dlsloyalty
to our beloved country
For the moment the pacifsts and IN
tcrnationalists and pro-German dare not
be noisy. But let our people beware of
them as soon rs the peace negotiations
begin and from that time onward. They
have worked together in the past and
they will work together in the future,
the pro~Germans furnishing the most
powerful and most sinister settlement Of
the combination, while the paclfists and
the intcrnationalIsts prance IN the fore
ground and furnish the rhetoric.
CLAMoRED FOR USPREP AREpNEss.
Let our people remember that for
the two and a half wears before VIC en-
tered the war the pacitists clamoOusly
insisted that II we kept unprepared we
would avoid war Well. we tried the
experiment We kept completely unpre-
pared Even after WV broke off dirlo-
matte relations with Germany we re-
fused TO make the slightest preparation,
and nevertheless we drifted into the
war. Pacihsm and unpreparedness
never keep nation out of war. They
invite war, and they insure that If war
comes IT shall be costly and lone-drawn-
out and bloody.
"Let us remember this when the
peace comes. Don't trust the pacitlsts;
thew are the enemies Of righteousness.
Don't trust the internatlonalists; they
are the enemies of nat'onallsm and
AmerlcanIsm.
When peace comes let us accept any
reasonable proposal, whether calling for
q league of nations or for any other ma
chinery. which we can In good faith act
upon, and which does really offer some
chance OF lessening the number of fut-
ure wars and diminishing their area.
But let us never forget that any prom
ise that such league or other piece of
machinery will definitely do away with
war is either sheer nonsense or rank
hypocrisy.
Let us rest our strength on an army