The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1918-08-02
Preparation for Peace

EXTRACTS from Theodore Roosevelt's
Saratoga speech)
"When we have closed the giant war
we must then prepare for the giant
tasks of peace. First and foremost,
we should act on Washington's advice
and in time of peace prepare against
sar, that never again shall we be
caughtif such humilating inability to
defend ourselves and assert our rights
as has been the case during the last
four years. In democracy such pre-
paration should be the duty Of the
whole people, and not merely part of
the people.
There should be universal obliga-
tory military training in the field for
period of. say, six months Of all our
young men between the ages of nineteen
and twenty-one. wish there could be
industrial training also; but the period
would have to be heightened if any
serious industrial training is to be add
ed to the military training. Such train
ing would instill into our people an in
tense and fervent Americanism which
would forever free us from the menace
of Bolshevism and all its American
variety, from the frank homicidal
march of the l. w. w. to the sinister
anti-Americansm of the Germanized
socialistic party.
''The preparation for the tasks of
peace must be in the intrests of all our
people; of those who dwell in the
open country and of those who dwell in
the cities; of all men who live honestly
and toll with hand or head and of all
women just as much as of all men.
Often there can be identity of function
between men and women; generally
there cannot be; but always there must
be full equality of right. Women have
the vote in this state. They should be
given it at once in the nation at large.
And in the councils of this state and in
the councils of our party. women should
be admitted to their share of the direc-
tion on an exact equality with the
men, and wherever it is wisely possible
their judgment and directive power
should be utilized in association with
men, rather than separately.
'In our industrial activities, alike of
farmer. wage Garner and business man,
our aim should be cooperation among
ourselves and control by the state to
the degree necessary, in order to pre-
vent tyranny and yet to encourage and
reward individual excellence. Business
men should be permitted to cooperate
and combine, subject to such regulation
and control by the government as will
prevent injustice among themselves or
toward their employees, or as regards
outsiders and the general public.
There should be no penalizing of busi-
ness merely because of it's size; al
though, of course. there is peculiar
need of supervision of big business.
Government ownership should be
avoided wherever possible; our purpose
should be to steer between the anarchy
of unregulated individuaism and the
deadening Journalism and inefficency of
widespread state ownership. From
time to time it has been found and will
be found necessary for the government
to own and run certain businesses, the
uninterrupted prosecution of which is
necessary to the public welfare and
which cannot be adequately controlled
in any other way, but normally this is
as inadvisabe as to permit such busi-
ness concerns to be free from all Gov
ernment supervision and direction.
Normally, and save where the ne
cesity is clearly shown, our aim should
be to encourage and stimulate private
action and cooperation subject to gov
ernmental control. Profiteering out of
the war should be stopped; but it is
mere common sense to say that proper
profit making should be encouraged, for
unless there is profit the business
cannot run, labor cannot be paid and
neither the public or the government
can be served. And the misery in
which this country was plunged before
our business was artifcally stimulated
by the outbreak Of the world war
shows the need of protective tariff"
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