The sun., 1919-10-27
His Living Influence Must Be
Impressed on Foreign
Born, Taft Says.
NEW 80 YEAR WAR LOOMS
World Conflict Has Given
Labor and Distorted Sense
of It's Powers.
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living and practising of such Ameri-
canisrn as was exemplified in the life
of Theodore Roosevelt and the teach
ing of those principles to the foreign
born and radical elements was urged as
a remedy for the radicalism in the
United States by William Howard
Taft at a Roosevelt Memorial meet
ing here tonight.
Mr.. Taft not only warned of the
tendency to Bolshevism and extreme
radlcalism represented by the foreign
and red element of labor. but declared
his belief that the conservatives of
labor. who deny that the overthrow
OF the Government is the purpose of
the steel. firemens and miners strike
movements, will lapse into common
cause with the radicals unless n check
can be found for those tendencies"
I'VE must" he asserted, resist this
attempt to take the country by the
throat and by hlghwaymen's methods
to force political and unreasonable eco
nomic concessions We face, during the
coming winter. the possibility of wide
spread distress and lawlessness which
will require our whole strength to re-
lieve and suppress by the authority of
Government"
Theodore Roosevelt Is not dead, Mr..
Taft said, in that his influence lives.
The former President urged that this in
fiuence be used to instill into the mind
of America the dangers with which this
country and other countries are beset.
He warned that unless order and dis
cipline be maintained the state of the
Thirty Years War would be repeated.
His Service Not Ended.
Theodore Roosevelts service to his
country has not ended" continued Mr..
Taft THE war has left the world.
after It has saved itself from Germany,
where It must save itself from itself.
The reaction from the repression of the
peoples OF all Europe for forty years
under the burden of war preparedness,
the horrible destruction of the war. the
desperate economic condition of the
countries within the field of war, the
fantastic dreams OF n social millennium,
the relaxing of discipline and re-
straint have produced condition the
world over impairing the supremacy OF
lawful authority. This threatens every
country and already has overwhelmed
some in anarchy and confusion. Unless
eminent, unless discipline and order are
to be organized. the state of the Thirty
Years War is to be repeated and the
misery and catastrophe will be greater
than any which this colossal war itself
entailed
In the United States conservative
forces are stronger than anywhere. We
have not suffered as other countries
have from the war. We still have
deeply imbedded in the souls of our
people the traditions of our forefathers
and the principles OF constitutional
| liberty, but he would be optimistic in
deed who did not see in our present
situation symptoms OF a dangerous
| tendency.
"1t is in this juncture that the living
Influence of Theodore Roosevelt and his
robust and triumphant Americanism can
do much for our country and righteous
ness. The war has impressed laboring
groups OF every country with a sense of
| their power. with the indispensable
| nature of their services to the public
and with the possibility OF using this
as a leverage to exact from other groups
and the whole public any demands
which It chooses to make.
Trades Unions Useful.
Trades unions we have and have had
for a time. Trades unions have been
useful in securing better terms for labor
| in protecting labor interests by legisla-
| ton.
THE movement of which I speak,
| however, is not for a union In trade,
| but II is for one big political union
| which Is TO formulate and enforce polit-
zeal as well as economic demandS 1t
| is proposed to put the whole country un-
| der a duress OF threatened starvation,
freezing and complete paralysis OF busi-
] nsss industry to secure complete read
| justment OF social conditions. II redi-
vision or humiliation of property, a TAX
| ing over by the State Of all industries
4 and a subsection of tho large majority
| OF the people to the labor soviet.
"The trade unions to-day and the
| American Federation Of Labor have two
! parties in them, one the regular trades
union men, supporting the present social
| order, uniting for economic purposes 70
sell their labor on the best terms they
can properly secure. making contracts
| where they may and fulfilling them to
the best of their ability. The other ele-
ment Is the radical Red element, an ele-
ment that looks with favor on Bolshev-
| ism and extreme Socialism and that
| would make the trade union movement
| in this country a means OF compelling q
change in our form of government.
1--WE must resist this attempt to take
the country by the throat and by a high
waymans method to force political ano
unreasonable economic concessions. o.
course we all hope that those sinister
tendencies may be curbed before they
may become united into one explosion
but these are the dangers that we face
what Is the Remedyf
.Now. what is the remedy? There arr
Americans, native born, connected witt
IT, but the body OF IT. the life of 1t, is Il
be found in the hordes of foreign born
peoples whom we have invited into oul
country TO share the boon of our liberty
and the equality of opportunity that tina
liberty afforded. but who are utterly un
npathetic with our institutions anS
our great governmental traditions.
what can overcome their seditiou
hopes and plans? Only the high spiri
of Americanism this Ia the understand
ing Of the peculiar merit and value o
our institutions the instructive allegiance
10 our country and our country's Gov
eminent the determination to have Law
and order under the Constitution, tn
willingness to sacrifice all in the main
tenance of this home OF our fathers, thi
home we love, and in the retention of al
those elements that make this our com
Immunity the model Christian civilization
of the world.
These are the things Theodore Roose
welt stood for. This is the Americanisn
which he wished TO live and was willinl
, to die for This Is what he taught II
every word he preached. in everything
he did Earlier than most he saw tn