The sun., 1919-10-28
Mccormick Pays Tribute to
yab American Who Was q
70 Patriot First.
EyADED FOREIGN TIES
Tyranny of Labor or Capital
70 Struck at Fearlessly by
ss4 Former President.

BoOfevelt from the senate uOOr to-udy III
honor OF the birthday anniversary of the
late President. It was not only an elo-
uuent and timely analysis OF the true
Arnerfcanism Of Col. Roosevelt and of
the place he occupied in national life but
incidentally the speaker indulged in
sorse contrasts between the nationalism
Of Roosevelt and the internationalistic
sentiments which some other leaders
have been seeking to instill into the ma
donal mind. Mr.. Mccormick said In
part:
Herewith / offer certain of Theodore
Roosevelt's utterances as appropriate to
be Incorporated into the record of our
proceedings to-day, the anniversary OF
his birth. At the time when the country
is threatened with disorder, when al
ready It has suffered from outbreaks OF
lawless violence engendered by wild doc
trines voiced by mellinuous philosophers,
II Is wholesome to recall the blunt and
homely sentences that fell from his lips
"'whenever have the power he said
In Memphis In 1907, 1 will use every
resource of this nation to stamp out
murderous and lawless violence Of the
kind that breeds the anarchy of which
you, Gov. Patterson. spoke, And / shall
no more stay my hand IL the wrongdoer
masquerades as labor leader than
shall stay my hand IL he masquerades
as captain of industry. l have ex-
pressed myself once definitely on the
subject of undesirable citizens and /
stand by what l said-alike when the
undesirable citizen is great capitalist
who wins fortune by chicanery and
wrongdoing to the hurt of his fellows and
the damage of the public conscience and
when ne is a man who under the guise
OF standing for labor breaches and en-
courages violence and murder. 1 think
my position has at least the merit of
being easily understood
Contrasts Are Pointed Out.
"Contrasts with these the dizzy
phrases and distraught sentences calcu-
lated to show that now is the hour when
the people-or. more exactly. certain ele-
n.ents OF the people-are TO climb into
the saddle to override the very govern
ments chosen by themselves. We Ameri-
cans are not yet ready to agree to the
surrender Of representative government
10 a dictator or to submit to the will of
any organized minority. whether of cap
ital or of labor.
There was a time when certain bar
ons OF the plutocracy would have had us
believe the railroads made the sun TO
shine and the rain to fall: that 1t was
owed our plenty and that to them. there
fore, we should make obeisance. Roose-
Welt broke their growing domination of
public life.
Now another minority threatens the
vast majority of the people. Since ex-
pediency and panic combined to enact
the Adamson law the American people
have been threatened with the tyranny
OF any minority organized and ruthless
ready TO raid the country. Thus the
coal miners have their programme and
the international bankers want Article
x of the league covenant
The plain people-workmen. men and
women in the liberal professions. small
business men, the farmers OF America
are going to save her from the tyranny
of the minority as they did under Theo-
dore Roosevelt's leadership. l would TO
God that he were with US in this hour
of peril to the Republic-peril to all
that was dear to him. You SOW the
wind and reap the whirlwind The
Adamson law epitomized the surrender
of the Government Of all the people to a
minority of the people. Now we have
harkened to the wild cant that the
mcoted compact between the nations is
greater than the Government OF the
Constitution. Herein were the augury of
1awlessness and sovietism-unnatural
monsters to be born in America.
THE moment when certain conspic-
nous figures in the world are engender-
sng schemes for fantastic information.
a,ism America breathes the spirit OF a
more fervent and pure nationalism thar
ever before in her life. We live in a
federal republic within our continental
frontiers, secure from the turmoil OF
Europe and from the dangers of Asis
Wa hrin
selves.
Gifts We should Revere.
I'VE know that what we are, W,
know that the institutions we uphold
are the gifts OF devoted men now dead
Above all Of them stands Washington
ihe Father of his Country: Lincoln. it.
Savior, and Theodore Roosebelt befor,
snost Americans of our own day.
America lived and breathed ant
spoke through the lips OF each. Hs
simple virtues and perhaps her rude de
fects were found in them. Washington
S'as reviled. Lincoln was despised
Roosevelt was hated. each in his owl
lime. Long since America has &C
claimed Washington and Lincoln a
greatest among her sons.
Now there can be but a few en-
NeDOmeu CrittCS OF IneO0Oro Roosevelt
who would not cry out In protest II b,
q miracle he could be snatched from
America and his genius and manhood
awarded to any of the old northlands o
Europe, from which his forbears came
IT shrink from naming that one pro
tonent of the covenant who has thanke,
iod that Roosevelt Is no longer here 4
soin In the debate on the league cove
hant, and yet this is true. How di
Roosevelt speak on our foreign polio,
before he died?
81 heard him say that we must neve
submit the control of Immigration I
International arbitrament. / heard hir
Fay that by no equivocation must W
boandon our exclusive determination O
the Monroe Doctrine"
Here Senator Mccormick read an ar
Ecle by Col. Roosevelt warning the ma
tion never TO enter any internationa
arrangement that meant the slightes
sacrifice Of American nationalism. H
continued:
Here spoke the patriot. eager to de
fehd peace, more eager to defend tn
bonor of his country. He was read
10 Join the other Powers to take meas
Nres against war and he was oppose
10 the creation OF a superstate He ha
spoken for the conscience and courag
bf America when others faltered O
were dumb.
Silent In death, still he calls us VIII
Followed him to follow In the way alon
which he had led In life
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