The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1919-10-30
ROOSEVELT HONORED.

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Senate Suspends Deliberations to Pay
Tribute to Memory of This
Great American.
Senator Mccormick Urges Members
to, Follow Principles Laid
Down by Roosevelt.
At the suggestion Of Senator Nc
Cormick the United States senate on
Monday suspended for a time its de-
alterations on the league Of nations
covenant in honor of the memory of
Theodore Roosevelt on the occasion of
his sixty sixth birthday.
An impressive address was delivered
by Senator Mccormick Of Illinois, in
which he urged the senate to follow
the principles laid down by Colonel
Roosevelt, not only in dealing with
fantastic internationaism" as exem-
plifed by the league of nations cove
nant, but in the problems of radical
unrest now disturbing the nation.
II OFFER" said Senator Mccormick,
Certain of Theodore Roosevelt's ut
terances as appropriate to be incor-
porated in the record Of our proceed
ings today, the anniversary of his
birth At the time when the country
is threatened with disorder-aye when
already it has suffered from outbreaks
Of lawless violence engendered by wild
doctrines voiced by mellifluous phil
osophers-it is wholesome to recall
the blunt and homely sentences that
fell from his lips:
Whenever 1 have the power he
said in Memphis in 1917, 4 will use
every resource of this nation to stamp
out murderous and lawless violence Of
the kind that breeds the anarchy Of
which you, Governor Patterson, spoke.
I shall no more stay my hand if the
wrongdoer masquerades as a labor
! leader than I shall stay my hand if
he masquerades as captain Of indus
try. I have expressed myself once
definitely on the subject Of undesirable
citizens, and stand by what said
| Contrast with these the dizzy
phrases and distraught sentences cal
culated to show that now is the hour
when the people-or, more exactly,
certain elements of the people-are
to climb in the saddle to override the
very government chosen by them
selves. We Americans are not yet
ready to agree to the surrender of rep
resentative government to dictator
or. to submit to the will of any orga-
nized minority, whether of capital OF
of labor
CHOW another minority threatens
the vast majority of the people. Since
expediency and panic combined tc
enact the Adamson law, the American
people have been threatened with the
tyranny Of a minority organized and
ruthlessly ready to raid the country
Thus the coal miners have their pro-
gram, and the international bankers
want article 10 of the league covenant
''The plain people, working men, men
and women in the liberal professions
small businessmen, the farmers OF
America are going to save her from
the tyranny of the minority as they did
under Theodore Roosevelt's leadership
You SOW the wind and reap the whirl-
wind the Adamson law epitomized
the surrender Of the government of all
the people to minority of the people
Eat the moment when certain con-
spicuous figures in the world are en-.
rendering schemes for fantastic
internationalism, America breathe.
the spirit of more fervent and pure
nationalism than ever before in he1
life. We live in federal republic
within our continental frontiers, Sc
cure from the turmoil Of Europe ane
from the dangers of Asia, unless W.
bring them down upon ourselves. w.
know what we are, we know the in
stitutions we uphold are the gifts O.
devoted men now dead. Above all O
them stands Washington, the fathe1
Of his country; Lincoln, It's savior, AM
! Theodore Roosevelt, before mos
Americans Of our day.
"How did Theodore Roosevelt speal
on our foreign policy before he died
heard him say we must never sub
nit the control of immigration to in
ternational arbitration. ] heard lin
say that by no equivocat;or must WI
abandon our exclusive determination
; of the Monroe doctrine
Here Senator Mccormick read Al