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ip4^'KK»n^ ns;i«icvMiiii» Bim^AttmtmmiuimMK.M.1 gf^jiwrnmm ] ■)'- ' AH IGNOBLE PAXr &AVS BOOSG^ VELT. TIm CM«nel 6f Ji» ^iitllMtf With 'tiM ^4»»W»tr>aoB';-ijC«iiB- dvinns Gemiuiyj'■' ■■ TlUakfl the United 8iat«g Sbculd Kteh in and C^e tii'» Teutons the Lkking of Their lives. Plattsbure, N. Y., Aiig. 25.—“Don’t itpplaud. unless you ftel a burning arise of shame boMune the United States hus net up foi; Bel- Theodc^ Hibsevdt, ‘ former Presi dent of /&e United States, .snappe^d these word tonight at a crowd r.t the military instructioii camp (luring a speech in. wiiieh he cen- iu:«d the AdnrJnistratipn for its at titude in the European situation and strcngly urg^ prepardedness for war. As he paused after uttering the sen tence, his' audience covis'stiiif of .ibout 1,200 members of the, camp and more than 3,000 other persons burst into wild and prolonged Ap plause.. "The surest way for a Nation to invite disaster is to be rich, aggres- give and uharmod,” the former ‘Presi dent said at another time in speaking of preparedness. , In another statement made at the railway station- alMrtiy befoi« leav ing for N»w York Colonel Roosevelt defended his criticism of the Admin istration's coarse in the presant situation. “I wish to make one coimnent an the statement so frequently made . .Jthat we must stand behind the Presi dent,” he said, “I heartily subscrilje to this on condition, and only on condition, that it is followed by the statement so long as the President stands by the country." Shortly before leaving here for New York tonight Colanel Roosevelt made the following statement: "I wish to make one comment on the statement so frequently made that we must stand by the President,. I heartily subscribe to this on con dition, and only on condition, thHt it is followed by the ststernent so long as the President staods by the coun- try.” ‘^e in«u iriio belisve in peace at any price or in all-inc!u- k» atays p(« wilI'.'havi»:''M aiiS^be able to. It is undeBMmtic that Q>e .vottJig farmer, th*t-tii» y0ang hired man on a farm) tli&t the (tardr^orbioK derk Qr meriluuiic iir ^y-lsborer, all > of whoin wish to serve tite county ah'? riHich as you do and are as much en- tute for ;actlor„ to rely ui»n^?‘ sounding wor^ uiiies's , hacked, by deeds is f^oot of a that ;dweIH oniy iit the irealni of shadcnr and shame.” Plattsborg, N. Y., Aug. 25.—Theo dore Booseyett in tonight at the mili^r^ iB^itetioii «imp here, declared t^it for months the Uniteid States h^ “play^'ah ignoble part among the Nations,” in that it had “taraely submitted to seeing the weak, whom we liad covenanted to protwt, wronged" and “had seen our own men, women and children mur dered on the high seas without action on our part.” The former President condemned the Government for haying “not taken the smallest step in the way of pre paredness to defend our own rights.” Germany, he condemned as “utterly brutal and ruthless in its disregard of international morality” and declar ed that it “would be a base Abandon ment of morality” for American man ufacturers of munitions of war tc re fuse tff make shipments “for the use of ijK irmsES that as't i=?iiviny to re store Belgium to its own people,” Munition makers whc refused to make such shipments should be put he said, on a “roll of dishonor," He added that they should be encouraged so that we may be able to bold our own when the hour of peril comes *.o us in our turn.” His speech fallows in part: j i»:not worth Ijrt hiiji get' .tiUed to the twiieflt of this camp as j Mt-o^.tke country j|s quickly. ps-ll'ou are, should be unable to attend! sible, To tPeat elo&tion as a a^ti-jsuch a camp. They ean^t attend it > i wlcss the .Natioii dees as Switzerland hus done and gives tho opportunity for every generous anil right-thinking .\mei‘ic&n to learn by ss}- six months ■actual sert'ice in one w two years bow to do his dnty to the country if the neid arisen—and the Ameriachs uiio tive .’lot right-thinking should be made ta Serve anyhow for a dimp- cvacy has full right to tlie service of its citizens. “Camps like this are schools of civic virtue as well as of militisry eiflicieMy. They should be universal and obliga tory for all our. young men. Every man worth his salt will wish to come to them. As for the professional paci- l!cists and the poltroons and college issres who organize peace-at-any price societies, and the tnere money- getters and mere money-speiiders, they should be made to understand that they have got to render whatevSir service the country deiitands. They must be made to .submit to training in doing their duty. Then if in the event of war, they prove unfit to fight, at any rate they can be made to dig trenches aiid kitchen sinks, or do whatever else a debauch of indulgence in professional pacificism ha.i; Jett them fit to do, * * * “Camps like this are the best pos- isible antidotes to hyphenated Ameri canism. • i * * The events of the past year have shown is fhai in any crisis the hyphenated American is an active force against America, an active force for wrongdoing. The effort ti “Free citizens should be allowed to'hoist two flags on the same flagpole do their own fighting. The profes- Ul^^ys means that one flag is hoisted sionui pacificist is as much out of Niodern^ath; and -the hyphenateAl place as in a democracy as is the polt-invariably hoists the flag of roon himself and he is no better ;iti-. tk« United States underniath. We aen than the poltroon , Probably noj^ust all be Americans and nothing body of citizens in the United States else- • • » • msAT, Aosovr m m DONE during the last five years, have wrought so efficiently for National de- “There exists no finer body of. American citizen^ in this coiintry than cadence and inteniational degrada-. those citizens of Gerrs»n Krth or de- tjon, as the professional pacificists, the ^ scent who are in good faitH Americans peacc-at-any-price men, who have *"d nothing e!»e. ♦ • ?Phe profes- adequate military preparedness. of the way in which these Gemian- ; tried to teach our people that silly ail-^ S‘®"*1 German-American has shown It is e ensibie to state that we; arbitration treaties and the. himself, within the last 12 months to stami hy^ the country, right or wrons. j„yg,.gng, gf fatuo^g platitudes nt I’* enemy to this country as well as t j.i? i eoMilsUi for any tree man j congresses ar« substitutes for humanity. Tlie recent e.xposures in a free Republic to state that ha will stand by any- ojilcial right or wrong, or by *ny ex-«fKcial. Even a# regardsi the country, while t be- Uove that once war is on, every cit izen shisnid stand b^ the land, yet, in any crisis whfih may or may not lead to war, th* prin^i duty of thri citizen i.s by custom and advice been. “Under the conditions of modern ^ Americans have worked together wa^'fiite it is the wildest nonsense li, with the emissaries of the German taik of men springing to arms in m«ss |Govern™nt—often by direct iorrup- unles? they have been taught how to jtion—-against the integrity of Ameri- act in mass and how to use the arms . institutions and against America to which they spring. For 13 months doing its international duty, Should America has playied an ignoble part ;*ros»e scornful indignation in every among the Nations. We have tamely I American worth calhng such. The tven^ a^inst what he ••'•y^ know seeing the weak, whom ^ among the professional Ger- we had convenanted to protect, wrong- man-Americans have preached and ed. We have seen oar own men, wo--what comes perilously near I men and children murdersd en the ^ *-™®30n against the United States. be the majority opinion of bis fellow citizen.s. to insist that the Nation take the right coursc of «ction. There is even a aronger reason ^1^3 without action on our part.* “Under the Hague Cotwention it for demanding of every loyal citiier. yet these 13 months have made evi-!>*■** bounden duty to Uke what- that after the President has beei jgjit thg lamentable fact that force is action was necessary to prevent has either not acted at all or has'^hc world than ever before; that the'*® hideous wi-ong that was don« to acted wrongly, that he shall be made ’ most powerful of modern military Na-{ Belgium. We have shirked this duty to feel that the citizens whom be wa3j:^i,ns is utterly , loutal and ruthless inj**® shown a spirit so abject, clected to sttve, deniAnd that he be jjg disre^&rd of ii^ternational morality, j that Germany has deemed it s&fe to loyfil to the honor and to the inter-that rlg^hteou&ness divorced from and childi^en on the j hi^K seas, -As X*i' th« export of rsani- , tions of war. it ^ouM be a base abar>- Ijj. donment of TMOFsUty t* refuse to true, he should have sufficient time’asm\ich as we as a Nation have doncj^^^^ the^ ahipments, S\«:h a re- to make his policy clear. Bus as re-J nothing whatever for National de- ** (Proposed only to favor the ffards supporting him in all public jfense during the past 13 months, LusiUni#. and policy, and above all ift international time when during all our history A^bSc and committed the mme ests of the land. lfop.g j, ^jtterly futile. “The President has the right toj “The Government has not paid have said of him nothing but what is:dollar fo«- your direct expenses. prepare for ^ »K3inst Belgium, the greatest intema- that .private crime cownistted since the close kind of substitute for proper govern-,thing, to practice mental action. The army officers and ® timid and selfish neutrality between enlisted men have put all good Ameri- wrong. It's wrong for an cans under a fre.ih debt by what they individual. It is stiU more wrong for jhave done in connection with this ® Nation. Bet it is worse in the jiame c£mp; and we owe much to the pri- neutrality, to favor the Nation that vate citizens who have advanced the doae evil. * » * » Exactly the money irithout which the camp could. morality should obtain interna- not have been held. But you men tionally that obtains liationally. It i^ have had to buy your own u,niforms; * private tirm to furnish you have had to spend money in 50 ^ to the policeman who p«ts down different ways; in other words, you . **** tli®’Kkitc-slaver have had to pay for the privilege of and the blackhander. It is wroisif to policy, the right of any President is'was most necessary to only to demand public support be-j self-defense, it :s weli cause he does well, because he serve.; ^ individuals should have tried, how-the Napoleonic contests a cent^rry the pubUc well and not merely be-, ever in sufHciently, to provide some It »s not a lofty thing, oa the i-ause he is Prsident, ^‘Pi-esidents differ just like other folks. No roan could effectively stand by President Lincoln unless he stood against Pr*eident Buchanan. Jf after the firing; on Sumter, President Lincoln had in a public speech said that the believars in the Union were too proud to fight, and if instead of acting there had been three months of ndmirabie elocutionary correspon dence with Jefferson Bavis, by mid summer the friends of the Union would have followed Horace Greeley> advice -to let erring sisters go in peace, for peace at that day was put abo-e righteousness by some mista- ker ioiiJs, just %s it is at the present jday. laming how to serve your country. . “This means that for every one man furnish the blackhander, the burglar and the white-siavcr with weapons to like yourselves who can afford to come ^ be us«J against t.*ie policeman. The- here there «re a huttdred equally good ^ analogy bolds tnl^ in int^na^ohal AiMricM eitiinRis, equally patriotic,: life. Germany has h«rs«1f be^ l:b« who .would iilte to come and are un- 'gr«atist mwiafacturer of manitions Dispatch ice, ALSO SUBSCRIBE FOR THE ate ONLY PER YEAR. assuredly it will come if we sho'.y of war to be applied to belligerents. Let us furnish munitions to the men who, showing coarsge have not shown, wish to reaCKij. Itegium from subjection and spoil«t^n and degredstion. And let as tncourage munition that we may be able to when the hour of peri! comes our turn, as ourselves too “niauK^ to speak a word on behalf of ^tfci'Veak who are wronged, amd too slotlifui and lazy to prepare to defend ourselves against wrong. Host aasu.redly it will co to us )f we succeed in persoadi 3^eed great mUitarjrl^tioiui that we are t proud to Sg^t, tiMt we are not pr ItcTsd to anfcrtfcke defensive war our own vital int«r«ct- and Nat! honor.’* POOR
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