Iormer President Says He Would Send La Follette to the Kaiser. MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 29. The loud-at loud-at so-called "conscientious objectors" i this country today are the paid or npaid agents of the German govern-lent, govern-lent, Theodore Roosevelt declared ere last night in a speech before the abor Loyalty league. He asserted mt the majority of these men are not :tuated by conscience at all, and that ie "bulk are slackers, pure and sim-e, sim-e, or else traitorous pro-Germans." Describing the various kinds of pa- IlSls in mis country, iur. rtooseveii aid that some of the leading apostles f applied pacifism are not timid men, ut on the contrary, "they are brutal, lolent men, who are perfectly willing ) fight, but only for themselves and ot for the nation. These roughneck acifists," he said, "have always been ie potent allies of the parlor or milk-ad-water pacifists. The parlor pacif-t, pacif-t, the white-handed or sissy type of icifist, represents decadence, repre-:nts repre-:nts the rotting out of the virile yir-les yir-les among people who typify the im-vely im-vely senile side of civilization. Tho mghneck pacifist, on the contrary, is mere belated savage, who has not :en educated to the virtues of na-Dnal na-Dnal patriotism and of willingness to ;ht for the national flag and the na-jnal na-jnal ideal." Mr. Roosevelt continued: Should Play Some Part. "If a man does not wish to take life, it does wish to serve his country, let m serve on board a mine sweeper or some other position where the dan-rs dan-rs is to his own life and not to the e of anyone else. But if he will take useful or efficient part in helping the war, In running his share of tho ijvwmmon risk and doing his part of the common duty, then treat him as hav-c hav-c ing forfeited his right to vote, his right to render at the polls any de-: de-: ij cision which in the long run can only 4 'I be made good in the face of brutal . 1 and hostile men by the ability and V ; if willingness of good citizens to back . right with might." s Such a man, Mr. Roosevelt insisted, J'who claims citizenship but is not will-) will-) ing to perform the necessary duties, is i not entitled to any of the rights of citi-J'zenship, citi-J'zenship, saying: I f "Service to the nation in war stands :n ,preclsely on a footing with any other ;t A service. If a man will' not perform it, i et him loso all the. benefits of war; I 1 and at least let him lose the political ? rights which a free country can keep 1 sn ? only If Its free citizens are willing to fight for them. Against All Privilege. "We stand against all privilege not based on the full performance of duty, and there is no more contemptible form of privilege than tho privllego of existing in smug, self-righteous, peaceful safety because other, braver, more self-sacrificing men give up safety safe-ty and go to war to preserve the nation. na-tion. If a man is too conscientious to fight, then the rest of us ought to be too conscientious to let him vote in a democratic land which can permanently per-manently exist only If the average man is willing in the last resort to fight for it and die for it." Mr. Roosevelt said that any working work-ing man today, whether he be on the farm or in the shop, who supports Germany, Ger-many, "is not only playing the part of a traitor to the United States, but is playing the part of a traitor to tho whole spirit of democracy throughout the civilized world." The speaker asserted as-serted that the Socialist party and tho I. W. W. organization in this country i racy and the enemies of liberty. Universal Service. A plea for universal military obligation obli-gation was made by Mr. Roosevelt, who said the selective draft system is wrong, "because it chooses out one man to make the sacrifice and do the work of two or three other men who are allowed to stay at homo and make money, while tho first man risks his life for their common country." Tho. officers' training camps were also criticized by Mr. Roosevelt, because, be-cause, he said, "they have been so conducted con-ducted that only men of some means could go thither or send their sons." He said they have done admirable work, but this feature ought to be remedied rem-edied so "every man who Is a respect-table respect-table man and who has sons of the right type would feel that those sons had an equal chance to become officers offi-cers with any man in the land." Calls La Follette Hun. On the platform of the auditorium, where Senator La Follette last week decried American entry into the war on what he termed a violation of "technical "tech-nical rights," Colonel Roosevelt, class-I class-I ing the "Wisconsin senator among tho "Huns within our gates." declared he would like to send La Follette and his "shadow Huns" to Germany as a "free gift to the kaiser." Among the "shadow "shad-ow Huns" the colonel Included Senator Gronna of North Dakota and Representative Repre-sentative Lundeen of Minnesota. The lateness of Colonel Roosevelt's train in reaching the Twin cities and the demonstration accorded him both in Minneapolis and St. Paul delayed his address, but the big hall was full when he arrived. Introduced by C. R. Robertson, president of the Labor Loyal Loy-al league of Minneapolis, Colonel Roosevelt declared at the outset that the public men who did not consider first of all the real and permanent welfare of tho working man was no friend of democracy. "He is not true to the United States, either, If ho ml leads tho working men as to what i their permanent interests," he addec and then sa,id: "The most sinister enemy of Domo( racy in the United States Is Senato La Follette." The colonel had boen given a trar script of Senator La Toilette's speec before the producers and consumers conference held hero last week undo tho auspices of the Nonpartisan league "I have not had timo to read it nil,' ho said, "but I have already found twi or three 'gems.' " Falsehood, Says Colonel. Senator La Follotte's assertion tha America's participation In tho war wai due to American citizens being pas sengers on "a ship loaded with muni tions for Great Britain" was declarec by the colonel to bo a falsehood anc "ho knows It is a falsehood," he added "Senator La Follette emphasized th sinking of the Lusitania with its fiftj babies under 1 year old, Its 111 babioi under 2 years and. its 100 Americans,' the colonel went on. "He said nothing about the sinking of the hospital shir and tho 'technical right' of the doctors and Red Cross nurses who sank witb her to bo on board. i aDuor uermany. i aonor me nun without our gates, but more I abhor the Hun within our gates. And I say that any man who excuses and condones con-dones such infamy and his 'shadow Huns,' Gronna and Lundeen,' do not represent the American people. They are on a level with Vallandigham, whom Lincoln sent beyond the confederate con-federate lines. I wish I could send them to Germany as a free gift to the kaiser. La Follette is out of place in the senate. Humanity of Semmes. "Semmes, commander of the Alabama, Ala-bama, never, even in tho bitterest time of tho civil war, sank a ship without providing for tho saving of tho lives of its passengers. Once, having captured cap-tured a prize, he was about to land the passengers in Jamaica, but, learning that there was an epidemic of yellow fever there, turned the prize loose rather than expose women and children chil-dren to that disease. Neither England, Eng-land, Franco, Spain nor the United States, through the orders of their governments gov-ernments In the last 250 years have done tho Infamous act of sinking a Shin without nrovidine for the safetv of the people aboard It." Turning again to tho shipment of munitions, a point dwelt on by Senator La Follette, Colonel Roosevelt said it ' was tho senator's business to know 1 what were the treaty rights of Amcr-J Amcr-J leans. He declared that It was through ' Germany's Insistence that The Hague 1 agreement sanctioned the shipment of 1 munitions and that at that time Gor-1 Gor-1 many was shipping arms to the Boers and later shipped them to Turkey and 1 some of the Balkan states. Tho colonel referred to Congressman Congress-man Baer of North Dakota, tho nonpartisan non-partisan party's representative in congress. con-gress. "On Juno 27 Congressman Baer said that this was 'no time to make Americanism Amer-icanism an issue,'" said tho colonel. "That statement would bo all right In the German relchstag, but a man who thinks and speaks that way ought not be admitted to congress. If this is not tho time to make Americanism an Issue, Is-sue, there is no time." Colonel Roosevelt turned his attention atten-tion also to tho Nonpartisan league. He said that when it was first organ-lzed organ-lzed ho had real sympathy with Its aims and "some" of Its methods. But now, ho added, It was a real grief to him to find that some of its members cheered the sentiments of La Follette and that its methods seemed to be working toward tho erection of a "machine." "ma-chine." The colonel congratulated the big crowd on tho enthusiastic loyalty it showed. "But do not lot it evaporate," ho said. "It is fine to march and cheer and carry flags, but you must back your words with deeds. "Wo must back tho govornmont in its prosecution of the war and spur it on to greater activities. We must help tho Red Cross and kindred organizations. or-ganizations. "Wo must buy. Liberty bondt. They are tho safest investment unless wo should til burst and in that case no ono would care about his money."