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Show ROOSEVELT FOR PREPAREDNESS II PEACE III Former President Speaks at Johnstown, Pa., and Pays His Respects to the "Shadow Huns." DEFENSE SOCIETY AFTER SENATORS Governors of States Asked to Help in Getting Rid of La Follette, Stone and a Few Others. JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Sept. 30. "Shadow Huns." "men who sit in our national legislature leg-islature and serve the kaiser," and the "Huns within our gates" received another an-other denunciation today from former President Theodore Roosevelt in an address ad-dress here at the Workinsmen's Red Cross Sunday celebration. Departing from his set address, Colonel Roosevelt brought to his audience the need of true Americanism and the duty devolving upon every citizen of the United States In standing behind the young men who have enlisted or have been made parts of the. national army for the purpose of- "cutting "cut-ting the German cancer clean out of the world body." "You don't find any shadow Huns In Germany," Mr.' Roosevelt declared. "If in Germany any man acted as Da Follette in this country, they would put him to digging trenches. I would send him as a gift to the kaiser. Let the shadow Huns go back to their country-' Using the disastrous Johnstown flood of 1S89 as an example, the former president presi-dent drew a striking parallel as to the peril of the United States resulting from its unpreparedness. He said that the owners of the South Fork dam hei-e, which broke, causing the flood, had hesitated hesi-tated to strengthen it because of the cost, just as the leaders of this nation In the period since the outbreak of the Kuro-pean Kuro-pean war and prior to our entry had hesitated hesi-tated to strengthen the nation's defenses. "Until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body," Mr. Roosevelt said, "this great war for the victorious pea.ee of justice must go on. Germany has' reduced savafrery to a science. "There are official records of more than 10,000 separate atrocities commltled by the German armies, not sporadically, but as a part of the deliberate plan oi 'Schrecklichkeit,' of horror upon which the German government has counted." |