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Show DUTY TO Wi WAR, ROOSEVELT ASSERTS Favors Publication of Newspapers News-papers of Country in the English Language. MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 29. "We've got one grand duty, to put the war through to a knockout," said Colonel Roosevelt, in speaking at a local theater under the auspices of the National Security Se-curity league on the subject of "Americanism" "Ameri-canism" to several thousand people this afternoon. All the movements, he declared, must be directed to one purpose helping the men at the front to win the war. "If, three years ago, our people had been awake as they are now and had been prepared, there would have been no war by this time," said the colonel. "Our business is now to win, to profit by errors er-rors of the past, so as not to permit them again. "We are getting troops over there. Don't let us say what we are going to do, let us do it! Three things must be remembered," he said, "Americanism, the need of speeding up the war at this time and the general principle of preparedness." pre-paredness." The war, he said, would settle that there is to be but one flag in this country coun-try and that will be neither the red nor the black. Colonel Roosevelt said America was no place for a fifty-fifty American. Either he must be all American or he Is not an American at all and his place is in some other land. He appealed to mothers born In Germany Ger-many or of German parentage, whose children are growing up here, to rear them only as Americans. He declared there is only room in America for one language and that must be the language of the Declaration of Independence, Washington's farewell address and Lincoln's Lin-coln's Gettysburg address. He also favored the publication of newspapers only in the English language. lan-guage. Colonel Roosevelt received a delegation of the Milwaukee branch of the National Women's party at his hotel and told the women he was working to secure the passage of the national suffrage amendment. amend-ment. Mr. Roosevelt left Milwaukee at 4 o'clock. |