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Show LA FOLLETTE IS GIVDUREBUKE Roosevelt Denounces Wisconsin Wiscon-sin Senator as a Sinister of This Country. CHICAGO, ScpL 2G. Declaring Senator Sen-ator Robert M. LaFollette of Wisconsin Wiscon-sin to be, "the most sinister foe of democracy in this country," Theodore Roosevelt in a speech on "The Children Chil-dren of (the Melting Pot" here tonight launched a scorching philippic at pacifists paci-fists in general and unpreparedness. After the address, which was received receiv-ed with great enthusiasm, the meeting, meet-ing, held under tho auspices of the National Security league, adopted a resolution, offered by Bishop Samuel Fallows, and seconded by Judge Jacob M. Dickinson, former secretary of war, condemning the Wisconsin senator for his recent public utterances and declaring de-claring , him "unworthy to represent tho loyal people of America." The colonel was given an ovation when he announced that he felt he had a certain right, because he himself him-self war "a child of the crucible." "Brutal militarists of our country," asserted tho colonel In connection with his denunciation of pacifists and pro-German propagandists, "hall with Joy the growth of pacifism In another country.1 And the pacifist that has developed in this country hasn't one quality hat entitles him to the admiration ad-miration of any honorable man." Mentions Jordan. David Starr Jordan was mentioned in particular as among those whose pacifist views were condemned by the speaker, who referred to the pacifists as "old women of both sexes." "We are to stand behind them against the Hun outside our country," said the colonel, after paying tribute to the national army, "and against the Hun inside our borders. We are to stand against men of tho stamp of Senator LaFollette, who, in a recent speech at Minneapolis, actually, bv implication, im-plication, condoned the brutal murders of our men and women on the high I seas and tried to distract attention 1 from the wrongs inflicted upon us bv creating dissension at home. "We had his type in the civil war. Then they called them copperheads. These men usd all the fine words and the same arguments as LaFollette, certain cer-tain congressmen and editors and sham philanthropists make now." The colonel brought this phase of his address, which was comparatively short, to a conclusion by expressing fegret that it was impossible to send the object of his criticism to the German Ger-man lines. "I wish we could make him a gift to the kaiser for use in his reichstag. In the senate he is a cause for shame and humiliation to every worthy American." Amer-ican." War of Fighting Men. In urging that Americans bend everv energy to prosecuting the war to a successful conclusion, he stated that It should not be a "dollar war," or a "potato "po-tato war," but one of fighting men, and it was only through them that the nation na-tion could hope to win. Referring to the divided allegiance of certain foreign born Americans, the colonel maintained that "we have tho right to demand that every German-American German-American stand, shoulder to shoulder with his fellow Americans against the bloody -tyranny of the Prussianized autocracy of Germany." His words on other features of the address in part follow: "In this country the events of the last three years will teach us much If we have the wit to read the lessons aright. There must be In the United States one flag and only one flag; one allegiance and only one language that of the declaration of independence, independ-ence, of Washington's farewell address, ad-dress, of Lincoln's Gettvsburg speech and President Wilson's message to congress. 'I would give anything in the world to be going over with you," he said, "addressing his remarks to soldiers in the audience. "If it had not been such a very exclusive war I would have gone. I greet you as comrades, vou with the white faces and you with the black faces. And I want to say this In the home state of Abraham Lincoln' if a man does his duty, black or white, stand by him. We cannot afford to take any other ground in our own country and the penalty of being count-ed count-ed as hypocrites when we fight for the ! rights of humanity abroad. "You men of the great army are doing do-ing the supreme work, and we who for any reason are denied the right, the chance to go to the front, must stand behind you in every way with tho Red Cross, with arms, with the government When It issues a Innn Thornf i every man subscribe to the liberty loan. "We have heard a good deal from demagogues about this being a rich man's war. It's a lie and they know It. It's a decent man's war, an American Amer-ican s war and every man I know and respect, rich or poor, is going to fight In the line if he can. These same creatures crea-tures who tell you it is a rich man's war will, in about ten years be screeching against the bondholders who stand opposed to the people. Thev can provent that right now by persuading persuad-ing the people to invest in bonds. Againct the Hun we are nere to stand against the Hun outside and inside our gates, against the men who are the worst foes of our nation at this time, men of tho stamp of Senator LaFollette. The other day I saw how, In a speech at St. Paul, Senator LaFollette actually, by implication, condoned the brutal German murders of our women and children on the high seas saying, forsooth, for-sooth, or implying that it was tho mil-nition mil-nition makers that had gotten our citizens citi-zens to travel on those ships and be sunk. After tho sinking of the Lusi-tania Lusi-tania I read how, in the Queenstown morgus, hundreds of dead women lav waiting identification, holding in their arms the babies they tried to save. And a senator of the United States condones the action of the brutes brutes who were guilty of that murder. He endeavors to distract attention from the wrongs committed on us abroad by breathing dissension at home. f, "ui v:Rys harQ and always shall fight for democracy, and I wish to say that in all this country the most sin-ster sin-ster foe of democracy at this moment is Senator LaFollette, who seeks to distract our contention from the great work of fighting for human freedom and for tho rights of our own land by acUonB which can only have ono.effcct if successful, actions in the intqrest of the brutalized, militarized bureaucracy bureau-cracy of the German Hohenzollerns. Not a New Type "Senator LaFollette is not a new type. We had this type in the Civil war the copperheads They used all the fine words that their modern representatives rep-resentatives use now. They called themselves the 'Sons of Liberty,' and used the same arguments that LaFollette LaFol-lette and the people of his stamp, the congressmen, the editors and the sham philanthropists, make now. One of the leaders of tho copperheads Abraham Abra-ham Lincoln sent to the hostile lines. I am sorry to say that I suppose It is Impossible to send Senator LaFollette where he belongs, but I wish we could make him a gift to the kaiser for use in tho reichstag. There he would be In entirely appropriate surroundings, whereas, in the senate, he is a cause for shame and humiliation for everv worthy American. Must Prepare 'In Advance "You cannot win respect for this country by making this a dollar war, a potato war, a war where we pay someone else to fight for us. Uncle San can afford to trust onlv to his own strength. That means that he must prepare his strength in advance if he is to make it count to advantage in tho day of trial. "A couple of years ago I was asked by a Chicago paper, the Illinois Staats Zoitung, to write something. I looked this paper up, and found this: It was conducting in the German edition of the paper a campaign on bohalf of Gorman militarism, but it was running an, annex, a sideshow, in English, publishing pub-lishing tho speeches of David Starr Jordan and others old women of both sexes. It was conducting in Its German Ger-man edition a campaign which could only have tho effect of making its readers read-ers Germans, not Americans, and In its English edition it was endeavoring to make tho Americans convorts to pacifism. pacif-ism. That was perfectly natural. The ruthless and brutal militarist of one country hails with Joy tho growth to power of the feeble pacifist in another 'country. However deep may be your indignation against the ruthless militarist,' mili-tarist,' at least he has certain qualities of strength and courage, whereas the professional pacifist of 'the stamp we have 'seen blossom out in this country has not got one quality, that entitles him to the admiration of any honorable man. ' |