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Show AMERICA N NO Col. Roosevelt Makes Stirring and Characteristic Speech at Kansas City. KANSAS CITY. Mo.. Oct 3. Soldiers Sol-diers and sailors and mothers of young children were the only classes of citizens citi-zens exempted from a call to national service issued here today by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt during the course of a Liberty loan address. Speaking as "one American to all other Americans" the former president urged "ono common devotion to our country and our flag." "America has waked up," he declared, declar-ed, "and you can better appreciate, what this admission means from me when you recall that I did not hesitate) to tell you when I thought you were asleep. America has made up Its mind to win this war to win it as soon as possible but to fight It through to the end." The crowd estimated at 12,000 heard the address. "Money, munitions, airplanes, ships, will not win the war," the speaker said. "Just one thing will win and that Is the fighting ability of the men at the front" Profiteers who accumulate war fortunes for-tunes will leave "tainted money" to their sons, he declared, and he scored their "blood brothers," the slackers, together with conscientious objectors, "internationalists," pacifists and followers fol-lowers of the "black flag of German-Ism, German-Ism, socialism and the red flag of an- nrphv " |