“LET THE OLD DIE FIRST”
Mr Theodore Roosevelt believes that older men should be first to answer the call to arras. The editor of the Venango “Badly Herald” recently published an article under the caption “Let the Old Die First.” He sent a copy of the editorial to Mr Roosevelt, and received the following reply: "My Dear Ferguson, —Good for you, I entirely agree with you, the old should go where possible, and it is for the old to die, where that can be brought about in war, so as to save the young. Of course, if a man has a wife and children dependent upon him he ought not to go to the war until there is such a demand as there was in the Civil War. but he should go if his wife and children are not dependent upon him for their bread. If we now go to war with Germany I should a good deal rather be killed myself than to have my two eldest boys, who are married and hare children, killed. And bitter though the choice would be, 1 would rather expose them to battle than their two younger and unmarried brothers.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9648, 1 May 1917, Page 2
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