ROOSEVELT'S SCORN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11512, 7 October 1915, Page 1

ROOSEVELT'S SCORN.

! PREACHES MILITARY PREPARED-1 v NESS. j A FIGHTING SPEECH. j l Recently President Wilson ordered J an investigation into the vis:t ot Mr j Roosevelt to a State militaiy camp at s Plattsburg and the delivery of a- speech J criticising tho Government's policy-- j [ PLATTSBURG, N.Y., August 5. j Theodore Roosevelt, in an address to- j nitfit at the Military Instruction Camp | I here, declared that for thirteen rooniii.-i : the United States had ' ll played an ig- . noble part among the nations'' in that it bad tamely submitted to oeeiug the weak, whom we had covenanted to protect, wronged.'' and " had seen -eur ; own men. women ;:nd children murder- I ed on the high seas without action. ot.i j our part.'' ! 1 The- former president condemned the ' ! Government for "having not taken tile , smallest step in the way ot prepared- | liess to defend om* own rights. Ger- j many be condemned •' nt-terlv hrutol and ruthless in its disregard oi intern:!tior.til morality," and doe hi rod that i<• ' ''would bp -a base abandonment, of 1 molality" for American msumraeturers : of ammunition ot war to reiuse to make , shipments ' for the use oi 111 ■'» armies that are .striving to restore Belg.um to t its own people.'' SUGGESTS " I!Old. OF DISHONOUR. Munition makers who rel'uskl to make | shipments should bo- put. he said, on I a roll of dishonour." J(e added that they should be encouraged " so that we may be able to hold our own when the hour of peril comes to us in our turn, j Mis speech follows in part: j "Free citizens should be allowed to j to their own lighting. Tho professional j pacificist is as much out of place in a j democracy as is the poltroon himself, i and ho is no better citizen than a. Pol- j troon. Probably no body of citizens in J the. United States during: rho last jive j years' hav«* wrought- so efficiently for j national decadence and international j degradation as the professional pacifi- j cists, the peace-at-any-price men, who j have tried to teach our people that. I silly, all-inclusive arbitration treaties j and the utterance of fatuous platitude* i at peace congresses are substitutes for : adequate militaiy preparedness. j PRAISES ARMY CAMPS. | " Camps like this are the best pos- i (sible antidotes to hyphenated Ameri- t I can ism. The events of the past year i ? have shown us that- in any crisis Iho .hyphenated American is an active force i; again America, an active force for ! wrong-doing, Tho effort to hoist two flags on the same flagpole always means ' [ that one flag is hoisted underneath, j ' and the hyphenated Anioriestn invari- ! ably lioists tho flag of the United States ! underneath. \\ e must, all lie Amerij cans and nothing else. " Thoro exists no finer body of American Citizens in this country than those citizens of Gernuui birib or descent. who are in good faith America,ns and. nothing else. The professional Genuan-Amnrio-a-n lia-s shown himself in the twelve months an enemy to this country as well as to humanity. The recent exposures of the, way in. which those German-Americans have worked together with ihe emissaries of the German Government- often by direct corruption—against the integrity of American institutions and against. America ! doing its international duty, should 1 arouse scornful indignation in every American worth calling such. Tho leaders among the. professional German- . Americans have preached and practised. > what oomus perilously near to treason-"