SPECIAL EDITION. "OUGHT TO BE SHOT."
ELIHTj ROOT ON PROGERMANS. "A .CLOAK OF PRETENDED AMERICANISM." (K-eeeivwi ■ August 17. 3 p.m.) NEW.YORK, August K 5 Senator Elihu Root created ar Snormous sensation on delivering " speech eondenmin,.; the lenienc; shown to pro-Gennaiib in th-: United States. " Pro-Gorm;m traitors, in ar.<i ont of Congress,'' ho said, " artendeavouring to make America's: preparations t-o inekectivo that our mandhood will moot defeat is the firing lino. They are covering themselves with a cloak of pre bended Americanism. If we are competent and Jit for'our liberty, we will find them out annd get a-t them. There arc men in New Yoii: who ought to be shoi to-morrow at tmnriee for treason. There arc Also in New' York editors de-serving of execution for treason, and soonor later they'll get it.'"
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12088, 17 August 1917, Page 1
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