THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, JUNE 15. 1917. Pacifists Damage the Moral Fiber of People in the Nation's Great Ciisis T. R. SAYS ALLIES SURE TO WIN WAR AGAINSTGERMANY Former President Greets Old Friends in Omaha While Enroute to the State Capital. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was in Omaha ten minutes yesterday. The colonel was on his way to Lin coin, where in the afternoon he is the chief speaker at the Nebraska semi centennial. Though the hour, 7 o'clock, was early, there were hun dreds of Omahans at the depot to greet him and from the time he swung his cai on the rear of the Bitr li.igton train until he continued his journey, he was a busy man. Colonel Roosevelt was up, fully dressed and out on the car platform, his face wreathed with smiles, when the train pulled into the depot To General Phil Hull of Nebraska'! army contingent, who was the first man to meet him, the colonel ex claimed: Likes the Weather. ' "This is a fine morning; this is bully and I'm glad to see you." About this time and just as Col onel Rosevelt stepped down from the car, the Lincoln committee, headed bv Chancellor Avery, former Senator Iturkett, H. H. Wilson, J. C. Harpan, Charles Watson, J. H. Brody, C C Qu'ggle, J. Reed Green, W. 0. Jones and a number of others, gathered abof him an! were introduced. Omahans to the number of fully 200 gathered ii. and vied' with one another in grasping Colonel Roose velt's hand. He recogniied most of them, and those whom he did not were introduced by Victor Rose water. While Colonel Roosevelt was busy meeting friends, he had an eye out for the babies and several were held up for his inspection. He treated them them all alike. He chucked them tinder the chin, patted their cheeks and confided to the fond mothers: "They are darling babies." Somebody wanted Colonel Roose velt to make a speech and told him so, but he got out of it by remarking that "I have got to do most of the talking in Lincoln this afternoon and I must save my voice for that occasion." On the subject of war, Colonel Roosevelt has but one opinion and that opinion, as he expressed it is this: "The allies are going to win and there is no question about it Its not t war of any one country, but a war in the interest of humanity and future freedom and if alt the allies should drop out, the United States would be in honor bound to continue alone and make the fight," ' , ' Colonel Roosevelt asserted that the fast is just beginning to awaken to the gravity of the war situation and people are beginning to realize the necessity of contributing their money and physical strength in support of the allies. He added, "And from opin ions gathered in talking with the fieoplc and reading the papers, I be ieve that the central west, which can always be depended upon, is in line, ready to respond to any call made upon it," Colonel Roosevelt Is !n the pink of condition and according to his own statement, ia feeling fine. He is ready for a fight and if called upon to go to the front, aaya he will be there to do his duty. . Magician at Kansas City , Charged With Robbing Omahan . Kansas City, Mo June 14. (Spe C. H. Hennella, a magician, met D. L, Young, a well-to-do cattle dealer from Omaha yesterday. The men talked a while, then Hennella in vited Younc to his room at the main hotel. A few moments later Hennella asked to be excused. Young waited for his host an hour. Then he became nervous and took an ii .entory of his personal belongings, 1)' discovered his ruby and diamond scarf pin, valued at $165 were missing. Hennella was arrested and charged with larceny today. His preliminary will be a week from today. Chamberlain's Tablets for Indiges ' tion and Biliousness. In a recent letter to the manufac turers Mrs. P. Frazier, East St. Louis, Mo., states: "I have never used any thing equal to Chamberlain's Tablets for indigestion and biliousness. I have also heard a great many of my friends praise them highly." Adv. : The Weather , For .XbrakA Pair; warmtr. TempermlttMt at Omaha YMterdmy. Hour. Per Um M a. m.,.,, hi i a, ra I a. m. 68 AO i a. m. 10 a. m t 11 a. m 61 It noon.,,....,, M 1 p. m 5 1 p. ra 7 S p. m 61 4 p. m t I p. m .ft t p. m 17 T p. m 66 I p. m 14 CparatlT local Bceord. HIT. 1918. 11S. 1114. Ilfffhit yuterdar.... II hi 7& 82 Jowt ynterdajr 62 S ( 41 Man iDmptraturt 60 70 67 1 Precipitation '.00 T. T. 1.01 Temparatur and precipitation departure iTom me normal: Normal tmperatura ,., Tl Deficiency for in day Total deficiency alaca Id arch 1 1U Normal praclpttattoa 17 Inch Kkh for th day 17 inch Total rainfall Hoc March 1....11.E2 Inch Kxcna alnca March 1 S-26 Inchei IWftclency for Mr. partod la 114 4.44 Inehaa IMlei-ocy Cor cor. parted Id 111! t.6 Inchea Xtfwrls Fro Stations at T F. M, Station and Stat Temp, High Rata- of Weather. 7 p. ra. cat. tall. Cheyenna, part cloudy.. 76 16 .00 Davenport, c lowly , (4 61 ,H Xver, clear...,..,,,, 7 - 76 .00 Dec Molnea, clear 44 44 .00 iXKlce City, part cloudy 71 IS .00 Lander, clear. 74 76 .00 North Plana, clear..... 76 71 - .00 Omaha, clear,.,.,..,,, 44 .00 Pueble, clear. , 71 - 78 ' .00 Jtaptd City, oear 06 41 .M Halt Lake City, clear.. . I St - .00 HtnU He, part cloudy.. 76 71 .00 ffheridan, part cloudy.. 74 74 .00 Mow Ctiy. clear 66 66 . .00 Vaicuttoe. clear........ 64 10 .09 U A. WELSH, Meteorologist. ROOSEVELT IN RINGING ADDRESS AT NEBRASKA SEMI-CENTENNIAL CRITICISES NATIONAL POLICY Former President Deplores Failure of United State to Prepare for War and Plead for Nation-Wide Sup port of Red Cros Movement Recep tion for Friend. Lincoln, Neb., June 14. With all t'.e vigor at his command, Colonel TI.eodore Roosevelt, addressing sev eral thousand persons assembled on the capitol grounds here this after noon, the last of the aemi-centennial celebration of Nebraska, drove home the fundamental truths of the doc trine of Americanism. His speech was tampered with kindly considera tion for those cf foreign blood in the United States, but he was emphatic in pointing out the duty of every American at the present time. In the afternoon a patriotic pi.ade, in which the colonel participated was held, preceeding the "riies at the stat capitol. Tonight Colonel Koose velt witnessed the historical pageant "Nebraska" produced by the Uni versity of Nebraska faculty and stu dents. Pays Attention to Press. One of Mr. Roosevelt's digressions from his written address was to flay the German language newspapers of the country. "These newspapers printed in German are a fit subject for the attention of the censor", he said. "I think the English language, seeing it is our language does pretty well without the assistance of the German or any other tongue. I might have been shenrt ot my county," Mr. Roosevelt continued, "but 1 never would have been presi dent if I had learned and only spoken Dutch, the language ot my ancestors. "I have a friend who has just en listed in the army. He has a splendid little family of a wife and four chil dren. He himself, was born in Sweden, but he is all American and a good one, too. Now I don't want that man's children to speak Swedish and my children speak Dutch, because I want them to understand each other." Flag Above Church. In the course of his address.' Col onel Roosevelt assertd that "the clergyman who does not cut the flag above the church had better close his church and keep it clpsed. Mr. Roosevelt urged farmers to buy Lib erty Loan bonds and said: If you don't invest in the Liberty Loan, don't jump on Wall street, when Wall street dos." Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, in his speech this afternoon criticised the na- . ! t t! ., f . 1- T ' . . I f ' : . : , iiuimi puucyvoi inc urmca oiaici lor failure to protest promptly - against German ruthlessness and brutality, de plored national failure to prepare for the war, pleaded for undivided loyalty to the American fUsr. denounced the pacifist, and asked for generous sup port and for the use of the Red Cross in caring mr nmencan iruop, in European battlefields. "We permitted our national policy." he said, "to be swayed by the national devotions and national antipathies of men, who exercised the rights of American citizens, but showed them selves traitors to America by the way in which thev prostituted our citizen ship to the interests of Germany or to ineir natreo. oi cngiana. "It would be impossible to over state the damage done to the morale fibre of our country by the profes sional pacifist propaganda, the peace-at-any-price propaganda. The pro fessional pacifists during the first two and a half vears of the war. have oc cupied precisely the position of the copperheads during the time of Abra ham Lincoln. Sheer Cowardice. "The fact that sheer cowardness was more potent than the love of peace was proved by the fact that the leading pacifists dared not condemn a single specific act of wrong-doing when such act was committed by the powerful and brutal foe they most feared Germany. They clamored for neutrality between Germany and Bel gium. They denounced war in language wntch renectea as heavily on the fathers who were defending ' their wives snd daughters from outrage as upon the aggressors who systemati cally practiced rape and torture. By their failure to protest against the in human torture of the poison gas they made it necessary hereafter to accept this as an ordinary instrument of war f re: iust as. bv our failure to take immediate action in connection with the murder of innocent noncombat ants by submarine, we committed an offense against humahity the effects of which cannot be completely eradi cated by any subsequent action on our part. "All this meanness and abandon ment of duty was championed by the professional pacifists on the plea that thereby we should be "kept out of War.' And bv their political pressure. they prevented us from preparing, and Kept us utterly unprepared, on the ground t'.tat preparedness invited war: their motto was 'Saftev first.' not 'duty first.' They cared nothing for our righteousness. They cared notl.mg tor humanity. I hey cared nothing for our national honor or .in terest. All thev asked was a 'oeace' that would permit us to get all four feet in the trough while we strove to distract attention from the squalid baseness of our materialism by the shrill clamor ot a sham sentimentality. Finally Forced Into War. "And nevertheless we have not been kept out of war. Our avoidance of duty simply n ted cuch- cumulative repetition of insult and iniurv that finally war was forced on us. It merely resulted in our arming into war stern foremost, in a condition of such com plete unreadiness that we owe an ig noble safety exclusively to the protec tion of the exhausted nations to whose help we have announced that we intend to come. "From this time on let us Insist on an absolute and undivided American ism in this land, untempered by any self-allegiance to the countries from which our ancestor may severally have sprung, and untainted by any unworthy national animosity towards and other country. Let us prepare our selves spiritually, economically and in all military and naval matters includ- ing as a permanent policy the policy ot universal military training ana service so that never again shall we be utterly unready, as we now are, to meet a great crisis, rinany, in me present war, a war for liberty and democracy against the ruthless mili taristic tyranny of the Prussianized Germany of the Hohenzollcrns, iet us as speedily as possible train our giant, but our soft and unready, strength, so that we may use our hardened might to bring the sl.ughter to a real and final end in the only way honorably possible by securing for ourselves and our allies the peace of justice based on overwhelming victory." Appeal for Red Cross. In his appeal for support of the Red Cross, Colonel Roosevelt said: "The most important thing is to send abroad at the earliest possible moment a great fighting army. Second only to the army in the work of win ning this war comes our Red Cross. Indeed the importance of this work is so great that the president of the United States has set apart next week from June 18 to 25 as a period for sacrifice and unselfish generosity, a week in which the whole American people will be asked to join in raising funds to enable our Red Cross to per form its vast and indispensable duties in this war. "The president has also commis sioned several of the ablest business men of the country as a war council of the Red Cross, to administer this service on behalf of a atricken world. This war council tells us that a fund of $100,000,000 must be raised at once in order to meet even the most urgent needs. "Here. Indeed, Is a summons to every American. It is an enormous sum ot money; but what eomtort can we take in withholding; that or any other sum of money if it is needed to relieve the suffering of our own sons or the sons of our allies who are fights ing for all that makes life worth liv ing. Opportunity for Service. "Into our Red Cross without stint should be poured a heartfelt offering of thanksgiving that we are permitted to join in this great service to all man kind. Our soldiers and sailors will do their part without flinching; we may rest assured of their courage and fi delity. The Red Cross offers to us who are not allowed to fight, the op portunity for sacrifice and for help. "We little realize what is before us. Our own sons and brothers will soon be going into battle. They will be 3,000 miles from home, in a land al ready wasted bv war. a land threat ened by famine a landismitten by dis ease. They tell us that in many cases today the wounds of soldiers in France must be tied up with newspa pers for wsnt of the necessary sur gical bandages. When our own men are wounded as they surely will be in great numbers are we going to al low them to suffer yet more because we fail to provide those things whtcn can at least mitigate distress? Surely not I But we must do it in advance. If we wait it may be too late. Do it nowt Foster Parent for the Wounded. "Our Red Cross must not only care for the shattered bodies of our wounded men; it alone can become a foster narent tc them in the trying conditions they are sure to face when they are convalescent from wounds or recovering from exhaustion. We shall soon have an army of l.OUu.UOU sol diers. When "they go to France they must have homes in which to rest and to be cared for and to recover. The generosity of our whole people must make it possible for our Red t-ross to provide tor them. "Iu no previous war have the inno cent noncomhatants had to bear so terrible a share of its physical suffer ing. And it is through our Red Cross that we can show to the nations of the world how the great heart of the American people goes out to them in their distress.' Bleeding France. "France proud, brave, bleeding from ghastly wounds needs us sore ly. Tuberculosis is raging throughout its land. Fifteen hundred of its towns and villages have been razed to the ground by the calculated barbarity of the invaders. Millions of its people are homeless and starving, bereft even of the barest covering for their bodies, of stoves, of utensils with which to cook or eat, of agricultural imple ments, of animals indeed of the sim plest elements of civilization. And to us atone can these people come for help; we alone have the abundance with which to supply their direst needs. "To Russia, too, we must reach out our helping hand. We little know what it has suffered and is suffering. Russia, long obedient to autocracy, has not flinched in this conflict Its people have had to struggle not only to free the world from autocracy, but to make their own land a lang of liberty. Russia needs all we can do to make their own land a land of liberty. Suit Cases and Bags , for your Vacation Our ttock of these goodi is the best in Omaha. Suit caiet made of fibre, strong and durable, good locks and hingei, priced at $1.25, $1.60, S2.00, $3.00 and $4.00. Traveling Bate nicely made of durable material, $2.75, $3.50, $4.00 and $$.00 We Like Small Repair Jobs Freting & Steinle "Omaha'i Beit Baggage Builder" 1803 Farnam strengthen Its courage and to make It feel that we are indeed behind it Our armies can do little for it Our Red Cross alone can take into Russia the message of hope, of help, of confi dence which it so terribly needs. The message must be practical. It must tarry deeds .nd not merely words and it should be carried at once. I'rob ably never before were so many peo ple in distress and agony as in Russia at this very hour. We can take no more vital step toward winning tmt war than to put renewed heart and strength into Russia." T. B. STARTS WAVE OF PATRIOTISM AS TALKSJNLINCOLN (CwatlatMd Tnm Pag One.) only regret is that I am not serving under your father in France." The little fellow appeared embar rased by the enthusiastic greeting, but responded in a low voice with a "Thank you." When the crowd arose and sang "America," a crowd much larger than greeted W. J. Bryan at his home coming in 1908, was already on the grounds and thousands were still coming, when Mr. Roosevelt was in troduced by Mayor Miller. Platform Too Low. The platform was not high enough for the colonel and while the crowd cheered, Colonel Roosevelt mounted a table. He asked the crowd to be as quiet as possible as a strong Ne braska breeze was blowing. A banner about fifty feet in front of the platform on which was in scribed, "The Greek for the United States," appeared to be in the way of Sieople in the rear and upon calls to ower it. Colonel Roosevelt said: "That's a corking good banner, but it is a little in the way of people seeing back of you. Pass it up here," and it was handded up. "Now for the umbrellas," shouted the colnel. "I know that lady over there will lower her parasol," and as the parasol was lowered, Colonel Roosevelt shouted, "Bully." "No wonder you have woman suffrage in Nebraska," ' Guest it Dinner. Ex-President Roosevelt 'was a guest this evening of the semi-centennial committee at a dinner at the Lincoln hotel. There were about 115 present and at the close of the dinner, Colonel Roosevelt talked a few momenta to the committee. . The law the pageant of Nebraska tonight, and was greatly pleased. Prohibitory Clause Is Written Into Tax Bill Washington, June 14. A prohibi tory tax on foodstuffs used in making beverages, tentatively agreed to last week by the senate finance commit tee waa (till further increased today and then was formally written into the war tax bill. The new rate is $60 per hundred pounds instead of $20 per bushel, and representatives of the distillers declare it unquestionably would b e effective in forcing suspen sion of the distilling industry. The section as approved also prohibits im portation of distilled beverages. Chicago Board Adopts New Rule to Stabilize Grain Chicago, June 14. New regulations designed to stabilize the grain market by providing an' increased supply available for filling future delivery contracts were adopted by the Chi cago board of trade today. No. J wheat hereafter will be deliverable on future contracts at five cents discount. The new rule also applies to corn and oats. Irish Prisoners May ' Be Allowed to Go Free London. lune 14. The British gov ernment is considering the granting of Amnesty to the Irish prisoners ar rested at the time of the rebellion last year. Chancellor Bonar Law made his announcement in the house of com mons today saying that the govern ments decision would be made known immediately. Zeppelin L-43 Destroyed By British Naval Forces London, June 14. Zeppelin L-43 has been destroyed over the North sea by naval forces, Chancellor Bonar Law announced today, in teh House of Commons. The admiralty reports that no sur vivors of the Zeppelin were seen. EVEREST, KANSAS, April 20, 1917. Bankers Life Insurance Company, ' Lincoln, Nebraska GENTLEMEN Twenty years ago I bought policy No. 4589 in your company for f 1,000. 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If you are thinking of taking a policy or an agency, write Home Office, Lincoln, Neb., for particular, Dept H. 1 ' OLD GLORY RAISED AT THE COURT HOUSE Gift of Joseph Hayden Unfurled With Military Honors on Beautiful Tarnam Street Lawn. While three companies of soldiers stood at attention and a great crowd on the court house square sang the "Star-Spangled Banner" a big Amer ican flag, twenty-five by thirty-five feet In size, was drawn out on a cable stretched between the city hall and court house, where it floated in the breeze before the cheering crowd. The ceremonies took place at noon. The flag was the gift oj Joseph Hay den. captain i t. Adams, in making the presentation address, declared: "The name of Joseph Hayden, the donor of this magnificent flag, will go down in the history of Douglas county as the great patriot of this day." THOMPSON BELDEN a CO. 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Thunder, lightning, rain and hait, which envel oped the capitol for more than an hour today forced both houses of con gress to recess while the storm raged because the legislators could not make themselves heard above the din. ' Undermuslins A Friday Special One lot of La Grecque Combination Corset-Covers and Drawers, sizes 34, 36, 38. At reduced prices Friday $1.75 combinations, $1.10 2 combinations. $1.35 $3 . combinations, $2 $4.50 combinations, $2.98 Third Floor. Sale Friday It's easy to sell Bankers Life Policies. They mature to the satisfaction of every policyholder. Whv not tr it? Kikujiro Ishii to Heaii Jap Mission to America Tokio, June 14. Viscount Kilku jiro Ishii, formerly foreign minister, has been appointed chief envoy of th Japanese commission, which is tc visit the United States for the pur pose of arranging co-operation be tween the two nations in the war. 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