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8 A -THE OMAHA SUNDAV BEE: MAY 28, -.1918. "BACK UP GEN AT FRONT;" URGES COL. ROOSEVELT American's War Duties Out lined by Ex-President at - Springfield, 0.; Pleads for Unified Nation. J Springfield, 0, May 25.TCo1one! Jf heodore Roosevelt, former president, as enthusiastically received here to night by a large audience. His speech, in part, follows: ; -At this time no good American ihould sleep easily, if during the day he has not done everything m lus power to put this country back of the armed men who in France are fighting for our own national honor and interest, and for the future of the free peoples of civilized mankind. The peril is faced by, and the honor is rightly due to those at the front. But' the rest of us, the , men and ' -women who cannot get to the front, muit at least back up our men in every possible way; and the way to bade them up is every day, every v -week, every month, to do the thing that is next At this moment the thing that is next U the Red Cross drive. " Last month it was the Liberty loan. And all the time the biggest thing that is next is to back up the men who wear our uniform by insisting that we at home tolerate absolutely ' 'no. division on the great question ; of Americanism. No Fifty-Fifty Allegiance. ' The first essential here in the United States is that we shall be one nation and that the American nation. We are a new nation, by blood akin to but different from every one of the nations of Europe. We have our wn glorious past, we are a nation with a future such as no other nation in the world has before it, if only we, the men and women of today, do our full duty and bring up our . aons and daughters to do their full duty, as Americans, and as nothing else. ; ""' ' "In such a nation, there can be no Efty-fifty allegiance. YThere is no such thing as being loyal to the United States, and also loyal to any other tower. It if just as impossible as or a man to be loyal to hit wife and also equally loyal to tome other worn, an. If any man dilutes his loyalty to America by any degree of loyalty to any other country whatsoever, he ought instantly to be tent out of this country and back to the country .where he belongs. And of course the . ' case is even worse if he sacrifices his loyalty f6r America to his hatred for . tome other country. The German American alliance put the interests of Germany above the interests of the United States, it showed itself the embittered foe of America and tried, to run our politic with reference not to our own honor and interests but to the needs of the Germany of the - Iloheniollernt. , , Would Intern Sinn Feineri, "The Sinn Feinera have put the oner and interest of America second to their hatred to Enriand. The Ger- . man-American alliance is dissolved, ' but congrest ought by law to make the dissolution permanent and to , render forever impossible its revival or we creation or any similar anu American and semi-traitorous organ isation. In just the same way every Sinn Feiner who directly or indirect ly seeks to discredit America's allies in this war and thereby to give aid and comfort to Germany, should be interned as an enemy alien or sent out of the country. . "The same thing is true of the Russian Bolshevists who seeks to plunge this country into the chaotic ruin into which Russia has been ( plunged. All these men are the al- 1 lies of Germany, and the enemies of toe United States. Their most potent allies are the native American dema gogues, whether politicians or news pi per editors, who pander to the for eign vote that is hostile to America, ' and the native American pacifists who Itavo been the mean allies of Ger man militarism, and the I. W. W. people, and the Germanized societies. All these are enemies to the United States and ihould be treated as such. Duty of Germana Here. This question of Americanism has two sides to it. The first side is that which I have above outlined. AddIv la what I have said in concrete form. it means that at this time the Amert can of German blood should himself take the lead in proceeding against every man in this country who di rectly or indirectly favors Germany, or is likewarm in our -war against Germany. In the Revolution the American of English blood took the ' lead against the British king and his y backers. "In this war it should be the Amerf cans of German blood who take the lead against the Germany of the Hohenzollerns, the Germany that has become a menace to liberty and to iustice and to mercv and to honor throughout the world. America has f pedal ancV intolerable grievances of tier own axainst Oermanv. lor no na tion it worth being called a nation if it permits such wrong as Germany , Cid this country to go unpunished. Out in addition America is fighting the battle of all well-behaved nations. It is fighting for the right of free i peoples to exist No nation can be of full effect in such a war as this unless it stands loyally by its allies and any man who now seeks to em broil us with out . allies is a traitor Jo the cause of America. . Would Have but One Language. ' "Nor can any nation make such ' Sght effectively if it is not itself (united!, We can permit no division - IJ-iere, Uur ideals and our princi- - pies of national unity and honor and 1 greatness must be the same in what fever part of the country we dwell and . ' rom whatever stock we came. There- ore, we must have but one nag he American flag, and but one lan , Tiage the English language. In our I primary schools nothing but the En J ,Iish - language should be taught or ' tudied. and the law should require ilhat after a reasonable period every newspaper in this country to be pub- t.snea in cngusn. jiot our nipa r institutions of learning, all foreign languages should be taught In them Insofar as it it considered necessarry. tut the language of the high school rt college itself should always be the tghsh language, and only the bn r'Jlah language just as it is in Wit . ;aberg college today, just as it is in ' ' Hntgers college, which my own Dutch V. ;5ormed ancestors helped to sound. "Room and Bath" in Front Line-Trenches 1 zr 5;.".':.t Of W f rn.jiia I And-what is true of the newpaper and the college is true of the church. We .Americans . must speak in the school, in the church and in the home and must read in our newspapers one language, the language of the Dec laration of Independence, of Wash ington's farwell address and of Lin coln's Gettysburg speech. "This is one. side of Americanism. But there is another side just as im portant If a man believes as an American it is an infamy to hold his creed or his national origin against him, or to fail in any way to give him the square deal as an American. If the man is a straight American it is our business to stand by him. I don't care a rap whether he is Catho lic, Protestant or Jew I don't care a rap whethef his ancestors or he him self came from England or Ireland or GermanyFrance or Italy, the Scan dinavian or the Slavonic countries. We have a right to insist that he be an American and nothing else. If he lives up to that requirement he has a right to insist that we treat him exastly on a level with every other American. "A Red Cross friend, Mai. Sim mons, of St. Louis, told me a little anecdote the other day that illustrates just what I mean. He had just come back from France, where he had been toj the hospital to see my son Archie. In the next cot but one to Archie lay worse hurt even than Archie was, for a bullet had gone right through the point of his heart. He had to lie absolutely motionless for eight days, until the muscle knitted, and his life was saved. Ht , had shown conspicuous gal lantry and ability. My friend, the Ked cross' man, got into conversa tion with him, and after taking cer tain messages to be delivered to his family (and to one young lady who was not of his family) my friend asked him what his name was. Whereupon the young officer, who was : really little more than a boy, grinned and said, say now don't faint when you hear my name. It is Von Holtzendorf. Wouldn't the Hunt feel good if they knew they had 'got' a man with a name like that? "The boy in the cot between my son and this young officer had an English name. But those three boys were Americans .and nothing else 1 hey were stranght United Mates They had given their blod for this country ior one country, lor one flag! and they talked to one another in one language the language of the soldiers of Washington and of the soldiers of Grant and Lee." Business Men of Elk Creek lace Ban on German Language Tecumseh. Neb.. May 25. (Spe cial.) The business men of the vil lage of Elk Creek, south of Tecumseh and in this county, have posted large placards about' the business streets announcing that the German language must not be, spoken in that town. When the cards appeared one or two of the more timid business men, fear ing no doubt that their business in terests were endangered, removed the cards from near their respective places. They were called upon promptly by the promoters of the plan and given to understand the cards must remain posted. They were put up again and are still hang BATH? O One of the most necessary things.O and mostly the thing that is lacking, is a bath for the men at the front. Behind the lines there are bathing quarters, which are more popular than the canteen with the fighting men. inese two British xommies, after being relieved from duty in the trenches, double ud in the lone bath tub, while their pals await their turn. 3 Memorial Sermon Sunday. Rev. W. J. Shallcross will preach a special memorial sermon at the South Side Congregational church Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. The Ladies' circle, Grand Army of the Re public, have accepted an invitation to attend. Night service will be held at 8o clock. WILSON PARTIAL TO SOME PAPERS, SAYS ROOSEVELT Ex-President, in Hot Reply to Burleson, Declares Adminis tration Discriminates in Favor of Certain Papers. (By Amoeiated Press.) , Washington, May 25. A reply by Theodore Roosevelt to Postmaster General Burleson today in their con troversy over alleged discrimination by the Postoffice department in treat ment of publications, presented to the senate today by Senator Poindexter of Washington, charged that the ad ministration had played for and against different newspapers and ma gazines and that President Wilson was directly responsible. Loyal Papers Embarrassed. The administration, Mr. Roosevelt declared, has condoned the anti-ally attitude of certain publications among them the Hearst newspapers while embarrassing those that have made honest criticism of the conduct of the war. - Honest Criticism Stifled. "Since the war began," said Colonel Roosevelt "the administration has used the very great powers of the government over the public press to stifle honest criticism of governmen tal inefficiency while condoning (which necessarily means encourag ing) pro-German, anti-ally and their anti-American agitation in certain powerful papers which defended this inefficiency and misconduct; and it has sought from congress a great ad dition to the already existing power it has thus misused. I believe that the first article of the constitution guarantees the right of the people to criticize truthfully the conduct of their public servants .and that this right cannot be taken' away by any law." I Calls Wilson Responsible. ' Colonel Roosevelt also assailed Chairman Creel of the comimttee on public information and in imputing re-, sponsibility for the acts of the post master general and Mr. Creel, said: "I deal with Mr. Burleson and his actions purely because he is a rep resentative of President Wilson, ex actly as is Secretary Baker; exact Jy as is Mr. Creel. President Wilson is responsible for everything Postmaster Burleson and Secretary Baker and Mr. Creel do or' leave undone." In attacking Creel, Colonel Roose velt declared he "assails publications that truthfully expose shortcomings of the administration and without re gard to the facts personally and through his bureau actively upholds the administration in matters such as the aircraft program, in which has been grave governmental shortcom ings." "This is partisan political propagan da of the very worst type," the for mer president declared, "carried on with public moneys under the guise of public work." "There are cases, wCi&c.aU com- petent and honest observers are mor ally certain that political support has been given and is now being given to the administration by various news papers, especially German-American and semi-scocialistic newspapers, be cause of the club thus held over them by the administfation. From the very nature of the case there can rarely be positive proof in such cases, but as regards the most striking cases of favoritism, those concerning the Hearst papers, as compared .with the suppression of Tom Watson's paper, and the attack, (for nominally whol ly different reasons' on the Metro politan, (magazine), I herein give the facts which prove exactly what I iave alleged. The postmaster gen eral has raised the issue; I meet it squarely; and he shall not evade it The administration has successfully endeavored to prevent expression of opinion hostile to it and to put a premium upon supporting the presi dent personally and politically .with out regard to whether his actions are detrimental or beneficial to the coun try.". There was no debate in the senate on Colonel Roosevelt's statement, which was presented without being read. Afterward, Senator Swanson, of Virginia, democrat, had the recent statement made by Postmaster Gen-, eral Burleson also placed in the rec- ord. " Senator Gallinger of New Hamp shire, the republican leader, said, he ventured the hope that the "incident is closed." Omahan is Speaker P. J. Barrett of Omaha, grand trustee - of the Ragles, spoke Friday before the aerie in Syracuse, Neb. German Submarine Enters Port of Santander, Spain Madrid, May 25. 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