Morning Oregonian., September 27, 1917, Page 3, Image 3

THE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAJT, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 27, 1917.
t. r:s philippic
hits la follette
Wisconsin Senator Declared
Fit Gift to Kaiser for
Seat in Reichstag. .
ST. PAUL SPEECH SCORED
Mass Meeting Adopts Resolution
Condemning la Toilette as "Un
worthy to Represent Loyal
People of America."
CHICAGO, Sept. 26. Declaring Sen
ator Robert M. La Follette. of "Wis
consin, to be the "most sinister foe of
democracy in this country." Theodore
Jioosevelt in a speech on "The Children
of the Melting- Pot" hero tonight
launched a scorching' philippic at
pacifists in general and unprepared
ress. After his address, which was re
ceived with great enthusiasm, the
meeting, held under the auspices of
the National Security League, adopted
a resolution, offered by Bishop Samuel
Fallows and seconded by Judge Jacob
M. Dickinson, former Secretary of
War, condemning the Wisconsin Sen
ator for his recent public utterances
and declaring him "unworthy to rep
resent the loyal people of America."
The Colonel was given an ovation
when he announced that he felt he
had a certain right because he him
self was "a child of the crucible,"
l'nel flats Mentioned by Xante.
"Brutal militarists of our country."
asserted the Colonel, In connection
with his denunciation of pacifists and
pro-German propagandists, "hail with
joy the growth of pacifism In another
country. And the pacifist that has
developed In this country hasn't one
quality that entitles him to the ad
miration of any honorable man."
David Starr Jordan was mentioned In
particular as among those whose paci
fist views are condemned by the
speaker, who referred to the pacifists
as "old women of both sexes."
"We are to stand behind them
against the Hun outside our country,"
said the Colonel, after paying tribute
to the National Army, "and against the
Hun inside our borders. We are to
stand against men of the stamp of
Senator La Follette, who in a recent
speech at St. Paul actually, by Impli
cation, condoned the brutal German
murders of our men and women on
the high seas and tries to distract at
tention from the wrongs Inflicted upon
us by creating dissension at home."
"Copperhead Nue In 6 1.
"We had his type in the Civil War.
Then they called them copperheads.
These men used al the fine words and
the same arguments as La Follette,
certain Congressmen and editors and
lham philanthropists make now."
The Colonel brought this phase of
his address, which was comparatively
short, to a conclusion by expressing:
regret that It was impossible to send
the object of his criticism totb.e Ger
man lines.
"I wish we could make him a gift
to the Kaiser for use in his Reichstag.
In the Senate he is a cause for shame
and humiliation to every worthy
American."
Jn urging that Americans bend every
energy to prosecuting the war to a
successful conclusion, he stated that It
should not be a "dollar war," or a
"potato war," but one of fighting men.
and it was only through them that the
the Nation could hope to win.
His words on other features of the
address In part follow:
"In this country the events of the
last three years will teach us much if
we have the wit to read the lessons
aright. There must be In the United
States one flag and only one flag; one
allegiance and only one language that
of the Declaration of Independence, of
Washington's farewell address, of Lin
coln's Gettysburg speech and President
Wilson's message to Congress.
"I would give anything in the worjd
to be going over with you, he said,
addressing his remarks to soldiers in
the audience. "If it had not been such
a very exclusive war I would have
gone. I greet you as comrades, you
with the white faces and you with the
black faces. And I want to say this,
in the home state of Abraham Lincoln,
If a man does his duty, black or white,
stand by him. We cannot afford to
take any other ground in our own
country under the penalty of being
counted as hypocrites when we fight
for the. rights of humanity abroad.
War Not Rich Man'. Conflict.
"We have heard a good deal from
demagogues about this being a rich
man's war. It's a lie, and they know It.
It's a decent man's war, an American's
war and every man I know and respect.
rich or poor, is going to fight in the
line if he can. These same creatures
who tell you it is a rich man's war will,
In about 10 years, be screeching against
the bondholders, who stand opposed to
the people. They can prevent that right
now by persuading the people to invest
In bonds.
"We are here to stand against the
Hun outside and inside our gates,
against the men who are the worst foes
of our Nation at this time, men of the
stamp of Senator La Follette. The other
day I saw how. In a speech at St. Paul.f
Senator La Follette actually by impli
cation, condoned the brutal German
murders of our h women and children
on the nigh seas, saying, forsooth, or
Implying that It was the munition
makers that had gotten our citizens to
travel on those ships and be sunk.
After the sinking of the Lusitania. I
read how, in the Queenstown morgue,
hundreds of dead women lay waiting
Identification, holding In their arms
the babies they tried to save. And a
Senator of the United States condones
the act of the inhuman brutes who were
guilty of that murder. He endeavors
to distract attention from the wrongs
committed on us abroad by breathing
dissension at home.
La Follette Foe of Democracy.
"I always have and always shall
fght for democracy, and I wish to say
that in all this country the most sinis
ter foe of democracy at this moment
Is Senator La Follette, who seeks to
distract our attention from the great
work of fighting for human freedom
and for the rights of our own land by
actions which can only have one effect
If successful actions in the interests
of the brutalized, militarized bureau
cracy of the German Hohenzollerns.
"Senator La Follette is not a new
type. We had this type in the Civil
War. the copperheads. They used all
the fine words that their modern repre
sentatives use now. They called them
selves the 'Sons of Libzerty' and used
the Fame arguments that La Follette
and the people of his stamp, the Con
gressmen, the editors and the sham
philanthropists make now. One of the
leaders of the copperheads Abraham
Lincoln sent to the hostile lines. I am
sorry to say that I suppose it is im
possible to send Senator La Follette
where he belongs, but I wish we could
make him a gift to the Kaiser for use
In the Reichstag. There he would be
In entirely appropriate surroundings,
whereas in the Senate be Is a cause
for shame and humiliation for every
worthy American.
"Our task now is to bend every en
ergy we have to the winning of the
war. Let every man ot fighting age
who is permitted to go into the fight
ing forces tight. If he is a man of
fighting age. 1 don't want to see him in
the Red Cross or the Y. M. C. A. at
this time. Leave that work to the
women and the old men. We must
produce all the food we can. subscribe
to the bonds, back up the Red Cross,
but remember that if victory is really
to come, it must come through" the
deeds of the men who tight. You can
not win respect for this country by
making this a dollar war. a potato war,
a war where we pay someone else to
tight for us. Uncle Sam can afford to
trust only to his own strength. That
means that he must prepare his
strength in advance if he is to make
it count to advantage in the day of
trial.
Militarist Better Than Pacifist.
"A couple of years ago I was asked
by a Chicago paper, the Illinois Staats
Zeitung. to write something. I looked
this paper up and found this: It was
conducting in the German edition of
the paper a campaign on behalf of
German militarism, but it was running
an annex, a sideshow, in English, pub
lishing the speeches of David Starr
Jordan and others -old women of both
sexes. It was conducting in its Ger
man edition a campaign which could
have only the effect of making its read
ers Germans, not Americans, and in its
English edition it was endeavoring to
make the Americans converts to pacif
ism. That was perfectly natural. The
ruthless and brutal militarist of one
country hails with joy the growth of
the feeble pacifist in another country.
However deep may be your Indignation
against the ruthless militarist, at least
he has certain qualities of strength
and courage, whereas the professional
pacifist of the stamp we have seen
blossom out in- this country has not got
one quality that entitles him to the
admiration of any honorable man."
OXIVx HITTIXCi WINS, SAYS T. R.
Ex-President Urges Xewly Drafted
Men to Do Task Well.
CAMP GRANT, Rockford. 111.,' Sept
26. Preparedness and pacifists claimed
equal shares of Theodore Roosevelt's
attention in an address here today to
the nearly 20,000 men of the Eighty
sixth Division of the National Army.
Included in his speech was the plea
that his hearers,-when they have fin
ished the task they are about to tackle
in Europe, become apostles of universal
military service.
Reviewing some of the handicaps
that are delaying the work of the
training camps, such as lack of equip
ment and arms, he urged each of his
hearers, upon his return from the war,
to preach the gospel of universal, ob
ligatory military training.
"No man ever won a fight by parry
ing blows," he asserted. "Only hitting
wins fights. The Nation that can hit
not only wins' its fight, but wins the
respect of other nations. This country
will fulfill its aspirations and ideals
only in proportion as it develops the
spirit to fight for them."
With respect to pacifists and con
scientious objectors to war, he declared:
"No man, and I have weighed my
words carefully, is entitled to vote in
this- country unless he is willing to
fight for It In time of war and pre
pare himself to fight for it in time of
peace."
.The Colonel boasted that It made him
proud to be an American wnen he saw
how the officers and men of the Na
tional Army had "taken hold" of their
job.
"I envy you the chance you've got
on Uncle Sam's team. Our pity is lor
those on the side lines. You who are
going to fight will not have to explain
to your children and your children's
children why you did not answer your
country's call. But those who did not
will have to do a lot of explaining."
GUARD UNITS DRAW
FROM DRAFT CAMPS
National Army Likely to
Short 120,000 Men for
16 Divisions.
Be
FORMATION NOT COMPLETE
Judge Scott, of "Wyoming, Dead.
CHEYENNE, Sept. 26. Judge Rich
ard Scott, of the Wyoming Supreme
Court, for more than 30 years inti
mately connected with the growth of
Wyoming, died here late today after a
long illness.
Consolidation of State Guards Will
Leave Many Colonels and Regi
mental Staffs to Be As
signed to Other, Dnties.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. There Is
little doubt now that a large deficiency
of men will be shown when the first
increment of the National Army, 6S7,
000 men, has been mobilized.
Seventeen National Guard divisions
must be brought up to war strength
and several special service forces or
ganized out of this reservoir, so the
number of drafted men remaining at
the cantonments will not be sufficient
to organze the 16 National Army divi
sions at a full strength basis. Whether
incomplete divisions will be formed or
a call for more men issued has not been
indicated.
Secretary Baker said today that
definite figures as to the number of
National Army men it would be neces
sary to transfer to the National Guard
were not available. A dual process of
organization at the Guard encamp
ments serves to delay complete reports.
Not only aro these - divisions being
mobilized for the first time, but in the
midst of that mobilzation the whole
fabric of the infantry army is being
reorganized on the new trench warfare
plan.
The fighting strength of the new di
vision is now fixed at 27.500 men. The
17 Guard divisions on that basis will
nave a total strength of 467,500 men.
The Guard probably brought into the
Federal service a total of not more
than 300.000 men, possibly less. It will
take, therefore, at least 167,000 Na
tion Army men to fill up the Guard di
visions. Another 100,000 of the Na
tional Army will go to the air service
and certainly as many more to other
special services. That would leave not
more than 320,000 men to form the 16
National Army divisions, which should
have- an aggregate war strength of
440.000.
With the adoption of the European
regimental and company standard,
every Guard .regiment, which was to be
Included in a division, had to be ex
panded. Regiments and parts of regi
ments are being consolidated to fur
nish the 3600-men regimental units
now desired.
The Guard consolidation has brought
upon the department a new source of
trouble. Numerous Colonels and regi
mental staffs of the Guard are certain
to be left without commands, since the
number of regiments has been reduced.
The policy of the Department, it is
said, will be to find places for such
Guard officers in other forces as far
as possible and desirable.
Lawton ' guardhouse ' today and fled
north from the outskirts of Seattle in
an automobile taken from Henry Pol
seln, a chauffeur, at the point of a re
volver, were captured late today at
Mount Vernon. 65 miles north of here,
by Sheriff Stevenson, of Skagit Coun
ty, who was waiting for them at the
city limits.
The men. Privates Joseph Waller,
Davis Decker, Hugh McWnlnnie and C.
W. Mason, said they had intended to
go to Vancouver, B. C, on a Joyride.
Mason recently was involved In the
theft of an automobile here and was
serving a two months' sentence at Fort
Lawton. Decker and McWhinnie were
in the guardhouse awaiting trial for
infractions of military rules. Waller
was on duty as their guard. They
compelled Polsein to drive them to Sil
ver Lake, on the Everett highway,
where they bound him to a tree, robbed
him. of 32 and then drove north in
the car.
U-BOAT IS CUT IN TWO
BRITISH TRANSPORT RAMS FOE
AT SIGHT.
Second Diver Falls In Attack on Food
Ship and Is Sank by Guard
log Destroyers.
AN ATLANTIC PORT, Sept. 26.
Passengers arriving here today on a
steamship from a British port told of
the sinking of two German submarines,
one (if which had attacked a transport
convoyed by British destroyers.
The transport was fired on by a
U-boat late at night September 14. ac
cording to the story, off the Irish
Coast. It was a bright moonlight night,
and officers on the troopship saw the
silvery path of the torpedo. Shots
were fired at the hostile craft by the
gunners on the transport, but the sub
marine was finally sunk by a destroyer.
The second U-baat reported sunk
attacked a steamship on the same line
carrying a large number of passengers
and a heavy cargo. When the perl
scope of a submarine was sighted the
steamship Immediately made for the
craft, - ramming it as it rose to the
surface, cleaving it in two.
As the U-boat sank a number of
sailors were seen in the water, it was
said, but the work of rescuing them
was left to the destroyers.
VOCATIONAL GRANT URGED
Provision Made in Deficiency Bill
for $29,000 for Dr. Coe.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, Sept. 26. Through the efforts
of Senator McNary and Senator Smith,
of Georgia, an amendment was adopted
in the Senate to the deficiency bill
which will permit Oregon and several
other states to receive immediate
benefits under the vocational education
bill, Oregon's share amounting to
$4500.
Another provision added to the de
ficiency . bill appropriates $29,000 for
the care of Alaska insane at Dr. Henry
Waldo Coe's Sanitarium. This appro
priation is made necessary because of
the increased cost of living.
RUNAWAY ROQKIES CAUGHT
Escaped Prisoners Commandeer
Auto and Hob Chauffeur.
SEATTLE. Wash., Sept. 26. Four
soldiers who escaped from the Fort
Veterans to Meet in Baltimore.
CLEVELAND. Sept. 26. At the clos
ing session of the United Spanish War
Veterans' 19th annual encampment
here today, Baltimore was chosen as
next year's meeting place. Henry W.
Bush, of Detroit, was elected com
mander in chief.
Aeronautic Board Is Legalized.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. Final leg
islative action was taken today by the
Senate on Senator Sheppard's bill giv
ing a legal status to the Aeronautic
Board. The Senate agreed to have
amendments and the bill went to
President Wilson.
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