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i f THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, '.SUNDAY MORNING,? APRIL '29, 1 1917. 50.000 PEOPLE GIVE ROOSEVELT ROUSING WELCOME IN CHICAGO twenty Thousand Pack the - Stockyards . Pavilion, ' 30, ' OOO'Jam Streets About. GUARDS ARE POWERLESS Tormer President Delivers War, Ad dress to Thousands; Cheered 10 Minutes as He Enter Ball. Dexter Park ravilion, Chicago, April SI. (If. P.) Fiftr thousand people greeted Theodore -Roosevelt as he called the middle west to war tonight -. "to prove that those who are fit to Jive are not afrmd to die. ' Twenty thousand Jammed the mon " ater hall which has been the scene of o many Roosevelt triumph. Thirty thousand others filled the streets for blocks around the pavilion. Roosevelt had heralded his Chicago war address as "the speech of Jils life." And Chicago where the west begins welcomed her idol as she ,: -never before welcomed a leader. Guards Join Patriotio Throng'. . Long before the doors to the pavilion . were openeu, thousands thronged tlie streets. By. the time the doors opened,' me jam nau inoreasea until it was im possible to penetrate within a block of the hall. Police and military were dowmIpss So they Joined the throng in the fran tic rush to catch a glimpse of the speaker, as, surrounded by a double cordon of troops, his automobile nn9.nl Ha way through the pulsating mass of patriotism. The hall, inside and out, was buried underneath the trl-colora red, white and blue. Bands Keep, Crowd e root. Flags, bunting and banners coverei every square inch of surface and every one of the 20,000 arms was a living uagstarr. A score of bands kept the crowd con stantly on its feet through the two nours or waiting that preceded the ar rival of the speaker. Patriotic airs. interspersed with Civil and Spanlsh Amerlcan battle songs, found not a single seat-warmer in tne audience. -The Star Spangled Banner had Its fuij quota of recognition, but It re mained for "Dixie" to bring forth the rebel yell that echoed and re-echoed to the farthermost limits of the stock, yards, the crowds surging against the walls of, the building, taking ud the roar and relaying It like the booming : of minute guns along the cro-wdal : street. Cheering Z.asts 10 Minutes. It was Just 8 o'clock when Roosevelt entered the amphitheatre. As he emerged through a bank of American, French and British flags. the throng arose and cheered 10 mln utes. He bowed and smiled to the yeuing crowd and then sank Into a chair again the cheers broke out and for- another five minutes the famous teeth glistened as the colonel toowed and waved his hand alternately to right and left. Bishop Samuel Fallows delivered the Invocation, after which the audience . arose and sang "America." Outside the structure the crowds surged about the doors, striving r to catch a word or two as they dropped from the lips of the speaker. Pickpockets ep Harvest. Pickpockets, finding a fruitful field, . . worked in and out of the throng, reap ing a golden harvest. On the platform with Roosevelt ' were representatives of half the states of the middle weat. Among them were three governors, Lowden of Illi . nois, Frazer of North Dakota and Harding of low. President Wilbur of Leland Stanford university,, Duni way of Wyoming, Edmund James of Illinois and Harry Pratt Judson of Chicago university were some of the educators present. I During the course of his speech a message telling of the passage of the . isoiuuon authorizing Roosevelt to lfead a division to Prance by the sen- 3te, was handed to the speaker. "Bully for them; that's fine!" he ex claimed. Then he continued hit speech with renewed fire, . Tes of Xls Address. Roosevelt began his speech at S:6S p. m. He said: The president's message of the sec ond of this month seta forth the rea5 om why It was our unescapable duty to make war upon Germany. It rests with us with the American people to make that message one of the great state documents of our history. Let vs accept th lessons It teaches. Let us grasp what It says as to the fright ful wrongs Germany has committed upon us and upon the weaker nations of mankind, ana th damage she has wrought to the whole fabric of civiliza tion and Of international good faith and morality. Then let 'us steel our hearts and gird our loin to show that we are fit to stand among the free people whose freedom is buttressed by their self-reliant strength. Let us show by our deeds that we are'flt to be the heirs of the men who 'founded the republic and of the men who saved the republic; of the continentals who followed Washington, and of the men who were the blue under Grant and the gray under Lee. America Is at Wax. -"We Americana are at war. Now let us fight. Let us make it a real war,, not a dollar war. Let us show that we have the manhood to pay with our own bodies. Let us fight at Once. Let us put the flag at the front now, at the earliest moment, and not mere ly announce that we are going to fight a year or two hence. "I most earnestly and heartily stand by the proposal of the president 4o raise an army on-,the principle of uni versal obligatory military training and military service, demanded as a right, not as a favor, from all tne young men of the country capable of bearing arms. This is the principle I have long advocated with all fervor of conviction. It is the only really demo cratic principle on which permanently to shape the military policy of this country. To have it adopted as the permanent principle of our national military policy will be of Incalculable service-to our national peace and wel fare. Moreover, If the war lasts, as Well It may for 6ne or two or three years, the army, to Bee it through, must be raised in this fashion. It is vitally essential, both from the stand point of fighting this war through to a successful conclusion, if it should last a long time, and from the stand point of our permanent national safe ty and democratic welfare, that we should immediately inaugurate this principle and set about raising a great army in accordance therewith. "Such an army will naturally need a long time to train, and at the earli est moment We should begin to devote our strength and energy to calling it into being and training It. This should be the task which we treat as of prime Importance. But most emphatically, we should not rest content with this We should not rest content with mere ly preparing an army to act a year or 18 months or two years hence. First Line of Defettse-A Broadside From U. S. S. Michigan ADITS ACCUSATION l I ''"--'-' .-. ' 1.. - i ' it 4 1 I I .Ml JS 'V:1UMllMeWfIiti(g ... " ...v I B 1 mini 'v ri M I fl t -1 'Miwi' t. ' - li'v -"t "V I H I h'V 1 : Vav 'vi '''V.,.1 ?'vj , ti. - .A ...i 1,l,n..m?au i-m&iumm : , : 1 AGAINST JNO BENSON .B.YE0N, ARE UNTRu E B. F. Steen of Linn County, Defendant in Libel Suit, Makes Retraction, INVESTIGATION IS MADE Oharrea Befleetiaa- on Charade of Good Jtoads Ltedm Xesult of Tagae Snmort, Beclaerea the rartnar. us put the flag, on the firing line at the earliest possible moment. this summer, wherever our services are most needed in France or Flanders or the Balkan peninsula. It need only be a small army at first. But even a division Would be better than nothing. Then we can constantly keep that di vision filled, and other divisions from time to time added to it; until, a year hence. If the war continues. We have a really formidable fighting force at the front, a fighting force which will be steadily Increased month by month, year by year, until the triumph comes. ."To do this, it is necessary that we should appeal for volunteers, not in any-wy aa a substitute for. but as a supplement to, the administration's plan for raising an army in accord ance with the principle of obligatory untwsal service. If the system of universal obligatory training and Serv ice had already been in existence here for a number of years, and If in other ways we had been prepared in ad vance, we could by this time have had an expeditionary force of a million men under way for the front, ready to strike the finishing blow. But the system doea not yet exist, and, neces sarily, all kinds of preliminaries will have to be gone through before it caru now be called into being and an efnfctlve army of large size raised under it. Belay la Deplored. "I most earnestly hope that we shall avoid any policy of delay. If we are true to our own souls, we shall know that, like our forefathers, we are will ing to pay for our principles with our bodies not merely with our dollars. Congress has passed, without a dis senting vote, a bill - to appropriate I?. 000,000,000 as representing part of our contribution to thai great war. This is fine; but only on condition that we also put our men into the fighting line. Half of this great sum Is to go to the allies: that Is. it is to be spent ct by them in ' getting their men up against the German and Austrian and Turkish shells and bullerts. Now, we Americans have always prided our selves on being able to do our own fighting. It is right to help others to fight in the common cause for which we are engaged. But it is even more necessary that we should fight our selves. "We fight for our own rights. We fight for the rights of mankind. This great struggle is fundamentally a struggle for the fundamentals of civ ilisation and democracy. The future Of the free institutions of the world is at stake. The free people who gov- ern themselves are lined up against the governments wihich deny freedom to their people. Our cause Is the caus j of humanity. J "Now that we are at war, let us make it a real war, not a make-believe war. not a war of limited liability. Germany has been in a state of war with us for two years; but so far wo have onlybeen at the receiving end of the game. Some centuries ago the Black Earl Douglas led a Scotch king and a Scotch army against the English, and when the battle place was reached, the grim' old fighter turned to the 'young klrig and said. 1 have got you up to the ring; and now you must hop.' Let us apply this to ourselves! We have walked Into the ring; and now we must fight. Fighting does not mean merely parrying.- It means hard, aggressive hitting. No fight ever was won yet except by hitting. A good rule to remember is never to hit if it is possible to avoid it; but, above all things, never to hit soft. We have gone into the fight; we have doter mined to hit; and we must not, hit SOft. ' "Threo monthsvhave passed since -we broke off diplomatic- relations with FTPS TrsN IK THEATRE PARK AT STARK TODAY, MONDAY, TUESDA Y THE CLEVER FILM STAR JACK MuE L IN The Hero of . H Tr Tr me o our' A master play of love and romance in 5 acts. 4VA UDEViLLE ACTS-4 RETURN OF THE FAVORITES PORTLAND'S OWN COMEDIAN Joe Brennan Thm Irish YanaweC THE VERSATILE DUO . & Percival . Comady Danoing-AJug flinf. Leahy, Archer & Baiter worth Comedy and Harmoay THOSE CLASSY TWO Bridewell Sisters Monday, Tuesday QnlyTheMonthe Wire" NOTE Children Under 10, When With ParentsAdmitted Free to Matinees, except Saturday and Sundays. Germany. Read the history of the opening months of the war, and you will get a vivid idea of what the Ger man army would have done to u dur ing those three months If we had hal only our own unprepared strength to defend us. We owe our safety at this moment to the British fleet and the French and British armies. I, for on am hot content to rest under that kind of obligation; and I do not believe that my fellow countrymen are content to rest under it I wish to see us owe our safety to our own strength and our own courage and to the respect wo inspire in our foe. We shall inspire no respect If we merely try to parry that foe's blows and not to return them. The only way in which we can return them im bv immediately sending an expeditionary force to fight In Europe, & force small at first, but steadily in creased until it becomes so formidab.e that it can end the war. It would be BoandaJ and a shame if tne war ended now with our part in it limited to having furnished dollars behind the shield of other men's bodies. We art in the war. Let us fight it tnrougn ourselves, with our own strength and courage, to a triumphant "conclusion. Americans AU. I make my appeal to all Americans, without distinction of-creed or of na tional origin, of Djrtnpiace or or tne section in which they live, in time or war like thia all party distinction van ish, and I know only those wno are ror America and those who are against America. I make my appeal equally to northerner and southerner, .to east erner and westerner. I appeal equally to the Protestant and the Catholic, to the Gentile and the Jew, and to the men whose fealty to the great lawa of righteousness is given outside the limits of any recognized creed. I care not a ran whether the man was born here or abroad. I care not a rap whatn- er his forefathers came from England. Ireland, Scotland, from .Germany, France or Scandinavia. But I demand thai this single-hearted loyalty be given to the one flag that floats over all of us. the flag which we are bound to reverence and hold dear to the ex clusion or every otner. "This is the appeal 1 malce especially to the men and women of the west I do not merely ask you to go to the front, you men of the weat; or to cheer your, men : when they, go, you . women. I also ask you to see that I am given the high privilege of making my words good by my deeds and going to the front with you. I have asked leave to be allowed to raise a division to take to the front in the first expedi tlonary force, under the commander of that force; a division which, after two or three months' preliminary training here, can be taken for intensive train ing to France, and then- put into the trenches at the earliest possible mo ment that the allied generals deem it fit to render service. I ask that I be allowed to Join with others, who feel as I do in making good the president's message. "Remember, friends, that what I am asking is not in any way as a substi tute for, but as a supplement to, the plan for a great army to be raised on the principle of universal obligatory military service, a plan which I favor with all my heart. I do not aek for men in the classes which would be taken under the administration's plan for an army raisetf under the obllga tory system. I ask for men who would not otherwise be allowed to go. The force I propose to raise would repre sent an absolute addition to the na tion's military strength, an addition which could be used at onoe, which would serve to put the flag and keep the flap on the firing Un during the time that the great army was itself being raised, and while our flag would otherwise not be on the firing vline The favor I aak ia the great favor of being .allowed to render i a service which I believe that my record entitle me to say that i am able to render. ,?V - let Wem B Fiev4. . "I ask to be allowed effectively to do my part in showing that the Amer leans of today are worthy of the great heritage bequeathed to them by their fathers who lived in the days of Lin coln, and their forefathers who lived in (he days of Washington; that We are loyal to the spirit of tne mighty; men of the peat; and that we, too. aa free men . who prise beyond measure our freedom and who feel that-the enjoy menc of rights and the observance of duties go -hand in hand, are eagr, in our turn, to prove that those who are lit tft uve are noi ar raid to ie.. Dealer Accused of False Advertising J. F. Schwankovaky, president of the Schwan Piano company. 111 Fourth street, was arrested yester day afternoon on a warrant charging deceptive advertising, sworn to by Charles W. English of the Better Business bureau of tne Portland Ad club. According to the complaint, a piano advertised to be of $875 grade, but reduced in price to 1281.25 and pay able on the installment plan, was in truth of 1250 value. The trial was set for Monday in municipal court and Mr. Schwankovsky released on his own recognizance. A detachable ex tens lem tube has been Invented to lessen the noise of water falling from faucets into a bath tub. Admission that his charges were without foundation, together with a complete retraction, is made by B. F. Steen, Linn county farmer, being sued hy John B. Yeon and S. Benson, well known good roads advocates, for de famation of character, in answer to their suits filed in the circuit oourt- of Linn county. In a voluntary communication pub lished In the Lebanon Criterion of March 23, Steen, writing in support of the position of C. EX Spence in op posing the proposed 16,000,000 good roads bond issue, charged that Messrs Yeon and Benson were shareholders in the Warren Construction company and that they divided the state's money 50-50." He also charred that Mr. Benson was "also one of the principal defend ants In the notorious Benson - Hyde tlmberland fraud." Yarned the Wroag Ku. As a matter of fact the Benson Im plicated in this suit was F. A. Benson and not S. Benson. . Mr. Benson and Mr. Yeon are both active in good roads work the former as a member of the state highway commission and the latter as roadmaa ter of Multnomah county. Fearing these allegations weuld have an ad verse effect on the bond measure to come before the people June 4, if per mitted to go unchallenged, they Imme diately filed suit for libel against Steen, the writer of the communica tion, and W. C. DePew, publisher of the Lebanon Criterion. Steen retained Samuel M. Garland, well known Lebanon attorney, who conducted a thorough investigation Into the facts. He found that the charges were written by 8teen in the belief that they were true, the allega tions having been repeated in Linn county 'as gossip from mouth to mouth. Writes la Friend's Defense. Steen in his answer sets forth In mitigation of damages that in March an article was published in the Leba non Criterion which he considered an unwarranted reflection on the Integrity of C. E. Spence, master of the state grange, the article having to do with the good roads bond Issue. Being a member of the grange, an active worker in tts behalf, and a " warm personal friend of Mr. Spence, Sten says he wrote a reply In the - grange leader's defense. f-y The answer reads: That the charges In the" defendant's said article were based on a long-stand- v ing and persistent rumor and report y Irrulated in the community in' which the defendant resides, which had of- . en come to his ears through various hanneis, none of which he fan now race to any responsible source. At he time of writing and publishing of said article this defendant sincerely believed said rumor and report to be true and made such charges In good faith and without any Intention what- ver of reflecting unjustly upon the plaintiff. ; Investigation. Is Made. Since this action was brought, this defendant has made, and has caused to be made, full,' '-earnest and persist ent investigation as to the truth .of the statements contained in said article relative to the plaintiff." Steen goes on to say that his Inves tigations have convinced him that the charges made were without founda tion, end "declares and alleges that he enrnestly and sincerely regrets the making of said charges and that he now freely and fully retracts the same. ami is now and at all times ready and. willing to make any reasonable repara tion In his power." Samuel M. Garland, Steen's. attor ney, has written to Colonel C. E. 8. Wood, attorney for S. Benson, as fol lows: . As you know, I represent B. F. Steen In the actions brought against him by S. Benson and John B. Yeon in the circuit court of the state of Oregon for Linn county, for damages for defamation of character, on ac count of a letter written by Mr. Steen in connection with the $6,000.00 bond ing act to be voted upon June 4, 191T. ' Charges round Oronadless. On behalf of Mr. Steen and on my behalf as his attorney I have made and caused to be inatle a very raref ul in- vestigatienrTb ascertain whether or not there is any foundation in fact for the charges made by Mr. Steen in the article complained of by your client. Mr. Benson and Mr. Teon. The result of this investigation has convinced Mr. Steen and myself that there Is no foundation whatever for any one of the charges in the article complained of. Mr. Steen was misled by a rumor that has been for some time Industriously circulated in different parts of the state conveying the Idea set forth in the article complained of. Mr. 8ten sincerely believed in the truth of the charges that he made. He now Just as sincerely believes that the charges are not true and he has set forth in hi answer these facts: "I personally never believed any of these rumors. Representing my client, however, I believed It my duty to make the Investigation referred to. The in vestigation has simply confirmed me In my belief in the falsity of these rumors. Mr. STeen is a young man of very high character and feels it to be a duty that he owes not only to Mr. Benson and to Mr. Teon, but to him self to rectify as far as possible the mistake that he honestly tnade, and to repair as far as Is In his power what ever Injury he may have unwittingly (.'one to either Mr. Benson or Mr. Yeon." ifiS: iff ik, sMBBBTf :-E'. f m m - M I i 1 af 1 985 m aw -- - Expenemice Four $850 1 Prices Effective April lt, lM7 Light Fours Tomint . . 6o3 Jtssrfshr . $64o Cmtmtrg Qui . iros Big Fours Tearing C0Hp . Light Sixes . Toerief . ' Coup . ! Std49 . vrniys six Touring Us $tSo . lots t07o St433 Wmys-Knights Four Touring tlJOS Four Coup tioso Four Stdan . I: OS" Four Limousin Si es . Eight Touring $1039 Advanced in price Big Four and Light Six model. 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