Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1915 — T. R. Flays War Attitude Of the United States. [ARTICLE]

T. R. Flays War Attitude Of the United States.

In a speech to the citizen soldiers of the Plattsburg instruction camp Wednesday night, Theodore Roosevelt declared that for thirteen months the United States had palyed an “ignoble .part among nations,” in that it had tamely submitted to seeing the weak, whom we had convenanted to protect, wronged. We had seen our men, women and children murdered on the high seas without action on our part. He scorned our government for not taking the slightest step in making preparations for war. He condemned Germany in not allowing munitions to be sent to the armies trying to restore Belgium to its own people. IJe said that munition merchants who refused to make such shipments should be put on a “rol lof dishonor.”