Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1916 — MORE KILLED IN MEXICO THAN IN CUBA [ARTICLE]

MORE KILLED IN MEXICO THAN IN CUBA

Roosevelt Makes Speech at K. C.— Unknown Hurls Knife at Him— Matter Was Trivial. Kansas City, May 30.—Colonel Theodore RooseveLt came to Kansas City today and in several speeches sounded an appeal for preparedness, declaring vigorously for universal training based on universal service. In his principal address at convention hall he departed from his set speech, to say a facetious word about Mexico.

iHe carried his warning that there was a war peril m pacifism to all classes. His first message was to * group of children that had gathered to greet him. It was “prepare.” A few moments later he spoke to a street crowd from the lobby of his hotel. He told them to prepare. At noon, a guest of the Commercial Club at luncheon, he sounded another appeal. “It has been said,” he declared,, “that the west is not interested because it would not suffer from war. I know that this is a lie. I would shrink as from a plague from an American who would say that he does not care what happens to . another American. Lofty words are poor companions if they cannot be translated into deeds.” There were several untoward incidents during Mr. Roosevelt’s visit. A pocket knife was thrown at Colonel Roosevelt’s motor car during the Memorial day parade and it struck the arm of John W. McGrath, the former president’s secretary and fell to the running board of the car. McGrath tonight said there was no force behind the knife, and he believed someone had tossed it toward the car as a joke. Colonel Roosevelt was told of the incident tonight, and afterward his secretary issued this statement: “Colonel Roosevelt regards the matter as an entirely trivial incident and feels that no weight should be attached to it.”