Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1916 — Not Too Proud to Get Kicked—T. R. [ARTICLE]

Not Too Proud to Get Kicked—T. R.

North. Platte, Neib., Oct. 25. —A large crowd greeted Theodore Roosevelt here tonight when he made a ten-minute talk between trains. He declared that a man who is too proud to fight is not too proud to get kicked and that the same is true of nations. Three hundred Americans, he said, lost their lives in Mexico and those on the Lusitania because foreign nations concluded that the United States was too proud to fight. “I was president of the United States seven and one-half years,” declared Col. Roosevelt, in making a platform speech at Kearney, Neb., “and during that time no representative of a foreign power ever harmed a citizen of the United States because all knew that while I never picked a quarrel I was not too proud to fight.” In passing through Grand Island, Col. Roosevelt responded to calls for a speAffi, confining his remarks to the Mexican situation, ti