Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1917 — Root Urges Lawyers to Awaken American People. [ARTICLE]

Root Urges Lawyers to Awaken American People.

Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Sept. 3. — Lawyers of America were urged to sound a “cry of alarm” throughout ■the nation for a success prosecution of the war, in an address delivered today 1 ' by Elihu Root before the conference of Bar association delegates, an organization allied with .the American Bar association. He urged that every member of the bar “exert every influence and every power he possesses over his clients, friends andassociates in every community,” in’ that direction. “It has become perfectly evident,” he said, “that this is a conflict between two opposed and inevitably opposed systems of governments, of politics, of human society. It has become perfectly evident that our war was/brought on with a purpose to establish a military autocracy. More than a generation of careful preparation had been made for this ve'ry thing. “So long as there exists a great and powerful military autocracy which has the purpose to secure domination by military force, so long republics, democracies, countries which preserve individual freedom and individual rights, countries which subordinate government to freedom, must be at the mercy of autocracy. As well go to sleep with a burglar sitting in your front hall as to talk about the peace and security of a democracy with Germany still competent to pursue its career of domination.”