Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1917 — Elihu Root on War and Traitors. [ARTICLE]

Elihu Root on War and Traitors.

The following are excerpt* from Elihu Root'* speech at the Coliseum Friday night in Chicago: A nation which declare* war goes on discussing whether it ought to have declared war or not is impotent, paralyzed, imbecile, and earn* the contempt of mankind and the certainty of humiliating defeat and subjection to foreign control. The men who are speaking and writing and printing argument* == against the war now, and against everything being done to carry on the war, are rendering more effective service to Germany than they ever could render in-the -field with arm* in their hand*. . . Anybody who seek* by argument or otherwise to stop the execution of the order sending troops to France and Belgium is simply trying to prevent the American government from carrying on the war successfully. He is aiding the enemies of hi* country and if he understand* what he is really doing he is a traitor at heart.