TRAITORS DENOUNCED.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1917, Page 3

TRAITORS DENOUNCED.

ROOSEVELT'S REMARKABLE SPEECH. ' Merciless, indeed, was ex-President Roosevelt in a, remarkable speech which he delivered at Forest Hills,, near New York, before a tremendous crowd, and he declared that those *in America who championed Germany's cause against the cause of America were guilty of moral treason, although not in law moral traitors. He pleaded for a single standard of patriotism and loyalty. "Now we are at war with Germany," he said, "yet many of these persons —supported, of course, by professional pacifists —continue to champion Germany's cause as against the cause for which we are fighting. This is a moral treason to tho Republic, and all who engage in it are in fact, although not in law, traitors who have no right longer to be treated as American citizens. The time has come to insist that they drop their dual allegiance, and in good faith become outright Germans or outright Americans. They cannot be both, and those who pretend to be both are merely Germans who hypocritically pretend to be Americans in order to serve Germany and damage America. At this moment) vital thing to remember about those hilf-hid-den traitors is that to attack America's Allies, while wo are at death-grips with a peculiarly ruthless and 'brutal foe as against our Allies, or to apologise for that foe's infamous wrongdoing, is to be false to the cause of liberty and to the United States. There can to no half-and-half attitude in this war, and no honorable man can afford to take such an attitude. We are 'bound by every consideration of loyalty and good faith to our Allies, and any opposition to them, or any aid given to their and our enemy, is basely dislionorivble as regards our Allies and treasonable as regards our country."