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[Introduction, by Ralph Stout]
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[xiii]
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[Dr. Fitzsimons’s Death, September 17, 1917]
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[1]
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[Blood, Iron, and Gold, September 23, 1917]
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[2]
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[The Ghost Dance of the Shadow Huns, October 1,
1917]
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[5]
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[Sam Weller and Mr. Snodgrass, October 2, 1917]
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[8]
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[Broomstick Preparedness, October 4, 1917]
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[10]
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[The Bondholders and the People, October 7, 1917]
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[12]
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[Factories of Good Citizenship, October 10, 1917]
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[13]
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[Pillar-of-Salt Citizenship, October 12, 1917]
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[16]
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[Broomstick Apologists, October 14, 1917]
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[18]
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[The Liberty Loan and the Pro-Germans, October
16, 1917]
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[20]
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[A Difficult Question to Answer, October 18, 1917]
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[23]
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[Now Help the Liberty Loan, October 20, 1917]
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[25]
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[A Square Deal for the Training Camps, October 21,
1917]
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[26]
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[The Passing of the Cripple, October 23, 1917]
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[28]
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[The Peace of Complete Victory, October 23, 1917]
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[30]
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[Fighting Work for the Man of Fighting Age, October
25, 1917]
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[32]
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[Wise Women and Foolish Women, October 27, 1917]
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[34]
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[Why Cry over Spilt Milk? October 28, 1917]
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[36]
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[Save the Foodstuff, October 30, 1917]
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[38]
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[On the Firing Line, October 31, 1917]
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[40]
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[Nine Tenths of Wisdom is being Wise in Time, November
1, 1917]
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[42]
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[We are in this War to the Finish, November 2, 1917]
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[43]
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[Sinister Allies, November 3, 1917]
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[45]
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[The New York Mayoralty Election, November 8,
1917]
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[47]
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[German Hatred of America, November 13, 1917]
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[49]
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[Start the System of Universal Military Training
at Once, November 17, 1917]
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[52]
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[A Fifty-Fifty War Attitude, November 20, 1917]
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[54]
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[The Germanized Socialists and Peace, November
26, 1917]
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[56]
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[Mobilize Our Man Power, December 1, 1917]
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[58]
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[The Lansdowne Letter, December 2, 1917]
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[60]
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[The President’s Message, December 5, 1917]
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[62]
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[Four Bites of a Cherry, December 7, 1917]
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[64]
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[The Red Cross Christmas Membership Drive, December
12, 1917]
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[66]
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[Being Brayed in a Mortar, December 18, 1917]
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[68]
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[Rendering a Great Public Service, December 20,
1917]
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[71]
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[A Betrayal of Democracy, December 21, 1917]
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[73]
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[Broomstick Preparedness—a Study in Cause and
Effect, December 27, 1917]
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[76]
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[Our Duty for the New Year, January 1, 1918]
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[78]
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[Tell the Truth and Speed up the War, January 4,
1918]
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[80]
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[The Cost of Unpreparedness, January 6, 1918]
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[82]
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[Coöperation and Control, January 8, 1918]
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[85]
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[The Artemus Ward Theory of War, January 17, 1918]
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[87]
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[The Fruits of Watchful Waiting, January 18, 1918]
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[89]
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[Tell the Truth, January 21, 1918]
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[92]
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[Justification of Constructive Criticism, January
28, 1918]
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[93]
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[Secretary Baker’s General Denial, February 2,
1918]
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[96]
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[Let George Speed up the War, February 3, 1918]
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[98]
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[Let Uncle Sam get into the Game, February 5, 1918]
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[101]
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[Conservation is Important and Production is More
Important, February 15, 1918]
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[103]
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[The People’s War, February 26, 1918]
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[105]
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[The Fruits of Fifty-Fifty Loyalty, March 2, 1918]
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[109]
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[Quit Talking Peace, March 5, 1918]
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[111]
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[The Worst Enemies of Certain Loyal Americans,
March 10, 1918]
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[113]
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[Gird up our Loins, March 16, 1918]
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[115]
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[Bolsheviki at Home and Abroad, March 19, 1918]
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[117]
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[The Fruits of Our Delay, March 26, 1918]
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[120]
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[How the Hun Earns his Title, March 31, 1918]
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[122]
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[Thank Heaven! April 2, 1918]
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[128]
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[Citizens or Subjects? April 6, 1918]
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[129]
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[Women and the War, April 12, 1918]
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[133]
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[To my Fellow Americans of German Blood, April
16, 1918]
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[135]
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[An Extraordinary Achievement in Human Upbuilding,
April 17, 1918]
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[138]
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[Freedom stands with her Back to the Wall, April
20, 1918]
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[140]
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[A Square Deal for All Americans, April 27, 1918]
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[142]
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[The German Horror, May 2, 1918]
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[145]
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[Sedition, a Free Press, and Personal Rule, May 7,
1918]
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[147]
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[The Dangers of a Premature Peace, May 12, 1918]
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[150]
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[The War Savings Campaign, May 27, 1918]
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[155]
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[Anti-Bolshevism, June 5, 1918]
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[158]
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[General Wood, June 15, 1918]
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[160]
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[Help Russia Now, June 20, 1918]
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[162]
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[An American Fourth of July, June 23, 1918]
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[166]
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[How not to Adjourn Politics, June 25, 1918]
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[167]
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[Hats off to the International Typographical
Union, June 27, 1918]
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[170]
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[The Performance of a Great Public Duty, July 3,
1918]
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[172]
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[Repeal the Charter of the German-American Alliance,
July 11, 1918]
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[174]
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[Every Man has a Right to One Country, July 15,
1918]
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[177]
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[Murder, Treason, and Parlor Anarchy, July 18,
1918]
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[180]
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[Back up the Fighting Men at the Front, July 26,
1918]
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[183]
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[The Americans whom we most Delight to Honor,
August 1, 1918]
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[186]
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[Sound Nationalism and Sound Internationalism,
August 4, 1918]
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[188]
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[The Man who Pays and the Man who Profits, August
9, 1918]
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[196]
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[Our Debt to the British Empire, August 16, 1918]
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[200]
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[The Candidacy of Henry Ford, August 20, 1918]
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[202]
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[Speed up the Work for the Army and Give all who
Enter it Fair Play, August 23, 1918]
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[206]
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[Senator Lodge’s Noble Speech, September 1, 1918]
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[209]
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[Applied Patriotism, September 8, 1918]
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[211]
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[Good Luck to the Anti-Bolshevists of Kansas, September
12, 1918]
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[213]
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[The Fourth Liberty Loan, September 17, 1918]
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[216]
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[Fair Play and No Politics, September 20, 1918]
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[218]
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[Spies and Slackers, September 24, 1918]
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[221]
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[Quit Playing Favorites, September 30, 1918]
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[224]
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[War Aims and Peace Proposals, October 12, 1918]
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[226]
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[Permanent Preparedness and the League of Nations,
October 15, 1918]
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[229]
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[High-sounding Phrases of Muddy Meaning, October
17, 1918]
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[231]
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[An American Peace versus a Rubber-Stamp Peace,
October 22, 1918]
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[236]
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[Unconditional Surrender, October 26, 1918]
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[239]
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[What are the Fourteen Points? October 30, 1918]
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[241]
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[Further Consideration of the Fourteen Points,
October 30, 1918]
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[243]
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[Fourteen Scraps of Paper, October 31, 1918]
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[248]
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[The Turks Surrender Unconditionally, November
3, 1918]
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[251]
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[Peace, November 12, 1918]
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[253]
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[Sacrifice on Cold Altars, November 13, 1918]
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[255]
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[The Red Flag and the Hun Peace Drive, November
14, 1918]
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[258]
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[The League of Nations, November 17, 1918]
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[261]
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[An American Congress, November 18, 1918]
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[265]
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[The Freedom of the Seas and the Enslavement of
Mankind, November 22, 1918]
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[269]
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[President Wilson and the Peace Conference, November
26, 1918]
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[272]
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[The League To Enforce Peace, December 2, 1918]
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[277]
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[The Men Whose Lot Has Been Hardest, December 8,
1918]
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[281]
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[The British Navy, the French Army, and American
Common Sense, December 17, 1918]
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[283]
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[Let us have Straightforward Speaking, December
24, 1918]
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[287]
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[A Square Deal for the Men at the Front, December
25, 1918]
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[289]
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[The League of Nations, January 13, 1919]
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[292]
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The request, repeated and urgent, has come from many sources that the editorial articles, contributed by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt to The Kansas City Star during our country’s participation in the World War, be preserved for the future. It is in response to this request that this volume is published.
Newspaper publication is ephemeral. Newspaper files are short-lived. Anybody who has examined a newspaper of thirty years ago knows how flimsy it is, how it breaks and disintegrates to the touch. It lacks the enduring quality of the newspaper of sixty or seventy-five years ago when other elements entered into the composition of news-print paper. Newspaper publication is the thought of to-day; to-morrow, it is gone save for the impression left on the mind of the reader. That the recollection of Colonel Roosevelt’s articles may have something to appeal to aside from crumbling newspaper files is the aim of this book. And so these expressions on the events in a crisis in our national history—from the mind of a man whose intense love of country was the admiration of all who knew him, expressions which at the time of their publication stirred many to greater sacrifice for country, some to anger, even to rage—are here presented in enduring form.