JFK+50: Volume 7, No. 2444
T.R. DEMANDS ONE DEVOTION
Chicago, Illinois (JFK+50) One hundred years ago, September 26, 1917, Theodore Roosevelt, speaking before a crowd of 12,000 at Dexter Pavilion here in Chicago, demanded "one language and one devotion."
The Spanish-American War hero and former President of the United States said...
"I stand for one flag, one allegiance, and one language--the language of the Declaration of Independence, of Washington's farewell address, and of Lincoln's Gettysburg address."
The Chicago Daily Tribune reported that the Colonel "pilloried the German language newspapers (and) denounced pacifists as human cowards."
T.R. mentioned David Starr Jordan* and classified him with the "old women...of both sexes." He said...
"The pacifist has not one quality that entitles him to the admiration of one honorable man."
*David Starr Jordan (1851-1931) was born in Gainesville, NY & graduated from Cornell University in 1872 with a Masters degree in botany. DSJ did graduate studies at Butler University & became professor of zoology at Indiana University in 1879.
DSJ served as president of Stanford University 1891-1913 & served as an evolution expert for the defense in the Scopes Trial in 1925.
SOURCE
"T.R. Rips Up LaFollette Crew, Pacifist Real Foe and Shame of the Nation", Chicago Daily Tribune, September 27, 1917.
T.R. DEMANDS ONE DEVOTION
Chicago, Illinois (JFK+50) One hundred years ago, September 26, 1917, Theodore Roosevelt, speaking before a crowd of 12,000 at Dexter Pavilion here in Chicago, demanded "one language and one devotion."
The Spanish-American War hero and former President of the United States said...
"I stand for one flag, one allegiance, and one language--the language of the Declaration of Independence, of Washington's farewell address, and of Lincoln's Gettysburg address."
The Chicago Daily Tribune reported that the Colonel "pilloried the German language newspapers (and) denounced pacifists as human cowards."
T.R. mentioned David Starr Jordan* and classified him with the "old women...of both sexes." He said...
"The pacifist has not one quality that entitles him to the admiration of one honorable man."
*David Starr Jordan (1851-1931) was born in Gainesville, NY & graduated from Cornell University in 1872 with a Masters degree in botany. DSJ did graduate studies at Butler University & became professor of zoology at Indiana University in 1879.
DSJ served as president of Stanford University 1891-1913 & served as an evolution expert for the defense in the Scopes Trial in 1925.
SOURCE
"T.R. Rips Up LaFollette Crew, Pacifist Real Foe and Shame of the Nation", Chicago Daily Tribune, September 27, 1917.
David Starr Jordan
Indiana University Photo
