JFK+50: Volume 7, No. 2427
FORMER PRESIDENT CALLS ON AMERICANS TO MAN THE TRENCHESNew York City (JFK+50) One hundred years ago this evening, September 9, 1917, Theodore Roosevelt appealed to the service of his countrymen in wartime by "calling upon all 'loyal and unadulterated Americans to man the trenches' against the nation's foes."
The former president identified those foes as "the German-American alliance, enemies masquerading as pacifists, and the I.W.W."
Roosevelt compared the position of Americans in 1917 to that of Colonials in 1776. TR made it clear that colonial Americans stood up for liberty against their mother country and that German-Americans needed to do the same in the war against Germany.
Colonel Roosevelt said...
"Americans of other race origin must do today what Americans did in the revolution, otherwise they are traitors to America."
SOURCE
"Need Mold of 1776 to Shape American Today", Chicago Daily Tribune, September 10, 1917.
Spirit of 76
(Yankee Doodle)
by Archibald MacNeal Willard*
*Archibald MacNeal Willard (1836-1918) was born in Bedford, Ohio & fought in the Civil War. AMW painted 'The Spirit of '76' in 1875.
