c,/,' l| If ?f "Te,1?ly: Teddy: Teddv:-;
ofonel Uoosevelt ascended the plat,
foini at the close of Mr. Hughes's ad- !
dress. "No man has a right' to , lain, '
loinT k",ShiP W"h Ab,ilhi"? '???-!
(o n If no is too proud to fiKhf." Colo- i
nel Roosevelt said. "Pifty-odd >,ars'
ago there wore men in this emintrv i
h? were too proud to light, but the'v j
... ,,0! fouml in this club, and the'v'
did not vote for Abraham Lincoln
l irty-odd years ago there were men 1
?' lite nation that were too proud to |
lhe fo? ,,f Hie nation, lun thev |
were perfectly willing to n-i,, ,i,'o '
police and the draft riots.
"And now. jn the greatest crisis n ,t
we have seen since the Civil War. in !
? ho greatest crisis, as a whole, that
the world has seen since the Napoleonic
wars, jt is our duty and privilege to :
stand once more for the principles for !
which the men of the earl\ sixties.
who founded this club, stood: to stand I
for peace, honesty and sincerely by hon
orable expedient, but to stand for it in '
that effective wax which means Hint!
? he man .standing for it asks it as a
right, in the spirit of Justice, and does
not cringe for it as a favor to be
granted contempt uonsl.v by a wrong
doer.
