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Now. this is a day when we are supposed all over the United States to take up a collection to establish a memorial to a former President. I believe it is estimated that several millions of dollars are thus to be raised and placed in a monument. I desire modestly" and respectfully to submit that I believe. inasmuch as exPresident Roosevelt typified virile American citizenship and believed in and preached the doctrine of 100 per cent Americanism. it would be better to use the six or seven million dollar fund which it is proposed to be raised in stamping out Bolshevism and. if necessary. in deporting those foreign believers in and followers of the red flag. This would be a finer monument to the man who has been termed the typical American than any monument of stone or structure LVI---479 that might be erected. no matter how beautiful its form or how polished its surface. I believe in freedom of speech and freedom of thoughit iin this country. Nobody believes in that more than I do. but when a man comes to this country from some other countryor even when born in this countryand defends the doctrine that if he can not convince by persuasive methods the people of the United States that his doctrines are true lie is going to take a bomb or some other sort of missile and force an unwill. ing people to accept his doctrine. he is unpatriotic. unAmerican. and an undesirable in this country. . And I believe lie ought to be deported. along with all the others of his class. and given a chance on some island or somewhere else. where such characters can live together and try out their absurd doctrines on each other. and not be left in a country that has grown great and powerful in recognition of law and constitutional rights.