Arizona republican., 1915-07-22
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of the encircled auditors, melted away l during his short address to run for
 positions at the main address of the l day by Roosevelt
 | When 21 guns-the presidential sa =
 lute-had been fired. the cheering | continued the noise.
 1 Roosevelt talked directly at the men
 from the steps of the clubhouse. | "I regard you men of the army | and navy" he said taken by and
 large. as the best citizens and most l deserving of respect in the entire re- public.
 We don't do our duty when we let you shoulder the entire burden in time of. war.
 "A man who is afraid to fight is | not fit to vote.
 When a mother is not willing to raise her boy to be a soldier. she is
 not fit for citizenship
 "I firmly believe that there should be universal military service for our young men on the Swiss model" said the former president, at one point in his main speech.
 At another, referring to the price which Belgium had paid because of her unpre eparedness, he said:
 Some day or other it may well be that we shall have to pay on a ten fold greater scale the same price for exactly the same reasons; and. if such should be the case remembers. my fel- low Countrymen, that whereas the case of .he Belgians excited warm sympa- thy. our misfortunes would excite nothing but scorn and contempt; for rich. powerful. boastfnl people in Vites the ridicule of all mankind if. whether from sheer stiffness and short sightednese or from soft timidity, Or from gross and greedy devotion to the material benefits of the moment it fails to prepare itself to defend it's own rights with its own strength"
 Col Roosevelt spoke derisively of "elocution as a substitute for action;" and in his arraignment of those who stood in the way of preparedness for war. he said the professional pacif ists: the peace at-any- price. non re sistance universal arbitration people are seeking to Chinafy this country to reduce il to the level of impotence to which old China sank The aver age Chinaman he said. had taken the view that China was too proud to fight" and in practice made evident his hearty approval of that abject pa cifist song T Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier
 With all Of his old-time Vigor. Col. l Roosevelt denounced the all-inclusive | arbitration treaties. which the United ' States had entered into and said that | fin declining to apply their principle in | the case of the Lusitania there had | been evidence of national hypocrisy or l else an utter recklessness of folly in | making promises. IL was necessary to | repudiate the principle in the Lusitan- ia case the Colonel agreed but "a | shameful thing to have put ourselves | in such position that It had to be re pudiated"
 The United States had treated The | Hague Conventions as mere scraps of | paper" he said. when the demand was | made to show that our signatures meant something
 have very strong feeling about the Panama Exposition" said Col. Roosevelt in beginning his speech. Tt was my good fortune to take ac- tion in 1903. failure To take which. in exactly the shape took it. would have meant that no Id111na canal WOulO have been built for half century and therefore that there would have been no exposition to celebrate the building of the canal. In everything we did n with the acquiring of the Panama Zone we acted in way 10 do absolute justice to alwl other na- tions. tb benefit all other nations in cluding esjecially the adjacent states.
 
 from the standpoint alike of honor and of material interest. to the United States l am glad that this is the raee. for If there were the slightest taint upon our title or our conduct. it would have been an improper and sha ameful thing to hold this exposition
 '"The building of the canal nearly doubles the potential efficiency of the United States Navy. as long as it iq 'ortfied and Is in our hands; but if eft unfortified. it would at once be como a menace to us.
 What is true as to our proper at itude in regard 10 the canal is no less rue as regards our proper attitude concerning the interests of the United States taken as a whole. The canal is o he q great agency for peace; it can
 
 's # increased our potential efficiency :, n war.
 Those men who like myself believe : hat the highest duty of this nstior is o prepare itself against war. so that { may safely trust it's honor and in crest to it's own strength, are advo- 'atinP merely that We do a nation , 'egarding our general interests what , ve have already done in Panama. If, : Instead of acting as this nation did in he fall of 1903. we had confined our eles to debates in congress and diplo- natic notes. if in other words. we had : reated elocutiOn as a substitute for ! -ction. we would have done nobody my good, and for ourselves we wo~d rave earned the hearty derision of all :. 'ther nations,-the canal would not ven have been begun at the present . lay; and there would have been general cOncenSuS of international "