The Coconino sun., 1915-08-06
THE COLONEL TALKS
 0N WAR AND PEACE

SAN FRANCISCO, July 22-Form CT President Roosevelt, introduced by Governor Johnson, his former running mate on the Progressive presidential ticket as a "world figure, the greatest living American" addressed the great. est throng that ever listened to a speaker in this city. Standing be. meath the shimmerng Tower of Jew. els, and facing the great Court of the Universe, whose every vantage point was within reach of voice were jam med with men and women. Roosevelt was the attraction at the exposition yesterday.
 His address was on war and peace." He read from manuscript and as he finished each page, it was crumpled in his hand and thrown away. For more than an hour and a half, amid constant applause, Colonel Roosevelt described the theory of peace at any price. He urged an army and navy adequate for the proper de- fense of the nation. He frequently deviated from his written speech and made interpolations as thoughts oc- cured to him.
 Defining his own stand, Roosevelt said: q am not for war; l want peace; but don't want peace to Uncle Sam because outsiders don't think him worth licking"
 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 deserv- ing of respect in the entire republic.
 "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 soldier, she is not fit for citizenship.
 q 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 unpreparedness, 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, remember, my fel- low countrymen, that whereas the case of the Belgians excited warm sympathy, our misfortunes would ex- cite nothing but scorn and contempt; for rich, powerful, boastful people invites the ridicule of all mankind if, whether from sheer stiffness and short sightedness, or from soft tim!dity, or from gross and greedy devotion to the material benefits of the moment, it fails to prepare itself to defend its own rights with it's own strength"
 Colonel Roosevelt spoke derisively of "elocution as substitute for ac- tion;" and in his arraignment of those who stood in the way of preparedness for ,var ba ca;1 tho .nrofoCc;nn,l na, | fists; the peace at any price, non-re- sistance, universal arbitration people | are seeking to Chinafy this country to reduce it 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 practise made evident his hearty approval of that abject pa cifst song, "I Didn't Raise My Boy to be Soldier"
 With all of his old-time vigor, Col. Roosevelt denounced the all-inclusive treaties, which the United States had entered into and said that in declining to apply their principle in the case of the Lusitania, there had been evidence of national hypocrisy or else an utter recklessness of folly So repudiate the principle in the Lusi tania case, the Colonel agreed, but "a shameful thing to have put ourselves in such position that it had to be 
 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.