Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-10-15

cial vanity-nor are they disposed to
} allow themselves to be "all het up
S by lurid nightmare tales of approach
} ing invasion, or taunts of cowardice.
In truth they possess a fine and re.
5 fined type of courage that Roaring
5 Roosevelt knows nothing Of. 1t is
t the courage that dares to say that
the evils of war are evils and need
, less evils at that, notwithstanding
: their long prevalence and the fact
that designing persons and rough
necks have cleverly and oft admixed
!, them with causes which were goodly
enough and worthy enough in them
selves. They possess form of cour-
age which withstands rowdy taunts,
specious argument, and the tempta-
tions OF vainglory. They possess the
courage that accompanies modest
dignity and commonsense firmness
and has no part or parcel in or rela-
ton to the maniacy, the hysteria and
the mere bestial brutality which COM
prises the spurious variety. These
are not to be moved or disturbed or
greatly Influenced by gentlemen of
the Roaring Roosevelt type. They
are not looking for the sins, the
vices, the shortcomings of other races
of people, nor bothering their heads
about them when they see them. They
are not anticipating the commission
of crimes of invasion and kindred
weaknesses by others and SO there
is indeed but the smallest possibility
that they will ever suffer them. AS
matter of fact when they come to
learn, come to really know, that such
evils need not be endured or antici-
pated at all, even that small posi-
bility of suffering them will be de-
stroyed. Our friends in Europe have
been doing much anticipating-and|
much preparing-for long, and they
have gotten all that they anticipated,
all that they prepared for, with trim
mings.
If the Strenuous One of Oyster Bay
was not splashing about boisterously
with subjects of SO serious a nature,
he would be jest. and. truth to tell.
he is not SO far removed from that
harmless status as he probably thinks
he is.
No one questions the zeal of the
perambulating disturbance Of San
Juan hill renown. I would not even
doubt that, according to his light.
which seems to fare high, wide and
red, he believes he is doing we'll. He!
has many qualities of excellence, SUBJ
stantial as q sugar-cured ham and
voluptuously resounding as Lake
Michigan foghorn. but he also pos
sesses many temperamental appen-
dices which he really does not need. |
He should see to it that they are re-
moved. On the whole - or in the
hole, politically-he is doing good.
Let US credit him with that. He is
doing it ostentatiously yet uncon-
sciously, since he does not realize
the modus by which the good is done.
He is doing it negatively. but not pas
sively.
One may readily enough believe
that Roosevelt said darn it" when
the outcome Of President Wilson's 81
negotiations with Germany we're
made known to him. 1t is not in
deed beyond credenee that he ampli-
fed his remarks, such being by no
means an Aversion with him. He
may even have added some few words
suited to portray the state Of mind Of
the peeved and the discredited. But
let him take cheer. He is by no
means the first, nor will he be the
last even. Of the illustrious ones to
be out of luck; not the first, nor will
he be the last to descend-or ascend,
according to the viewpoint-from the
position of a serious to that of a
blithesome joke.
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