The Washington times., 1915-07-20
Colonel Asserts He Has No
Patience With Those Who
Refuse to Bind Themselves.
EUROPE AN OBJECT LESSON
Former President Calls Peace
At-Any.Price Argument
Downright Moral Timidity.

Little patience with peace advocates
who blind themselves to the lessons ap-
parent in the struggle OF Europe 10 ex-
pressed by Col. Theodore Roosevelt IN
an article for the Metropolitan Maya
zines August number. ..
Following q denunciation Of tho
American pacifist in the article Peace
Insurance by Preporedness Against
wsr," the former President deplores
the prevalence Of such sentiment by
saying:
Recently. in certain circles. some
popularity has bven achieved by a song
entitled Il Didn't Raise My Boy to- Be .
Soldier a song which ought always to
be sung with a companion piece en-
titled I Didn't Raise Ny Girl to Be .
No her. The two would stand on pre-
cisely the same moral level"
Peace Men Easily Cowed."
1.-THE fundamental characteristic Of the
peace.at-any-price men is sheer down.
right physical or moral timidity. Very
many of the leaders among the men
who protest against preparedness and
who are hostile to manly action on our
part-hostile to the insistence In good
faith upon the observance Of The HAGUE
the lives and property Of our citizens
in Mexico and on the high seas-are
easily cowed by any exhibition of ruth
less and brutal force, and never venture
themselves feared This fact might just
further fact that the professional pa
cifist usually turns up as the ally Of the
most cynical type of international
"This has been made evident by the
attitude Of the great bulk Of the men
and women who have shrieked loudest
for peace during the last eleven months.
No Protest Made.
'"These men and women have demand
cd peace in terms that would not mere
iy disregard righteousness, but that
would crown unrighteousness with sue.
cess. They have not ventured to make
one protest against any concrete act OF
wrongdoing; they have not ventured te
iniquity wrought by Germany. against
Belgium, the most wanton. the most
hideous wrong, and the wrong on the
largest scale. that has been perpetrated
in question were abroad. actively en-.
gagged in exciting contempt and deris.
lon for themselves and their country by
crying for peace without justice and
without redress Of wrongs. at tho very
time that the Lusitania was sunk
American women and children were al
the time being slain on the high seas
Belgian women and children, French
women and children. In Belgium and
Northern France were at the same time
suffering the last extremities Of infamy
and outrage; and our own women In
Mexico had been subjected to namelesa
infamies.
Enthusiasts Afraid.
'.The fact that these male and female
professional peace enthusiasts who have
screamed 50 busily for peace during the
past year have been afraid to make any
concrete protest against wrong II
doubtless due primarily to sheer fear on
their part. They were afraid Of the
trouble and effort implied in acting
about Mexico. Above all. they are
afraid Of Germany. Those Of them who
are politicians are afreaid Of the Ger
man-American vote: for those profess
sionAl pacifists have no sense Of ma
tional honor and are greater encour-
ayers Of hyphenated Americanism. But
in addition they are terrorized. they
are cowed. by the ruthless spirit OF
German militarism.
There are plenty Of Americans like
myself who feel that the German gov
eminent. the German governing class
has in this war shown such ruthless and
domineering disregard for the rights OF
others as to demand protest. and. II nee.
cessary. further action on our part"