Arizona republican., 1916-04-28
Colonel Roosevelt at a Ban quet of the Methodist So- cial Union Talks On the bjects Preparedness and National Courage
HAD CARTWRIGHT
 BEEN A PACIFIST
Methodism Would Not Have Been Carried Across the Alleghenies. This Coum- try's Futility In Dealing With Mexico
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 NEW YORK. April 27.-Theodore Roosevelt urged the doctrine of pre- paredness upon a large number of Methodists gathered here tonight at the annual banquet of the Methodist Social Union of New York and he re- fcrred to the latest phases of the rela- tions with Germany and Mexico as showing that "timidity and weakness invite war instead of avertiug it.
 "I have a right to speak to you for peace" said the colonel in declaring that he was tired of wanton and un iustifiable war. "I was president seven and a half years. This nation during all that time never for one moment permitted any power to wrong this country or to wrong Americans either in person or property. or to make us recreant to our duty to others; and yet during those seven and half years not one shot was fired by any man in American uniform against any foreign foe and not one American man. woman or child, was slain by representatives of any foreign nation.
 If those old Methodist circuit riders
 
 peace the chief of all earthly goods, they would never have gone west of the Alleghenies If Peter Cartwright and his fellows had feared to face trouble: if their zeal for the faith had been less than their dread of disturbance. there would not have been a single Methodist church west of the Alleghenies. They knew that there is d peace which is the peace of cowardice. and that the peace of cowardice becomes in the end, the peace of death
 Trained strength in either d man or a nation may be instrumental for wrongdoing, but this merely to say what is true of every attribute; what is just as true of oratorical power. ot legal ability, of business ability. of a trained and educated brain in any pro- fession. But we do not pray that ouI sons should be either fools or weddings in order that they may be saved iron the temptations incident to the pos session of courage and integrity anC strength. On the contrary. we pray that they shall be strong and brave anC wise; and we strive to implant il them that spirit of service to Goo above through the service of man or this earth which shall make them us' their strength of body and of min, alright And all this should be just a true of a nation as of a man.
 If during the few years prior to th' war of 1872, the American people haC been willing to build fleet of twent. battle ships and to have those battle ships manned by crews thOrOughl trained to handle them and if they hal been willing to provide a thorough efficient army of even ten thousan men there would have been no war 0 1872 at all We would have obtaine peace; and would have peace with self respect We finally had to fight tha war because for the dozen years pre- viOusly we had surrendered ourselve Co the guidance of the professions peace prattlers and had sought to ob tain peace without self respect and a result we forfeited our self respec and also endured three years of tn sufferings of war without the reward ( successful war Refusal to mak ready. and trust in peace prattle pro duced the war. and also produced ou failure in the war.
 "We can play the greatest part 0 behalf of peace that any nation ha ever yet played. We can play it not b treading in the footsteps of China, nc by showing that we have lost the fro