Bisbee daily review., 1916-04-28
Peace Talk Is Prattle, Declares Colonel; Is Weakness Lead ing Inevitably To War. Raps Our German Policy
SHOULD HAVE CROSSED
 BORDER YEARS AGO
Strict Accountability" Never Taken Seriously By Germa- ny And Has Amounted On ly To IA Months Talk
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Roosevelt urged the doctrine of pre- paredness upon large number or Methodists gathered tonight at the conference of the Methodist church and referred to the latest phases of the relations with Germany and Mex ico as weakness which would make war inevitable instead of avoiding war
 q have right to speak to you for paace." said the Colonel in declaring that he abhorred wanton and unjust war T was president of. seven and half years. This nation during all that time never for one moment per mitted any power to wrong this coun' try to wrong Americans either in their person or property or to make us recreant to our duty to others: and yet during thse seven and a half years not one shot was fired by any man in American uniform against any for eign foe and not one American man. woman or child was slain by repre- sentatives of any foreign nation.
 If those old Methdists who spread Methodism had considered peace the chief of all earthly goocs, they would never have gone west of the Alleghe- -lies If Peter Cartwright and his f.llows had feared to face trouble, if their sea of the faith had less than rheir dread of trouble, there would not have been single Methodist church in the country. They knew that there is price for peace founded on cow ardice, and that the peace Of coward ice becomes in the end ;he peace Of death.
 "China has sought peace through helplessness, through refusal to pre- pare and China now sees half her ter ritory in the possession of alien pow CTS and is not even her own master in the territory which she retains; and is a renace instead of an aid to world peace. It is true that trained strength in either men or nation is a menace if wrongly used. but this is merely to say what is true of everey other attribute. what is just as true Of the cratorical power of business ability. or trained and educated train in any professor. But we uu rot pray that Our sons should be either fools or weddings in order that they may be saved from the temptations incident to the possession of courage and intelligence and strength. On the contrary. we pray. that they shall be strong and brave and wise; and WA strive to implant in them that spirit O fservice O God above, through the service of man on this earth which shall make them strong of body and mind. And all this should be just as true of nation as of man.
 1912 War Unnecessary.
 "If during the few years prior 10 the war Of 1912 the American people had been willing 10 build a fleet of twenty battleships and to have those hettleships manned by crews through " trained to handle them, and if they had been willing to provide a thoroughly efficient army of even ten thousand men. there would have been no wa rof 1872. al all We would have obtained peace; and would have had peace with self respect: we finally had to fight that war because pre- viously we had surrendered ourselves to the guidance of the professional peace prttlers and had sought to ob- tain peace without self respect: and as a result we forfeit our self respect and also endured three years of the suffering of war without the reward of of successful war. Refusal to make ready. and trust in peace prattle. pro duced the war and also produced our failure in the war
 Greatest Opportunity.
 we cannot play the greatest part on behalf of peace that any nation has ever yet played We cannot play it by treadin gin the footsteps of Chi ma. not by showing thai that we have lost the iron that was in the blood of cur fathers. mt by permitting America 10 become a dangling knot of the old world nationality. where the descend ants f the old stock are too feeble to stand up either for themselves or for any one else. We can take our pro- per place as Q great nation only if we reach that point where we are a nation. but distinct from all the people of Eurone and If we lovally and with
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