Arizona republican., 1916-06-01
Two Memorial Day Speeches


 was ever drawn than that presented by The Republ- yesterday morning in the speeches of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson That of the former was addressed to conditions they That of the latter appeal Billiken the god of things as they ought to be- the president thinks they ought to be-
 The address of Mir. Roosevelt prescribed definite remedies for evils admitted existence The re- marks of Mir Wilson ignored those evils responsi blity for which he would have had to assume but he looked beyond them to a millennium in which there could be no evil. Preparedness the theme of both speakers By Mir Roosevelt it cheerfully chosen. Upon Mir, Wilson it intruded itself and became un- avodable
 Both agreed that preparedness is essential and in this agreement Mir Wilson confessed the sin of oms sion of his administration and the democratic party during the last three years Both agreed also that preparedness does not mean merely adequate army and an adequate navy on peace footing, but that it means that behind the army and the navy there must be prepared nation ready to place both of them at once on footing. Thus the subject of universal training and universal service introduced This was the one point at which the two speakers met.
 But they immediately separated. Mir. Roosevelt proposed universal service training by the only means by which it has been secured by legislation imposing it. Mir. Wilson proposed to
 
 which has just lamentably broken down in Great Britain under which should have spurred success if it were possible for it to succeed The plan of MT. Roosevelt is democratic one, placing upon all edual burden duty to the nation and placing before each equal opportunity to grasp the rewards for the performance of duty The plan of MT. Wilson would leave things as they are--shrlers evading their duty and patriotic citizens performing it; it would leave military system an arisocracy the commissions and the honors held by the rich and influential and the danger and the drudgery be endured by the poor and unknown.
 There point which the speakers did together a all-the guaranty of peace by international agreement It is upon that that Mir Wilson largely relies While have had no such international agreement guaranteeing universal peace, we have had numerous of inter- national character which. if they had been faithfully observed would have had the effect of nternaton- al agreement against war We have had a series of arbitration agreements which thought would make impossible The nations have into various agreements for the preservation of the neutrality of small weak nations But all of them have become Scraps of paper and this nation party them has made no effort to redeem them from the wastepaper basket of the world We uttered protest against the destruction of them
 There is believe said Mir. Roosevelt that the most solemn international peace agreement, signed by all the powerful nations of the world might not too, become scrap of paper Only preparedness the part of the sgnatories would prevent it. So. brought back preparedness the foundation and superstructure of enduring peace All others are flimsy, inflammabe structures built upon sand.
 In his speech Mir. Wilson appears 0 be groping somnambust, smiling under the influence of beau tiful dream from which the of the country is awakening to stern realities In his speech MT RoO definitely how they to be grapped with over come.
 In the midst of these realities which these two men should we prefer for leader the idle dreamer the unseeing Mir Wilson, the practical clear visioned Mir Roosevelt?