Arizona republican., 1916-05-22
THEODORE ROOSEVELT ASPEACE INSURANCE

say on state affairs. He then referred to the action of Germany in the Ven eZuelan dispute and suggested to the ambassador that his majesty's ships should depart from Venezuelan waters, say in Gen days. (The Monroe doc trinel
 The ambassador protested that he couldn't interfere in any way in such matter. He would be risking rep rimand. Whereupon the president re- marked that the ambassador would be at fault if trouble came.
 The two artped' d'suUpXJkp isser good luck eood-bys.
 | A couple of days later the president again summoned the ambassador. He remarked, good -naturedly apparently, but decisively that the American gov- ernment had been thinking the matter over and had decided that instead O. ten days but eight days would be about the proper time limit in which the German gunboats should depart.
 Again the ambassador protested. Again the president observed that the ambassador would be held to strict accountability if the suggestion stould be ignored.
 The ambassador inquired what the president meant by trouble" There upon the president informed him that orders had been dispatched that day to certain fleet commander a. Hampton roads to set sail for Vene- zuela. It was the presidents notion that tho German ships skould not be | in evidence when the American com mandcr arrived on the scene. They weren't
 It does not detract from the expo sition here attempted that it was a
 bluff, unless every positive achieve
 ment throughout life be subject to the same criticism. It was the laboratory psychology of MT. Roosevelt. 1 also am told, by reliable man, i too, that in certain arbitration dis pute with another foreign nation now
 in the war up to it's eyebrows Presi- l 1cnt Roosevelt consented to arbitra- ton for the sake of the principle, but only after he had private assurance | that his contention would be upheld
 in the final award,
 1 Let us now discard the smoked glasses.
 Take Mexico.
 1 Had T. l.. been president he would 1 have sad to Villa, doubtless, instead of recognizing his claim as the head of the pretcnded de facto government
 as did the Bryan regime, something like this; You cutthroat-you out
 ldw-you ravisher of women and des 1 ecrator of altars-you getl" And h,
 would have got,
 Not that Roosevelt could say it any
 more historically than any one else
 but because they would have felt il
 their souls that he would have backed
 his words with deeds.
 Many of the Mexican outrage.
 against the United States have com,
 about largely because, in my opinion
 the revolutionists and their leader
 have felt somehow that the Unite,
 States woulG not intervene if the out
 laws raided the whole state of Texas
 They would have known that deliber
 ate violations under Roosevelt woul , have brought instant action. And be
 cause of that very belief-because the
 knew T. R. and knew he was unarrai
 -because there is neither east no west when two strong men stand fac
 to face-they would have shaped a diff
 ferent course.
 , RooseVelts ways may not always b , mild and pleasant to contemplate, bu close scrutiny of his life record doe , not disclose that he is a brawler fo , the sake of the brawl but for the sak of peace, for social justice fo , rights sake as he sees the right. As president it may be correctly as , sumed, as 2 statement of the absolut 7 in applied psychology he would be tn : last man in the world to seek the hu : initiation of any nation, or to impos
 a rule of conduct not consonant wit P his view of the right of the thing n Roosevelt knows, The old Greek ir V Junction. gnothi SC auton (knoW th, r self) is the A B C of Roosevelt's ps, r ehoiogy in it's application to foreip {. nations. He has not got his learnir out of books. hut out of men. H e knowledge of Germany and Englar : and the whole world even "darke o Africa and the "doubt" places (