The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-05-23
RoDERlCx Q. aATHEsON. EDITOR
Rooseuelt's Opportunity

MAKING the prediction that Colonel Rooss-
AVA welt will not receive the nomination for
president in the Republican convention because OF
the inability OF the bulk of that party to forget 1917
and that he viii not consider it worth his while to
accept the empty honor from his own Progressive
convention. the New York Times remarks edi-
torially that the PREPAREDNESS leader has. before
him nevertheless, "a great opportunity, great
duty great work, not for himself alone, not for
any party, but for the whole country
The Times says that Colonel Roo>cvelts recent
speech i'm Chicago shows how he can best serve
himself and the county. The speech IS charac-
terized as an earnest, effective, eloquent plea Tor
preparedness for military preparation imperative
" demanded by the greatness of the nation. Tor
the protection of its people and its vast interests
and the work it has done and has yet to do in the
service OF civilization. -
The Times especially likes this paragraph from
the speech:
/ ask that prepare ourselves within, and We ran
not prepare ourselves within unless We also prepare
against danger from without. ! ask you to prepare
20 that we may secure peace for ourselves and Tor
others, not the peace of cowardce the peace Of
selfshness, but the peace of righteousness and Of
justice the peace Of brave pledged t" the ser
vice of this mighty democratic Republic. and through
that service pledged also to the S"rvc" of the world
at large.
: This is the gospel of preparedness with very
great part OF the American people already accepts
processes andt believcS in,, says the Times. 1T
must be made, the universal faith. II was well
that Colonel Roosevelt made his speech IN Chicago
in the heart OF the Middle West, where it has been
felt that possibly the people had not been stirred
to due sense and realization OF the nation need
of the national duty. This is Colonel Roosevets
work this his opportunity He can preach that
gospel more effectively, perhaps than any other
man in the country. Let him travel through the
West, through the South, everywhere an awaken
ing is needed He will speak partisan, he will
pitch into the Adm inistration and declaim against
its failure to do an the things he now feels that
he would have d6f1G SO much the better The
Democratic Party needs whip and spur to over
come the sluggish inertia OF its Hays and its Kit
chins to aid it in sloughing off its dead remnants
Of the Bryan influence.
Greatest OF all his texts" continues the Times
"is his doctrine OF American loyalty.
There can be divided loyalty in this coun-
try he said at Chicago the who tries to be
loyal to this country and also to some other COun-
try is certain in the end to put his loyalty to the
other country ahead of his loyalty to this In this
great and needed work Colonel Roosevelt may
render his countrynen higher service than any
of the presidential office. He will have entire free
dom and responsibilities TO have aroused the
nation to the firm resolve to put away sloth and
defend and safeguard its great place in the world
to put itself brvvul the hazard of disaster and
humiliation, would constitute achievement fit
to be the GROWING work Of his life"