Valdez daily prospector., 1916-01-24
COL. ROOSEVELT
 ON PREP PAREONESS

Colonel Roosevelt on national de- fense when read before the American Sociological Society called for some |caustic remarks by several of the delegates. The Sociological Society is one of the many scientific meet ings held in New York at the same time as the Pan-American congress The paper follows:
 Infinitely the most important fact to remember in connection with the war and militarism in relation to moral and social values," wrote MT. Roosevelt, "is that of an interruptions warlike and militaristic nation is not held in check by the warlike ability of a neighboring nonmilitaristic and well-behaved nation,, then the latter will be spared the necessity of deal- ing with moral and social values, because it won't be allowed to deal with anything. It seems to me posi- lively comic to fail to appreciate, with the example of Belgium before our eyes, that the real question modern peace-loving nations have to face is not how the militaristic or warlike spirit within their own bor- ders will affect these values but how failure on their part to resist the militarism of an interruptions neigh bor will affect them"
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 Discussing the mental confusion of the average citizen who thinks war in itself is wrong, MT. Roosevelt wrote that war could be defined as the use of force between nations, and that the question of whether it was right or wrong depended entirely up- on the purpose for which it was waged.
 There are of course persons who 'belive all force is immoral; that it is immoral to resist wrongdoing by force," he added. "I have never taken much interest in individuals who pro- fess this kind of neutrality, and I do not know the extent to which they practically apply it.
 But of course if they are right in the theory, then 1t is wrong for a man to endeavor by force to save his wife or sister or daughter from abuse or to save his children from abduction and torture. It Is waste of time to discuss with any man posi- tion of such folly, wickedness and poltroonery.
 If the man who objects to war ob- jects to the use of force in civil life, his position is logical although ab- surd and wicked. If the college presi- dents, politicians, automobile manu- lecturers and the like, who during the last year or two have preached pacificism in it's most ignorable form, are willing to think out the subject, and are both sincere and fairly i'm telligent, they must necessarily con- demn a police force or a posse comi- taus just as much as they blame ar mics, and they must regard the act ivities of the sheriff and the con stable as being essentially militar- istic, and, therefore must be abolish ed.+ When we have discovered a method by which right living may be spread so universally in Chicago and New York that the two cities can with safety abolish their police forces, then, and not until then, will it be worth while to talk about the aboli- tion of war
 "The Sociological Society meets at Washington this year." continued the paper, "only because the man after whom the city was named was will ing to go to war there would have been no possibility of discussing 'so- cial values in the United States, for have been no United States. If Lin have been no United States. In Lin coin had not been willing to go to war. to appeal to the sword, to intro- duce militarism on a tremendous scale throughout the United States, the sociologists who will listen to this paper, if they existed at all, would not be considering the social values enumerated above, but the social val ues of slavery and such government tai and industrial problems as can now be studied in the Central Amer ican republics. "At present in this world and for the immediate future," wrote MT. Roosevelt in conclusion, "it Is cer- tain that the only way successfully to oppose the might which is the ser want of wrong is by means of the might which is the servant of right. " ADMIRAL FARRAGUT
 HAS PASSED JUNEAU