Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-04-29
Colonel Denounces Men Who
Are Afraid to Fight When
Circumstances Demand Thai
Pacifism Cease,
USES CHINA'S PLIGHT AT
POINTED ILLUSTRATION
Administrations Policy Weak.
in Mexico, He Asserts, and.
Cowardly in German Sub.
marine Controversy,

sT MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL lhAbkp WtNti
New York, April 2S.--ln his address
to Methodsts last night Col. Theo-
dore Roosevelt said.
"If those old Methodist circuit rid
ers who spread Methodism had con-
sidered peace the chief of all earthly
goods they would never have gone
west of the Alleghenies. If Peter Cart
wright and his fellows had feared to
face trouble, If their zeal for the faith
had been less than their dread of dis
turhance. there would not have been
a single Methodist church west of the
Alleghenies They knew that there is
a peace which is the peace Of cowar-
dice, and that the peace of cowardlce
becomes in the end the peace of
death.
Lesson From China.
China has sought peace through.
helplessness, through refusal to pre-
pare, through inability to hold her
own, and China now sees half her ter
ritory in the possession of alien pow
ers and is not even her own master
In the territory which she relains and
il Il menace instead of an aid to world
peace. 1t is, of course, true that
trained strength in either man or ma
ton may be an instrument for wrong
doing, but this il merely to say what
is true of every other attribute, what
ia lust as true of oratorical power, of
legal ability, of business ability, of
trained and educated brain in any
profession. But we do not pray that
our sons should be either fools or
weaklings in order that they may be
saved from the temptations incident
to the possession of courage and in
telligence and strength. ON the con-
trary, we pray, that they shall be
strong and brave and wise and We
strive to implant in them that spirit
of service to God above through the
service of man on this earth which
shall make them use their strength OF
body and OF mind Alright And all OF
this should be Just as true of nation
as of It man.
Lesson From 1912.
"If during the years prior to the
war OF 1912 the American people had
been willing to build fleet OF TWEEN
" hattleships and to have those bat
tleshlps manned by crews Thoroughly
trained to handle them, and If they
had been willing to provide thor
oughiy efficient army Of even ten
thousand men there would have been
no war of 1912 at all We would nave
obtained peace and would have had
peace with sclf-respect; we finaliy
had to fight that war because for the
dozen years previously we had sur
rendered ourselves to the guidance OF
the professional peace prattlefs ana
had sought to obtain peace without
self-respeet and as n result we Tor
feited our self-respect ana also en-
dured three years of the suffering OF
war without the reward OF successful
war. Refusal to make ready and trust
in peace prattle produced the war, ana
also produced our failure IN the war
Preparedness Measures.
eve can play the greatest part on
behalf Of peace that any nation mas
ever vet played. We can play 1t not
by treading in the footsteps OF emma
not by showing that we have lost the
iron that was in the blood oil our
+, fathers, not by permitting America 10
become a ianging knot of old world
nationality where the descendants OF
the old stock are too feeble either 10
stand up for themselves or FOR any
one else. We Gun take our permanent
place rs Il great nation only IT. We
realize that we arc separate haneh,
akin but distinct from all the people
of Europe, and if we Loyalty ana with
proud endurance of the labor OF prep
aratlon and effort. do duty to our
selves and to others.
This means that our lives must not
primarily he devoted to the greedy
| achievement of purely material we'll
being and ease and self Indulgence; It
means that We must not surrender
our souls to the guidance OF that spe-
cies of sentimentality which eats
! like On acid into the rugged strength
| of character, It means that with toll,
land forethought and self-saeritice we
! must prepare this nation in things I'M
dustral. in things social. and things
| military. IN the body. in the mind
and above all in the soul, so that in
the mighty DAYS il may stand equal to
the mighty days.
A Little War" in Mexico.
We are ut the moment engaged III
! a little war in Mexico a futile little
war which may at any time burst out
into Il general blaze, which cannot
possibly result in any real settlement
of the situation. We are so engaged
/ because our nation failed to do its
duty from the outset in Mexican mat
ters. failed repeatedly and continu-
ousiy. Nearly hundred Americans,
some of them women and children,
some of them soldiers of the United
States. were Killed or wounded on
| American soil by MeSicans on differ
ent occasions before the raid at CO.
llunbus. y. A. took place. If. the
lvery first time such an incident oe-
cured, we had acted with instant de-
eision and crossed the border not
/ within two or three days, but thirty
minutes afterwards. had inflicted inn
Immediately punishment on the Offend
ers there would never have been a
repetition of the offense. Certain
foolish pacifists at home would un-
ldoubtediv have been laekadaiseal over
over the action but Ii would have
saved hundreds Of lives.
Cannot Meet situation.
After years of these experiences
lin Mexico and repeated killings OF our
/ people in our own territory along the
border. our preparedness is such that
this mighty nation has not been able
Ito grapple efficiently with the stu
alton created by the raid Of a bandit
chief who had been beaten by his fell
How bandit chiefs when they quar-
lreled among themselves. In any