Arizona republican., 1916-05-22


 Tribune) As proposition of practical lab oratory psychology Theodore Roose- welt, president of the United States, would be our best insurance against war. If the pacifsts really want to keep us out of the European mael strom they should see to it that T. R. is elected president in November. Il suspect they will not do it. Not be- cause they desire war, but because they do not know MT. Roosevelt.
 To them he displays all the illus ions of mailed listed. fire-snorting offspring of Mars. and few or none of the virtues of lover of peace. Such mental obtuseness is amazing in view of the peace recOrd-the ac- tual achevements-of this sometimes smasher of conventions and wrecker of precedents.
 And lest this purely psychological controversy be confounded at the outset, permit me to make it quite clear that I am not attempting to press-agent Roosevelt. This is not preachment. It is an impersonal, disinterested. scientific effort to prove the simple equation that T. R. equals peace. It is as disnterested as the demonstration of the theorem that the square of the hypothenuse of 2 right angle triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides We may as well employ this illustration in the demonstration.
 Let T. R. equal the hypothenuse Let the Saiser's real estimate of T. R. and the British war offices appreciation of his character represent the squares cf the other two sides. Now, immed- lately. we have determined the atti- tudes of the other two sides the hy- pothense proves up in a single word, PEACE-if our exposition of these at titudes is correct.
 Nor shall it be contended here that the hypothenuse spells peace because Roosevelt is the greatest living peace force in the world-by virtue of his having received the Nobel peace prize; by virtue of his having stopped the Russian-Japanese war and brought the statesmen of those nations to this country to conclude the terms of the treaty. by virtue of his having mounted San Juan to bring peace to Cuba, and in a thousand ways whacked peace into many troubled communities with the big stick-but by the precise paradox that England and Germany would entertain a wholesome admiration for Roosevelt by virtue of no mans man, and more particularly for the fear of God he would put in their hearts if they deliberately sought to trick him, or, in the vernacular of the copy desk, tried to play horse with him.
 Our assumption is that T. R. would demand a square deal not alone for the reutrals and humanity as a whole but for the belligerents themselves and he'd get it. Now for the proof.
 Even we cub reporters recall the Perdicaris Raisul incident. President Roosevelt dispatched this message: "Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead"
 And Perdicaris came forth.
 It is no argument to contend it wa: bluff. It worked. The deed is there You cant inveigh against the com. pleted act. It is the proof of the pud diug-the Pennsylvania avenue psy chology of Roosevelt.
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 This story was told me by reliable man. | know not what the truth ma, he, but. as the couplet runs. l tell i to you as if was told to me We cul reporters also recall the Venezuelan affair, in which Castro, the spend thrift, either repudiated his debts t German bankers or was careless in re membering the dates of liquidation. l. any event, Germany sent her bristlin gunboats across the ocean to the Ven ezuelan port, intent on seizing the GUS toms to satisfy the claims.
 President Roosevelt invited tn German ambassador at Washington t take a little stroll with him. The wandered Cor. did the ambassado break the international record fo wallingD through Rock Creek parl talked of the birds and the trees an the flowers. Arrived back at the Whit House, President Roosevelt remem bcrcd he had something he wanted {