New-York tribune., 1919-02-10

was citizen of the world in his breadth
of sympathy and understanding. The
upright, fairdealing, justice loving ma
tlons have lost a friend; the preda-
tory and faithless an unyelding foe,
for Theodore Roosevelt loved truth and
fair dealing and believed that moral
and straightforward life should char
acterize nations as we'll as individuals.
"As President he pursued an un-
understanding and good will. He was
believer in arbitration, as shown by
the many arbitration treaties made
during his administration. His diplo-
macy was an open diplomacy in act
as we'll as in word
"He believed in avoiding entangling
alliances. but realized that America
must play her part when civilization
and the rights of mankind were in dan
ger. He dreaded war as all do who
know it, but he dreaded more failure to
do our duty, even though it must be
done through war. He knew that it
was the blood of the martyrs which was
the seed of the church. He realized
that it is better to break the peace than
to break the faith of the founders.
Prepared the Way
"He prepared the way for better
understanding between labor and CAPT.
tai, and believed in just and equitable
relations between them. His aim was
to control and encourage legitimate
business, not to strangle it. He held
that wealth should be the servant of
the people, not their MASTER
"1n Theodore Roosevelt's opinion no
man who refuses service to the limit
of his ability, whether in war or peace,
is fit to be a citizen.
Knowing our men will always go to
war for what they believe to be right
and that when they refuse we shall
cease to be nation, and realizing that
our women will send them and despise
them if they do not go. and that the
better trained they are the fewer will
die, he advocated universal training for
national service, training on rational
lines such as the Swiss or Australian
He realized that it was false human
lty, indeed it was brutal inhumanity,
not to give the men who are to fight
our battles a sporting chance. He saw
the hldeous unpreparedness of this
country as the war crept upon US, and
strove to correct it by voice and pen,
for he knew that not to prepare meant
thousands of unnecessary dead.
ut was impossible for him to be neu-
tral in the face of wrong. He believed
in free press, free speech and pitiless
publicity, and understood that a democ-
racy resenting criticism, smothering
the press and hampering publicity is a
democracy in danger if not a democ-
racy dying
with him no man could be part
American and something else. He must
be all American Along the fighting
line in France and Flanders there we're
more inquiries concerning his opinion,
his views, his probable line of action
than concerning all other Americans
combined. They saw in him an intense
American,S but also a citizen of the
world, one who loved justice, whose
sympathies were not limited by nation
ality or creed. He realized that leagues
of nations can only be enduring when
they are based upon community of in
terest and of areas, and, above all, COM
munity of morals and ideals, but he
never believed nor for a moment toll
Grated the idea that we should enter
into any league which would deprive us
of the right of free action within our
own sphere of influence or put US in a
position of unpreparedness to do what
we believed to be right, or in q con-
dition which would render US unable to
defend our own interests in case of
need.
One Flag; One Language
"We shall do we'll to heed his last
message. in which he said in part
! (little did he realize how true the first
words were to be): 4 cannot be with
you, and so all / can do is to wish you
godspeed There must be no
sagging back in the fight for American
ism, now that the war is over .
We should insist that if the immigrant
who comes here does in good faith be-
come an American and assimilate fnm-
self to US, he shall be treated on an
exact equality with every one else.
/. There can be no divided allie
giances at all. We have room but for
one flag, the American flag, and this
excludes the red flag, which symbolizes
only war against liberty and civiliza-
tion. We have room but for one Ian
guage here, and that is the English
language, for we intend to see that the
cruclble turns our people out as Amer
leans and not as dwellers IN a polyglot
boarding house; and we have room for
but one loyalty, and that is loyalty to
the American people,
eve must pick up the torch where
he dropped it and carry it on. This is
vital to our country and to mankind"