Arizona republican., 1919-09-21
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
 -Froude.
Disingenuous coniuring

The attempt of President Wilson at San Diego on Friday to conjure with of Colonel Roosevelt who is now silent is as disingenuous at it must be ineffective among those familiar with the views of the departed leader of American thought for eighteen years to the day of his death It is true that Colonel Roosevelt strongly favored peace league of the na- tons He favored 1914 and before that and after that So has Senator Lodge and so have nearly all forward looking Americans but of them had ever decided upon the details of such league.
 The president would have been fairer, if instead of quoting from the magazine article of Colonel Roose welt on that subject five years ago. he had quoted from the latest utterance of Colonel Roosevelt on world peace league, his posthumous article in the Metropolitan of the current month written only short ly before his death.
 Though, in that article Colonel Roosevelt did not prescribe details of peace league he went little farther than he had gone in any previous contrbu- ton he had made to that subject He his views as to what 1t It should not, said Colonel Roosevelt, be based on the famous fourteen points which, he declared meant anything nothing.
 When that article written little progress had been made in the construction of the plan of the league of nations Probably that time the Ameri- can draft had been prepared There had been dis cssion of the subject by responsible representatives of any of the nations No publicity had yet been given to plan which later adopted. A distinguished English novelist had aired his views and so had some distinguished Frenchmen in private life. They had agreed upon internationalism pure and simple Colonel Roosevelt evidently believed that these irresponsible plans did not merit evendis cussion. ~ rt4rr sfH
 All advocates of world peace league had con tempated a membership of sincere, peace-hungry tions of willing make sacrifices for
 
 amity of nations which for the sake of peace had d. versted themselves of that national sefshness which alone had been provocative of
 As late when Colonel Roosevelt died the rep resentatfves of the nations surrounding the peace table all excepting the United States had not yet masked their intentions and given the lie to their pre- armstice protestatons. They had not yet begun the scramble for the spells war; they had yet begun reaching out for and of the earths surface The shameful trade with Japan had not yet been hinted at Even the president had not yet been made of the infamous compact which he would be asked to confirm and which, though protesting, he would confirm, "in his right and by his own au- thority.' but in which he could not duplicate his eountrynen-
 Whatever the world league views of Colonel Roosevelt Senator Lodge or any other advocate of world peace may have been previous to February of this year. such views. especially to the super structure of the league must have undergone the most radical revision when there disclosed the character of the foundation upon which it was pro- posed to erect it. the deception the grasping the over reaching and the inharmony prevailed at Versailles. The peace conferences Utrecht Ber- \ lin and Vienna had not been and more con- scenceess All the premises of the world peace ad I vocates absent from Versailles
 l We do not suppose that in consequence of the disclosures at Paris Colonel Roosevelt or any other ! advocate of world peace pact would have come to | believe that there would could be none. We have doubt that if Colonel Roosevelt now living he would as ardently urge he ever did But he would have in mind he always had that Ameri- canism was dearer than peace. and he would as vigorously safeguard Americansm as he did when he declared that purely American question could ever become an arbitrable question.
 Perhaps he well as other advocates of a world peace at one time believed that there might be a measure of idealism and altruism in a world Ieague But he could not believe after what we have seen since his death but he would urge upon the Ameri people the support of the reservationists who are the less world advocates because they are first, Americans