Arizona republican., 1920-08-10
TUESDAY MORNING. AUGUST 10. 1920
Nationality is the aggregated in- dividuality of the greatest men of the nation. -Kossuth.
The Parrot chattsrers


 The speech of acceptance of vice presidential nominee is not regarded possessing of the sounding qualities keynote; 1t is seldom widely printed probably seldom read The speech Mir D. Roosevelt, yesterday, how zsrevcr deserves than passing mention It was V thing. by admirable qual- ssty orevity Though Roosevelt told the world nothing did tell in new way, he 2 told a very pleasing way It was altogether z modest address such becomes who is promoted < Ito candidacy modest place-an almost effac- 2 ing place
 s The speech was rnarred by thing. that parrot phrase which has learned by those who have been much about the White House. We went to war ' ffor an idea1 war of self-defense E. Eve have heard that much from earlier White House trained parrots that we always with That reassuring message which departed spirits conclude their through spirtu- rlistc mediums. We very happy here, when we think we know very well, remembering the kinds of lives some them led in the flesh, that if they are happy over here," lover here." is the kind of place we had think was-that the uni versalists have vndicated. and there is hell after all
 ideal? Not word was said about n presidents message urging upon congress the declaration of state of war which did not in itself actual and would not have if the Germans then had let us alone. of the speeches the resolution was there word about ideal Not soldier who went 
 fixed idea entertained by all of them that they wanted to lick the Germans
 It was not sometime afterward that the parrots began chattering about for an ideal We began talk about wiping out autocracy, mak- ing world safe for democracy, safe guarding small peoples and altogether letting the Almighty know that millennium overdue and that we were taking the matter into our own hands
 The president it immediately taken up by the chatterers All the people who fora dea1v xyer ont Atlantic: not one in theater Of The ideal ists were making war with their mouths and with their pens and typewriters. furious devastating. ruthless
 Some the while helping out by furnishing munitions, and other supplies making the war so costly and themselves rich, that the world would aghast the prospect of another war All the pacifists who had previously opposed the it officers or prirates great for ideal. armed with the type of weapon which had welded eff fciently against the Phiistnes.
 When was casus belli. this ideal introduced? why earlier? Autocracy was just as threat enng the day Germans crossed the Belgian iron tier was made clearer afterward that had been deliberately planned to crush France and then democracy of Great Britain After that one vessel after another was destroyed by German spite of protest. Less than year later. before our ideal took session the Lusutania sunk Yet we did go to
 Surely. if the president ever U see that the conflict really between autocracy and de- ,nocracy he when the closei over the Luistania and her 113 American dead, off old Kinsale Head. Yet year after that the president pestering the busy and dis tracted allies the Germans. urging them to get together and let bygones bygones. With his char acteristc cocxsureneEs expression them that there peace with victory" There had been then two years after the world aeath yrapple germiuation of the ideal
 Some idealists have laInely excused this delay by saying the ideal the lime bat that the president knew that not ready for our part the But then he not getting ready He was frowning upon those who were advocating preparedness. she causes of his displeasure against Wood the estab- 1;sbrnent by the latter of Plattsburg -sbich when we O hundreds of officers vere drawn. advanced in modern warfare beyond the covel nment trained officers.
 In the proposed legislation the friends of the administration during the period 1914-1s17 had op- rosed real military preparedness legislation. the Chamberlain bill but had supported the Hay bil increasing our army to about 29O.oOo of fievcs "a ridiculous force with which war fo ,nen were already engaged. No provision mad for arms and equipment We assured thu rresfdent was going keep out of the turmoil
 When was this '1dear born? This almost post humous child?
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