TEDDY OPPOSES!
ENFORCED
PEACE
Tlie following excerpts are taken
from a copyrighted article on the sub
ject, "The League to Knforco Peace."
in the Metropolitan Magazine for Feb
ruary. Colonel Roosevelt opposes the
proposals of the league, he says, un i
der existing conditions and at this
time, their adoption would be "either !
futile or mischievous."
(By Theodore Roosevelt)
I oppose the proposals of the
“League to Knforco Peace" because
under existing conditions, and at this
time, and in view of the past perform
anees of most of the leaders ol the
movement, and especially in view of
the action of our government and peo
ple during the last two and a half
years, the agitation or adoption of the
proposals would lie either futile or
mischievous. \t this time, in view of
our utter national unproparodness, and
of our utter recklessness in making
i promises which cannot be, or ought
j not be kept, and of our utter failure
to keep the promises we have made
which ought to be kept, the movement
| can do no possible good; it might, if
adopted by our government, do very
serious harm; and in the more prob
able event of its proving merely fu
tile it will tend to make us ridicu
lous;
There are honorable and upright
men who have taken part in the move
i nient. These men I believe to be mis
led. There are large numbers of well
j meaning and enthusiastic men who,
i because of failure to know the facts,
a-em to regard the movement as pro
i mising something of worth. These
men I believe should have the facts
put before them.
Agitation Regarded as Futile.
I rorn the atandpolnt of international 1
*1, ;'o this agitation haa hoon utterly
ulili-. All the pacifist agitation of the I
1 1 thirty years has been proved com j
'■•■t'■!> worthless as soon as tin- first
••'ions test came. The apostles of j
K-ebln folly have been shown In th<■
“'•■ill (o have fulled to meet in even.
Ihe smallest degree any of the evils
1,1 r which they glibly proclaimed they
h id found infallible patent remedies.
' ml now, when their failure has been j
s 1 iRflomlnous that they are not even
« bjects oi ridicule in Kuropc, they \
< nil'' torward here, with piping voices
to offer yet one more quack nostrum
lor the international wrong.
Proposals Held Mischievous.
I he prof/nsals of this league vary |
somewhat from time to time; hut in
their essence they are that nations j
shall arbitrate all questions and that I
they shall all agree to enforce the |
decrees of the arbitral court by war. j
boiling with the present, not the fu
lure, this means that we would have
to submit the question as to whether
wo would admit Asiatic immigrants to
our shores, or whether Mexico should
la* taken possession of and made or
(b ily by some Huropean power, or
whether Japan should he allowed to
tako possession of Magdalena hay, or
whether the Monroe doctrine should
la abolished, to an arbitral tribunal
on whioh Chinese and Turkish judges
might deliver the f asting votes.
It also means that if in some quarrel
ol doubtful quality such a tribunal de
• ided in favor fit Siam against France,
nr Persia against Itussia, we should be!
obliged, under penalty of breaking
tslit!i, to devote our whole military [
and economic strength to a long
drawn and bloody .■ ar for a cause iu
which our people had no concern and
of which they had no knowledge, and
in Home place where we could hardly
exert even a *inv fraction of our
strength, and t mt only at enormous
expense.
Pacifists Used Tools.
The most unscrupulous militarists
abroad heartily and naturally — en
courage pacifist movements in this
country Pacifism in this country is
fie* strongest aid and encouragement
to militarism in every military auto
cracy abroad (le rtnany is obviously
anxious to end the* war, so long as it
can he ended to her advantage! and it
seems likely that with Ihis end in
view she will encourage and praise
her dupes on this side of the* water
in the movement, for a League to En
force* Peace. England seems likely
to takc> the same position, perhaps
from similar reasons, more likely for
reasons of home politics in order to
placate or fool tin* English pacifists.
I loth Merlin and London will act in
their own interests. If our future re
sembles our recent past, Washington
will lot both of them profit at our
expense* hut especially Berlin, for
Washington is more* afraid of Berlin.
W •* can never accotnplishe anything
either lor ourselves or for any one else
h> mere* words, used to cover inac
tion. slackness and fear of effort, of
risk and of danger. It is wicked at
this time to press any movement
which interferes with the all-essential
movement for spiritual and material
preparedness. We must make prom
ises only after careful thought, and
keep, them, even to our own hurt,
when made, and we must do this now
not promise to do it in the indefi
nite* f iture.
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