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Show I. ROOSEVELT'S POSITION I -Defenders of Mr. Wilson's Fico- ! Trade Convennnt ot League of Nat ions are very fond ot, reiterating that .the Into Colonel Koosevelt fav-i fav-i ored a "League of Nations and tliero fore Mr. Roosevelts friends should follow their leaders advice althougn fj be Is dead. ' January 3., threes days before his i death, Colonol Roosevelt wrote the following' which appeared in the Kansay City Star: i 1 "It, is of course a serious mlstor-, rtuno that our peoplo nro not getting a clear Idea of what Is happening on the other side. For tho momont tho . point as to which we nro foggy is tho 'Leaguo of Nations. Wo all of us ' earnestly desire such a league, only we wish to bo suro that is will iolp ' and not hinder the causo of wo lu peace and Justice. Thcro is not a young man In this countnry who hu fought, or an old man who hash seen tho3 dar to him fight, who dos n wish to mlnimlz th chance of future war. Hut there Is not a man of senno who does not know that in any such, movement it too much it attempteed the result is either failure or worse ' than failure. "The trouble with Mr. Wilson utterances,. so far as the'y are report-cd, report-cd, and the utterances of acquiescence acquiescen-ce in them by European statesmen! is that they are still absolutely in tho stago of rhetarlc, precisely like the fourteen points. So mo of the fourteen four-teen points willl probably have to be construed as have in a mlschevlous sentenco, a smaller number might bo constructed as being harmless and one or two even as beneficial but nobody no-body knows what Mr. Wilson really J I means by them,, and so ni talk of H adopting ihem as basis for a peace I or league is nonsense and, if tho JBL talker Is intelligent, It is insincere UV nonsense Ho boot." Right here is Mr. Iloosevlt's opln Ion that Mr. Wilson's Leaguo of Nat- ions founded on his fuuitcu commnun uients as the only means of secuiig peace, will be either failure or worso than failure Mr. Koosevelt wanted a Leaguo ot Nations that will help and not hinder hind-er tho cause of world peace and justice. jus-tice. That ho points out the weakness weak-ness ot Mr. Wilson's utterances, Is i proof that ho never would have agreed ag-reed to tho hitter's Covenant. Further evidence that Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt would not havo "stood for" tho fWllson plan, is shown by this sentenco sen-tenco in tho same article by Mr. Roo-Bovelt. Roo-Bovelt. "Let each nation reserve to itself and for its own decision and lot it clearly set forth questions which aio non-justiciable. Let nothing be done that will interfero with our preparing for our own defeuco by lntroduclg a 'systom of universal obligations military training modeled on tho 'Swiss plan.'" Such an important thing Is cntlro-ly cntlro-ly omitted in Mr. Wilson's plan. In fact, the United Stutes would be unable un-able under the Wilson program, to do anything of this kind. Then read again from Mr. Roose-volt's Roose-volt's article: "Flnallly make It perfectly clear that we do not intend to tak a position pos-ition of an international meddlesome Matty. The American, people do not wish to go Into overseas war unless for a very great cause and where the Issue is absolutely plain. Therefore wo do not wish to undertake tho ic-sponslblity ic-sponslblity of sending our gallant young men to die in obscure tights In the Balkans or in Central Europe or in a war we do not approve of.'" Under Mr. Wilson's plan, tho United Uni-ted States would be competed if It abladed by tho terms of tho Covenant to send an army anywhere at tho com maud of the Leagues Executive council. Then finally read this from Mr. tllooscvell fast drooping hand: do not intend to glvo up tho Mouioe IDoctrino. And yet, Mr. Wilsons plan, notwlth stnnding tho claims ot his defenders will surendor tho Monroe Doctrine. Tho claim that tho Monroe doctrlno will bo extended all 'over tho world is nonsense; for tho moment that doctrlno is applied elsewhere, it cea3 C8 to bo tho Monroe doctrlno. ! i And ypt, lnjho face of Col. Roose- veltB last article on tho subject, It is clamed that tho now silent hero would favor Mr. Wilson's plan. American Am-erican Economist. |