For the rest, Mr. Root traced three fundamental errors in
Mr. Wilson's foreign policy :— " First, laok of foresight to make timely provision for backing up American diplomacy by actual or assured military or naval force. Second, the forfeiture of the world's respect for our assertion of rights by pursuing the policy of making threats and failing to make them good. Third, a loss of the moral forces of the civilized world through failure to interpret truly the spirit of the American democracy in its attitude toward the terrible events which accompanied the earlier stage of the war."
Thus Mr. Root's opinions are indistinguishable in substance from Mr. Roosevelt's—a fact which suggests that the Republican forces will be at their strongest. We ought, however, to remember that since Mr. Root spoke Mr. Wilson has taken a much bolder course, and has, no doubt, learned the advantages of it.
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