Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-04-16
PEACE OF NATIONS.
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ing that in twenty years this grand
ruler had split no blood nor had he
caused International war.
At the afternoon session today the
speakers were secretary Root, Gov.
Charles II. Hughes of New York,
Mayor George B. Mcclellan of New
York City, and Mr.. Carnegie.
AT the afternoon session letter
from President Roosevelt was pre-
scented and read.
Tonight the speakers included Baron
Destournelle De Constant, a member
of the French senate and head of the
International Cancellation committee
and the speech of Secretary Straus of
the Department Of Commerce and
Labor, who spoke upon "the peace of
nations and peace within nations" was
delivered.
President Roosevelt, in his letter to
congress, urged that it's efforts be de-
voted to practicalism of the question
it had undertaken to discuss. An
impassioned grafton about peace,' he
declared, (which includes an impas-
stoned demand for something which
man, who makes the demand either
knows cannot as a matter of fact, be
done, represents not gain. but loss,
for the cause of peace; for even the
noblest cause is marred by advocacy
which is either insincere or foolish. =
Secretary Roots Speech.
Secretary Root spoke as follows:
Mr.. President and Gentlemen-In
every country which has reached a
high stage of civilization may be seen
the working of two distinct and ap-
parently inconsistent motives or prin-
ciples of national conduct On the
one hand, there is the narrowly and
Immediately utilitarian motive, and
there is the competitive attitude fash
inoned upon the habits Of selfpreser-
walton and self-assertion enjoined by
the necessities of the struggle for ex-
istence. With this motive each coun-
try pursues specific national advan-
tages, meeting in hard, dry, business
like way, without sympathy or senti-
ment, the facts of a world in which
there is much selfishness and greed,
in which every nation is primarily
looking out for itself, and in which
there is ordinarily some aggressor
ready to take advantage of the over
trusting and defenceless. BIZ
On the other hand, there is the
ethical, altruistic, humane impulse
that presses forward constantly tow
ard ideals. It's possessors, loving lib
erty and justice and peace, long to
make all men free and safe and secure
/ in their rights; their eyes are fixed
upon the ultimate goal toward which
civilization tends; they are striving
that better things shall replaced the
cynicism and selfishness and cruelty
which have always SO widely charac.
( terized mankind; they assert prin-
ciples and set up standards of action,
which they call upon mankind to
adopt. and mankind too often gives
theoretical assent but denies practi-
cal conformity.
In every mans nature there are man
ifestations or traces OF each Of these
impulses; and in every nation there
are many citizens in whom one, and
many in whom the other, impulse
strongly predominates. AS circumstan-
ces bring one class of motives or an
other into control Of national conduct
in different fields of national action,
strangely variant and inconsistent ma
tional action results. The same ma
ton may be seen hard and practical,
and at another time, or perhaps in an
other field at the same time. exhibit
ing the highest degree of unselfishness
and humanity. Under the predomi-
nance Of one motive, national power
has been built up: administration has
been made effective; commerce has
been extended; material wealth, the
matrix Of civilization, has been Great
ed and prOtecfaf1 fIa cifiznns Of oa oh