The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-04-20

Following is the address of Oscar
S. Straus, secretary of commerce an6
labor, before the recent arbitration
and peace congress il New York:
Nations, il individuals, pass thrr
stages of development, and each stage
of n a development is characterized
by different and often varying aspir
atoms. Beginning with modern times
with the Reformation, the nations
were held under the spell of eccles
i~astical domination, which produced
the so-called religious wars which cul
minated with the Thirty Years War
and the Treaty of Westphalia. This
was followed by the hunger for power,
which rose to it's height under the in.
furiated heroism of the Napoleonic
wars; after this followed the period
of industrialism and trade expansion,
at h height of which we now find
ourselves. This last period, which has
witnessed the development of great
Industrial combinations, has also wit
messed h development of the powers
of the w-age-earners under organized
labor. This development, to which
the most advanced nations of the
world owe the wonderful growth of
their material prosperity, brings with
it many advantages, also serious dan
gers, which, if not regulated by hu-
name considerations and by the spirit
of equity and justice, threaten the
most serious domestic. conflicts.
Unrest and dissatisfaction at home
breed ~antagonisms abroad. The ma
ton happy and contented With it's
borders is va a menace to neigh
boring nations. Its chief danger lies
in not being able to protect itself
against the discontentmelt of other
nations, and nothing contributes more
to peace abroad than peace at home.
to war or been driven into war by
reason of internal discomfort, COMPEL
ing it, as it were, to choose war with
out as the lesser evil in order to avert
revolution within it's borders.
On the 10th of December last the
N~SSO0 ~ Inv WI -
Storthing, under the will of Alfred
Bernhard Nobel, for the distribution
of the Peace Prize 'tto be awarded to
the person who shall have most or
best promoted the fraternity of ma
lions and the adjustment or diminu-
tiol of standing armies and the forma
ton and increase of peace congresses"
awarded it's prize to the person who
did most throughout the entire world
to promote those objects, and select
ed as its recipient Theodore Roose-
welt, President of the United States.
The people throughout this country
and from one end of the world to the
other ~applaudingly approved the selec
ton. They recognized that he first,
among presidents, kings, and emper-
ors, opened the doors of The Hague
Tribunal; that he, through his act
about peace between Japan and Rus
STA, and nat he was the first to sum-
mon the second great peace congress-,
and in the interest of international
good will resign the high privilege to
the Gar of Russia. By these separate
acts he thrice deserved the gratitude
of the peaceloving world and thrice
justified the award of the Norwegian
Storthi1g.
Fully as important as peace among
nations is peace within nations. Peo-
Pile who are subjected to unreasonable
contradiction 1900 ee1;fa liha-+u ond tho
pursuit of happiness" and VINO are
compelled to live under such condit-
ions that they can not earn their daily
bread, become revolutionary. He who
had interviewed and brought about an
equitable adjustment in the greatest
the anthracite coal strike-dedicated
the Nobel Peace Prize to the promo
tioa of industrial peace, and by an
act of Congress approved March FL
last this Foundation for the Promotion
of Industrial Peace was made perpet-
dustrial forces to arrive at a peaceful
adjustment of their reciprocal rights
on a basis OF humanity and justice
In Theodore Roosevelt are united the
historical foresight of a Jefferson with
the humane consideration of a Lin
coin for the welfare of the masses. He
is ever as watchful to protect the poor
man as well as h rich man in his
rights as he is to restrain them from
committing wrong
The growth of commerce and indus
try which marks our industrial age
has contributed tremendously to the
community Of nations The much de-
cried commercial spirit Is the surest