The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-16

VIII De better tomorrow than IL Is today.
tlghtinG animal though man is, he realt
ICES the advantages OF peace and as tha
world grows better he becomes more will.
ing TO hesitate before sacrificing peac4
for war-
Strength of Public Opinion.
There is no government that is not inI
fluenced by public opinion. If goverIii
ments are 70 be made TO appreciate thors
oughly the advantages OF peace then the
people OF the earth must be brought 70
appreciate It's blessings. II tine nations
sincerely desire peace, there is scarcely
a difference that can arise among them
that cannot be adjusted by peaceful arbIi
tration.
Your duty. as that OF everyone whd
knows the difference between national
honor and national land lust. between trud
courage and swashbuckllng. is TO cunvnca
the world that man has higher. nobleh
mission than 60 be forever at his brothers.
throat; that war should be resorted Is
only as a last desperate remedy for in1
justice and oppression. The task TO which
YOU have set yourselves and which can
be accomplished, is TO cultivate a spirit
Cf sober common sense among men. Z
sense which Will cause them 10 think
twice before going to extremes and Ia
hesitate before glorfvine the war spirit.
To such a public opinion governments
must bow. Putting into practice rheis
high-soundine professions OF actual good
will, they must. with regard for each
others interests live in harmony with ous
another.
Letter From the President.
President Roosevelt S letter read
before the congress was as follows:
My Dear Mr.. Carneeie:-I much regre;
my inability TO be present with YOU. Mr..
Root will speak TO you at length. and no
man IN the country is better fitted than
he TO address YOU on the subject you
have so much at heart
In this letter / can do little more than
wish you and your association God -spesd
purpose you have at heart is both strong
and real. and b. right OF il | shall maka
TO You some suggestions as 70 the prac-
tical method OF accomplishing the ends
we all OF us have In view. First and
foremost. | beseech YOU 70 remember thau
1t is our bounden duty 10 work for peace,
yet il Is even more our duty to work
for righteousness and justice. II is
righteousness that eNaiteth A nation
and though normally peace is the hand
maid OF righteousness yet. II they are
cause we must espouse. In the second
place. | again earnestly ask that all good
and earnest men who believe strongly III
the cause. but who have not themselves
Nations honor shall not. by insisting
on the impossible. put of the day when
peoples OF the world have advanced un4
along the road that leads 20
Justice and fair dealing. but the road
stretches far ahead even OF the most ad1
suit If the most advanced nations should
by agreement disarnl and place them
selves al the mercy of other peoples less
advanced.
Wants Deeds, Not Words.
Finally It behoovss all of us 20 rernen1
Der and especially those or us who either
make or listen 10 speeches. that there
are few more mischievoUs things than
the custom Of utterIng or applauding SEN
timents which represent mere oratorys
and which are not, and cannot be, and
nave not been translated from words INTO
leeds. An impassioned Grafton about
demand for something which the man
who makes the demand either knows or
ought 10 know. cannot, as a matter or
act, he done. represents not gain, but
oss for the cause OF peace; for even the
ioblest cause is nlarred by advocacy
which is either insincere or foolish.
These warnings that I have uttered do
,ot mean that believe we can do Moth
ng 10 advance the cause of International
,eace on the other hand, | believe We
an do much 20 advance II, provided only
With power. which must be the prime
qualities In the achievement OF any re-
orm. The nineteenth century saw, on
he whole, real and great advance in
he standard of international conduct,
10Th among civilized nations ana by
trong nations, toward weaker and more
siu I believe, witness a much greater
dvance in the same direction. The
lnlted states mas n rlEnt 10 SPEAK on
ehalf OF such cause, and to ask that
5 course during the half-dogen opening
ears of the century be accepted as ~
warranty Of the truth OF It's professions,
Six Years OF Progress,
During the six years we can conscien-
ously say that. without sacrificing our
wn rights. we nave yet sCrupuously re-
oected the rights of all other peoples.
'ith the great military nations OF the
orld. alike in Europe and in that newest
sia which is also the oldest. we have
reserved a mutually respecting and
indly friendship. In the Philippine ISL
nds We are training people in the
ffcult art of self government with more
Iccess than those best acquainted with
le facts had dared hope We are
,ing this because we have acted in a
brit of genuine disinterestedness, Genu-
e and single minded purpose to benenti
lie islanders. In Panama We are sue
ssfUlly performing what is 10 the great
L engineering feat of the age; and while
e are assuming the whole burden of the
orS we have explicitly pledged our
Ives that the use is TO be free for all
ankind. In the Islands Of the -Carib-