Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-16
ROOSEVELT Letter
Anglers CARNEGIE
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classes of cases which 1t is agreed shall be
arbitrated. and that provision can be made
for greater facility and certainty of arbi
tration. l hope to see adopted a general ar
bitration treaty among the nations, and l
hope to see The Hague court greatly in
creased in power and permanently. and the
judges In particular made permanent and
given adequate salaries so as to make ii
increasingly probable that in each case that
may come before them they will decide be-
tween the nations, great or small, exactly
as a judge within our own limits decides
between the individuals, great or small, who
come before him. Doubtless many other
matters Will be taken up at The Hague, but
1t seems to me that this of a general arbi
tration treaty is perhaps the most i'm
portant.
Again wishing you all good fortune in
your work.
Sincerely yours,
(Sfgned) THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
After the Roosevelt letter had been read
Mr.. Carnegie introduced Secretary Root
In doing so he said:
You all know President must have
more than a right hand, they do some of
the thinking for the President. This man
| is one of that kind of secretaries"
Speech Of Secretary Root.
Mr.. Root read his speech slowly and
clearly. He said:
In every country which has reached a
high stage of civilization may be seen the
working of two distinct and apparently in
consistent motives or principles of national
conduct On the one hand, there is the mar
rowly and Immediately unitarian motive.
and there is the competitive attitude fash
Toned upon the habits of self-preservation
and self-assertion enjoined by the necessi-
ties of the struggle for existence. With this
motive each country pursues specific ma
t1onal advantages, meeting in a hard, dry,
business-like way, without sympathy
sentiment. the facts of a world in which
there is much sefshness 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 defenseless.
On the other hand, there Is the ethical,
altruistic. humane impulse that presses
forward constantly toward ideals. It's pos
SCISSORS, loving liberty 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 bet
sefishness and cruelty which have already
SO widely characterized mankind: they as
sert principles and set up standards Of
action, which they call upon mankind to
adopt and mankind too often gives theo-
retical assent but denies practical con-
formity.
Sympathy of the Government.
ing of this peace conference has come to
me as an occasion to declare the alliance
and sympathy of the American government
with that other power-the sentiment of
humanty-which in all lands, and most
strongly In our generation, without fleets or
armies titles or dignties or compulsion
Of force, is leading mankind continually to
a nobler life The American people are
practical material strenuous in business,
eager for wealth, energetic in production
and venturous in commerce, insistent upon
their rights, proud of their country, jeal-
Gus of its power and it's PRESTIGE; but there
is a strain of idealism in the American
nature which saves our nation from the
grossness of sordid materialism and makes
1t responsive to every appeal in behalf of
liberty and righteousness, of peace witt jus
tee, and of human brotherhood the world
over. No American government could truly
represent il people If it did not sympathiZe
heartily with the purposes which this
gress meets to promote, and the American
government of today does sympathize heart
lily with those purposes. In behalf of the
government | give you the kindly and ap-
preciative greeting of the people of the
United States and welcome you spiritual
kindred of those Americans of great heart
and clear intelligence who in times past.
striving for ordered liberty and the peace
of justice in this land, have conferred in
estimable benefits upon all mankind, and
precious possessions.
Hope for Peace
The thoughts of all men who hope for the
peace of the world are now turned toward
the second peace conference so soon to meet
at The Hague. 1t IS cheering TO note the
difference between the attitude of the world
toward this conference about to meet and
the way in which the world looked upon the
first at he ayoht
ago The generous impulse and noble sem
timent of The Emperor of Russia which die
tated the call for that conference, supported
by his great power and commanding posi-
ton, compelled the respect, or the appear
ance of respect from all the great powers;
yet it is safe to say that the prevailing SEN
timent among the powers to the practical
value of the conference was one of polite
ncredulity. and that the delegates whom
he had called together met amid an almost
universal belief that nothing would or could
be accomplished. The primary object of the
call for the first conference.-the accom-
plishment of the great design which Henry
" of France conceived three centuries ago
for the limitation Of ornaments in Europe
failed for the time: yet the conference ac-
complished other things of the highest value
to humanity and it demonstrated for the
first time in the worlds history the potent
and epoch-making fact that congress of
the worlds powers convened not to deal
with some concrete question demanding i'm
mediate solution, but convened to consider
and discuss the application of the general
and fundamental principles of justice and
humanity under all circums stances and to all
international questions can be made prac-
teal and effective agency in the government
of the world; it developed new method
and a power for the betterment of in
ternational conduct far superior to the
binary rules of diplomatic intercourse, far
broader in its scope, far nober in its pur-
pose. Upon the eve of the second confer
ence. whose very possibility demonstrates
the success and approves the wisdom of the
first it seems to me that all men who love
their fellow-men and who hope for the rule
of righteousness and peace on earth should
feel a deep sentiment of gratitude toward
that sovereign whose noble character led
him to call together the first conference and
equally deep sympathy with him In the
hard and difficult task in which he is now
engaged of establishing constitutional gov
eminent in his own dominions.
1t has seemed to me that the great OBJ
stacle to the universal adoption OF arbitra-
ton is not the unwillingness of civilized
nations to submit their disputes to the de-
csion of an impartial tribunal; it is rather
apprehension that the tribunal selected
will not be impartial. In dispatch to Sir
Julian Pauncefote dated March s. 1896,
nd CaliShury No