Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-04-16

lEsDAY MORNING, APRIL 16, 10 o.. q
misund erstandings may be explained;
consid eration and discussion along
lines that do not run counter to any.
Immediate and specific interest may
work out methods Of appl wing general
principles IN such a way as to prevent
future differences; progress may be
may be made toward agreement upon
matters which are. not yet ripe for
complete adjustment; but the moment
an attempt lis made to give such a
conference any coerciye effect, the mo-
ment any number Of nations endeaVor
to use the conference for the purpose
Of compelling any other nation to do
what it deems inconsistent with its
interests, that moment the conference
fails. if 3, ssSs n |
Such a conference is an agency Of
peace; not the peace Of conquest. but
the peace Of agreement; not enforced
agreement, but willing and cheerful
agreement. So far as the nations can
go together in such an agreemen the
conference can go and no farther
The greatest benefit of the peace
conference Of 1907 will be; as was that
Of the peace conference Of 4 S99, in the
fact of the conference itself; in its
powerful influence molding the charac-
ters of men \ in the spectacle Of all
the great powers Of the earth meeting
in the name of peace, and exalting, as
worthy Of honor and desire, national
self-control and considerate judgment
and willingness to do justice.
The Peace Of Nations and Peace With
in Nations.
Hon. Oscar s. Stratus, secretary of
commerce and labor, spoke as fol-
lows: .s}s
Nations, like individuals, pass
through stages of development, and
each stage of that development is
characterized by different and often
varying aspirations. Beginning with
modern times, with the Reformation,
the nations wehe held under the spell
of ecclesiastical domination which pro-
duced the so-called religious wars
which eliminated with the thirty
years war and the treaty Of West
phalia. This was followed by the
hunger for power, which rose to its
height under the Infatuated heroism OF
the Napoleonic wars; after this fol-
lowed the period Of industrialism and
trade expansion, at the height Of
which we now find ourselves This
last period which has witnessed the
development of great Industrial COM
binations, has also Witnessed the de-
velopment Of the powers Of the wage
earners under organized labor. This
development, to which the most adj
yanced nations Of the world owe the
wonderful growth Of their material
prosperity, brings with it many adj
vantages, also serious dangers. which,
if not regulated by humane considera-
lions and by the spirit OF equity and
justice, threaten the most serious do
nestle conflicts.
81 Unrest and dissatisfaction at home
breed antagonisms abroad. The ma
ton happy and contented within its
borders is never a menace to neigh
boring nations. Its chief danger lies
in not being able to protect itself
against the disconte ntment Of other
nations, and nothing contributes more
to peace abroad than peace at home.
Often in the past has a nation gone to
war or been driven into war by reason
Of internal discomfort, compelling IL,
as 1T were. to choose war without as
the lesser evil in order to avert reyo-
luton within its borders.
The Prince Of Peace. 81
On the 10th Of December last the
committee elected BY the Norwegian
storthing, under the viii Of Alfred
Bernhard Nobel for the distribution
Of the peace prize TO be awarded to-
the person who shall have most 81
best promoted the fraternity Of ma
lions and the abolishment Of diminu-
ton Of standing armies and the for
nation and increase Of peace CON
crosses awarded its prize to the per
son who did most throughout the en-
tire world to promote those objects.
and selected as its recipient Theodore
Roosevelt, president Of the United
States The people throughout this
country and from one end 81 the world
to the other pplaudingly approved the
selection, They recognized that he