Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-05-06
ROOSEVELT SPEAKS BEFORE
NOBEL PRIZE COMMITTEE
Lecture on international Peace" Is Delivered
in Christiania---Wa in Which the
! Cause May Be Advanced Are
Set Forth.

explicit agreement that (aside from
the very rare cases where the nations
honor Is vitality concerned) all other
possible subjects of controversy will
be submitted to arbitration. Such q
treaty should insure peace until one
party deliberately violated 1t. or
course, as yet there is no adequate |
safeguard against such deliberate vio-
lation, but the establishment of a
sufficient number Of these treaties |
would go long way towards creating |
a world opinion which would finally |
find expression In the provision of |
methods to forbid or punish any such |
violation.
Work Of Hague Tribunal.
Secondly. there is the further de-
velopment of The Hague tribunal, of
the work of the conferences and courts
at The Hague. 1t has been well said
that the first Hague conference
framed a Magma Charta for the ma
tions; 1t set before us an ideal which
has already to some extent been real
lied, and towards the full realization
Of which we can all steadily strive.
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progress; the third should do yet
more. Meanwhile the American gov
ernment has more than once tenta-
| lively suggested methods for COM
| pleting the court of arbitral Justice.
constituted at the second Hague con-
| ference, and for rendering it effective.
| 1t is earnestly to be hoped that the
| various governments of Europe, work
ing with those of America and of
Asia, shall set themselves seriously to
| the task of devising some method
which shall accomplish this result. II
/ may venture the suggestion, it would
be well for the statesmen of the
world. in planning for the erection of
this world court, to study what has
been done in the United States by the
Supreme court. cannot help think
ing that the Constitution of the Uni
ted States, notably in the establish
ment of the Supreme court and in the
methods adopted for securing peace
and good relations among and be-
tween the different states, offers GER
tain valuable analogies to what should
be striven for in order to secure,
through The Hague courts and confer
ences, species of world federation
for international peace and justice.
There are, of course, fundamental diff.
ferences between what the United
States Constitution does and what we
should ever attempt at this time to
secure at The Hague: but the meth
ods adopted In the American Consti
tuition to prevent hostilities between
the states, and to secure the suprem
acy of the federal court in certain
classes of cases, are well worth the
study of those who seek at The Hague
to obtain the same result on a world
scale.
Undue Growth of Armaments.
In the third place, something should
be done as soon as possible to checl
: the growth Of ornaments, especially
naval armaments, by internationa
agreement. No one power could o.
should act by itself; for its is eminent
,, ly undesirable, from the standpoint o
the peace of righteousness, that
power which really does believe II
peace should place itself at the mere
of some rival which may at bottom
: have no such belief and no intention
4 of acting on it. But. granted sir
: cerity of purpose. the great powers G
!. the world should find no insurmoun
= able difficulty in reaching an agree
ment which would put an end to tn
present costly and growing extravs
= gance of expenditure on naval arms
" ments. An agreement merely to limi
the size of the ships would have bee
8 very useful few years ago, and woul
still be of use; but the agreemer
should go much further
= Finally. it would be master strok
= IL those great powers honestly bent o
+; peace would form league of peac,
not only to keep the peace anon
themselves, but to prevent. by force
% necessary, its being broken by other
= The supreme difficulty in connectio
- with developing the peace work {
y The Hague arises from the lack of an
- executive power. OF any police powe
to enforce the decree of the cour
In any community of any size the al
thority of the courts rests upon actui
or potential force; on the existence {
% a police. or on the knowledge that tt
- able-bodied men of the country al
v both ready and willing to see that IL
70 DEGREES Of judicial and legislatiy
~ bodies are put into effect. In new an
wild communities where there is vi
lence, an honest man must prote
g himself; and until other means of S
N curins his safety are devised, 1t
Q, both foolish and wicked to persuat
a him to surrender his arms while IL
n men who are dangerous to the col
IN munity retain theirs. He should n
le renounco the right to protect himse
e. by his own efforts until the comm
o. nifty is so organized that it can effe
I'd lively relieve the individual of ii
r duty of putting down violence. So
IL 10 with natinpa Enah nation mn