Lower coast gazette., 1910-05-07
ROOSEVELT GIVES
NOBEL LECTURE
As Recipient Of Peace Prize He
Talks in ChriStiania.
ENDING OF WARS HIS TOPIC
Treaties Of Arbitration, Development
Of Hague Tribunal and Check on
Growth Of Armaments Urged
by the Ex-President.

by M: Ex-President.
Christiania.-Col. Theodore Rn0se
welt. former president of the United
States, lectured on "~Intcrnationa
Peace Thursday, May ), before til,
Nobel prize committee which award
ed him the peace prize 70: his sue
c~essful efforts in ending the war be
tween Russia and Japan. The great
hall where the lecture was delivered
was filled to the doors, many distin
guished persons being in the audience,
and Colonel ROOsevelt's words were
heartily applaudcd. His lecture fol
lows:
Need Of Industrial Peace.
1t is with peculiar pleasure that
stand here today to express the deep
appreciation | feel of the high honor
conferred upon me by the proscnta-
ton Of the Nobel peace prize. The
gold medal which formed part Of the
prize I shall always keep, and I shah
hand it on to my children as a precious
heirloom. The sum of money provided
as part of the prize by the wise gem
crosby of the illustrious founder Of
this world-famous prize system, | did
not, under the peculiar circumstances
of the case, feel at liberty to keep. |
think it %eminently just and proper
that in most cases the recipient Of the
prize should keep for his own use the
prize in its entirety. But in this
case, while l did not act officially as
president Of the United States, it was
nevertheless only because l was pres
ident that | vas enabled to act at all;
and I felt that the money must be
considered as having been given me
in trust for the United States. | there
fore used 1t as a nucleus for a fOunda-
ton to forward the cause of indus
trial peace, as being we'll within the
general purpose of your committee;
for in our complex industrial civiliza-
ton of today the peace of righteous
ness and justice. the only kind Of
peace worth having. is at least as
necessary in the industrial world as
1t is among nations. There is at
least as much need to curb the cruel
greed and arrogance Of part of the
world of capital, to curb the cruel
greed and violence Of part of the
world Of labor, as to check a cruel
and unhealthy militarism in interna-
tional relationships.
When Peace May Be Evil.
We must ever bear in mind that the
great end in view Is righteousness,
as between mar and man, ma
ton and nation, the chance to lead
our lives on a somewhat higher level,
with a broader spirit of brotherly good
will one for another. Peace is gen.
orally good in itself, but it is never
the highest good unless it comes as
the handmade of righteousness: and it
becomes a very evil thing if it serves
as a mask for COwardiCe and
sloth, or as an instrument to further
the ends of despotism or anarchy.
We despise and abho- the bully, the
brawler, the opprcssor, whether in
or public life; but we despise
no less the coward and the vOluptu-
ary. No man is worth calling a man
who will not fight rather than submit
to infamy or see those that are dear
TO him suffer wrong. No nation de-
serves to exist if it permits itself to
lose the stern and viri1e virtues; and
his without regard to whether the
loss is due to the growth Of a heart
.ess and all-absorbing commercialism.
o prolonged indulgence in luxury and
soft effortless ease, or to the deifica-
ion of a warped and twisted senti-
mentality.
Moreover. and above all, let us re-
member that words count only when
hey give expression to deeds or are
% be translated into them. The lead
ers of the Red Terror prattled of
1eace while they STEPPED their hands
n the blood of the innocent; and
many a tyrant has called it peace
when he has scourged honest protest
nto silence. Our words must be
Judged by our deeds; and in striving
or a lofty ideal we must use prac-
ical methods; and If we cannot at
ain all at one leap, we must advance
0wards 1t step by step, reasonably
so long a we do actually
make some progress in the right d.
Now, having freely admitted the
to our work, and the quail
fications to be borne in mind, | feel
hat / have the right to have my
words taken seriously when | point
,ut where, in my judgment, great ad-
'ance can be made in the cause of IN
ernational peace. l speak as a prac- ;
ical man, and whatever now adVo-
ate / actually tried to do when | was
or the time being the head of a great
and keenly jealous Of its hon
and interest. | ask other nations
O do only what I should be glad to
my own nation do.
Treaties Of Arbitration.
The advance car be made along
everal lines. First of all there can
e treaties of arbitration. There are,
{ course, states SO backward that a
ivilized community ought not to en-
er into an arbitration treaty with
hem, at least until we have gone
,uch further than at present in Sc
uring some kind of international po-
ice action. But all really civilized