The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-06

one carriage 10 the palace, while the
queen and Mrs. Roosevelt occupied an
other.
Holiday for Whole City.
This was n holiday in Chrlstlania and
the people gathered on either side Of
the broad drive to the palace in such
numbers that Mr.. Roosevelt remarked
that he had not seen such immense
crowds anywhere else in Europe on this
trip.
The former president today gave
Sculptor Vigland forty-five minute
sitting fer n statue, TO be erected In
North Dakota,
Colonel Roosevelt wrote TO Represen-
tative Louis B. Hanna, In charge of
the matter, he did not believe in statues
TO living men. but added. if his friends
were going TO have q statue he thought
il ought TO be typical Of his early days
In North Dakota, either as frontier
farmer or a cowboy, The main thing
was the right sort of a picture, whether
it was likeness Of him did not matter.
DR.. Fridtiof Nansen, the explorer,
paid visit to Mr.. Roosevelt today and
recalled that he had told Mr. Roose-
welt ten or twelve years ago that If
any American discovered the pole, he
would pick Peary.
The municipality of ChristiaDia to-
night gave dinner in honor Of the
former president and Mrs. Roosevelt.
The former president of the United
States entered upon the most difficult
field of European politics and in the
conclusion Of carefully worked out
thesis advocated an international
agreement that would serve to check
the growth of armaments, especially
naval armaments; and the formation
by those great powers honestly bent
on peace Of league of peace, 'fnot
,1,y -
selves but TO prevent by force if nee
essary, its being broken by others. !"
What Mr.. Roosevelt had TO say be-
fore the king and queen of Norway and
other representative personages con
stuffed the basis Of the private CON
ventions he is having with the states
men of Europe as occasion arises con
cerning the practical possibilities of
collective action by the various gov
ernments for the enforcement OF uni
versal peace.
Mr.. Roosevelt said it must be borne
in mind ever that tho great end in
view was righteous; and he ex-
planned that peace, generally good in
itself, was never the highest good un-
less it came as the handmade Of right
eousness. II became a very evil thing
when 1T served merely as mask for
cowardice and sloth or as an instru-
ment to further the ends of despotism
or anarchy.
Ono man is worth calling a man.
said the speaker, 'who will not fight
rather than to submit TO infamy or see
those that are dear to him suffer
wrong"
This principle, Mr.. Roosevelt said,
applied to nations.
The address was received with ex-
pressions of approval and at its CON
elusion John Lund, vice president Of
the Nobel prize committee, paid tri-
butte to Mr.. Roosevelt and to the Unit
ed States.
Colonel Roosevelt's address follows;
Roosevelt's Address.
II is with peculiar pleasure that 1 stand
here today to express the deep appreca-
tion j feel of the high honor conferred
Nobel Peace prize The gold medal
which formed part OF the prize I shall
always keep. and / shall hand it on to
my children as a precious heirloom The
sum of money provided as part OF the
prize by the wise generosity OF the IL
lustrious founder of this world-famous
prize system. ! did not. under the Pc
GGuliar circumstances OF the case. feel al
liberty 10 keep. think 1t eminently just
and proper that in most cases the re-
cpient OF the prize should keep for his
own use the prize In its entirety. But
in this case. while l did not act Off
cially as president OF the United States
IL was nevertheless only because was
president that ] was enabled 10 act al
ALL and ] felt that the money must be
considered as having been given me ir
trust for the United States. ! therefore
used 1t a nucleus for q foundation tc
forward the cause OF Industrial peace
as being well within the general purpose
of your committee; for In our complex In.
dustrial civilization OF today the peac,
OF righteousness and justice. the onl.
kind OF peace worth having. is at leas
necessary in the Industrial world a.
II There a lea G
as much need TO curb the cruel greec
and arrogance of part of the world o
capital, TO curb the cruel greed and vio
lence OF part OF the world Of labor, al