The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-05-06
ROOSEVELT GIVES
NOBEL LECTURE
As Recipient Of Peace Prize he
Talks in ChriStlanIa.
ENDING OF WARS HIS TOPIC
Treaties Of Arbitration, Development
Of Hague Tribunal and Check on
Growth Of Armaments Urged
by the Ex.Presdent.

rhristiania-Col. Theodore Roose'
welt former president OF the UnlIeu
States, lectured on "lnternaIioha'
Peace" Thursday, May 5, before the
Nobel prize committee which award
ed him the peace prize for MS sue
cessful efforts in ending the war oe-
tween Russia and Japan. Inc great
hall where the lecture was del'eieu
was filed to the doors, many diStin-
guished persons being in the audience
and Colonel Roosevelts words were
heartily applauded. His lecture lol-
lows:
Need Of Industrial Peace.
II Is with peculiar pleasure that
stand here today to express the deep
appreciation l feel of the hlgh hoioi
! conferred upon me by the presenta'
5 t,on Of the Nobel peace prize. Inc
q gold medal which formed part OF 'he
d nrize | shall always keep, and shaii
|. hand 1t on to my children as precious
heirloom. The sum of money proVlueu
as part of the prize by the wise gen,
r erosity Of the illustrious 1ouhuer VI
{ this world-famous prize system, uio
not under the peculiar circumstances
n Of the case, feel at liberty to Keep
think it eminently just and prope'
that in most cases the recipient Oh th'
nrize should keep for his own use tn
In nrize IN its entirety. But IN I'LL
ls case while I did not act officially d
9r- president of the United States II Wa
tie nevertheless only because | was pre-,
&C. ident that l was enabled to act a' a,'
ria ond T felt that the money must
ru. considered as having been given IL
lis. IN trust for the United States. | ther
300 fore used it as a nucleus Tor a lounu
ms tion to forward the cause or lhou
tho trial peace, as being well within u
mo general purpose Of your commltte
;ov. for in our complex industrial ciVllll
,,od ton of today the peace OF rlgn'eo'
~ ness and Justice, the only knu
- neace worth having, IS at teas.
'ue' necessary in the industrial Worid
INV II is among nations There IS
tlns least as much need to curb the CT
reed creed and arrogance of part OF
5 OF world of capital, to curo the cf
ters' greed and violence OF part Oh
by world of labor, as to check a CT
huge and unhealthy militarism IN lnte'
was tional relationships.
,op' ', When Peace May BE EVIL.
vora, We must ever bear in mind that
r.. ga great end in view Is rlghteousn
1,,nn Justice as between man ana man.
Gov, tion and nation, the chance 10
w. orr lives on a somewhat higher II
'''o with broader spirit of brotherly
W." W. will one for another. Peace IS
Oo'n orally good in itself, but it IS Il
the highest good unless 1t come
the handmade of Righteousness; d
Incomes a very evil thing If 1t 81
f be. merely as a mask for cowardice
bo ra. sloth or as an instrument 10 III
II II the ends of despotism or ana
-tuon We desnise and abhor the Dull!
~ +ha brawler, the oppressor, whe'he
vi e . nrivate or public life; but we OF
% iilsS No less the coward and the Vo
SUN arv, No man is worth calling
ablaze oiS' -, ~, a+ soh+ rather than S
ulnins to infamy or see those tnat ale
gth Oh 70 him suffer wrong. NO nall'
serves to exist if it permits ltE
loco the stern and virile virtues
this without regard to Wheth'
Of Niss ,oss is due to the growth OF a
,ox an lose and allabsorbing commerc
,ont of 70 prolonged indulgence in luxu
soft effortless ease, or TO the
~ oror+. tion of a warped and twisted
Sunday mentality. :, -.
- Moreover, and above ALL ie'
d III % nember that words count onl
20 years nienio w. ov,rassion to deeds
1or TWO IN no translated into them II
ers Of the Red Terror prat'
neace while they stepped thei
led. IN the blood of the lnnoceh
ment OF MANY a tyrant has called
lived re-. when he. has scourged honest
no effect into silence. Our words m
which in judged by our deeds; and IN
,,es were for a lofty ideal we must u
o,t The teal methods; and II we Cd
,nans and tain all at one leap, we must
, '~r,,,onas towards 1t step by STEP re
io"'"'l 49, content so long as we DO
III III WV make some progress in the
rection. u,,
Now, having freely ADM
ed. limitations to our work, anu
,ham pub iacations to be borne in NIL
nd for the that I have the right to
NAL inter. words taken seriously whe1
,lic speak. ont where, in my Judgment
70 citizens vance can be made in the ca
s;on we're ternational peace. speak
aaa w G tical man, and whatever
anu cate I actually tried to do W
for the time being the head
nation and keenly jealous
'ments' or and interest. l ask otn
a tremen TO do only what I should
his port OF see nv own nation 40
many ship Treaties OF Arn'tra'