The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-05
Address Given This Afternoon Be-
fore the Nobel Prize Com
mittee in christiania,
Norway.
INTERNATIONAL PEACE
Gives His Views Of the Question and
Suggests Plan for the
Ending Of all
Wars.

CHRISTIANA, May 5.-Col. Roose-
velts address here this afteroon, was
IS follow: 1t is with peculiar
pleasure that i stand here today
to express the deep appreciation l
feel Of the high honor conferred upon
me by the presentation of the Nobel
Peace Prize. The gold medal which
formed part of the prize shall always
keep, and shall hand it on to my
children as precious heirloom The
sum OF money provided as part of the
prize by the wise generosity of the
Industrious founder of this world
famous prize system, did not, under
the peculiar circumstances of the case
feel at liberty to keep. think it emf
nently just and proper that in most
cases the recipient of the prize should
keep for his own use the prize in
entirety. But in this case, while l
did not act officially as President of
the United States, it was neyerthe-
less only because l was president that
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that the money must be considered as
having been given me in trust for the
United States. / therefore used it as
nucleus for a foundation to forward
the cause of Industrial peace. as be-
ing well within the general purpose
OF your committee: for In our COM
pick Industrial world as 1t is among
nations. There is at least as much
need to curb the cruel greed and AFRO
gance OF part of the world of capital,
to curb the cruel greed and violence of
part of the world of labor, as a check
cruel and unhealthy militarism in
international relationships.
We must ever bear in mind that
the great end in view is righteous
ness, justice as bet-c IN man and man,
nation and nation. chance to lead
our lives on a somewhat higher
level, witha broader spirit of brother
II good will one for another. Peace is
generally good in itself. but it is
never the highest good unless it
comes as the handmade of righteous
ness; and 1t becomes very evil thing
If 1t serves merely as mask for
cowardice and s'oth, or as an iEstru-
ment TO further the ends of despotism
or anarchy. We despise and abhor
bully, the brawler, the oppressor,
whether in private or public life: but
we despise no less the coward and
the yoluptuary. No man is worth call
Ing man who will not fight rather
than submit to infamy or see those
that are dear to him suffer wrong.
No nation deserves II exist if if per-
mits itself to lose the stern and viriIe
virtues, and this without regard to
whether the loss Is due to the growth
OF heartless and allabsorbing com
mercialism, to prolonged indulgence
In luxury and soft effortless ease or
to the DEDICATION of warped and
twisted sentimentality.
Moreover, and above all, let us q.
member that words count only when
they give expression to deeds or are
to be translated into them. The lead.
ers OF the Red Terror prattled of
peace while hey stepped their hands
in the blood of the Innocent: and
many a tyrant has called it peace
when he has scourged honest protest
into silence. Our lords must be judg-
ed by our deeds; and in striving for
lofty ideal we must use practical
methods; and il We canno+ attain all
at one leap, we must advance towards
1t step by step, reasonably content
80 long as we do actually make some
progress In the right direction.
Now, having freely admitted the
limitations 20 our work, and the quail
fications to be borne in mind I feel
that have the right to have NV
words taken seriously when / point
out where. in my judgment, great adj
vance can be made in the cause of in
lernational peace. speak as a prac.
tical man, and whatever / now advo.
cate actually tried to do when T was
for the time being the head Of a eraat
nation, and keenly jealous of it honor
and interest. / ask other nations tn
DO only what should be glad to see
my own nation do.
The advance can be made ALONG
several lines. First of all there ca,,
be treaties of arbitration. There are
OF course states so backward that a
civilized community ought not to enter
into an arbitration treaty with them
at least until we have gone much far.
uher than at present in securing some
END OF international police action.
But all really civilized communities
should have effective arbitration trea-