The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-05-05

the cruer greed and violence or pat Of
the world Of labor. ~ TO check cruel
and unhealthy militarism In intesna-
tional relationships.
psacs Generally Coed.
We must ever bear In mind that the
great end In view Is righteousness.
ton and nation. the chance to lead our
lives on somewhat higher level, with
q broader spirit Of brotherly 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 It becomes very evil thing
IL it serves merely as mask for cow
ardice and sloth or as an instrument
to further the ends OF despctism or
anarchy
We despise and abhor the bully, the
brawler. the oppressor. whether In pri-
vate or public life. But we despise
no less the coward and the voluptu-
airy. No man Is worth calling q man
who will not fight rather than submit
to infamy or see those that are dear
to him suffer wrong.
No nation deserves to exist II It per-
mits itself to lose the stern and virile
virtues, and this without regard to
whether the loss Is due to the growth
of heartless aud all absorbing COM
mercialism. to prolonged indulgence In
luxury and soft. effortless ease or to
the dedication OF warped and twist
ed sentimentality.
Moreover and above all let us re-
member that words count only when
they give expression to deeds or are to
of the red terror prattled Of peace
while they STEPPED their hands In the
blood OF the innocent. and many q
tyrant has called II peace when he has
scourged honest protest into silence.
Our words must be judged by our
deeds. and in striving for lofty idea
we must use practical methods. and
II we cannot attain all at one lear
we must advance toward it step by
step. reasonably content so long as We
do actually make some progress in the
right direction.
Now, having freely admitted the linn
itations to our work and the qualifica
lions to be borne in mind. / feel that
have the right to have my words takel
seriously when l point out where. 4
my Judgment, great advance can b
made IN the cause Of internationa
peace.
speak as a practical man. an,
whatever now advocate ! actuall,
tried to do when l was for the tim
being the head of great nation an,
keenly Jealous OF its honor and inter
est ask other nations to do onl,
what / should be glad to see my owl
nation do.
How to Secure Peace.
, The advance Gun be made along sex
eral lines First Of all there can b
treaties of arbitration. There are, Q
course. states SO backward that civ
ilized community ought not to ente
into an arbitration treaty with ther
at least until we have gone much ful
| Their than at present In securing som
kind OF international police actor
But all really civilized communitie
should have effective arbitration tres
ties among themselves.
l believe that these treaties can COY
er almost all questions liable to aris
between such nations II they ar
drawn with tho explicit agreemeu
that each contracting party will II
spect the others territory and its nj
solute sovereignty within that terrific
~ and the equally explicit agreemen
that, aside from the very rare case
where the nations honor is vitality cor
cerned, all other possible subjects q
controversy will be submitted to arb
tration. Such treaty would insur
peace unless one party deliberatel
violated 1t.
OF course as yet there is no ad.
quate safeguard against such delibel
ate violation, but the establishment Q
sufficient number of these treatie
would 60 long way toward creatin
world opinion which would finail
find expression in the provision Q
methods to forbid or punish any sue
| violation.
Secondly. there is the further deve
opment OF The Hague tribunal, OF th
work of the conferences and courts a
The Hague. 1t has been well said tina
the first Hague conference framed
magma charta for the nations. 1t &c
before us an ideal which has alread
to soae extent been rc::....zed and t.