Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-05-06


president to Norway.
CHRISTIANIA. May 5.-Before the ma
tons OF the world Theodore Roosevelt to-
day held up the constitution of the
United States and the supreme court as
models which might we'll be followed IN
forming a federation of the worlds civil
lized nations to preserve international
peace and justice.
He spoke before the Nobel prize COM
mittee on the theme, international
Peace He said:
1t was with peculiar pleasure /
stand here today to express the deep APP
probation 1 feel OF the high honor con-
ferred upon me by the presentation Of
the Nobel peace prize. The gold medal
which formed part of the prize 1 shall
always keep, and l shall hand il on to
my children as a precious heirloom. The
sum Of money provided as part of the
prize by the wise generosity of the illus
trious founder OF this world-famous prize
system. 1 did not, under the peculiar cir
/ cImstances of the case, feel at liberty to
keep. / think il eminently just and prop
er 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. II was nevertheless
only because l was president that was
enabled TO act at all. and felt that. the
money must be considered as having been
given me in trust for the United States.
1 therefore used it as a nucleus for a
foundation to forward the cause of In
dustrial peace. as being well within the
general purpose of your committee; for
I'm our complex Industrial civilization Of
today the peace of righteousness and jus
tice, the only kind, of peace worth hav-
ing, is at least as necessary in the In
dustrial world as it 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 I'M
healthy militarism in international rela-
tiouships.
We must ever bear in mind that the
great end in view is righteousness, jus
tice as between man and man, nation and
nation the chance TO lead our lives on a
somewhat higher level, with a. broader
spirit Of brotherly good will one for an
/ other. Peace is generally good in itself.
but il is never the highest good unless 1t
comes as the handmade of Righteousness;
and II becomes very evil thing IL II
serves merely as a mask for coward
I ice and sloth. or as an instrument to fur
lleI the tuOS VI ocSpOAiShh III NHS
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 voluptuary. No man
! is worth calling a man who VIII not hight
rather than submit to infamy or see those
that are dear to him suffer wrong. No ma
/ ton deserves to exist IL it permits itself
4 TO lose the stern and virile virtues; and
/ this without regard to whether the loss Is
due to the growth of a heartless and all
absorbing commercialism, to prolonged
indulgence in luxury and soft effortless
4 ease, or to the deification OF a warped
and twisted sentimentality.
MUST HAVE ACTIO4t.
| Moreover and above all, let US re-
member that words count only when
they give expression to deeds or are to
be translated into them. The leaders Of
the Red error prattIed of peace while
they STEPPED their hands in the blood OF
the Innocent: and many a tyrant has call
/ ed IL peace when he has scourged honest
protest into silence. our words must
/ Oe judged by our deeds; and In striving
/ for a lofty ideal we must use practical
| methods; and IL we cannot AGAIN all at
4 one leap, we must advance towards II
, step by step, reasonably content so long
as we do actually make some progress
\ in tile right direction.
I
atoms to our work, and the qualifica-
tions TO be borne in mind. I feel that 1
have the right to have my words taken
seriously when point out where, in my
Judgment, great advance can be made
J in the cause of international peace. L
speak as a practical man, and whatever
/ now advocate I actually tried to DO
when was for the time being the mead
/ Of a great nation, and keenly jealous Of
/ it's honor and interest. 1 ask other pa
4 tions to do only what I should be glad
\ to see my own nation do.
| TREATIES OF ARBITRATION.
The advance can be made along sew
| eral lines First of all there can be
| treaties OF arbitration. There are, of
course states so backward that a civil
\ lied community ought not TO enter into
an arbitration treaty with them, at least
until we have gone much further than at
present in securing some kind of interna-
tional police action. But all really civil
lied communities should have effective
arbitration treaties among themselves.
believe that these treaties can cover
almost all questions liable to arise be-
/ tween such nations, if they are drawn
/ with the explicit agreement that each
contracting party will respect the oth-
| er's territory and its absolute sover-
! eighty within that territory. and the
| equally explicit agreement that tasido
from the very rare cases where the ma
: tiOn's honor is vitality concerned all
/ other possible subiec.s of controversy
/ will he submitted TO arbitration. Such
treaty would insure peace unless one
l party deliberately violated il. or
course. as yet there is no adequate sare-
| guard against such deliberate violation.