Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-06
MR.. ROOSEVELT ON
INTERNATIONAL PEACE.
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| world should find no insurmountable
| difficulty in reaching an agreement
| which would put an end to the pres
ent costly and growing extravaganza
of expenditure on naval ornaments.
An agreement merely to limit the size
of ships would have been very useful
| q few wears ago and would still be of
| use: but the agreement should go
| much further.
Finally, it would be a master stroke
if those great powers honestly bent
on peace would form a League of
| Peace, not only to keep the peace
among themselves, but to prevent, by
force if necessary, its being broken by
| others The supreme difficulty in con-
nection with developing the peace work
of The Hague arises from the lack OF
any executive power, of any police
power to enforce the DEGREES of the
court. In any community of any size
the authority of the courts rests upon
actual or potential force; on the exls-
tence of a police, or on the knowledge
that the able bodied men of the coun-
try are both ready and willing to see
that the DEGREES Of judicial and legls-
lative bodies are put into effect. IN
new and wild communities where there
is violence, an honest man must pro-
tect himself; and until other means
Of securing his safety are devised, 1t
is both foolish and wicked to persuade
him to surrender. his arms while the
men who are dangerous to the COM
munitv retain theirs. He should not
srvht To
by his own efforts until the commun-
ity is so organized that it can effec-
lively relieve the individual Of the
duty of putting down violence. So it
is with nations. Each nation must
keep we'll prepared to defend itself
until the establishment of some form
of International police power, compe-
tent and willing to prevent violence
between nations. AS things are now.
such power to command peace
throughout the world could best be
assured by some combination between
those great nations which sincerely
desire peace and have no thought
themselves of committing aggressions.
The combination might at first be
only to secure peace within certain
definite limits and certain definite con-
6itions; but the ruler or statesman
| who should bring about such COM
bination would have earned his place
| in history for all time and his title to
| the gratitude of all mankind.
The address was broken by abunu-
ant applause in which the King join
ed. At it's conclusion the Queen stood
and Joined the audience in giving nine
| short cheers for Roosevelt. The col
onel proposed three cheers for Norway
and led the cheering, but the house
broke away and gave nine. following
| the Norwegian custom.
| The audience then sang the Nor
wegian national anthem and dispersed.
The King and Queen received Mr..
Roosevelt in the reception room out
side the royal box and congratulated
him warmly. On leaving the theatre.
the King with Col, Roosevelt at his
right drove in one carriage to the
palace. while the Queen and Mrs.
Roosevelt occupied another. This was
a holiday in Christiania and the people
| gathered on each side of the broad
| drive to the palace. in such numbers.
that Mr. Roosevelt was moved to re-
| mark that he had not seen Such I'M
mense crowds anywhere else in Europe
on his trip.
The Ex- President today gave Sculp-
| tor Vigland a 45-minutes sitting for d
| statue which his admirers in North
Dakota intend to erect Col. Roosevelt
wrote to Rep. Louis B. Hanna, who
| has the matter i'm hand. that he did not
| believe in putting up statues to living
| men nor until d considerable time after
| they were dead, but. he added, if his
| friends were going to have statue he
| thought it ought to be typical of his
| early days in North Dakota. either as
frontier farmer or Il cowboy. The
| main thing was the right sort of a pic
| ture, whether it was d likeness of him
| or not did not matter.
DR.. Fritjof Bansen, the explorer. paid
a visit to Mr.. Roosevelt today and re-
called that he told Mr. Roosevelt 10
or II days ago that if any American
discovered the North pole he would
pick Peary
The municipality of Christiania to-
night gave dinner in honor of the
| Elk President and Mrs. Roosevelt.