The Carlisle independent., 1910-05-12
ROOSEVELT SPEAKS BEFORE
 NOBEL PRIZE COMMITTEE
Lecture on International Peace" Is Delivered in Christiania---W Ways in Which the Cause May Be Advanced Are
 Set Forth.

was the fitting topic selected by Col. Theodore Roosevelt for his lecture be- fore the Nobel prize committee, which was delivered here Thursday large and distinguished audience listened to the man to whom was awarded the Nobel peace prize for bringing about peace between Japan and Russia MT. | Roosevelt said:
 Need of Industrial Peace.
 It is with peculiar pleasure that I stand here today to express the deep appreciation I feel of the high honor conferred upon me by the presenta- tion of the Nobel peace prize. The gold medal which formed part of the prize shall always keep, and I shall l hand it on to my children as precious | heirloom. The sum of money provided as part of the prize by the wise gen. erosity of the illustrious founder of | this world-famous prize system, 1 did not, under the peculiar circumstances of the case, feel at liberty to keep think it eminently just and proper that in most cases the recipient of the prize should keep for his own use the prize in it's entirety. But iii this case, while I did not act officially as president of the United States, it was nevertheless only because I was pres i ident that I was enabled to act at all; | and 1 felt that the money must be considered as having been given me in trust for the United States. there | fore used it as nucleus for a founda- l to I0 0f trial peace, as being well within the general purpose of your committee; for in our complex industrial civiliza- | tion of today the peace of righteous ness and justice, the only kind of peace worth having, Is at least as necessary in the industrial 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 unhealthy militarism in interna- tional relationships.
 When Peace May Be Evil.
 We must ever bear in mind that the | | justice as between man and man, na- tion and nation, the chance to lead our lives on a somewhat higher level, | with broader spirit of brotherly good
 will one for another. Peace is gen. orally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as l the handmaid of righteousness; and it l becomes very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and sloth. or as an instrument to further 1 the ends of despotism or anarchy l We despise and abhor the bully, the l brawier, the oppressor, whether in private or public life; but we despise | no less the coward and the voluptu- | ary. No man is worth calling man who will not fgnt rather than submit l to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong. No nation de- serves to exist if 1t permits itself to | lose the stem and virile virtues; and I this without regard to whether the 1 loss is due to the growth of heart l less and all-absorbing commercialism, I to prolonged indulgence in luxury and I soft effortless ease, or to the deifica- l tion of warped and twisted senti- l mentality
 1 Moreover. and above all, let us re- member that words count only when 1 they give expression to deeds or are to be translated into them. The lead | CTS of the Red Terror prattled of l peace while they steeped their hands | in the blood of the innocent; and 1 many a tyrant has called it peace l when he has scourged honest protest 1 into silence. Our words must be l judged by our deeds; and in striving 1 for lofty ideal we must use prac- l :ical methods: and If we cannot at l tain all at one leap we must advance towards 1t step by step, reasonably 1 content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right di- | rection.
 | Now, having freely admitted the l limitations to our work and the qual- | ifications to be borne in mind, I feel l that 1 have the right to have my words taken seriously. when I point out where. in my judgment, great ad- vance can be made in the cause of in- teiHdtioildl peace. Spedh as d prac- ! tical man. and whatever I now advo- l cate actually tried to do when I was 1 for the time being the head of a great 1 nation, and keenly jealous of it's hon. or and interest. l ask other nations to do only what should be glad to see my own nation do.
 Treaties of Arbitration.
 The advance can be made along 1 several lines. First of all there can 1 be treaties of arbitration There are, 1 of course, states so backward that a civilized community ought not to en- ter into an arbitration treaty with them. at least until we have gone ] much farther than at present in se- 1 curing some kind of International po- lice action. But all really civilized l communities should have effective ar | bitration treaties among themselves. ] believe that these treaties can cover 1 almost all questions liable to arise be-