The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-05-05
ROOSEVELT DELIVERS AN
ADDRESS ON ''PEACE"

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dcre Roosevelt delivered his address
cn international Peace" before tle
Nobel Prize Committee today.
The former president of the United
States entered upon the most diff
cult field of European politics and ad
vocated an International agreement
that would cieck the growth OF arm
amen:s. especially naval, anG the for
ration by chose great powers honest
IL hent on peace, of a League CT
Peace" not only to keep peace among
themselves bur to prevent by force,
if Necessary, its being broken by
Others.
What Mr.. Roosevelt lad TO say be-
fore the king and queen of Norway
and other representative persons con-
stitnted the basis of the private con
versatiOns he has had with statesmen
of Europe concerning the practical
possibility of collective action by the
meat of universal peace.
His address. wAica was received
with expressions of approval. was as
follows:
International Peace-An Address
BY Theodore Roosevelt.
II is with peculiar pleasure that
stand here today to express the deep
appreciation | feel of the high honor
conferred upon me by the presenta-
zion of the Nobel Peace Prize. Tho
gold medal which formed part of the
prize | shall always keep, and | shall
hand it on to my children as a prec
iouS heirloom. The sum of money pro
Iided as part of the prize by the wise
generosity of the ilmstrious founder
Of tnis world-famous prize system, /
did not. under the peculiar circum-
stances of the case, feel at liberty to j
keep. | think it eminently just and
proper that in most cases the recip-
lent of the prize should keep for his
own use the prize in its entirety. But
in this case. while ! did not act offic
tally as President of the United
States, il was nevertheless Only be
cause | was President that | was en-
abled to act at all: and felt that the
money must be considered as having
been given to me in trust for the
United states. I therefore used it as
a 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,
plex Industrial civi!iSation of today
the peace of righteousness and JUS
;ice. the only kind of peace worth
having, is at least as necessary In
the Industrial world as it is among
nations. There as at least as much
need to curb the cruel greed and ar
rogance of part of the world of CAPT
oil fo hn arA nj
nee of part of the world of labor, ms
20 check a cruel and unhealthy mill
tarisn in international relationships.
We must ever bear in mind that the
great end in view is righteousness,
justice as bet cen man and man,
nation and nation, the chance to lead
our lives on a somewhat higher lev
ii, with a broader spirit of brotherly
good will for one another. Peace is
generally good in itself. but it is new
er the highest good unless il comes
as the handmade of righteousness;
and il becomes a very evil thing II
II serves merely as a mask for cow
ardice and sloth, or as an instrument
TO further the ends of despotisn or
anarchy. We despise and abhor the
bully, the brawler, the oppressor.
whether in private or public life; but
we despise no less the coward and
the voluptuary. No man Is worth call
ing a man who will not fight rather
@nan submit to infamy or see those
that are dear to him suffer wrong.
No nation deserves to exist If II per
nits itself to lose the stern and virile
virtues; and this without regard to-
whether the loss is due to the growth
of a hcartless and allabsorbing com
mercialism. to prolonged indulgence
IN luxury and soft effortless ease, or
TO the deifcation of a warped and
twisted seatsmentality.
Moreover, and above all, let us re
member that words count only when
tney give expression to deeds or are