The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-05-04
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sista11t secretary OF state, as presented
to the peace congress today.

sistaI1t secretary OF state, as presented
to the peace congress today.
| To-day international commerce is
everywhere an important department
/ OF diplomacy" said Mr.. Wilson. "Ir
so tar as our diplomacy is commercially
" successful, we are proud OF the
fact. We are not above being pFac-
tical end commercial.
The presidents aspiration 60 the
ideal of world peace was signaliZed in
thu public utterance on Dec. IS, of his
hope that the two great English
| speaking peoples might set new and
higher standard of International self
control by a broader treaty of arbi-
| tfation. AS you know, this task is
now the subject Of pouTparlers between
| the American and British government,
and it Is not improbable that dtplo-
macy may gradually solve the extreme
ly difficult problem of finding practice
able bases of negotiation
"The every day work of peace
| through a benevolent and candid Dip
lomaey, as we'll as the definite working
out of the occasional marked advances
in international morality, must fall up4
on governments and upon departments
OF government experts in the facts of
International relations.
Every reasonable man is for peace,
| just as every man would prefer to go
to heayen; but to secure the one or
| the other requires something more
| than aspiration. The millennium will
not come for the wishing. international
peace must depend upon international
self-control and sense of Justice, ana;
| the spirit Of a nation being but that
OF q collection Of individuals, one
comes straight back to the school
house. the factory, the farm and the
newspaper. There must be self-con-
| troll and patriotic and enlightened
citizenship il there are to be peace
| loving, strong nations and governments
able to remain at peace.
'It is almost to state q syllogisrn to
say that next to national character
| the greatest factor toward peace is
true international understanding, and
that, after diplomacy, the newspapers
play the most important part in
| bringing about or retarding such true
understanding. In the case Of the
| United States, the true understand
| ing of the American people and OF
the true ideals and policies of their
government Is horribly hampered by
the fact that in the far east, for ex-
ample. and still more in Latin Ameri-
ca, almost everything bad and MOTH
| ing good of us is reported in some
section of the newspapers of most
countries.
thinking of Mr.. carnegie's munifi-
cent gift Il occurs Is me that the es-
tablishfnent and subsidy OF four or
five newspapers in Latin America and
the far east with means 10 give ade-
duate and respectable geographic
news service would be a splendid and
proper meand to that international
true understanding which must be at
the basis OF peace 3a
I'm these days when we honor the
soul and the mind more than the
body and when the world is regulated
ny moral and intellectual rather than
physical forces. is It not still. more
strikingIy important sto speak only or
the cause of peace) that the minds Of
the people should be fad and not pois-
oned in reference to Internattona. af-
fairs?
When one newspaper promulgates
an interesting story of impending
war one can hardly blame its moe
conservative contemporary for giving
the story for what 1t may be worth.
The harm is done by those very few
newspapers" che newspapers print
ing stories for purely commercial pur-
poses as a penny dreadful" for the
debauchery OF the seeker after sensa-
tions should be suppressed like the
puryeyor Of injurious drugs. said Mr..
Wilson.
ITO Unfortunately embarrass the
diplomacy Of the country through
frivolous Misrepresentation or m lIc-
:ous attack is not to assail any ad-
ministrat;on bat Ia 20 attach the
COT ntly Itself among the nations OF
the world---sonlethfng for which
there Is an ugly name. and as to
which there should be something be-
yond the sfesent statute. ] am happy
to say that have in mind isolated
instances only and that I believe the
American press. as whole, Is al
ready beginning TO respond TO its pa
triotic and moral obligations So ir-.
creased since the United States an
tered on its destined position as q
great world power.
@Thc subjects Of peace and OF ar
rnaments are usually associated
scszessmes In the sense that disarma-
ment Is the object Of peace; some
times even as II disarmament were q
means OF peace, Former President
Roosevelt recentlx pointed out that to
be prepared for war no more meant
an unpeaceable disposition than to
carry FIRE insurance meant a special
expectation OF fire: that both meant
merely a common sense safeguard
against an off-chance, the ofE-ehance
being always that it takes two TO
insure peace as well as to preeipitats
war.