The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-10-10
TEDDY SCORES
PEACE TREATY
Former President Calls 1t a
Compact for towards
Afraid of War.
TAFT COMES TO THE DEFENCE,
SAYS Burden of Armies and
Fleets Is Crushing Life
Out of People.

vi course there are persons windy InuliISTSHI
to the national honor and interest. who in conse-
quence cannot be reached by an appeal to nation
al honor and interest; and there are other per-
whose ingrained personal timidity is such
that they are more afraid of war than of any
dishonor, personal or national.-Theodore Roose-
welt on the peace treaties.
call your attention to the unfortunate conse-
uuences, not only to ourselves but to the whole
civilized world, not only for today but for ages to
come, if the final adoption of this reasoning by
the Senate committee is to prevail. Steadily
throughout the world the burden of the creation
of armies and fleets has grown heavier and heav-
Ter, steadily the competition has grown more fierce
and is crushing the life and the hopes of the
people, President Taft in support ST the peace
treaty.
New York, Oct. 9.-The peace
treaties negotiated by President
Taft would be popular with timid
persons who would arbitrate any
question rather than fight, but not
with men jealous of their country's
honor, according to Theodore Roose-
velt's editorial in the Outlook. The
editorial, which is under the title
1.-THE Peace of Righteousness, " says:
1T is one of our prime duties as a
nation to seek peace. 1t is an even
higher duty to seek Righteousness.
1t is also our duty not to indulge in
shams, not to make believe we are
getting peace by some patent con-
trivance which sensible men ought
to know cannot work in practice,
and which if we sought to make it
work might cause irretrievable
harm. | sincerely believe in the
principle of arbitration: ! believe in
applying that principle so far as
practicable; but | believe that the
effort to apply it where it is not
practicable cannot do good and may
do serious harm. Confused think
ing and willingness to substitute
words for thought, even though in
spired by an entirely amiable senti-
mentality, do not tend toward sound
action.
For Anything Labeled Peace.
Il think that the great majority Of
those persons who advocate any and
every treaty which is called treaty
for peace or for arbitration would
be less often drawn into a position
that tends to humiliate their coun-
try if they would take the trouble
to formulate clearly and definitely
Just what it is that they desire.
"Of course there are persons
wholly Indifferent to the national
honor and interest, who in conse-
quence cannot be reached by an ap-
peal to national honor and interest;
and there are other persons whose
ingrained personal timidity is such
that they are more afraid of war
than of any dishonor. personal or
national.
Doesn't Want to be Bully.
eve, the American people, be-
lieve and ought to believe in right
eousness first, and in peace as the
handmade of Righteousness. We alb
nor brutality and wro ngdoing
whether exhibited by nations or by
individuals. We hold that the same
law of Righteousness should obtain
between nation and nation as be-
tween man and man. |. for one
would rather cut off my hand than
see the United States adopt the at
titude either of cringing before
great and powerful nations who
wish to wrong us or by bullying
small and weak nations who have
done us no wrong.
Not Willing to Submit to Wrone.
THE American people desire to
do justice and to act with frank
generosity toward all the other ma
tions of mankind; but | err greatly
in my judgement of my countrymen
if they are willing to submit to
wrong and injustice. Again and
again in the past they have shown
and rightly shown that when the
choice lay between Righteousness
and peace they chose Righteousness.
Just exactly as they also chose
Righteousness when the choice lay
between Righteousness and war.
Would Break Such Treaty.
Most men of knowledge who are