Evening star., 1911-05-31
RAPS TAFT'S IDEAL
Roosevelt for Peace Only as
Handmaiden of Justice.
SPEECH TO WAR VETERANS
Says Arbitration Is All Right Under
Favorable Conditions.
WOULD UPHOLD SELF-RESPECr
Country Should Enter Into No
Agreement Which Is Likely
to Be Broken.
SPEECH TO WAR VETERANS
WOULD UPHOLD sELF-RESPECr

NEW YORK. May 3I.-Theodore Roose-
welt stood beside Gen. Daniel w. Sickles.
the only surviving division commander OF
the civil war. at Grants tomb yesterday
afternoon and aroused Memorial day
throng to long applause by a denuncia-
ton OF false apostles of peace" He
voiced his faith in peace only as the hand
maiden OF justice and, with vigorous ges-
lures. he stirred the gathering to tumultu-
Gus cheers with the declaration that un-
righteous peace was a greater evil than
war.
i believe in national and international
peace" he said. ''but I stand for il only
as the handmaiden of justice. Do not be
misled by the appeals OF men who want
peace. You men recall that i'm the days
of 1861 there were cries for peace but
there was no peace. There was a man
who said that war was the greatest of all
evils. but l believe that unrighteous peace
is greater evil. You are not to be led
py the false apostles of peace. you who
defied the lie told in 1861, when that lie
was told In the name of peace
Not to Be Tolerated.
Il stand for social and Industrial peace
when it is right, but not when men riot
and use dynamite Those men who pur-
sue riotous methods and use dynamite in
their efforts to win their Industrial strug-
giles are not to be tolerated and they
should be made to obey the law.
II want peace with every nation, and
do not see any reason of any sort why
We should not have 1t for an indefinite
period. as long as other nations behave
themselves and act in such a manner as
not to rob us of our self-respect. I don't
want to ask stronger nations to be good
to us because j fear being hurt by them.
but l do ask that big nations be good to
us for fear we may hurt them.
II want to have the navy kept up. A
powerful navy Is no provocative for war.
but 1t is a provocative for peace. All ma
tions will keep peace with us il We keep
up a first-class navy and men who know
how to handle the ships.
You MAY think because / talk thus /
talk against the interest of peace. That
Is not So | am talking profoundly in
the interest of peace / believe that
every honorable method should be used
to avoid war, but / will do nothing dis
honorable to avert it, nor will I enter
into any agreement that the people Of
the country would repudiate. should
cause arise for participating in war.
Might Not Be Kept.
$50 far as my voice has weight l will
protest against this countrys making an
dsIccIucuI W dTDilIdl lHiIls VI Oily
kind which the country would not stand
for when a test, came. For instance. this
country would not stand for arbitration
over the Monroe doctrine.
Il do not believe that this country
should enter into any agreement unless
1t is prepared to keep IL in good faith.
Beware Of any other course. l don't be-
lieve In lying. whether IL be national or
International. / believe absolutely with
out reserve that we should not enter into
any arbitration agreement unless We are
prepared to make good.
Arbitration is all right under fayora-
BILE conditions II | had trouble with one
of you men we could readily settle il by
appointing an outside party to arbitSate.
because we know that man won't slap
either of our faces. II he does we won't
arbitrate. 1t is just the same with inter
national arbitration
Lauds Southern Soldier.
Col. Roosevelt said that second only
to that esteem in which / hold you who
wore the blue do I hold those who wore
the gray and added:
Il am not disloyal in telling of my great
admiration for the men of the south
am half q southerner from Georgia. and
am proud Of their devotion to right and
their valor toward what they thought
was right. The victory was important to
the north, but 1t was far more important
to the south. 1t kept us all one without
splitting us into half a dozen jangling
confederacies. ready to get at one an
others throats.'
..L.ongstreet said the same" interrupted
Gen Daniel +. Sickles, who sat at the
speakers right.
That's true general" laughed the COLI
onel land ! want to tell You right here
that I appointed the Confederate gen.
erals wife to Office at the request of Gen.
Sickles.'