The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-05-10

forth in full the principles upon which l had
acted, not only in this particular case but
throughout my administration.
/ received another gift which deeply appre
ciated, an original copy of Sully's "Memoires"
of Henry lie Grand" sent me with the follow
ing inscription q translate it roughly:
Paris, January, 1906.
'The undersigned members of the French
Parliamentary Group of International Arbitra-
ton and Cancellation have decided to tender
President Roosevelt token of their high esteem
and their sympathetic recognition of the persist
ent and decisive initiative he has taken toward
gradually substituting friendly and judicial for
violent methods in case of conflict between ma
tons.
'They believe that the action of President
Roosevelt, which has realized the most generous
hopes to be found in history, should be classcd
as continuance of similar illustrious attempts
of former times, notably the project for inter-
national concord known under the name of the
Great Design of Henry w in the memoirs of
his prime minister, the Duke de Suy In con-
sequence they have sought out copy Of the first
edition of these memoirs, and they take pleasure
in offering it to him, with the request that he
will keep it among his family. papers"
A. 1S 7
bet, A Carnot, d'Estournelles de Constant
Aristide Brand Sully Prudhomme Jean Jaures,
hundred others.
Attitude Misunderstood BY Many.
Of course what l had done in connection
by some good and sincere people. Just as, after
the settlement of the coal strike there were per-
sons who thereupon thought that it was in my
power and was my duty, to settle all other
strikes, so after the peace of Portsmouth there
were other fpersons-not only Americans. by
the way-who thought it my duty forthwith to
make myself a kind of international NEEDLE
some Matte and interfere for peace and justice
promiscuously over the world Others, with a
delightful non seqnitm, jumped to the conclu-
sion that, nasmuch as l had helped to bring
about benefcent and necessary peace, l must
of necessity have changed my mind about war
being ever necessary. A couple of days after
peace was concluded l wrote to friend:
Don't be misled by the fact that just at the
moment men are speaking well of me. They
will speak i'll soon enough. As Loeb remarked
to me today, some time soon l shall have to
spank some little international brigand, and
then all the well-meaning idiots will turn and
shrek that this is inconsistent with what l did
at the Peace Conference, whereas in reality it
will be exactly in line with it."
To one of my political opponents, Mr..
Schurz, who wrote me congratulatng me upon
the outcome at Portsmouth, and suggesting
that the time was opportune for move toward
disarmament, l answered in letter setting forth
views which l thought sound then and think
sound now. The letter ran as follows:
Peace in Turkey Worse Than War.
Oyster Bay, New York, September 8, 1905.
"My dear Mr.. Schur5:
Il thank you for your congratulations. AS
tn what Won saw about disarmannent-whicb 7
suppose is the rough equivalent of the gradual
diminution of the oppressive burdens imposed
upon the world by armed peace'-I am not
clear either as to what can be done or what
ought to be done If had been known as one
of the conventional type of peace advocates l
could have done nothing whatever in bringing
about peace now, would be powerless in the
IN ,ccon,oIsh ANYTHING and 7 wouId NOT