El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-10-17
By Theodore Roosevelt
IV.-What Can Be Accomplished In Helping
Forward the Cause of World Peace.
The Fourth In Series Of Articles By Mr. Roosevelt on the
Lessons For the American People In Great European Conflict

i've strength Of civilized mankind be
hind the collective purpose OF man
KIND 10 secure the peace OF right
eOusness. the peace OF Justice among
the nations Of the earth
The Future UtOpinn.
II may be, though I sincerely hope TO
ms contrary, that such a scheme is for
the Immediate future UtoDian-it GER
tainly will not be Utopian for the re-
mote future. II IL be impossible In
the immediate future to devise some
WORKING scheme by which force shall
be put behind righteousness in disin-
terested and effective fashion where IN
ternational wrongs are concerned. then
the only alternative will be for each
free people 70 keep itself in shape with
It's own strength TO defend its own
rights ana interests, and meanwhile TO
90 all that can be done to help for
ward the slow growth Of sentiment
which Is assuredly, although very
gradually, telling against international
wrong doing and violence.
Nan, IN recognizedly human shape
has been for ages on this planet and
the extraordinary discoveries in Egypt
and AeEopot2mta now enables Us to see
IN dim fashion the beginning Of historic
times 5000 or 1000 years ago. In the
there was practically no such thing as
an international conscience.
Ne ObHgRtioa to Others.
The armies Of Babylon and Assyria
--a- ~ anu ca So -E-+ AA0 SENSE OF o.
legation TO outsiders and conquered
merely because they wished to conquer.
In Greece a very imperfect recognition
Of international right grew up so far
as Greek communities were concerned,
but II never extended 20 barbarians In
the Roman empire this feeling grew
slightly, II only for the reason that so
many nations were included within its
bounds and were forced TO live peace
ably together.
IN the middle ec-ae tho -o----,,,
tianity OF Europe created a real bond
There was at least q great deal OF talk
about the duties Of Christian nations to
one another: and. although the action
along the lines OF the talk was lamenta-
bly, insufficient, still the talk itself
represented the dawninE recognition OF
the fact that each nation might owe
something 10 other nations and that IT
was not risht TO base action purely en-
Worlds Expansion Idea.
There has undoubtedly Deen q wide
expansion OF this feeling during the
last few centuries. and particularly dur
ing the last century. II now extends
so as TO include not only Christian ma
lions but also those non Christian ma
lions who themselves treat with Justice
and fairness their fellow men OF differ
ent creed We are stin a lamentably
long distance away from the goal to-
ward which we are striving; but we
have taken q few steps toward that
goal A hundred years ago the English
speaking peoples OF Britain and Amer
lea regarded one another as inveterare
and predestined enemies, just as three
centuries previously had been the case
in Great Britain itself between those
who dwelt IN the northern half and
those who dwelt In the southern half
Of the island
Now war IS unthinkable between US.
Moreover. there Is real advance IN
good VIII, respect and understanding
between the United States and all other
nations OF the earth. The advance n
not steady and II is Interrupted al times
by acts OF unwisdom. which are quite
as apt TO be committed by ourselves as
by other peoples, but the advance has
gone on There is far greater senti-
ment than ever before against unwnr-