Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-05-11
How Roosevelt Met
International Trouble

When Roosevelt was president he
won the Nobel peace prize. The
same year he was accorded that hon
or, he was presented with a very rare
book-one of the first editions of the
memoriers of Sully, the great French
prime minister, printed in the seven
Iteenth century.
1t was presented to Roosevelt by
$50 of the most powerful and noted
public men of France, among them
being: Jaures, the leader of French
socialists, and a bitter opponent Of
all war; Poincare, now French presi-
dent; BRAND, now French premier;
Loubet, then president of France;
Fallieres, who succeeded Doubet to
the presidency, and d'Estournelles de
constant, the leading French p%acifist,
outside of the socialist party.
This book was presented to Roose-
welt by this group of Frances most
distinguished sons as a token of
their recognition of the persistent
initiative President Roosevelt has
taken toward gradually substituting
friendly and judicial for violent
methods, in case of conflict between
nations"
There has been little written of
the various international crises that
Iarncn J,,ri,,o tha cnrop ~ n Do0co
welt was president. That has beer
due to the fact that in dealing with
these crises Roosevelt "spcke softly
but carried the big stick" He did
no note writing; he made no appeal
to the galleries; he invoked no jingo
denominations, as did Cleveland in
the handling of the Venezuela affair.
AS Willard Hard, who has reviewed
Roosevelt's foreign policies and his
achievements in the current issue of
the Metropolitan, aptly states it, dip
Ilomacy is not silver tongues but
!, brass knuckles. Roosevelt showed he
possessed the brass knuckles and did
! it without any brawl in +re street.
Six very delicate, very important for
eign difficulties were settled in his
, administration by him-one each with
Great Britain, Germany and Japan,
and three involving the Monroe doc
trine and American prestige in the
/ Central American states. Yet it was
5 all done without cabinet meetings,
, without newspaper notoriety, without
; buster or bunk.
| 1t was all made possible because
f Roosevelt didn't speak until he was
ready to act. In Great Britain's case,
he quietly moved a formidable por-
> ton OF the regular army to Alaska,
! he was ready to defend American ter
3 ritory that Great Britain laid claim to
because of the discovery Of gold-and
/ then told the German ambassary dis
f pute be settled once and for all.
In Germany's case, he moved Dew
ey's feet to the Caribbean sea and
then told the German ambassador
there would be no note writing re-
garding Germany's right to lombard
the Venezuelan coast or land troops at
any Venezuelan port, that that Ger
many's dispute with Venezuela must
be settled by arbitration. 1t was.
In Japan's case, he first muzzled
the fiery Californians; he modified
the United States troops on the Pa
cific coast to quell a~nti-Jananese riots
and defend the treaty rights of Japan
, csc; he appeared in the courts in the
! name of q Japanese child, to uphold
) its rights to go to school. And then
} he sent a battle fleet to Yokohama on
! a friendly mission to impress upon
, Inc Japanese people that he was
} standing up for their rights in the
) United States, not because he was
! afraid of them, but because he wanted
to do the square thing-and as a
) warning that they must not attempt
: to demand more than their rights.
1t is a wonderful recital which Hard
gives of Roosevelt's career as a pa
oihistt, Of how he obtained for the
! United States every diplomatic right
to which it was entitled, without
once raising a war scare or even at
Y tracing newspaper attention. Roose-
> velt is a practical pacificator, not a
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