The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-06-22
WAR WILL SETTLE
Foreign POLICIES
President Of Columbia University
Speaks Strongly In
..s New York
tRy The Associated Pressl

LONG BEACH, New York, June 10
Characterizing the National Conference
on Foreign Relations of the United
States, at which he made the opening
address here, as the beginning
Of an educational campaign in America
to develop the international mind,
Nicholas Murray Butler, president of
Columbia University, declared the world
war is now being fought to decide if
that doctrine should prevail.
Resort must 5e had to armed
force" he said, in order to determine
whether the International mind, shared
by a score or more of independent and
self respecting nations, shall prevail, or
whether the arms Of a non moral, all
powerful military imperialism shall be
stretched out over the whole round
world for its government and its pro,
lection. " ~
President Butler asserted the people
Of the United States would find it un,
necessary for some time to come to con
.ccrn themselves with foreign relations
and foreign policy if the war was won
by imperialism.
"These matters would be taken
care of for them he said, "by a
power that had shown itself strong
enough TO overcome and to suppress
the internationally minded men and
nations. On the other hand, if, as we
confidently hope and believe, the is
sue of this war is TO be favorable to
the free, self governing democracies of
the world, then the people of the
United States must address themselves
with redoubled energy and with closest
attention to those matters of legisla-
ton, of administration, and of general
public policy which constitute and de.
termine national conduct. The first
task of this conference and of every
similar conference that may be held
hereafter, is to drive this lesson home !"
Asserting the international mind re-
quires that ga nation aud its govern
ment shall freely and gladly grant to
every other nation and to every other
government the rights and the privil.
sges which it claims for ITSELF" Presi.
dent Butler added:
"From this it follows that the inter.
CODsOnhOI WIN
any theory Of the State which regards
the State as superior to the rules and
restrictions of moral conduct or which
admits the view that to some one State
is committed the hegemony of the
world 3 affairs for the worlds good.
When that doctrine prevails and takes
hold of the conviction and the imagina.
ton of great people, an issue is pre-
scented that cannot be settled by vote
in conference, that cannot be arbitrat-
ed by the wisest statesman, and that
cannot be determined by the findings
of any court. The authority and the
value of each of these modes of pro-
eedure is challenged by the very issue
itself"
President Butler declared the diff
culties confronting the country "are
not alone difficulties arising from pres
ent lack of popular interest in inter.
national politics, but they are also
those which arise from the structure
and the operation of our own form of
constitutional government
awe are assembled them he con.
eluded, "to help to begin a movement
which must not cease until the entire
American people are interested in their
international relationship, their inter
national position and their information.
al influence.