The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1927-03-04
Elihu Root Calls On American People
To Use Their Vast Powers For Peace

feelings came to be carried over to
the League itself; and II came to
be q common thing that we could
read In the newspapers and hear
in speeches and in conversation en-
pressions of expectation hat the
League would fail, and evident
pleasure when 1t seemed that 1t
might fall. Those feelings were
extended to the Court which was
presently created to cover another
part of the field in the same effort
to bring about permanent peace.
Reprisals began to come from the
other side. Unkind expressions
never can be confined to d side.
Reprisals began to come, disagree
able things were said upon the
other side, and a period of pin
pricks has proceeded for years. 1t
consideration OF the debts between
the foreign nations and ourselves.
Tribute to League and Court
"That is not all. Not only did
We forget the demands of honor
able obligation resting upon old
associations and fellowship and
the expectations raised by III own
representative; but consider the
service that was rendered by the
League and by the Court. For
these years the League in the
political field and the Court in the
judicial field have been rendering
the best service In the cause of
peace known to the history of
oivilization-incomparably the best.
WAR results from a state of
mind. These institutions have
been teaching the people of Europe
TO think In terms of peace rather
than in terms of war. They have
been teaching them by actual prac-
tice, by things done, to think of
oral conference instead of war
about policies; to think OF argu-
ment and proof and judicial 1udg-
ment instead Of war about rights;
teaching them to acquire habits of
thinking and of acting hat way.
Tho question of war or peace for
the next generation is being settled
now, today, by the character and
The habits of thought and feeling,
and the standards of conduct,
the people of the world are
earning today to guide them In
he exigencies of the future.
I'VE, the great pe~ace-loving
what have we done to help
n this wonderful new work? No
no moral support. no ]
brotherhood. Our executive de- :
- &c., Az hn- "
Gould, but governments can do
1t is the people, the power :
# the people behind the govern |
nent, that means everything.
1--WE have allowed ~insensate pre-
camoufaged by futile a
'hrases, to appear. but falsely ap- i
'ear, to represent the true heart ),
f the American people with all =
is idealism, with it's breadth of S
sympathy. with it's strong il
.esire that our country should do Fl
IS share for peace and happiness
nd noble life in all the world.
'hese are the qualities which save
he soul of a nation rather than {
and prosperity. But these L
ualities do not long survive dis 0
sc. The repercussions of our do fl
leHtic strife seem to have prevent I
d the effectiveness Of u noblest ).
IMPULSES. !.
These, my friends, are some Of =
evils visited upon us by a hate l.
and contentious spirit; from y
hitch may the good LORD deliver Il
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The roa1rap e was delfvered NV
If. Root at the recent dinner at :.
le Hotel AHtor. New York, when Z
e received the $4,000 award Of o
lie woodrow Wilson Foundation d
recognition OF his services IN V
elping to establish the World W
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