The Washington times., 1937-10-05
Text of Presidents Address in Chicago

lief in the pledged word, in the
value of a signed treaty. There
must be recognition of the fact
that national morality is as vital
as private morality. A bishop
wrote me the other day:
1T seems to me that some
thing greatly needs to be said in
behalf of ordinary humanity
against the present practice of
carrying the horrors of war to
helpless civilians, especially
women and children. 1t may be
that such protest might be re-
garded by many, who claim to
be realists, as futile, but may
it not be that the heart of man
kind is so filled with horror at
the present needless suffering
that that force could be mobil-
lied in sufficient volume to les
sen such cruelty in the days
ahead? Even though it may
take 20 years, which, God forbid,
for civilization to make effec-
tive its corporate protest against
this barbarism, surely strong
voices may hasten the day"
There is a solidarity and in
Independence about the mod
ern world, both technically and
morally, which makes it impos-
sible for any nation completely
to isolate itself from economic
and political upheavals in the
rest of the world, especially
when such upheavalS appear to
be spreading and not declining.
ONLY WAY TO PEACE
There can be no stability or
peace either within nations or
between nations except under
laws and moral standards ad.
hered to by all. International
anarchy destroys every founda-
ton for peace. 1t jeopardizes
either the immediate or the fu-
ture security of every nation,
large or small. It is, therefore,
matter Of vital interest and
concern to the people of the
United States that the sanctity
of international treaties and the
maintenance of international
morality be restored.
The overwhelming majority
of the peoples and nations of
the world today want to live in
peace. They seek the removal
of barriers against trade. They
want to exert themselves in in.
duStry, in agriculture and in
business, that they may in.
crease their wealth through the
production of wealth-producing
goods rather than striving to
produce military planes and
bombs and machine guns and
cannon for the destruction of
human lives and useful prop
erty.
In those nations of the world
which seem to be piling arma-
ment on armament for purposes
of aggression against them and
their security, a very high pro-
portion of their national income
is being spent directly for arma-
ments. 1t runs from 80 to as
high as so per cent.
SPEND FAR LESS
The proportion that we in the
United States spend is far less
II or IL per cent.
How happy we are that the
circumstances of the moment
permit us to put our money into
bridges and boulevards, dams
and reforestation, the conserva-
ton of our soil and many other
kinds of useful works rather
than into huge standing armies
and vast supplies of implements
of war.
I am compelled and you are
compelled, nevertheless, to look
ahead. The peace, the freedom
and the security of 80 per cent
of the population of the world
is being jeopardized by the re-
naming 10 per cent who are
threatening a breakdown Of all
international order and law.
Surely the 80 per cent who want
to live in peace under law and
in accordance with moral stand
ards that have received almost
universal acceptance through
the centuries, can and must
find some way to make their
will prevail.
The situation is definitely Of
universal concern. The ques-
lions involved relate not merely