The Forrest City times., 1904-12-09
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 i Ihere should be q comprehensive reyi- sioh of tie naturalization laws. The courts uaNlnE power 10 naturatize sEould he dehnltely named by national authority: the testimony upon which naturalization may i DC conferred should be definitely prescribed. publication Of impending naturalization appueations should be required in advance or thelr hearing in court: the form and "otulhg or all certificates issued should be uniform throughout the country. and the courts should be required to make returns 1 ~, 'HT secretary Of state at stated periods oA ait haturauzations conferred.
 Our Foreign Policy.k
 Tn treating of our foreign policy and of 'he attitude that this great nation should assume In the world at large, 1t is ab- soiuteiy necessary 10 consider the army anu the navy. and tine congress through "hlch the thought of the nation finds it's expression. should keep ever vividly in Hhlhd the fundamental fact that 1t Is inn possible to treat our foreign policy, whether th!s policy takes shape in the mort 10 secure justice for others or justice for ourselves save as conditioned upon the attitude We are willing to take toward our army. and especially toward our navy It Is not merely unwise. 1t Is cohtemptible. for d nation, as for an ln- uifidudl. to use high-Sounding language 10 proclaim Its purposes or to take posi- tons which are ridiculous if unsupported by potential force. and then to refuse 10 provide this force. Ii there Is no inten- ton of providing and of keeping the force necessary to back up strong at titude, then it Is far better not to assume such an attitude
 The steady aim of this nation. as of all enlightened nations. should be to strive to bring ever nearer the day when there shall prevail throughout the world the peace of justice
 The Monroe Doctrine.
 "In asserting the Monroe Doctrine. in talk ing such steps as we have taken in regard to Cuba. Venezuela and Panama. and in en- deaNorlng to circumscribe the theater or war in the far east and to secure the open door in China. we have acted in our own interest as well as in the interest of human ity at large. There are, however cases in which, while our own interests are not greatly involved, strong appeal is made to our sympathies. Ordinarily 1t is very much wiser and more useful for us to concern ourselves with striving for our own moral and material betterment here a home than to concern ourselves with trying to better the condition of things In other nations. We have plenty of sins of our own to war against. and under ordinary circumstances We can do more for the general uplifting of humanity by striving with heart and soul to put stop to civic corruption, to brutal lawiessness and violent race prejudiees here at home than by passing resolutions about wrongdoing elsewhere. Neyerthe- less there are occasional crimes committed on so vast d scale and of such peculiar hor- TOT as to make us doubt whether it is not our manifest duty 10 endeaVor at least to show our disapproval of the deed and our sympathy with those who have suffered by IL He he n Nhip h such Il course is tustihabie. There must be no effort made to remove the mote from our brother eye if we refuse to remove the beam from our own. But in extreme cases action may be justifable and proper. What form the action shall take must de- pend upon the circumstances of the ease. that Is, upon the degree of the atroeity and upon our power 10 remedy it. The cases In Which we could interfere by force of arms as We iHterfered to put stop to in- tolerable conditions in Cuba are neces- sari.y very few. Yet Il is not to be expected that a people like ours which in spite of certain very obvious shortcomings. never theless as a whole shows by it's consistent practice It's belief in the principles of civil and religious liberty and of orderly free dom, people among whom even the worst crime. like the crime of lynching is never more than sporadic. so that individuals and not classes are molested in their funda- mental rights-it is inevitable that such a nation should desire eagerly to give expres- sion to It's horror on an occasion like that of the massacre of the Jews in Kishineff or when it witnesses such systematic and long extended cruelty and oppression as the cruelty and oppression of which the Armenians have been the victims, and which have won for them the indignant pity of the civilized world
 The Philippines.
 
 Tn the Philippine islands there has been during the past year a continuation of the steady progress which has obtained ever since our troops definitely got the