Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-12-06

: 10 set DetOfe US as nation, the goa
o which should be set before all mankind
Y is the attainment of the peace of ius
! tice, of the peace which comes whel
q each nation is not merely safe-guardet
+ in its own rights, but scrupulously rec
+ ognizes and performs its duty towart
I others. Generally peace tells for right
= eousness, but if there is conflict be
{ tween the two, then our fealty is due
| first to the cause of righteousness. Un
, righteous wars are common, and nm
righteous peace is rare, but both should
be summed. The right of freedom and
, the responsibility for the exercise of
that right cannot be divorced. One of
our great poets has we'll and finely said
that freedom is not a gift that tarries
long in the hands of towards. Neither
does it tarry long in the hands of those
too slothful, too. dishonest or too uuin-
telligent to exercise it. The eternal
vigilance which is the price of liberty
must be exercised, sometimes to puard
against outside foes, although, of course.
far more often to guard against our
own selfish or thoughtless shortcom.
ings.
If these self-evident truths are kent
before us, and only if they are so kent
before us, we shall have a clear idea
OF what our foreign policy in its larger
aspects should be. 1t is our duty TO
remember that nation has no more
rlght to do injustice to another nation.
strong or weak, than an individual has
10 DO injustice to another individual.
that the same moral law applies in one
case as in the other. But we must also
remember that it is as much the duty
or the nation to guard against its own
rights and its own interests as it is
the duty of the individual so to do.
Within the nation the individual has
now delegated this right to the state
that is, to the representative of all the
individuals, and it is a maxim of the
law that for every wrong there is
remedy. But in international law we
have not advanced by any means as far
as we have advanced in municipal law |
,rhere IS yet no judicial way of enforc- |
ing right in international law. When |
one nation wrongs another OF wrongs
many others, there is no tribunal before
which the wrong-doer can be brought.
Either 1T is necessary supinely to ac.
quiesce in the wrong and thus put
premium upon brutality and aggression,
or else 1T is necessary for the aggrieved
nation valiantly to stand up for it's
rights Until some method is devised
by which there shall be degree of in
ternational control over offending ma
'lons, 1t would be wicked thing for
me most civilized powers, for those
With most sense of international obli-
cations and with keenest and most gen.
'rous appreciation of the difference he.
ween right and wrong, to disarm. Ifl'
he great civilized nations of the nres-
mt day should completely disarm. the {
esult would mean an Immediate recru- 8
lescenee of barbarism in one form or i
mother. Under any circumstances n | {
ufhcient armament would have to he | I
.ept up to serve the purposes of interna- Ii
ional police; and until international CO. /
eslon and the sense of international du- n
les ana rights are far more advanced o
nan at present, a nation desirous both v
securing respect for itself and of do i
ng good to others must have a force | r
dequate for the work which il feels d
allotted to 1t as its part of the gen. "
raj world duty. Therefore it follows N
hat selfrespecting, just and far v
eeing nation should on the one hand ii
ndeaVor by every means to aid in the b
eveiopment of the various movements ei
'hieh tend to provide substitutes for o.
ar, which tend to render nations in Of
heir actions toward one another. and In,
ldeed toward their own peoples, more e,
'sponsive to the general sentiment of al
and civilized mankind, and on h;
le other hand that it should keen pre- lw
lred, while scrupulously avoiding ei
itself, to repel any wrong r
ld IN exceptional eases to take action
men In more advanced stage of in cr
relations would come under tb
le head OF the exercise of the inter M
'tlonal police. A great free people in
YES 10 to itself and to all mankind not ze
sink into helplessness before the ra
'wers of evil. W.
Arbitration Treaties. va
We are in every way endeavoring to ri
Up on, with cordial good will, every re
ovement which will tend TO bring us r,
TO more friendly relations with the on
Sc OF mankind. In pursuance of this bu
'iiey | shall shortly lay before the r,
nate treaties of arbitration with all 90
wers which are willing to enter into Al
ese treaties with us. 1t is not possi- ii,
at this period of the world s devel. ca
ment 10 agree to arbitrate all mat di
RS, but there are many matters Of Al
ssihle difference between us and 9TH alb
nations which can be thus arbitrated. ha
lrhermore, at the request of the In ha
parliamentary union, an eminent a
dy composed of practical statesmen TO
lm all countries, have asked the wi
wers TO join with this government in ac
second Hague conference, at which il or,
hoped that the work already so hap les
y begun at The Hague may be car zel
d some steps further toward compile tn,
m. This carries out the desire ex- see
essed by the first Hague conference Wi
elf. So,
licy Toward Other Nations of West.
ern Hemisphere.
i is not true that the United States eni
Us any land hunger or entertains any int
'Jects as regards the other nations the
the Western Hemisphere save such rec
are for their welfare All that this wo
intry desires is TO see the neighbor- lTh,