The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-06

strangers, the game slaughtered and
driven away, the streams depicted of
fish, and hitherto unknown and fatal
! diseases brought to them, all of which
combine to produce state of abject
poverty and want which must result
in their extinction. Action in their in
terest is demanded by every considera-
ton of justice and humanity.
The needs of these people are:
The abolition of the present fee SyS-
tenn, whereby the native is degraded,
imposed upon, and taught the injus-
tice of law.
The establishment of hospitals at
central points, so that contagious dis
| eases that are brought to them con-
tinually by incoming whites may be
localized and not allowed to become
epidemic, to spread death and destitu-
| ton over great areas.
The development of the educational
system in the form of practical train
ing in such Industries will assure
the Indians self-sup9ort under the
changed conditions in which they will
have to live.
The duties of the office of the COVER
nor should be extended to include the
supervision of Indian affairs. with
necessary assistants in different dis
| tricts. He should be provided with the
means and the power to protect and
advise the native people, to furnish
medical treatment in time of epidem-
les, and to extend material relief in
periods of famine and extreme deSti-
tuition.
Hawaii and Porto Rico.
The Alaskan natives should be given
the right to acquire, hold, and dispose
or property upon the same conditions
as given other inhabitants; and the
privilege of citizenship should be given
to such as may be able to meet GER
tain definite requirements. In Hawaii
congress should give the governor
power to remove all the officials APP
pointed under him. The harbor of
he
marine hospital service should be en-
powered to study leprosy in the ISL
ands. 1 ask special consideration for
the report and recommendations of
the governor of Porto Rico.
Foreign Policy.
In treating of our foreign policy and
of the attitude that this great nation
should assume in the world at large, it
is absolutely necessary to consider the
army and navy, and the congress,
through which the thought of the ma
ton finds it's expression, should keep
ever WILDLY in mind the fundamental
TACT that 1t is impossible to treat our
foreign policy, whether this policy takes
shape in the effort to 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 1t is not merely unwise, it is
contemplate. for a nation, as for an
individual, to use high-sounding lang
take positions which are ridiculous if
unsupported by potential force, and
then to refuse to provide this force. If
there is no intention of providing and
of keeping the force necessary to back
up strong attitude, then it is far bet
ter 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. There are
kinds of peace which are highly unde-
sirable, which are in the long run as
destructive as any war. Tyrants and
OppreSSorS have many times made a
wilderness and called it peace. Many
times peoples who were slothful or
timid or shortsighted, who had been
ensrvated by ease. or by luxury, or mis-
led by false teachings, have shrunk in
unmanly fashion from doing duty that
was stern and that needed self-sacrifice,
and have sought to hide from their
own minds their shortcomings, their
ignobfe motives, by calling them love
of peace. The peace of tyrannous ter
TOR, the peace of craven weakness, the
peace of injustice, all these should be
Stunned as we shun unrighteous war.
The goal to set before US as a nation,
the goal which should be set before all
mankind, is the attainment of the
peace of justice, of the peace which
comes when each nation is not merely
safe-guarded in its own rights but
scrupulously recognizes and performs
its duty toward others. Generally peace
tells for righteousness; but if there is
conflict between the two, then our feal-
ty is due first to the cause of righteous
ness. UnrighteouS wars are common,
and unrighteOus peace is rare; but both
should be Stunned. The right of free
dom and the responsibility for the exer-
else of that right can not be divorced.
One of our great poets has well and
finely said that freedom is not a gift
that tarries long in the hands of cow
ards. Neither does it tarry long in the
hands of those too slothful, too dis
honest, or too uuintelligent to exercise
it. The eternal vigilance which is the
price of liberty must be exercised, some
though of course far more often to
guard against our own selfish or
thoughtless shortcomings.
If these self-evident truths are kept
before US, and only If they are so kept
before us, we shall have a clear idea of
what our foreign policy in it's larger
aspects should be. 1t is our duty to re-
member. that a nation has no more
right to do injustice to another nation,
strong or weak, than an individual has
to 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
of the nation to guard it's own rights
and its own interests as it is the duty
of the individual so to do. Within the
nation the individual has now delega-
leu lIIS IiSIll 10 the Sldle, THAT Is, "
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 advance
ed by any means as far as we have adj
vanced in municipal law. There is as
yet no judicial way of enforcing a right
in international law. When one nation
wrongs another or wrongs many others,
there is no tribunal before which the
wrongdoers can be brought Either it is
necessary supinely to acquiesce in the
wrong, and thus put a premium upon
brutality and aggression, or else it is
necessary for the aggrieved nation
valiantlX TO stand I'D for its rights. In