Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-06

are precisely similar In kind to WlaT occurs again and again in the case of criminals who have sufficient means to enable them to take advantage of a system of procedure which has grown LID in the federal courts and which amounts in effect to making the law easy of enforcement against the man who has no money and difficult of en- forcement, even to the point of some times securing immunity, as regards the man who has money. At present the interests of the innocent man are amply safeguarded, but the interests of the government-that is, the interests of honest administration; that is, the interests of the peopIe-are not recog- nized as they should be.
 IThe president discusses the progress of the territories of Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico. with, reeommendation for changes in the present system of government of the first named He de sires to see delegate from Alaska in congress.
 FOREIGN POLICY.
 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, but there are kinds of peace which are highly undesirable, which are in, the long run as destructive as any war. The goal to set before us ais 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 safeguarded in it's own rights, but scrupulously recognizes and performs it's duty toward others. Generally peace tells for righteousness, but if there is conflict between the two then our fealty is due first to the cause of righteousness Unrighteous wars are common and unrighteous 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 dis honest or too uninteIligent to exercise it. The eternal vigilance which is the price of liberty must be exercised sometimes to guard against outside foes, although, of course, far more of ten to guard against our own selfish or thoughtless shortcomings.
 1t is our duty to remember that a na- tion has no more right to do injustice to another nation, strong or weak, than an individual has to do injustice to an other individuaI; 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 it's own inter- ests as it is the duty of the individual so to Glo Until some method is devised by which there shall be a degree of in- ternational control over offending na- tions it would be wicked thing for the most civilized powers, for those with most sense of international obli- gations and with keenest and most gen. erous appreciation of the difference be- tween right and wrong, to disarm. If the great civilized nations of the pres ent day should completely disarm, the result would mean ain imtnedfate re crudescence of barbarian in one form or another. Under any circumstances sufficient armament would have to be kept up to serve the purposes of inter national police, and until international cohesion and the sense of international duties and rights are far more ad- vanced than at present nation desir- ous both of securing respect for itself and of doing good to others must have force adequate for the work which it feels is allotted to it as it's part of the general world duty. Therefore it fol- lows that a self respecting, just and farseeing nation should on the one hand endeavor by every means to aid in the development of the various movements which tend to provide sub- stitutes for war, which tend to render nations in their actions toward one an other and indeed toward their own peoples more responsive to the general sentiment of humane and civilized mankind, and, on the other hand, that it should keep prepared, while scrupu- lously avoiding wrongdofng itself, to repel any wrong and in exceptional cases to take action which in a more advanced stage of international rela- tions would come under the head of the exercise of the international police
 ARBITRATION TREATIES.
 We are in every way endeavoring to help on, with cordial good will, every movement which will tend to bring us into more friendly relations with the rest of mankind. Tn pursuance of this policy I shall. shortly lay before the sen- ate treaties of arbitration with all pow CTS which are willing to enter into these treaties with us. It is not possible at this period of the worlds development to agree to arbitrate all matters, but there are many matters of possible difference between us and other na- tions which can be thus arbitrated. Furthermore, at the request of the in terparIiamentary union, an eminent body composed of practical statesmen from all countries, have asked the powers to join with this government in a second Hague conference, at which