Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-12-07

in which they will have 10 h i've eo'oi''ohs
sb, ,t duties of the office Of the governor
y tsj"n % D| extended 20 include the super
ASSISTANTS in different districts IL.
, ,hn lid D" provided with the means and
tive nc"nIe 10 ., p[otsct and advise me M
III Tune OF epidcmics. and to extend M u.
terlal relief in periods Of famine and ..~
IRENE restitution. Jaw 'N
Hawaii and Porto Rico.
th., ne ne, ~ thiaSAan natives should hr given
properly upon the same conditions ne civ,
e u; otlei ihnacltants; and the privilege OF
Nv ~, IN, should be given to >ucn az
."IN pe ao'c TO me certain definite re
nilifcmcnts In hawaii Congress shoula
give me governor power 10 remove ali
me onlcl.is appointed under him. The
The Marine Hospital Service should no
empowered to study Ieprosy in the is
lands | ask special consideration for the
ernor OF Porto Rico.
Foreign Policy.
In treating Of our foreign policy and of
the attitude that this great alton
Is absolutely necessary to consider the
Army and the Navy. and the Congress
through which the thought of the Nation
wildly in mnd the funda mental fact tina
| 1t is Impossible to treat our foreign
policy, whether this policy takes shape in
the rnort 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
contemplate. for nation as for an ind
| vidual to use high-sounding language to
| proclaim its purposes or to take positions
which are ridiculous if unsupported by
| potential force. and then to refuse to
provide this force. If there is no inten-
ton of providing and of keel,ing the
tnrce necessary TO back up strong at
uluue, then IL is far better not to aSsum;-
| such an attitude
The steady aim Of this Nation. AS of all
enhghtened 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 undesirable which
are III the long run as destructive as any
times, made a wilderness and called i,
peace Many times peoples who wnr.
sl"; htul or tmid or shortsighted. VIII
had teen e.nervated by ease or by luxury
or misled by false teachings. have shrun,
in unmanly fashion from doing duty ira,
was stern and that needed self-sacritic.
and have sough, to hide from their ow
minds their shortcomings. their ignobl.
motives, by calling them love of peace.
The p.ace Of tyrannous terror: the t,e.!c'
! justice, Ill these should be Stunned a
We shun unrightcous war The goai
| to set before us as nation. the goa
which should be set before all mankind
of tho peace which comes when each M,
ton is not merely safe guarded in it,
and performs its duty toward others
| Generally peace tells for righteouSic-'
hut if there is conflict between the two
then our fcal,y is due first to the causs u.
| right. business. | arightcollS wars ~
| common, and unright.ous peace is III,
| nut roth should be summed The rgh;
| freedom and the responsibility for tn" =
ercise OF that right can not be divorce
| one of our great poets has Well and tin,
said that freedom is not gift that =
ries long in the hands of cowar'ls
Neither does it taIry long IN the iian,i>
uninteligent to exercise it. The cterI
vigilance which is the price OF libert:
must he exercised, som%tlmes to suai'
| TAR more often to guard against our own
selfish or thoughtI,s> shortcomings.
If these self-evident truths are kept
before and only if they arr SO u
hcfor. MS. we shall have a clear idea t.
what our foreign policy in its larger a.
poets should be. II is our duty to remem-
| her that Il nation has no more right Il
| do injustice to another nation, strong o,
| weak than an individual has to do IN
Justice to another individual; that the
| same moral law applies in one cas-. as IN
| that il is as much the duty of the Nation
to guard it's own rights and its own in
[
vi'i,al so to do Within the, Nation thu
| ;ndivitlnal has now delegated this light
20 III" State. that is, TO the representa-
tiyc OF all the individuals. and it Is a
| maxim of the law that for every wrong
| ther. is a remedy. But in International
Jav We have no. advanced by any means
as far We have advanced III munirlpai
law There is as Yet no judicial way
" rnfortirg right IN international law
Wher one nation wrongs another or
wro: e: many others, there is no tribunal
i,rcu,nt. Either it is necessary supineiy
10 ,ct,uie>ce in the wrong. and thus put a
,r.mlum upon brutality and aggression
| ar list i. l.; necessary for the dggr1eN"d
aation vaiiantly to stand up for its rights
| ,-rtil yr,na method is devised by which
there shall he degree of international
control over offending nations. %2uia
,u,rc,s for thGsc with most sense OF m
tcrnational Obligations and with kecn'H't
an. most generous app ec,a, d ro %, III" II"
disarn If tho great civilized nations o'
the present day should completely disarni
the result would mean an immediatc re
crudescence of barbarism in one form or
| another Under any circumstances a
sufficient armament would have to he
kept up to serve the purposes OF inter,
! cohesion ard the sense of international
duties ard rights &r" far more advanced
that 1t present a nation dc$i1iouS b",h o.
| securing rceeIct for itself and Of dolnt
GOOD 20 others rouSt hay" a force adequate
for the work which il fes is aliot I'D I" "
as its part Of the general world du'H
| Therefore il follows that Il self-rcSi,cr'-
ing lust and far-Se"ing nation should on
the on. hand endeavor by c"try means 10
| aid in the development of the various
| movements which tend 10 provide SUD
| ctitutcs for war. which tend To render
| nations in their actions toward one an
oihtr. and indeed toward their own PEG
nIce more responsive 10 the general Schti
n,.,t Of humane and civilized :,nklnd F;
and ON tho other hand that it should keep
prepared. while scrupulously AVOIDING
| Xr5r gt'oing itself To repel any "r"nE.
and in exceptional cases to take ACTON
,nlcr IL a more advanced sag" 81 IN
trrnatnional relations would come "'i''"F
tho head Of the eXert Use of tn" inter
rational police \ great free p"opi" owe
~ In itself and to ali mankind no. t" ellf
INTO helplessncss before the powers OIL
evil
Arbitration Treaties-Seeond Hague
Conference.
we are in every way "ndcaEoilns l"
holm ON. with cnrdia good VIII. ever!
| movement which viii t"ni L" hilhe US
mo more friendly relations win th' re-.
~ mankind In pursuance OF TINS noi.H
~ hail shortly lay hrf"r" III. senate
,rrati.'s Of :r!,iiritior with all powers
t,.;irh ar. wil.i"E to enter int" th'sr
| .,nati.s with "a ii is not poHsihie a,
| ,,nvlu'.. ,lpEniui ,u1snt To