The Monticellonian., 1904-12-08

chiId en, tfen We should welcome :lcm with cordial Hospitality.
 "There should be a comprehensive revI- sion of the naturalization iaWs. Tie courts having power to Eaturai1e stou5d te definitely named by rational authority, the testimony upoa winch naturalization may be conferred should be definitely preseribedi publication ef imReHdiug Hatura izatjoa applications shou,G be required iB advance of tEeir hearing ir cOurt: tEc form and wording of al certificates issued shauld be uniform throughout the country. and tEe courts should be required ta make returns to the secretary of state at stated periods uf al naturaizations conferred.
 Our Foreign Policy.
 Tn treating of our foreign policy and of the attitude that th!s great nation should assume in the world at large 1t is ab- solutely necessary 70 consider the army and the navy. and the congress through winch the thought of the nation finds it's expression. should keep eyer Eiv5dlV in mind thc fundamental fact that Ii is m- possible to treat our foreign policy. whether thzs policy takes shape in the effort to secure justice for others or justice for ourselves save as conditioned upon The attitude we are willing tp take toward our army. and especially toward our navy. IL is not merely unwise. it Is ContemptibIe, for nation. as for an in diYldual 10 use high-SOuudIng language to proclaim its purposes. or 10 take posi- tious which are ridiculous if unsupported by potential force. and then to refuse 10 provide this force. If 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 10 assume such an attitude.
 The steady aim of this nation, as of al enlightened nations, should be to strive to bring eyer nearer the day when there shall prevail throughout the world the peace of justice
 The Monroe Doctrine.
 Tn asserting the Monroe Doctrine, in talk ing such steps as We have taken in regard to Cuba. Venezuela and Panama, and in en- deaNoring to cirCumScrtbe 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 iH the interest of human ity n large. There are however. eases 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 bctterment here at home than to concern ourselves with trying to better the eoreition of things in other nations. We have plenty of sins Of our own to w&t against. and under ordinary circumstances We can do more for the general uplifting of ! humanity bY striving with heart and soul 10 put step to civic corruption. to brutal lawseSsness and violent race prejudiees here at home than by passing resolutions about wrongdoing elsewhere. NeVerthe- less there are occasional crimes committed on 50 vast d scae and of such peculiar hor- TOT as 10 make Us doubt whether Il Is not our manifest duty 10 endeavor al least tG
 show our disapprovai of the deed and ouf sympathy with those who have suffered by it. The cases must be extreme in which such course is justitiabie There must be no effort made to remove the mote from our brothers eye if We refuse to remove the beam from our own. But in extreme cases action may be justiiable and proper. What form the action skall take mus; de- pend upon the circumstances of the case. that Is, upon the degree of tie atFoeity and ] upon our power to remedy il Tie eases | in which we could interfere by force of arms as We interfered to put d stop to h. toierabIe conditions in Cuba are Eeces- sari3x very few. Yet il is Tot to be expected that a peop.e like ours which ia spite of certain very obvious shortcomings never theless as wEote shows by it's consistent practice its belief in the principles of civil
 and religious liberty and of orderly free dom, a people among whom even the worst crime like the crime of lynehirg. is never more than sporadic so that individuals and not classes are mo3este6 in their funda- mental rights-it Is inevitable tEat such q | nation should desre 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 loHg-eXtended cruelty and oppression as the cruelty and oppression of which the Atmenians have been the victims and which have won for them the indignant pity of lte civilized world