The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1904-12-10
In Interest Of Humanity.


In asserting the Monroe doctrine. In
takiag such steps a. we have taken In
regard 20 Cuba. Venezuela and Panama.
and in endeavoring TO eircumscrihe the
theateF of war In the far east aud TO
secure the open door In China. we have
acted In our own interest as we'll as In
the interest of humanity at large.
There are. however. cases In which.
while our own interests are not greatly
involved. strong appeal Is made to our
sympathies
Ordinarily II Is very much wiser and
more useful for us to concern ourselves
with striving for our own moral and
material betterment here at home than
TO concern ourselves with trying to bet
ter the condition of things In other ma
tons We have plenty OF sins of our
own to war against. and under oFdin-
AIRY circumstances we can do mere for
the general uplifting OF humanity By
striving with heart and soul to put a
stop to civic corruption. to brutal law
leSsness and violent race pretudiess
here at home than by passing resOlu-
Nevertheless there are occasional
crimes committed on 50 vast a scale and
OF such peculiar horror as to make as
doubt whether II Is not our manifest
duty to endeavor at least TO show our
disapproval OF the deed and our sympa-
thy with those who have suffered by il.
The cases must be extreme in which
such a course Is iustiaable.
There must be no EFFORT made to re-
move the mote from our brothers eye
| II we refuse to remove the beam from
our own. But In extreme cases action
may be justihable and proper. What
form the action shall take must depend
upon the circumstances Of the case
that is, upon the degree of the atroeit =
a 60 rANE
The cases in which we could interfere
by force of arms as We interfered to put
/ a stop to iRtoleFable conditions In Cuba
are necessarily very few. Yet IL Is not
to be expected that a people like ours.
which in spite Of certain very obvious
| shortcomings. nevertheless as a whole
shows by its consistent practice its be-
lief in the principles of civil and relig-
ious liberty and OF orderly freedom. q
/ people among whom even the worst
| crime, like the crime of lynchfng, Is
never more than sporadic, 80 that In
dividuals and not classes are molestsd
In their fundamental rightS--it Is In
evitable that such a nation should de-
Il sire eagerly to give expression to its
horror on an occasion like that OF the
massacre OF the Jews In Kishsnef. OF
i when IL witnesses such systematic and
i long extended cruelty and oppresslon
as the cruelty and oppression OF which
Il the Armentan8 have been the wicttm9
and which have won for them the In
diSnant pity o. the eiviliSed world
Rights Of cItizsna Abroad.
Even where It Is not possible to secure
In other nations the obRervanSe OF thu
| principles which We accept RS axiosnatie
| q il necessary for uS firmly 10 tnsis'
upon the rights Of our own citizens with
out regard 20 their creed or rncs. with
| out regard 70 whether ta@y We=e borr
here or born abroad II mas proved veFS
difficult to secure from Russia the Figh
/ for our Jewish fellow citlzeas @ recslv'
passports and travel through Russian
territory. Such conduct ls not only IN
Just and Irritating toward US. but Il 4
difficult TO see It's wisdom from RUSSIA
standpoint No conceivable good 10 &C
complished by IT,
II an American Jew or an 'nlcvicnI
Christian misbehaves himself IN Ius~ia
he can az once be driven out: but the or
binary American Jew. like the Ordinary
American Christian. would behave jus
about as he behaves here. that IL, echav'
as any good citizen ought 70 behave. ant
where this Is the case Y = Wrpni
against which we are entitled to pro
test 70 refuse him his passport withOu
i regard to his conduct and character
merely on racial and religious grounds
In Turkey our difficulties arise less iron
the way in which our citizens are some
times treated than from the ind!Erat iol
inevitably excited in seeing such fearful
misrule as has been Witnessed 10th Il
Armenia and Macedonia.