The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-12-06

people, are not recognized as they
should be. No subject better war.
rants the attention Of Congress. In
deed no subject better warrants the
attention of the bench and the bar
throughout the United States.
Foreign Policy.
In treating of our foreign policy
and of the attitude that this great Ma
ton should assume in the world at
large, it is absolutely necessary to
consider the Army and the Navy, and
Congress-. through which the thought
OF the Nation finds IT'S expression.
should keep eve wildly in mind the
fundamental fact that it is impossible
to treat our foreign policy, whether
this policy takes shape in the e(for;
to secure justice for others Or jus
tice for ourselves, save AS condition
ed upon the attitude We are willing to
take toward our Army, and especial
ly toward our Navy. 1t is not merely
unwise, it is contemplate, for a M
ton, as for an individual. @ use high
sounding language to proclaim its pur
poses, or to take positions which arc
ridiculous if unsupported by potion
tial force, and then to refuse to pro-
vide this force. If there is no inten
ton of providing and. keening the
force necessary to back up a strong
attitude, hen it is far better 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
undesirable, which are IN the lone
run as destructive as any war. Ty-
rants and oppressors have many tim
es made a wilderness and called il
peace. Many times people who were
slothful or timid or shortsighted, who
had been enervated by cas- or by lux
ury. or misled by false teachings
have shrunk in unmanly fashion from
doing duty that was stern and that
needed s~elf-sacriice, and have soughT
to hide from their own minds their
by calling them love Of peace. The
peace of the tyrannOus terror, the
peace of craven weakness, the peace
of Injustice. all these should be shun
ned as we shun u~nrighteous war. The
goal which should be set before all
mankind, is the attainment of the
peace of justice. of h peace which
comes when each nation is not mere
ly ~safe-guarded in its w rights, but
scrupulously recognizes and performs
it's duty toward others. Generally
peace tells for righteousness; but II
there is conflict between the two
then our fealty is due first to the
cause of righteousness, U~nrighteoCs
wars are common, and unrighteors
peace is rare; but both hould
be Stunned. The right of free
dom and the responsibility fer
the exercise of that right can be Iii
vorced. One of our great poets has
well and finely said mat 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 dishonest, or too unin-
telligent to exercise it. The eternal
vigilance which is the price of liber
ty must be exercised, sometimes to
guard against outside foes; although
of course far more often guard again
st our own selfish or thoughtless
shortcomings.
If these s~elf-evident truths are kept
before is, 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 remember that a nation has
no more right to do injustice to anorh
er nation, strong or weak, than an in
uiVluudl mas TO 90 an inJuSClco TO
another individual; that the same mo
raj law applies in one case as in the
other. But we must also remember
that it is as much the duty Of the
to guard its own rights and is
own interests as it is the duty of the
so to do. Within the Ma
ton the individual has now delegated
his right to the State, that is. to the
representative of all the individuals.
and it is a maxim of the law that for
every wrong there is a remedy. But
in International law we have not adj
vanced by any means as far as We
advanced in municipal law. |
There is as yet no judicial way If en-
a right in International law.
When one Nation wrongs another or
wrongs many others. there is no tri
bunal before which the wrongdoer