Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-12-08

the report of the Acknowledgement DEAL |
ing with the long delays and the great |
obstruction to justice experienced in the |
cases of Beavers. Green and Gaynor and |
Benson. Were these isolated and special |
cases 1 should not call your attention to |
them: but the difficulties encountered as |
regards these men who have been indict- |
ed for criminal practices are not excep- |
uonal; they are precisely similar in kind /,
to what 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 up 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. In criminal cases
the writ of the United States should run
throughout its borders. The wheels of
justice should not be clogged. as they
have been clcgged in the cases above
mentioned. where it has proved absolute
ly impossible to bring the accused to the
place appointed by the Constitution for
his trial.
At present the interests of the limo
cent man are amply safeguarded; but
the interests of the government. that is,
that is the interests of the people. are
not recognized as they should be. No
subject better warrants the attention of
the Congress. Indeed, no subject better
warrants the attention of the bench and
the bar throughout the United States.
Many suggestions for the improve
ment Of conditions in Alaska are
made. among others the admission OF
q delegate from that territory to con-
gress.
Hawaii and Porto Rico.
The Alaskan natives should be given
the right to acquire, hold, and dispose
of property upon the same conditions as
given other inhabitants: and the privilege
of citizenship should be given to such as
may be able to meet certain definite re-
quirements. In Hawaii Congress should
give the governor power to remove all
the officials appointed under him. The
harbor of Honolulu should be dredged.
The marine-Eospital service should be
empowered to study leprosy in the is
lands. I ask special consideration for
the report and recommendations of the
governor of Porto Rico.
Foreign Policy.
In eating OF our foreign policy and of
the attitude that this great nation should
assume in the world at large, 1t Is abso-
| lutely necessary to consider the army and
| the navy, and the Congress, through
which the thought of the nation finds
| its expression, should keep ever wildly
| in mind the fundamental fact that it is
| impossible to treat our foreign policy.
| whether this policy takes. shape in the
| effort to secure Justice for Others or JUS
| tice for ourselves, save conditioned
upon the attitude we are willing to take
| toward our army, and especially toward
our navy. 1t is not merely unwise. it is
| contemplate, for a nation, as for an in
| dividual. to use high sounding language
| to proclaim its purposes. or to take po-
| sitions which are ridiculous II unsupport-
| ed by potential force. and then to refuse
| to provide this force. If there is no in
tention of providing and of keeping the
| force necessary to back. up strong atti-
tude, then 1t is far better not to assume
| such an attitude.
The steady aim of this nation. 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 long run as destructive
| as any war Tyrants and oppressors have
many times made a wilderness and called
| 1t peace. The peace of tyrannous terror.
the peace of craven weakness. the peace
| of injustice. all these should be Stunned
| as we shun unrighteous war. The goal
| to set before us nation. the goal
| which should be set before all mankind.
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| tice. of the peace which comes when
| each nation is not merely safe-guarded
| in its own rights. but scrupulously
| ognizes and performs its duty toward
| others.
There is as yet no judicial way of en-
forcing a right in international law.
| When one nation wrongs another or
| wrongs many Others there Is no tribu-
| nal before which the wrongdoer can be
brought. Either it Is necessary supinely
| to acquiesce in the wrong. and thus put
| a premium upon brutality and agrees
| sion, or else 1t is necessary for the ag-
| grieved nation valiantly to stand up for
| its rights. Until some method is devised
| by which there shall be a degree of in
| ternational control over offending
| tons, it would be a wicked thing for
| the most civilized powers, for those with
| most sense of international obligations
and with keenest and most generous ap-
| probation of the difference between right
| and wrong. to disarm. If the great civ
ilized nations of the present day should
completely disarm. the result would mean
| an immediate recrudescence of barbar-
ism in one form or another.
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. In pursuance of this policy
1 shall shortly lay before the Senate
treaties of arbitration with all powers
which are willing to enter into these
treaties with us. Furthermore. at the
| request of the 1nterpariamentary Union.
an eminent body composed of practical
! statesmen from all countries, 1 have
| asked the Powers to join with this gov
eminent in a second Hague conference
at which it is hoped that the work al
ready so happily begun at The Hague
may be carried some steps further to-
Ut
desire expressed by the first Hague con-
ference Itself
Policy on Western Hemisphere.
1t is not true that the United States
feels any land hunger or entertains any
projects regards the other nations of
the western hemisphere save such are
for their welfare. All that this coun-
try desires is to see the neighboring
countries stable. orderly. and prosperous.
Any country whose people conduct them
selves well can count upon our hearty
friendship. If a nation shows that it
| knows how to act with reasonable eff
cheney and decency in social and political
matters, If it keeps oroer and pays its
obligations. it need fear no interference
from the United States. Chronic wrong
doing. an impotence which results in
a general loosening of the ties of civil
lied society, may in America, else
where, ultimately require Intervention by
some civilized nation. and in the western
hemisphere the adherents of the United
States to the Monroe doctrine may force
the United States. however reluctantly.
in fragrant cases of such wrongdoing or
impotence, to the exercise of an inter-
national police power.
Our interests and those of our south
ern neighbors are in reality Identical.
They have great natural riches. and II
within their borders the reign of law and
Justice obtains. prosperity is sure to come
| 1T %Lax- 1l&o ,~,-;
mary laws of civilized society they may
rest assured that they will be treated by
us in a spirit of cordial and helpful SYM
pathy. We would interfere with them
only in the last resort. and then only
il it became evident that their inability
or unwillingness to do justice at home
and abroad had violated the rights Of
| | the limited States or had invited fnreiezr